Heroin Movies

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

Documentary following Jason Mewes' withdrawal from heroin and his struggle to stay clean.

An intimate and uncompromising portrayal, filmed over a year, of the day to day struggles of a new generation of children addicted to heroin, trying...

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug...

Em is an escort girl and a heroin addict. From New York to Los Angeles via Pittsburgh, Em’s daily life is revealed.

Blown Away is about a woman who’s feeling a bit down and out. She shoots up, then really starts shooting up.  People, that is. Her...

While out on a bachelor's party, three mid-twenties college buddies come across a crime scene and three cases of premium grade heroin. Their stories...

A scare film used for police training, reusing footage from The Narcotics Story (1958) with new narration.

A junkie wakes up on the streets and walks around, seeing a woman dressed in all white and a heroin addict shooting up.

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate...

Unfinished David Wojnarowicz film that was salvaged by Marion Scemama from Fales Library.

Documentary on the penetration of drugs in Milan in the 70s. Filomena is only 24 years old and recounts with a lucidity that takes her breath away...

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to...

A Roman musician is attracted to a girl who is addicted to heroin. After providing some help, he soon becomes addicted himself.

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

This color educational movie “Narcosis” is a “scare film” about the realities of heroin and drug addiction The title...

Hitman Lop meets a woman who sells life insurance he has been hired to kill and decides to end his career as a killer for hire. But criminals from...

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust”...

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the...