20 movies like Another Day in Paradise, ordered by similarity : Trainspotting(1996), Sid & Nancy(1986), Adam & Paul(2004), Paris Awakens(1991), High Sierra(1941), Panic in Needle Park(1971), Obey(2018), Blindspotting(2018), A Short Film About Killing(1988), Leaving Las Vegas(1995), Dusty and Sweets McGee(1971), Boys Don't Cry(1999) ...
Drama
USA
1999
101 Minutes
James Woods Melanie Griffith Vincent Kartheiser Natasha Gregson Wagner James Otis Paul Hipp Brent Briscoe Peter Sarsgaard Kim Flowers Branden Williams
teen boy girlfriend criminal lover drug dealer junkie hedonistic bleak brutal raw american midwest apartment pharmacy motel cornfield gas station drug addiction petty crime heist troubled youth
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong leading to dissent, violence and murder.
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.
Biography, Drama, History
1986
111 Minutes
Gary Oldman Chloe Webb David Hayman Andrew Schofield Debby Bishop Tony London Perry Benson Gloria LeRoy
bassist singer girlfriend drug addict manager amusing shocking bleak london new york city stage apartment love-hate relationship drug addiction culture clash punk rock touring fall wretched excess love
Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) of the punk-rock Sex Pistols self-destructs with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb).
Comedy, Drama
Ireland
2004
85 Minutes
Mark O'Halloran Tom Murphy Louise Lewis Gary Egan Dylan Grimes Deirdre Molloy Mary Murray Paul Roe Ian Cregg Michael Ryan Gerry Moore
junkie friend criminal drug dealer disturbing bleak cheeky ireland dublin field inner city addiction heroin friendship desperation crime poverty quest wretched excess 2000s
2 heroin addicts negotiate their way through Dublin's city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.
Drama
France|Italy
1991
95 Minutes
Judith Godrèche Jean-Pierre Léaud Thomas Langmann Martin Lamotte Ounie Lecomte Antoine Basler
middle-aged man junkie son friend drug dealer lover gritty passionate emotional bleak dark sad paris park apartment party family home public space young love drug addiction
Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a ... See full synopsis »
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Ida Lupino Alan Curtis Arthur Kennedy Joan Leslie Henry Hull Henry Travers Barton MacLane Jerome Cowan Cornel Wilde Donald MacBride
gangster ex-convict criminal girlfriend dark brooding cool california mountain sierra nevada mountains los angeles casino crime love murder heist escape fall love 1940s
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Drama
USA
1971
110 Minutes
Al Pacino Kitty Winn Alan Vint Richard Bright Kiel Martin Michael McClanathan Warren Finnerty Marcia Jean Kurtz Raul Julia Angie Ortega Larry T. Marshall
junkie girlfriend brother police officer hustler dark disturbing fascinating powerful new york city park drug addiction heroin young love homelessness crime betrayal temptation love wretched excess
Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.
Drama
UK
2018
96 Minutes
Marcus Rutherford Sophie Kennedy Clark Sam Gittins T'Nia Miller James Atwell Wil Coban Taurean Steele Jasmine Jobson Joshua Blisset Daniel Akilimali Christine Taetz
love interest man boxer trainer friend police officer brash brutal raw emotional unrestrained apartment boxing ring london street party jealousy obsession riots boxing
As London slides towards a time of violent social unrest, on the estates of East London, a young man's life is torn apart by a love for a girl from a different place.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Daveed Diggs Rafael Casal Janina Gavankar Jasmine Cephas Jones Ethan Embry Tisha Campbell-Martin Utkarsh Ambudkar Kevin Carroll Nyambi Nyambi Jon Chaffin Wayne Knight
ex-convict probation officer best friend police officer suspect entrepreneur bleak disturbing gripping intense oakland, calif. truck apartment street life after prison witnessing murder racial issues police brutality starting over temptation
While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.
Drama
1988
84 Minutes
Miros?aw Baka Krzysztof Globisz Jan Tesarz
troubled youth taxi driver defense attorney girl wife judge brutal shocking bleak gripping warsaw, poland apartment building prison taxi capital punishment murder death trial psychopath fall
A young lawyer (Krzysztof Globisz) in Warsaw represents a drifter (Miros?aw Baka) who killed a malicious cabdriver (Jan Tesarz).
Drama
France|UK|USA
1995
111 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Elisabeth Shue Julian Sands Richard Lewis Valeria Golino Graham Beckel R. Lee Ermey Laurie Metcalf David Brisbin Xander Berkeley Lou Rawls
alcoholic screenwriter prostitute pimp bleak emotional las vegas motel apartment alcoholism self-destruction prostitution writers romance love wretched excess fall love 1990s
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Drama
USA
1971
91 Minutes
heroin addict boyfriend girlfriend drug dealer hustler teenager emotional gritty offbeat los angeles supermarket house motel freeway heroin drug addiction relationships theft money love
A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama
USA
1999
119 Minutes
Hilary Swank Chloë Sevigny Peter Sarsgaard Brendan Sexton III Alison Folland Alicia Goranson Matt McGrath Rob Campbell Jeannetta Arnette
transsexual love interest friend criminal bleak emotional lincoln, neb. falls city, neb. bar apartment gender identity troubled youth violence growing up transformation forbidden love fall 1990s
A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
Drama
France
1980
110 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Gérard Depardieu Guy Marchand Humbert Balsan Bernard Tronczak Christian Boucher Frederique Cerbonnet Jacqueline Dufranne Agnès Rosier
young woman petty criminal boss husband advertising executive lover intense brutal raw france nightclub apartment city love sex infidelity marriage class distinctions jealousy transformation
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
Drama
Belgium|France|Italy|Germany
2008
95 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Arta Dobroshi Jérémie Renier Fabrizio Rongione Alban Ukaj Morgan Marinne Olivier Gourmet Anton Yakovlev Grigoriy Manukov Mireille Bailly
mobster boyfriend cab driver junkie immigrant bleak dark intense gripping belgium apartment snack bar morality addiction crime marriage immigration temptation fall sacrifice
Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
2009
121 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Eva Mendes Val Kilmer Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner Fairuza Balk Shawn Hatosy Jennifer Coolidge Tom Bower Vondie Curtis-Hall Irma P. Hall Denzel Whitaker
lieutenant drug addict father police chief client prostitute disturbing intense gritty new orleans house apartment police station addiction moral dilemma hard times crime police work murder investigation fall
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Crime, Drama
USA
1957
75 Minutes
Tom Laughlin Peter Miller Richard Bakalyan Rosemary Howard Helen Hawley Leonard Belove Lotus Corelli James Lantz
teen boy girlfriend father mother friend gang leader gritty wild melodramatic cool kansas city, mo. bar street dance hall gas station drive-in theater troubled youth gangs peer pressure young love
A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.
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.
Crime, Biography, Drama
USA|Mexico
2001
124 Minutes
Johnny Depp Penélope Cruz Franka Potente Rachel Griffiths Paul Reubens Jordi Mollá Cliff Curtis Miguel Sandovar Ethan Suplee Ray Liotta Kevin Gage
drug lord wife friend pablo escobar father cool bleak hedonistic california jail colombia drug trafficking drug addiction marriage crime family dysfunction wretched excess fall 1970s
The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2017
117 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Jonny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle Ewen Bremner Anjela Nedyalkova Kelly Macdonald Shirley Henderson James Cosmo
drug addict friend brooding disturbing dreamy hedonistic somber scotland apartment club street loss vengeance regret self-destruction returning home adventure discovery escape fall
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
Crime, Drama
USA
1993
144 Minutes
Al Pacino Sean Penn Penelope Ann Miller Luis Guzman John Alberto Leguizamo Ingrid Rogers James Rebhorn Joseph Siravo Viggo Mortensen Richard Foronjy Jorge Porcel
ex-convict lawyer friend dancer girlfriend gangster tense gritty emotional new york city nightclub courtroom big city criminal underworld crime shady dealings drugs gangsters murder ex-convicts
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.