Topic: Alcoholism

Direction Tom Kapinos · Stephen Hopkins · Scott Winant · David Von Ancken

Cast David Duchovny · Natascha McElhone · Madeleine Martin · Pamela Adlon

Plot TV Series (2007-2014). 7 Seasons. 84 Episodes. Californication centers on novelist Hank Moody (David Duchovny) who struggles to raise his 12-year-old daughter (Madeleine Martin), while still carrying a torch for...

Direction Ted Kotcheff

Cast Gary Bond · Donald Pleasence · Chips Rafferty · Jack Thompson

Plot Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane...

Direction Mike Figgis

Cast Nicolas Cage · Elisabeth Shue · Julian Sands · Richard Lewis

Plot Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage), a hard-core alcoholic, drives to Las Vegas after being fired from his film production job and divesting himself of all possessions. He plans to drink himself...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Richard Barthelmess · David Manners · Johnny Mack Brown · Helen Chandler

Plot Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. Cary and Shep's plane is shot down, and they barely survive; they're released from the hospital on Armistice Day...

Direction René Clément

Cast Maria Schell · François Périer · Armand Mestral · Suzy Delair

Plot Paris, 1852. When her lover, Lantier, walks out on her, a lame young woman, Gervaise Macquart, is left to make a living for herself and her two young children. Her...

Direction Thomas Vinterberg

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Thomas Bo Larsen · Magnus Millang · Lars Ranthe

Plot Four highschool teachers decide to embark on an experiment where they each sustain a certain level of alcohol intoxication during their everyday life, believing that all people in general would...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Yoshitaka Zushi · Kin Sugai · Kazuo Katô · Junzaburo Ban

Plot Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, a retarded boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall · Doris Day · Mary Beth Hughes

Plot As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack...

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Cliff Robertson · Frank Sutton · George Murdock · John Harmon

Plot Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy....

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Eric Campbell · Henry Bergman

Plot An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly through the establishment into chaos.

Direction Lee Tamahori

Cast Rena Owen · Temuera Morrison · Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell · Julian Arahanga

Plot Once Were Warriors is a powerful and deeply affecting story of a contemporary Maori family in urban New Zealand. This debut film by Lee Tamahori has become a tremendous success...

Direction Thomas Vinterberg

Cast Jakob Cedergren · Peter Plaugborg · Patricia Schumann · Gustav Fischer Kjærulff

Plot As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years...

Direction Edward Berger

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Hugo Weaving · Blythe Danner

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 5 Episodes. Patrick Melrose (Benedict Cumberbatch) struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father (Hugo Weaving) and the mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who tacitly...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Shinobu · Akio Isono · Hikaru Yamanouchi · Nobuko Wakaba

Plot Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Wallace Beery · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich · Roscoe Ates

Plot Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for...

Direction David Attwood

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Tom Hardy · Nicola Duffett · Claire-Louise Cordwell

Plot When Stuart Shorter -a homeless alcoholic with a violent past- meets writer and charity worker Alexander Masters, they strike up an unlikely friendship. As Alexander asks if he can write...

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Susan Hayward · Richard Conte · Eddie Albert · Jo Van Fleet

Plot Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie (Jo Van Fleet), Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Albert Austin

Plot A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Alma Pöysti · Jussi Vatanen · Janne Hyytiäinen · Nuppu Koivu

Plot Ansa is single and lives in Helsinki. She works on a zero-hours contract at a supermarket, stocking the shelves; she then sorts recyclable plastic. One night she accidentally meets the...

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

Cast Tabea Blumenschein · Lutze · Magdalena Montezuma · Orpha Termin

Plot She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter...