Topic: Alcoholism

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Jack Lemmon · Lee Remick · Charles Bickford · Jack Klugman

Synopsis Days of Wine and Roses (1962) follows the tumultuous relationship between Joe, a charming but aimless public relations executive, and Kirsten, a secretary with a reserved demeanor. Their whirlwind romance blossoms into marriage, but their lives spiral into chaos as...

Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Andrews · Diana Quick · Laurence Olivier

Synopsis TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly falls in love with this odd group, but their embrace...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Ray Milland · Jane Wyman · Phillip Terry · Howard Da Silva

Synopsis Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a would-be writer, is a long time alcoholic who is dissatisfied with his life. His brother Wick (Phillip Terry) and girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) manage to keep him sober for 10 days, but he...

Direction Paul Abbott · Mark Mylod · Mimi Leder · John Wells

Cast William H. Macy · Emmy Rossum · Ethan Cutkosky · Shanola Hampton

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2021). 11 Seasons. 134 Episodes. Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Philip (Lip) trades his physics tutoring skills for sexual...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito · Sanae Takasugi

Synopsis Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago....

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Maurice Ronet · Léna Skerla · Jeanne Moreau · Yvonne Clech

Synopsis In a private nursing home near to Paris, a burnt out writer, Alain Leroy, is being treated for alcoholism. Despite being almost cured of his addiction, Alain, in his mid-thirties, has recurring bouts of depression and has resolved to kill...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter

Synopsis John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look...

Direction Lionel Rogosin

Synopsis The film chronicles three desperate days in a then impoverished lower Manhattan neighborhood, New York's skid row: the Bowery. It is the story of Ray, a railroad worker, who drifts on to the Bowery to have a drunken spree after...

Direction Benito Zambrano

Cast María Galiana · Ana Fernández · Carlos Álvarez-Novoa · Antonio Dechent

Synopsis Solas (1999) follows María, a lonely and bitter woman living in a rundown apartment in Seville. Her life takes an unexpected turn when her estranged mother, who is ill, comes to stay with her. As María cares for her mother,...

Direction Phil Jutzi

Cast Alexandra Schmitt · Holmes Zimmermann · Ilse Trautschold · Gerhard Bienert

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Synopsis The Night of the Iguana (1964) follows disgraced reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, now a tour guide in Mexico, as he leads a group of irritable female tourists. Struggling with his inner demons, Shannon seeks refuge at a run-down hotel run...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Lauren Bacall · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone

Synopsis Written on the Wind (1956) is a dramatic tale of wealth, desire, and self-destruction. The story follows the troubled Hadley family, Texas oil tycoons, whose lives unravel due to jealousy, alcoholism, and unrequited love. Kyle Hadley, the insecure heir, spirals...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Paul Newman · Charlotte Rampling · Jack Warden · James Mason

Synopsis Sidney Lumet directs Paul Newman as an alcoholic lawyer whose once-promising legal career is on the skids and who gets and one last chance to prove himself in this tense courtroom drama. Frank Galvin (Newman) can't even scare up clients...

Direction Clint Eastwood

Cast Forest Whitaker · Diane Venora · Michael Zelniker · Samuel E. Wright

Synopsis Bird (1988) tells the poignant and turbulent life story of legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker. Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film explores Parker's meteoric rise in the 1940s jazz scene, his groundbreaking contributions to bebop, and his personal struggles...

Direction Leos Carax

Cast Juliette Binoche · Denis Lavant · Klaus-Michael Grüber · Daniel Buain

Synopsis Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven...

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Dexter Gordon · François Cluzet · Lonette McKee · Christine Pascal

Synopsis A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody drama. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon portrays Dale Turner, a fictional musician inspired by a number of famed jazz figures, including Bud...

Direction Philip Martin

Cast Helen Mirren · Stephen Tompkinson · Laura Greenwood · Eve Best

Synopsis Helen Mirren returns for the final time as Jane Tennison in the long-awaited Prime Suspect 7. Retirement looms for Detective Superintendent Tennison, but as her career draws to a close, the body of a missing schoolgirl is found, and the...

Direction John Huston

Cast Stacy Keach · Jeff Bridges · Susan Tyrrell · Candy Clark

Synopsis The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. One of them is on the decline of his career while the other one just begins to ascent in this sport.

Direction Matthias Glasner

Cast Lars Eidinger · Corinna Harfouch · Lilith Stangenberg · Ronald Zehrfeld

Synopsis The members of the Lunies family have not been a family for a long time. Liss is silently glad that her demented husband Gerd is slowly wasting away in a nursing home. But her newfound freedom is short-lived: diabetes, cancer...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi