Alcoholism Movies

In 1986, twelve years after his film Kihnu Naine (The women of Kishnou), Mark Soosaar made this complementary documentary at the centre of which are...

A dinner goes horribly wrong.

This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13...

A young woman mourning the loss of a loved one battles to escape her existential nightmare.

Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a...

The people at the centre of this film are lawyers, civil servants, housewives, managing directors and mothers. They are also alcoholics. In her...

The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

A quarantine short about grief and the horrors of the cosmos.

Mercy lives a double life. In one she is dating a sexual and loving college student named Jesse. In the other she is living by her family's religious...

This short film is a telling portrait of the discourse about and treatment of alcohol addiction in the middle of the 20th century. In a fictional...

Parents and Kids Talk Straight About Alcohol and Other Drugs. Does your family have trouble talking when it comes to a tough issue like alcohol and...

An angel and devil fight for the soul of a drunkard who cannot resist just one more drink.

She is alcohol-phobic. He is a deep alcoholic. After their passionate night, Suze will find out she is allergic to her new friend. In this hyperbolic...

Three delusional drunks talk nonsense about the people around them.

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

When a girl makes a drunk decision to break up with her boyfriend for another man. She pretends that nothing ever happened.