20 movies like Reefer Madness, ordered by similarity : Too Late for Tears(1949), Blue Story(2019), Wonder(2017), Sweet Sixteen(2002), Germany Year Zero(1948), The Cousin(1997), The Loner(2016), Trainspotting(1996), Go(1999), Paid in Full(2002), Mes Petites Amoureuses(1974), Queen & Slim(2019) ...
Drama
1936
67 Minutes
Dave O'Brien Dorothy Short Lillian Miles Warren McCollum Carleton Young Thelma White Kenneth Craig Joseph Forte
principal parent drug dealer teen boy sister boyfriend gritty shocking high school apartment street diner bedroom court marijuana addiction car accident accidental killing police pursuit suicide
Young people (Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Lillian Miles) go from marijuana to wild piano playing, hysteria and death.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Lizabeth Scott Don DeFore Dan Duryea Arthur Kennedy Kristine Miller Barry Kelley Denver Pyle Virginia Mullen Richard Irving George Mann Harry J. Vejar
wife husband brother brother-in-law sister-in-law private investigator creepy disturbing shocking suspenseful tense uneasy hollywood hollywood hills apartment car train station money murder greed
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Crime, Drama
UK
2019
91 Minutes
Stephen Odubola Micheal Ward Rohan Nedd Kadeem Ramsay Khali Best Junior Afolabi Salokun Karla-Simone Spence Eric Kofi Abrefa Jo Martin
friend rival gang member teenage mother love interest best friend bleak dreamy gripping intense uneasy gritty london inner city high school neighborhood street subway city life gang war
Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
Drama
USA|Hong Kong|Canada
2017
113 Minutes
Julia Roberts Owen Wilson Jacob Tremblay Izabela Vidovic Noah Jupe Nadji Jeter Daveed Diggs Mandy Patinkin Ali Liebert Emma Tremblay Millie Davis
boy family member friend teacher principal neighbor engaging uplifting confident moving heartwarming house town school classroom office car deformity acceptance self-esteem
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Drama
UK|Germany|Spain
2002
106 Minutes
Martin Compston William Ruane Annmarie Fulton Michelle Abercromby Michelle Coulter Gary McCormack Tommy McKee
teen boy stepfather mother grandfather prisoner drug dealer tense gutsy emotional greenock, scotland port city prison street house apartment imprisonment drugs ambition theft teenage rebellion
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
War, Drama
Italy|France|Germany
1948
73 Minutes
Ernst Pittschau Erich Guhne Edmund Moeschke Ingetraud Hinze Franz Otto Kruger Heidi Blänkner Karl Krüger Jo Herbst
boy father brother sister teacher bleak disheartening disturbing berlin apartment street family poverty desperation starvation sexual advances quest fall transformation 1940s
A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.
Crime, Drama
Iran
1997
108 Minutes
Alain Chabat Patrick Timsit Samuel Le Bihan Caroline Proust Marie Trintignant Agnès Jaoui
detective police officer informant drug dealer friend father tense gritty emotional paris slum police station street france drug trade double life suicide friendship police corruption family dysfunction
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
2016
103 Minutes
Reza Sixo Safai Helena Mattsson Parviz Sayyad Julian Sands Dominic Rains Laura Harring Nikolai Kinski Nikohl Boosheri David Diaan Gregory Kasyan
mobster real estate agent poker player soldier brooding intense gripping gritty los angeles club apartment street car poker iran--iraq war secrets drug addiction drug trade escape fall
In the Persian and Russian underworld of Los Angeles, an Iranian gangster must hunt down stolen drugs after being wrongly accused of stealing from his former boss.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1996
94 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Kevin McKidd Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch
drug addict friend student girlfriend drug dealer sociopath amusing dark gritty edinburgh london household apartment pub hotel addiction abandonment friendship crime death
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Comedy, Drama
1999
103 Minutes
Desmond Askew Taye Diggs William Fichtner J.E. Freeman Katie Holmes Jane Krakowski Breckin Meyer Jay Mohr Timothy Olyphant Sarah Polley Scott Wolf
storekeeper drug dealer undercover cop teen girl wife actor frenetic playful cool grocery store street car los angeles las vegas strip club drugs set-up accident hedonism road trip
A checkout girl covering for a co-worker (Desmond Askew) faces danger from a drug dealer she double-crosses out of desperation.
