Below is a list of movies that I recommend to watch in the area of addiction, recovery and spiritualy. Many of these movies are dated but are still very relevant.

  1. 4  – 2004
  2. 1982 – 2013
  3. 28 Days –  2000
  4. Aberdeen – 2000
  5. Adam & Paul – 2004
  6. Affliction – 1997
  7. Awake : The Life of Yagananda – 2014
  8. Ayuverda : Art of Being – 2001
  9. Barfly – 1987
  10. Basketball Diaries – 1995
  11. Being Charlie – 2015
  12. Betty (Claude Chabrol’s) – 1992
  13. Bigger than Life – 1956
  14. Boogie Nights – 1997
  15. Brother Sun, Sister Moon – 1972
  16. Candy – 2006
  17. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – 1958
  18. Christine F – 1981
  19. Clean & Sober – 1988
  20. Come Back, Little Sheba – 1952
  21. Crazy Heart – 2009
  22. Days of Wine & Roses – 1962
  23. Down to the Bone – 2004
  24. Drugstore Cowboys – 1989
  25. Drunks – 1995
  26. Eat Pray Love – 2010
  27. Everything Must Go – 2010
  28. Factotum – 2005
  29. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – 1998
  30. Flight – 2012
  31. Gandhi – 1982
  32. GIA – 1998
  33. Grace – 2014
  34. Gridlock’d – 1997
  35. Half Nelson – 2006
  36. Home Run – 2013
  37. I am – 2010
  38. I am a Sex Addict – 2005
  39. I Want to Live – 1958
  40. I’ll Cry Tomorrow – 1955
  41. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – 2012
  42. Into Great Silence – 2005
  43. James White                         – 2015
  44. Jesus’s Son – 1999
  45. Kundum – 1997
  46. Leaving Las Vegas – 1995
  47. Less than Zero – 1987
  48. Light Sleeper – 1992
  49. Little Buddha – 1993
  50. Love in Thoughts – 2004
  51. My Name is Bill W – 1989
  52. My Own Private Idaho – 1991
  53. Oslo, August 31th – 2011
  54. Owning Mahowny – 2003
  55. Party Monster – 2003
  56. Peaceful Warrior – 2006
  57. Permanent Midnight – 1998
  58. Post Cards from the Edge – 1990
  59. Pure – 2002
  60. Rachel Getting Married – 2008
  61. Ram Dass, Fierce Grace – 2001
  62. Ray – 2004
  63. Requiem for a Dream – 2000
  64. Resolution  – 2012
  65. Rosetta – 1999
  66. Rush – 1991
  67. Samsara – 2011
  68. Sherrybaby – 2006
  69. Sid & Nancy – 1986
  70. Siddharta the Buddha – 2013
  71. Smashed – 2012
  72. Some Came Running – 1958
  73. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter – 2003
  74. SPUN – 2002
  75. Suck It Up Buttercup – 2014
  76. Submarine – 2010
  77. Tender Mercies – 1983
  78. Thanks for Sharing – 2012
  79. The Anonymous People – 2013
  80. The Bad Lieutenant – 1992
  81. The Bench – 2000
  82. The Boost – 1988
  83. The Fighter – 2010
  84. The Fire Within – 1963
  85. The 5 People You Meet in Heaven – 2004
  86. The Iceman Cometh –  1973
  87. The Indian Runner – 1991
  88. The Lost Weekend – 1945
  89. The Man with the Golden Arm –  1955
  90. The Mighty Angel – 2014
  91. The Panic in Needle Park – 1971
  92. The Right Way – 2004
  93. The Rose – 1979
  94. The Secret – 2006
  95. The Great Liberation (Tibetan Book) – 1994
  96. The White Sound – 2001
  97. Things Lost in the Fire – 2007
  98. Traffic – 2000
  99. Transpotting – 1996
  100. Trees Lounge – 1996
  101. Under the Volcano – 1984
  102. Wake in Fright – 1971
  103. Wanda – 1970
  104. WTB : Down the Rabbit Hole – 2006
  105. What the Bleep Do We Know – 2004
  106. When a Man Loves a Woman – 1994
  107. Who’s Affraid of Virgina Woolf – 1966
  108. Withnail & I – 1987
  109. Pleasure Unwoven – 2009

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