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1) The brave
Publisher
Unified North America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police in an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking, in this action thriller based on true life events.
2) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
3) No future
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.
4) Cubby
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A 26-year-old oddball named Mark moves from Indiana to New York City after lying to his mother Peggy that he landed a job at a prestigious art gallery. Resorting to babysitting for an elite Brooklyn family, Mark discovers hope and self-discipline through his friendship with lonely six-year-old, and the adult superhero Leather man who is conjured from a psychedelic cupcake.
5) Synchronic
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Julien and his wife move to Amsterdam to help look after their grandchild, the Chief of Police, who happens to be Julien's old girlfriend, seeks out his help in finding a young sex worker who has gone missing. As Baptise rapidly becomes embroiled in a case that peels back layers and layers of atrocity in the sex trade and drugs, nothing is as it first seems. For Julien Baptiste the beautiful streets, canals and houses of Amsterdam hide dark,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
Publisher
Freestyle
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Everything in Linda and Tito Lajterman's life was good. They had three healthy kids, successful jobs, and a community of neighbors and friends who they interacted with regularly. When they find their youngest son, Danny, dead in his bedroom from an apparent overdose, their entire world is turned upside-down. How did they not know he was using? Who was responsible for giving him the fentanyl-laced heroin? Did they fail as parents? These are the questions...
9) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
10) Addiction
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"America is in the midst of the deadliest drug epidemic in US history. In 2017 alone, around 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, driven by a dramatic rise in the abuse of opioids like OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl. It's a slow-motion disaster that is destroying whole communities, with no end in sight. As our nation looks for answers, take an unflinching look at the epidemic through the eyes of those living through it. Along the way, join...
11) Gemmel & Tim
Publisher
[Passion River]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning true crime documentary explores the lives and untimely passings of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two Black gay men who both died from meth overdoses at the home of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck. Powerful and galvanizing, simultaneously investigates the crimes and offers a cautionary tale to keep these events from repeating.
12) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
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