“I don’t know if I started drinking ’cause my wife left me or my wife left me ’cause I started drinking.”
by Gymnopedies | created - 10 Jun 2018 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicIs drinking a way of killing myself? Or, is killing myself a way of drinking?
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1. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis
Votes: 134,663 | Gross: $32.03M
2. A Sensitive, Passionate Man (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
The marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism.
Director: John Newland | Stars: Angie Dickinson, David Janssen, Mariclare Costello, Richard Venture
Votes: 165
3. The Fire Within (1963)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 10,465
4. A Day at the Beach (1970)
GP | 93 min | Drama
Bernie, a self-destructive alcoholic, is given watch over his niece Winnie. He tests the patience of the various people he knows and Winnie is often left on her own.
Director: Simon Hesera | Stars: Mark Burns, Beatie Edney, Fiona Lewis, Maurice Roëves
Votes: 365
5. The Morning After (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A successful public-relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family, and his life.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter, Linda Lavin
Votes: 248
6. Rain in My Heart (2006 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary
Documentary on four alcoholics living in Kent, England.
Director: Paul Watson
Votes: 124
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 79,911
8. Under the Influence (1986 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Noah Talbot is a long-time alcoholic whose drinking begins to have a devastating effect not only on his personal life but on his family as well.
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Andy Griffith, Season Hubley, Paul Provenza, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 356
9. Shattered Spirits (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama
When his drinking problem takes control of his life, a father tries to leave the bottle behind while putting his and his family's lives back together.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, Matthew Labyorteaux, Lukas Haas
Votes: 358
10. Under the Volcano (1984)
R | 112 min | Drama
A day in the life of a self-destructive British consul in Mexico on the eve of World War II.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso
Votes: 6,242 | Gross: $2.56M
11. Drunks (1995)
R | 90 min | Drama
The lives of Jim and other alcoholics in and outside an AA meeting.
Director: Peter Cohn | Stars: Richard Lewis, Liza Harris, Liam Ahern, George Martin
Votes: 1,201
12. Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
This movie is a teaching tool about a teenage girl struggling with alcoholism to cope with her feelings of insecurity and the usual problems of adolescence.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Linda Blair, Larry Hagman, Verna Bloom, William Daniels
Votes: 670
13. The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A popular high school hockey player hides the fact that he is an alcoholic.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Scott Baio, Lance Kerwin, Ed Lauter, Mariclare Costello
Votes: 153
14. Trees Lounge (1996)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".
Director: Steve Buscemi | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley
Votes: 17,592 | Gross: $0.70M
15. Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Approved | 117 min | Drama
An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
Votes: 14,054
16. The Lost Weekend (1945)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 40,191 | Gross: $9.46M
17. 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: 52,853 | Gross: $13.59M
18. Affliction (1997)
R | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney
Votes: 19,095 | Gross: $6.30M
19. Flight (I) (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, Thriller
Troubling questions arise after airline pilot Whip Whitaker makes a miracle landing after a mid-air catastrophe.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman
Votes: 376,175 | Gross: $93.77M
20. Pollock (2000)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
Director: Ed Harris | Stars: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Knott, Molly Regan
Votes: 29,625 | Gross: $8.60M
21. A Poet in New York (2014 TV Movie)
72 min | Biography, Drama
A look at Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's fatal visit to New York City, and his stormy relationship with his wife Caitlin.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Tom Hollander, Phoebe Fox, Ewen Bremner, Celt Llewelyn Jones
Votes: 290
22. To Olivia (2021)
99 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl.
Director: John Hay | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Bobby O'Neill, Eve Prenelle, Michael Jibson
Votes: 1,802
23. Sid and Nancy (1986)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop
Votes: 34,688 | Gross: $2.83M
24. The Doors (1991)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley
Votes: 99,061 | Gross: $35.18M
25. Krisha (2015)
R | 83 min | Drama
Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Krisha Fairchild, Alex Dobrenko, Robyn Fairchild, Chris Doubek
Votes: 10,060 | Gross: $0.14M
26. Faces (I) (1968)
R | 130 min | Drama
A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Votes: 11,647
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