10 Best Drug Movies | The Movie Gourmet

1. Requiem for a Dream (1996): This movie has it all, the young druggies spiraling into harder drugs and graver consequences and the older woman addicted toprescriptionmeds. And, for extra credit, the visuals and the editing are really trippy.

2. Jungle Fever (1991): This Spike Lee film ranks so highly because of Samuel L. Jacksons breakthrough performance as the crackhead Gator the most searing depiction ever of a hardcore addict.

3. Rachel Getting Married (2008): Every moment of this film about rehab, recovery and relapse and drug addiction as a family disease rings true.

4. Easy Rider (1969): This is the definitive drug film. Its about a pair of drug dealers, after all, and it would make this list for any of three great drug scenes. First, theres this marijuana smoking scene; you will not be surprised to read that the actors were really toking up. And, finally, there is the scene in the southwestern commune that unintentionally exposes the pretentiousness of the ritualized dope culture of the period. (Smoking in front of your toddlers yikes!) As a druggie bonus, theres an early cameo by Phil Spector as a coke kingpin.

5. Trainspotting (1996): This visually original film about Scots junkies has a unique energy and Iggy Pop on the soundtrack. The moral: junkies are not your best childcare option.

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10 Best Drug Movies | The Movie Gourmet

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero