Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "alcoholic-relapse"

1. The Shining (1980)

R | 146 min | Drama, Horror

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers

Votes: 1,108,970 | Gross: $44.02M

2. Goliath (2016–2021)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

A disgraced lawyer, now an ambulance chaser, gets a case that could bring him redemption or at least revenge on the firm which expelled him.

Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Nina Arianda, Tania Raymonde, Diana Hopper

Votes: 54,374

3. A Star Is Born (2018)

R | 136 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Director: Bradley Cooper | Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Greg Grunberg

Votes: 420,563 | Gross: $215.29M

4. 2012 (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet

Votes: 398,399 | Gross: $166.11M

5. Warrior (2011)

PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Drama, Sport

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison

Votes: 498,530 | Gross: $13.66M

6. Gone Baby Gone (2007)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.

Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan

Votes: 293,491 | Gross: $20.30M

7. Body Double (1984)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton

Votes: 38,371 | Gross: $8.80M

8. The Way Back (I) (2020)

R | 108 min | Drama, Sport

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Janina Gavankar, Michaela Watkins

Votes: 53,033 | Gross: $13.59M

9. Ava (IV) (2020)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis

Votes: 62,967 | Gross: $0.50M

10. The Life of David Gale (2003)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Cleo King

Votes: 126,212 | Gross: $19.59M

11. American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007 Video)

R | 85 min | Comedy

Erik and Cooze start college and pledge the Beta House fraternity, presided over by none other than legendary Dwight Stifler.

Director: Andrew Waller | Stars: John White, Christopher McDonald, Jake Siegel, Lexie Galante

Votes: 67,829

12. House of Sand and Fog (2003)

R | 126 min | Crime, Drama

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her house's new owners.

Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher

Votes: 72,680 | Gross: $13.01M

13. Hoosiers (1986)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Sport

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.

Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley

Votes: 51,165 | Gross: $28.61M

14. A Star Is Born (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson

Votes: 10,913 | Gross: $4.36M

15. Sibyl (2019)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.

Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Sandra Hüller

Votes: 5,216

16. Contraband (2012)

R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale, Robert Wahlberg

Votes: 126,398 | Gross: $66.53M

17. Take This Waltz (2011)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Aaron Abrams

Votes: 30,308 | Gross: $1.24M

18. Final Cut (2022)

112 min | Comedy, Horror

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield

Votes: 4,544

19. The Messenger (I) (2009)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.

Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone

Votes: 36,810 | Gross: $0.07M

20. 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former police detective, still recovering from his alcohol addiction, is seemingly drawn into L.A's criminal underworld after stumbling upon a local drug ring.

Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks

Votes: 5,961 | Gross: $1.31M

21. Silent Movie (1976)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar

Votes: 18,511 | Gross: $36.15M

22. Smashed (2012)

R | 81 min | Drama

A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.

Director: James Ponsoldt | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally

Votes: 17,734 | Gross: $0.38M

23. Abandon (2002)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

An investigation of a college student's missing boyfriend becomes quite strange when she begins to see him periodically.

Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel

Votes: 10,178 | Gross: $10.73M

24. Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance

An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel

Votes: 5,397

25. The Runner (I) (2015)

R | 90 min | Drama

In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.

Director: Austin Stark | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 5,889

26. The Daughter (2015)

96 min | Drama

The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.

Director: Simon Stone | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Nicholas Hope, Sam Neill, Ewen Leslie

Votes: 5,509 | Gross: $0.03M

27. Andrea Gets a Divorce (2024)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

A policewoman wants a divorce and city job promotion but after hitting her drunk husband with her car in an accidental collision, she flees the scene, committing a hit-and-run.

Director: Josef Hader | Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Josef Hader, Thomas Schubert, Robert Stadlober

Votes: 314

28. Truth (2013)

TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A suspenseful, psychological thriller, "Truth" exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb, who suffers from ... See full summary »

Director: Rob Moretti | Stars: Rob Moretti, Sean Paul Lockhart, Blanche Baker, Rebekah Aramini

Votes: 796

29. Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime

The boys return from jail to find the park has deteriorated, with a brand new park being created beside it. They attempt a series of get rich quick schemes and robberies, while a freshly drunk Lahey threatens to derail their plans.

Director: Mike Clattenburg | Stars: Robb Wells, John Paul Tremblay, Mike Smith, John Dunsworth

Votes: 7,909

30. Brown's Requiem (1998)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Recovering alcoholic, ex-LAPD, private detective Fritz Brown, is hired by caddie "Fat Dog" to follow his kid sister, who is holed up with an old sugar daddy. The trail leads to his old police boss Cathcart, and the bodies start to pile up.

