Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "recreational-drug-use"

1. Magic Mike (2012)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Munn, Matthew McConaughey

Votes: 147,226 | Gross: $113.72M

2. In Bruges (2008)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington

Votes: 461,627 | Gross: $7.76M

3. Long Shot (2019)

R | 125 min | Comedy, Romance

Journalist, Fred Flarsky, reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field; now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to run for president, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter, and sparks fly.

Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, O'Shea Jackson Jr.

Votes: 121,768 | Gross: $30.32M

4. Go (1999)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime

The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf, Taye Diggs

Votes: 75,171 | Gross: $16.84M

5. Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy

The wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness.

Stars: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield

Votes: 21,534

6. Half Nelson (2006)

R | 106 min | Drama

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

Director: Ryan Fleck | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Jeff Lima

Votes: 91,966 | Gross: $2.69M

7. Bachelorette (2012)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Director: Leslye Headland | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, James Marsden

Votes: 48,865 | Gross: $0.45M

8. Weekend (II) (2011)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race, Laura Freeman

Votes: 32,867 | Gross: $0.46M

9. Jade (1995)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he still loves.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna

Votes: 14,251 | Gross: $9.80M

10. Get Carter (1971)

R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

Votes: 36,793 | Gross: $0.39M

11. Boys on the Side (1995)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Robin shares a ride in her car with Jane from New York to Los Angeles. They stop at Jane's friend Holly's place in Pittsburgh and take her with them west, making a long stop in Tucson. The three very different women become close friends.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey

Votes: 14,152 | Gross: $23.45M

12. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.

Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska

Votes: 134,453 | Gross: $20.81M

13. Over the Edge (1979)

PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano

Votes: 8,128

14. Victoria (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

Director: Sebastian Schipper | Stars: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit

Votes: 63,156

15. Charlie Countryman (2013)

R | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

While travelling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

Director: Fredrik Bond | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger

Votes: 29,792 | Gross: $0.01M

16. Department Q: The Absent One (2014)

Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.

Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk, David Dencik

Votes: 26,203

17. Donkey Punch (2008)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Things go drastically wrong for a group of British holidaymakers in Spain.

Director: Olly Blackburn | Stars: Sian Breckin, Nichola Burley, Jaime Winstone, Robert Boulter

Votes: 11,573 | Gross: $0.02M

18. Consent (2010)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.

Director: Ron Brown | Stars: Peter Vack, Troian Bellisario, Betsey Brown, Kate Burton

Votes: 662

19. Not Fade Away (2012)

R | 112 min | Drama

Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Director: David Chase | Stars: John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill, Brahm Vaccarella

Votes: 4,952 | Gross: $0.61M

20. Metal Skin (1994)

TV-MA | 115 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A teenager's involvement with a young Don Juan, his girlfriend and a Satan-worshipping shoplifter leads to tragedy.

Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Aden Young, Tara Morice, Nadine Garner, Ben Mendelsohn

Votes: 550

21. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (2011– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary

Join an incredible journey through the history, chemistry and societal impacts of the world's most extraordinary drugs.

Stars: Hamilton Morris, Jason Wallach, Timothy Wyllie, Steve-O

Votes: 1,435

22. Cash Truck (2004)

95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A mysterious vengeful man takes a job as a security guard for a money transport company amidst a series of violent robberies.

Director: Nicolas Boukhrief | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Jean Dujardin, François Berléand, Claude Perron

Votes: 4,376

23. Humpday (2009)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two guys take their bromance to another level when they participate in an art film project.

Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton

Votes: 6,398 | Gross: $0.41M

24. 1985 (2018)

85 min | Drama

A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

Director: Yen Tan | Stars: Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung

Votes: 2,521

25. Sister of the Groom (2020)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

On Audrey's 40th birthday, her brother is marrying a girl he met in France. Secrets are revealed prior to the wedding. Audrey and the young, French fiancee do NOT get along.

Director: Amy Miller Gross | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Mathilde Ollivier, Jake Hoffman, Tom Everett Scott

Votes: 848

26. Screwed (I) (2011)

Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama

The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on ... See full summary »

Director: Reg Traviss | Stars: James D'Arcy, Noel Clarke, Frank Harper, Kate Magowan

Votes: 2,306

27. The Gingerweed Man (2021)

49 min | Comedy

The Gingerweed Man runs a successful dispensary delivery service, catering to a wide array of wacky clientele. But when he gets charged with protecting little Baby Buddy, a mysterious super... See full summary »

Director: Brooks Davis | Stars: Eli Jane, Roy Abramsohn, Kelly Bunasawa, Kali Cook

Votes: 222

28. Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake, when he meets Molly, a carefree young woman who gets him to start using heroin, his world slowly falls apart.

Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, JoBeth Williams, Carly Pope, Robin Dunne

Votes: 585

29. Flay (2019)

Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

After the death of her mother, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother, and those around her from a malevolent faceless spirit.

Director: Eric Pham | Stars: Violett Beane, Elle LaMont, A. Michael Baldwin, Peggy Schott

Votes: 1,732

30. Berserk (2019)

85 min | Comedy, Thriller

A movie star and his unsuccessful friend are desperately trying to finish a new script for a zombie film. When a prank leads to an accidental death, the friends must keep their cool as they try to figure out the best way to hide the body.

Director: Rhys Wakefield | Stars: Nick Cannon, Rhys Wakefield, Nora Arnezeder, James Roday Rodriguez

Votes: 340

31. Monkey Grip (1982)

99 min | Drama

A frank portrayal of a year in the life of a divorced mother living in Melbourne, trying to cope with her daughter and her own relationship with a drug addict while trying to get into the music business.

