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Films with theme "Films about alcoholism", sorted by revenue
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The Man Without a Past (2002)
, 1h37Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Anneli Sauli, Elina Salo, Outi Mäenpää
The film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in Kaisaniemi Park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is severely injured in the head, losing consciousness. He awakes and wanders back to the train station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory. He starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor.
Illegal (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Anne Coesens, Frederic Haùgness, Olivier Schneider, Christelle Cornil, Esse Lawson, Fanny Roy
The film follows Tania and her 13-year-old son Ivan, two illegal Russian aliens living in Belgium. After being denied Belgian permanent residence, Tania deliberately burns her fingers to remove her fingerprints and avoid identification. Tania advises her Belarusian friend Zina to apply for political asylum, since Belarus is considered a dictatorship by Belgians, but Zina seems to dismiss Tania's advice.
In the Electric Mist (2009)
, 1h42Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Political films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Kelly Macdonald, Mary Steenburgen, Levon Helm
Iberia Parish's Sheriff Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is investigating the murder of a young woman and has a chance encounter with a pair of Hollywood stars, Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) and his girlfriend Kelly Drummond (Kelly Macdonald). They are in the small town to make a Civil War film.
A esmorga (2014)
, 1h51Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Karra Elejalde
Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)
, 4minutesDirected by Robert W. Paul
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Dans un débit de boissons, un homme, apparemment aisé, consomme un verre d'alcool, encouragé par la patronne. Un autre client entre, un portefaix, pauvrement habillé. Il commande un verre d'ale que la patronne ajoute à son ardoise déjà remplie. Un marchand ambulant entre et vend des cerises à la patronne qui s'empresse d'en offrir à son meilleur client. Le portefaix n'hésite pas à se servir à son tour, mais la patronne lui reproche son sans-gêne et le force à apurer sa dette en vidant ses poches de toute monnaie. Furieux, il sort après avoir brisé son verre.
Dangerous (1935)
, 1h19Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, George Irving, Alison Skipworth, Dick Foran
Don Bellows rencontre son idole Joyce Heath, une ancienne actrice de théâtre, dans un bar. Comme elle est ivre-morte et qu'elle n'a aucun papier sur elle, il la raccompagne chez lui. Malgré les reproches de Mrs Williams, la gouvernante, elle s'installe chez lui et avoue porter malheur à tous ceux qui l'approchent.
Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Andrea Segre
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about racism, La précarité
Actors Rade Šerbedžija, Zhao Tao, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston
Shun Li (Zhao Tao) has been working in a textile workshop in the outskirts of Rome for eight years trying to obtain the documents to bring her son to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small island town situated in the Venetian lagoon to work as a bartender in a tavern. Bepi (Rade Šerbedžija), a fisherman of Slavic origin, nicknamed by friends as "the Poet", has been visiting the little inn for years. Their meeting is a poetic escape from loneliness, a silent dialogue between different cultures. It is a journey into the heart of a deep lagoon, known to be a mother and birthplace of identity. But the friendship between Shun Li and Bepi disturbs both communities, Chinese and Chioggia, which hinders this new journey, which perhaps is simply still too scary.
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
, 1h33Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Ghost films
Actors Hilda Borgström, Victor Sjöström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Nils Ahrén, Mona Geijer-Falkner
On New Year's Eve, dying Salvation Army Sister Edit has one last wish: to speak with David Holm. David, a drunkard, is sitting in a graveyard, telling his two drinking buddies about his old friend Georges, who told him about the legend that the last person to die each year has to drive Death's carriage and collect the souls of everybody who dies the following year. Georges himself died on New Year's Eve the previous year.
Drunken Angel (1948)
, 1h38Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Noriko Sengoku, Yoshiko Kuga, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
It stars Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune), after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment (and quit boozing and womanizing). The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss, Okada, who is also the former abusive boyfriend of the doctor's female assistant, is released from prison and seeks to take his gang over once again. The sick young man then stops following the doctor's advice, slips back into old habits and going to night clubs with Okada. But Matsunaga realizes that Okada is not a true friend when Okada threatens to kill the doctor if he doesn't reveal the female assistants whereabouts, and then finds out that the big Yakuza crime boss is grooming Okada and merely using Matsunaga as a pawn to be given up to the rival gang. When the doctor leaves his house to go report on Okada to the police, despite the doctor's orders to remain in bed, Matsunaga slips out to confront Okada (who has also managed to steal Matsunaga's girlfriend Nanae) but Matsunaga is killed in the ensuing knife fight. The film ends with a local shop-owner woman who had feelings for Matsunaga planning to take Matsunaga's ashes to be buried on her farm, far from the corrupt and dirty city, and the doctor happily learning that one of his younger patients has followed his advice and has been fully cured of tuberculosis.
, 2h54Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Tom McCamus, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Peter Donaldson, Dean Stockwell
L'action se déroule pendant une journée du mois d’août 1912 dans la maison d’été de James Tyrone, un acteur de théâtre vieillissant et assez à l’aise financièrement. Chaque membre de la famille Tyrone est aux prises avec une situation difficile : James accepte mal de voir sa carrière décliner. Son épouse, Mary, est une morphinomane qui sort d’une cure de désintoxication. Leur premier fils, James Jr, est aussi un acteur qui ne parvient pas à bâtir une carrière. Edmund, le second fils, est un marin qui souffre peut-être de tuberculose.
A Monkey in Winter (1962)
, 1h39Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Noël Roquevert, Paul Frankeur, Gabrielle Dorziat
Albert Quentin is a reformed alcoholic who once swore never to drink again. He has kept this promise to his wife for many years although as the owner of a small hotel he had opportunities galore to break it.
The Fire Within (1963)
, 1h48Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about suicide
Actors Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Hubert Deschamps, Alexandra Stewart, Yvonne Clech, Jean-Paul Moulinot
Alain Leroy, a recovering alcoholic at a rehabilitation clinic in Versailles suffers with a depression. He intends to commit suicide, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one final time, trying to find a reason to live.
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
, 1h53Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Chishū Ryū, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Nobuo Nakamura, Kuniko Miyake
Shūhei Hirayama (Chishū Ryū) is an ageing widower with a 32-year-old married son, Kōichi (Keiji Sada), and two unmarried children: 24-year-old daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) and a 21-year-old son Kazuo (Shin'ichirō Mikami). The ages of the children, and what they respectively remember about their mother, suggest that she died just before the end of the war, perhaps in the bombing of Tokyo in 1944-45. Since his marriage, Kōichi has moved out to live with his wife in a small flat, leaving Hirayama and Kazuo to be looked after by Michiko.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
, 1h59Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey, Claudia Jennings
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is experiencing a catastrophic drought.
17, rue Bleue (2001)
, 1h35Directed by Chad Chenouga
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Lysiane Meis, Saïda Jawad
Cinq ans après sa fuite d’Algérie en 1967, Adda vit à Paris avec ses deux enfants et ses deux sœurs. Elle entretient une relation amoureuse avec un patron qui assure une situation confortable à l'ensemble de la famille et qui décède soudainement, et qui va basculer leur destin.