A carload of teenagers wants to buy some liquor, but the clerk at the liquor store won't sell them any because they're underage. They stop a pedestrian outside the store and ask if he'll buy them liquor. He proceeds to tell them a story about some teenagers he knew who drank and drove, and the consequences they suffered.
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in tu...
Susan, a pretty high school student, has everything going for her—except popularity. She can't figur...
With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and ...
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he...
After causing a deadly hit-and-run motorcycle accident, Conny Schenk spends two years in prison, whe...
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Mar...
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's ...
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is g...
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, ...
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at ...
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might ju...
17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one e...