Heroin Movies

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust”...

Joachim is 25 years old. His charming smile veils the daily battle he fights within himself as he struggles to manage a heroin addiction. He smokes...

An unvarnished look at the heroin epidemic sweeping America's small towns and communities, focusing on on eight young addicts in idyllic Cape Cod,...

This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through...

Hitman Lop meets a woman who sells life insurance he has been hired to kill and decides to end his career as a killer for hire. But criminals from...

In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it's visible on the city's streets. Early one morning we meet a young,...

Em is an escort girl and a heroin addict. From New York to Los Angeles via Pittsburgh, Em’s daily life is revealed.

This documentary intends to contribute to the analysis of the drugs problem, by studying a huge district in a peripheral area of a large city: the...

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to...

A successful photographer and recovering heroin addict tries to solve a mystery and conquer his demons after his son is kidnapped.

Ben Rogers was a bright schoolboy from a loving, middle class family. He played in the orchestra, loved cricket and enjoyed the annual family...

About Addiction was created to educate the youth about proper and improper drug use. It draws a compassion between prescription drugs, alcohol,...

ALL KINDSA GIRLS traces the evolution of garage/punk rock from its inception in the sixties through current interpretations. Focusing on the career...

Cal Thacker, a would-be artist, shares his slum living quarters with Mike Rubel, a pusher who exists in a private drug-centered world, and Richard...

A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal.

This program is an overview of best practices to keep a person who has overdosed alive between discovery and hospitalization. Practices include...

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate...

Michael supports his addict girlfriend Jasmine, who depends on him to fund her addiction. Michael knows she will die if she keeps using, but he...

An intimate look at the human faces of America's current opioid epidemic. Seen through the eyes of a mother and the lens of a small town.