Drug Overdose Movies

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie S...

Yearning for the confidence to give his crush a New Year's kiss, Riley takes pills with unpredictable side effects.

A Centron Film presentation, produced by Gordon-Kerchoff, this color film is about a teenage girl who overdoses on alcohol and pills, and winds up in...

When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfrien...

Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a...

A former drug-dealer photojournalist returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner.

Middle class teenagers Jill, Felipe and Eddie, talk about their addiction and drug-related death.

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson....

Documentary on the life of late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood.

Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes...

Things are changing for Mik. His world has been turned upside down by the sudden death of his older brother forcing him to redefine his place in his f...

The late Len Bias still leaves more questions than answers. When Bias dropped dead two days after the 1986 NBA Draft, he forever altered our perceptio...

Danny is a young man looking for love, and believes becoming a model is the peak of success. He eventually becomes a stripper and learns how that affe...

Twin girls cope with the pressure of tennis stardom and the absence of their mother in an unstable society.

A young boy believes he is forced to raise his two younger siblings after tragedy had stricken their family. Fearing they would be separated and never...

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidem...

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintag...

An educational film that depicts the widespread use of prescription drugs to treat illnesses as well as the misuse and abuse of those drugs.