Crime, Drama
USA
2002
97 Minutes
Wood Harris Mekhi Phifer Kevin Carroll Esai Morales Chi McBride Cameron "Cam'ron" Giles Remo Green Cynthia Martells Elise Neal Regina Hall
drug lord drug dealer ex-convict friend rival thug gritty intense brutal harlem, n.y. street basketball court hospital drug trade crime ring violence loyalty murder gangs rise
A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.
Comedy, Drama
France
1974
123 Minutes
Martin Loeb Ingrid Caven Jacqueline Dufranne Vincent Testanière Roger Rizzi Anne Stroka
boy mother mother's boyfriend grandmother friend girl endearing calm tender striking south of france paris apartment school bicycle shop coming of age adolescence desire loneliness family
A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the... See full summary »
Romance, Crime, Drama
USA|Canada
2019
132 Minutes
Daniel Kaluuya Jodie Turner-Smith Bokeem Woodbine Chloë Sevigny Flea Sturgill Simpson Indya Moore Benito Martinez Jahi Di'Allo Winston Gralen Bryant Banks Dickson Obahor
young woman young man cop family member friend fiery engaging gripping gutsy restaurant car apartment family home accidental killing police brutality racism on the run love pursuit fall
A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2018
103 Minutes
Julia Roberts Lucas Hedges Courtney B. Vance Kathryn Newton Rachel Bay Jones David Zaldivar Alexandra Park Michael Esper Tim Guinee Myra Lucretia Taylor Mia Fowler
young man mother sister friend addict drug smuggler intense gripping emotional rousing brooding sad family home suburbia neighborhood small town substance abuse drug addiction family dysfunction family ties
A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.
Biography, Drama
USA
2015
129 Minutes
Kevin Costner Maria Bello Morgan Saylor Michael Aguero Sergio Avelar Hector Duran Rafael Martinez Martha Higareda Johnny Ortiz Carlos Pratts Ramiro Rodriguez
coach student runner teacher principal parent confident cool uplifting tense emotional california high school track gym car house track and field school winning
Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach, and at his new school he turns seven disappointing students into one of the best cross-country teams in the region.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2014
112 Minutes
Jeremy Renner Rosemarie DeWitt Ray Liotta Tim Blake Nelson Barry Pepper Oliver Platt Michael Sheen Paz Vega Michael Kenneth Williams Mary Elizabeth Winstead Andy Garcia
journalist cia analyst drug dealer crack addict nicaraguan lawyer brooding chilling dark washington, d.c. courtroom newsroom apartment car street drugs cia secrets danger journalism
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
Drama
UK|USA
1999
159 Minutes
Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Marie Richardson Rade Serbedzija Todd Field Vinessa Shaw Alan Cumming Sky Dumont Fay Masterson Leelee Sobieski
doctor curator husband wife sexy man sexy woman chilling sultry tense shocking new york city apartment mansion city apartment bedroom street husband/wife relationship sex cult sadomasochism
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Drama
Indonesia
1998
80 Minutes
Kancil Heru Sugeng Christine Hakim Kabri Wali Sarah Azhari
street urchin ex-husband merchant boy woman disheartening gritty bleak yogyakarta, indonesia city basement street workshop homelessness survival drugs scams helping others urban poverty escape
The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.
Drama
USA
2015
80 Minutes
Jessica Biel Zosia Mamet Edi Gathegi Joe Anderson Kate Burton Harry Hamlin Exie Booker Deepak Ramapriyan
sister instructor abusive boyfriend sibling half sister gripping moving intense melodramatic united states motel on the run small town bedroom street rescue sister relationship sisterhood murder violence
A yoga instructor looks to protect her sex-worker sister from her deadbeat boyfriend.
Drama
USA
1932
81 Minutes
George Arliss Bette Davis Violet Heming
pianist fiancée friend love interest sister confident emotional heartwarming new york city apartment accident deafness change of heart philanthropy music self-sacrifice transformation quest love 1930s
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Australia|USA
2013
105 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Jai Courtney Tom Wilkinson Melissa George Sarah Roberts Brendan Donoghue Patrick Thompson Chum Ehelepola Rosie Lourde Belinda Bromilow Rhonda Doyle
police officer boy detective uneasy tense somber raw engaging disheartening brooding australia town accident coma cover-up career discovery pursuit fall 2010s
An accident involving a young child sets off a chain of events that brings an Australian police officer's world crashing down.