What Are Some Really Good Movies About People Struggling With Drug Addiction?

Published October 6, 2012

Question by Mackenzie: What are some really good movies about people struggling with drug addiction?
I am trying to find some really good movies about people struggling with drug addiction.. I have recently watched Puncture with Chris Evans in it..

Any ideas?
Is Requiem for a Dream the movie where the heroin addict looses half of his arm?

Best answer:

Answer by Dawson
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM!! Really really good movie

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Top 10 Movies About Drugs – sparetimelists.blogspot.com top 10 movies about drugs. I decided to include Leaving Las Vegas although it’s about alcohol addiction. Also, although Taking Woodstock is not a great movie and drugs are not the main theme, I put it here because of the great acid trip scene. 10. A Scanner Darkly (starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.) 9. Brick (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 8. Taking Woodstock (Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Demetri Martin, Paul Dano) 7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro) 6. Half Nelson (Ryan Gosling) 5. The Basketball Diaries (Leonardo DiCaprio) 4. Leaving Las Vegas (Nicholas Cage, Elisabeth Shue) 3. Candy (Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish) 2. Trainspotting (Ewan Mcgregor) 1. Requiem for a Dream (Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn) Music: The Phase – Dirty Angel

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