Director: Ken Cameron | Stars: Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels, Alice Garner, Harold Hopkins

Votes: 307

32. Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)

95 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors ... See full summary »

Director: Gay Dillingham | Stars: John Perry Barlow, Dean Chamberlain, Ram Dass, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock

Votes: 490

33. Insomnium (2017)

81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

As George investigates his roommate's increasingly disturbing nocturnal behavior, he suspects that his friend has become possessed by a dark entity.

Director: Scott Powers | Stars: Brad Pennington, Clint Browning, Gena Shaw, Larena Reyna

Votes: 669

34. Weapons (2007)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama

Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America,and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.

Director: Adam Bhala Lough | Stars: Nick Cannon, Paul Dano, Mark Webber, John Campo

Votes: 648

35. Na putu (2010)

100 min | Drama

From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar finds a new job working with a community of Muslims. This affects his relationship with his girlfriend Luna as his beliefs begin to change.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Zrinka Cvitesic, Leon Lucev, Ermin Bravo, Mirjana Karanovic

Votes: 2,077

36. Lapland Odyssey 3 (2017)

103 min | Comedy

Janne is having an emotional crisis and decides to go for a hike in the beautiful nature of Lapland - alone. As usual, things don't work out that easily. Inari wants to return to work life ... See full summary »

Director: Tiina Lymi | Stars: Jussi Vatanen, Pamela Tola, Timo Lavikainen, Santtu Karvonen

Votes: 1,275

37. Children of Eberus (2019 Video)

11 min | Short, Sci-Fi

A landing party of junior officers is dispatched to the surface of the planet Eberus to investigate mysterious attacks on the population from monsters.

Director: Randall Landers | Stars: Tuck Stevens, Robin Rushing, Sarah Tompkins, Kyle Paul

Votes: 7

38. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: The Dutch Oven (1985)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Trudy's old boyfriend has ties to a drug lord and enlists Crockett's help investigating him.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 489

39. Sports Night (1998–2000)
Episode: The Apology (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

The network is upset when a newly-published magazine interview reveals that Dan is in favor of the legalization of marijuana.

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Josh Charles, Peter Krause, Felicity Huffman, Joshua Malina

Votes: 237

40. Kolmistaan (2017– )
Episode: Kolmen kimppa (2017)

30 min | Comedy

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Director: Samuli Valkama | Stars: Pamela Tola, Lauri Tilkanen, Eero Ritala, Pilvi Hämäläinen

41. Kolmistaan (2017– )
Episode: Hautajaiset (2017)

30 min | Comedy

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Director: Samuli Valkama | Stars: Pamela Tola, Lauri Tilkanen, Eero Ritala, Pirkko Hämäläinen

42. Midas Letter Raw (2018– )
Episode: SLANG Worldwide, FSD Pharma Inc, Hill Street Beverage Company (2019)

News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Howard Glassman, Ed Milewski, Ricki Gurwitz, Ben Smith

43. Ina <3 Suomi (2019)
Episode: Huumeet - Alkosta narkoon (2019)

60 min | Documentary

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Director: Ina Mikkola | Stars: Ina Mikkola, Mikko Salasuo

44. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #2.232 (2019)

95 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Today the panel discuss - Did the Leader's Debate change your mind on who to vote for? Is it time to decriminalise the personal use of drugs? Should tattoos on the face be banned? Plus, the stories of the day.

Director: Daniel Wright | Stars: Anne Diamond, Storm, Alexis Conran, Jemma Forte

45. The White Lotus (2021–2025)
Episode: Departures (2021)

TV-MA | 66 min | Comedy, Drama

Rachel reveals stark truths. The Mossbachers turn the page on a traumatic event. Belinda gets bad news, and Armond exacts revenge.

Director: Mike White | Stars: Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario

Votes: 4,665

46. Lo que callamos las mujeres (2001– )
Episode: El club de la hoja verde (2018)

TV-14 | Drama

A teenage girl is addicted to drugs and loses her best friend and sanity because of drugs.

47. The Bay (2010– )
Episode: Sex, Lies and Tequila (2017)

Not Rated | Drama, Romance

Romances ignite, but not all Bay City residents are feeling the love. Vivian and Pete give way to their passion, unaware someone is eavesdropping. Daniel can't resist temptation, nor can Colton and Tamra. Zoey makes a shocking discovery.

Director: Gregori J. Martin | Stars: Kristos Andrews, Matthew Ashford, Scott Bailey, Nicolas Coster

48. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (2011– )
Episode: The Story of the South African Quaalude (2016)

TV-MA | 44 min | Documentary

South Africa is the last place on earth Quaaludes can still be found. Hamilton travels there to study the drug and finds a dark history of medical experimentation.

Stars: Hamilton Morris, Chandre Gould, Etienne Van Zyl, Jenny Wild

Votes: 67

49. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (2011– )
Episode: A Positive PCP Story (2016)

TV-MA | 44 min | Documentary

Hamilton travels across the USA meeting with addicts, dealers, chemists, and celebrities to trace the history of PCP from its pharmaceutical origins to its escape onto the streets.

Stars: Hamilton Morris, Christ Bearer, Frank Lyga, David E. Smith

Votes: 55

50. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (2011– )
Episode: Fish N' Trips (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary

Hamilton embarks on an aquatic adventure to Reunion Island and Madagascar to investigate ichthyoallyeinotoxism and a twisted history of hallucinogenic fish.

Director: Danilo Parra | Stars: Hamilton Morris, Colin Foord, Jean Luc Mazeau, Rico Jocelyn Mazeua

Votes: 42