Movies with/about Heroin addiction?

Cafe Society
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OK, so talking with a couple of friends about the opiate epidemic and their own encounters with street addicts (they work on city street infrastructure projects and some of the zones they work are a tad dicey). The subject of Heroin abuse in movies came up and I couldn’t really think of too many movies that cover it. We came up with:

Trainspotting
The Panic in Needle Park
A Hero Ain’t Nothing But a Sandwich
The Man with the Golden Arm

and arguably: Sid & Nancy

There’s a lot of movies involving coke abuse, and meth probably is getting a lot of notice, but this list seemed a bit thin. Which movies did we miss?

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Requiem for a Dream?

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Ray

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Drugstore Cowboy.

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The Basketball Diaries
Gia
Lady Sings The Blues

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The Fighter

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Less Than Zero

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Rush, 1991.

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A Hatful of Rain - 1957

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Naked Lunch – Although the protagonist is shown to be an all-purpose junkie addicted to whatever type of opiate he can get his hands on, including bug spray, it IS about William S. Burroughs, so heroin is definitely in there.

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This.

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More (1969)
Monkey on my Back
Stakeout on Dope Street
The Connection (1961)
Dusty and Sweets McGee
Lenny
H (1990)
High Art

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Little Fish, a relatively unknown but good Australian film, starring the inimitable Cate Blanchett.

It’s actually about a former addict and her troubles kicking the habit, as well as the crime scene associated with it.

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Excellent, but you could make a mini-festival by pairing it with two other Australian movies:

Monkey Grip

Pure S (sometimes as Pure Shit)

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Gridlock’d

Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur

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Not about heroin per sey , but Bad Lieutenant had one of the most realistic scenes of shooting up ever.

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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Killing Them Softly

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I can’t remember exactly what substances were being abused, but I know there were pills and I think maybe some heroin use in Dead Ringers.

Christiane F. is an old (1981) movie about the Berlin drug scene.

And Mr. Robot, while a TV show, does have a main character (the main character) who is a heroin addict and yes, they’ve shown him using the drug.

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Candy (2006).

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Pulp Fiction
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