Junkie Movies

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take...

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...

A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous...

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her...

Salih is a mechanic and the son of a respected barber named Ali. A woman named Tina arrives at Cholera Street, where she takes up residence and works...

A homeless streetfighter breaks up a child trafficking ring

A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single...

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to...

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town...

He lived the junkie's life as a heroin addict. Triathlon transformed him. Biopic of the record breaking Ironman Andreas Niedrig.

Filmed in documentary-style, the film follows the character of Gringo, a young man looking for fortune in New York, only to fall into heroin...

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective...

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The...

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

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.