Director: Jason Freeland | Stars: Michael Rooker, Big Daddy Wayne, Jack Wallace, Will Sasso

Votes: 1,040 | Gross: $0.00M

31. Cronicas (2004)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."

Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina, Leonor Watling, Damián Alcázar

Votes: 3,561 | Gross: $0.30M

32. My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic (2011)

59 min | Documentary

A documentary about women's alcoholism chronicles the progression of the disease in Bette VandenAkker-a nurse, wife, and mother-who died in the fall of 2007. Filmmakers Sherri ... See full summary »

Director: Sherri L. VandenAkker

Votes: 265

33. A Monkey in Winter (1962)

105 min | Comedy, Drama

Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war,... See full summary »

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Gabrielle Dorziat

Votes: 3,323

34. 16 Years of Alcohol (2003)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama

16 years of alcohol is about a skinhead named Frankie; his violent childhood, alcoholism and his love for Ska.

Director: Richard Jobson | Stars: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Stuart Sinclair Blyth

Votes: 1,745 | Gross: $0.01M

35. My Zinc Bed (2008 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 75 min | Drama, Romance

A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Paddy Considine, Sara Powell

Votes: 965

36. Of Love and Lies (2019)

105 min | Comedy, Drama

Théo would like to give some hope to his father, Laurent, a lonely alcoholic and disillusioned with life. The opportunity comes when Théo is about to be signed by Arsenal FC.

Director: Julien Rappeneau | Stars: François Damiens, Maleaume Paquin, André Dussollier, Ludivine Sagnier

Votes: 440

37. Polly of the Circus (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance

After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 1,234

38. Ne me quitte pas (2013)

107 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

Set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob, Flemish, and Marcel, Walloon share their solitude, sense of humor and craving for alcohol.

Directors: Sabine Lubbe Bakker, Niels van Koevorden | Stars: Bob, Marcel

Votes: 436

39. Bethsabée (1947)

97 min | Drama

Arabella, a beautiful woman with a turbulent past, joins her lover, Captain Dubreuil, in a remote place of Morocco. Another officer, Captain Sommerville, who happens to be her former lover,... See full summary »

Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal, Jean Murat, Paul Meurisse

Votes: 46

40. Sigarah wa kas (1955)

112 min | Drama, Musical

Hoda is a famous dancer who gives up the spotlight to marry and start a family with Mamdouh, a handsome young doctor who is just beginning his career. When Mamdouh's scheming Italian head ... See full summary »

Director: Niazi Mostafa | Stars: Samia Gamal, Nabil Al alfi, Seraj Munir, Dalida

Votes: 88

41. The Critic (I) (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

A starry-eyed actress with a troubled past faces her harshest critic during an interview gone wrong.

Director: Stella Velon | Stars: Stella Velon, Alan Smyth, Todd Karner

Votes: 90

42. Burning Gold (1936)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Jim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight riches, and marries his sweetheart that is a singer at a local saloon. But he can't handle being rich, and the marriage is on the rocks.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Judith Allen, Lloyd Ingraham, Frank Mayo

Votes: 25

43. Rückfälle (1977 TV Movie)

103 min | Drama

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Director: Peter Beauvais | Stars: Günter Lamprecht, Veronika Bayer, Johanna Hofer, Ulrich Matschoss

Votes: 50

44. Less Lonely (2010)

15 min | Short, Drama

A documentary about a man who tries to forget to be. He drinks himself to oblivion; looking for himself.

Director: Minona von Vietinghoff | Star: Phlip Kruter

Votes: 10

45. Crypto (II) (2018)

28 min | Short, Drama

Wesley, a recovering addict believes he's made a wise investment for his son - but would You invest in digital currency? A Sequel to 2013's short film A GAMBLING MAN.

Director: Ansel Faraj | Stars: Nathan Wilson, Julianna David, Matthew Anderson, Madison Boyd

Votes: 16

46. Baretta (1975–1978)
Episode: The Reunion (1977)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a beloved and celebrated philanthropist is killed by a car bomb in a parking lot in front of Baretta, he investigates who could have possibly killed this man who supposedly had no enemies.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Robert Blake, Shera Danese, Sandy Freeman, Troas Hayes

Votes: 39

47. Cheers (1982–1993)
Episode: Rebound: Part 1 (1984)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Sam falls off the wagon and Diane has a nervous breakdown after the breakup. But after she's cured, Diane returns to Cheers to recommend her psychiatrist--Dr. Frasier Crane--to help Sam. But she doesn't say that she's involved with him.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman

Votes: 679

48. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.1492 (1997)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Claire Winyard | Stars: Patsy Palmer, Martine McCutcheon, Ross Kemp, Sid Owen

49. King of the Hill (1997–2010)
Episode: Leanne's Saga (1998)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Luanne's mother, Leanne, is released from prison and takes up residence with the Hill family. Trouble begins to brew, however, when she starts dating Bill and falls into some old habits.

Directors: Tricia Garcia, Wesley Archer | Stars: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 502

50. The L Word (2004–2009)
Episode: Longing (2004)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Romance

Bette takes a step to win her battle of wills with the chairman of the art gallery board; Jenny struggles with her feelings for Marina; Alice tries to regain her self-respect after a run-in with an ex; Dana finally gets a date with Lara.

Director: Lynne Stopkewich | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Erin Daniels, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman

Votes: 321