Movie | New Zealand | 05/27/1999 | Crime
5 Years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, Has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontations with second son Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.
Movie | Denmark | 10/08/2020 | Drama | Alcohol
Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Movie | United States | 10/27/2011 | Drama | Alcohol
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
Movie | United States | 10/11/1996 | Drama | Alcohol
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen year old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Movie | Iceland | 09/11/2009 | Drama | Alcohol
Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic clubhouse: no new customers, no fraternizing with customers and, absolutely no women. Lucas is a quick study, but their friendship is put to the test when the distraught and beautiful April (Isild Le Besco) shows up at the bar seeking shelter, and Lucas insists they help her out.
Movie | United States | 04/29/1994 | Drama | Alcohol
Movie | France | 10/27/1995 | Drama | Alcohol
Movie | United States | 09/18/2020 | Drama | Alcohol
Shot in two true single takes, filmed simultaneously in two different parts of a city, Last Call is a real-time feature presented in split screen, showcasing both ends of a wrong number phone call that has the potential to save a life.
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/29/1984 | Drama | Alcohol
Movie | Czech Republic | 02/01/1982 | Drama | Alcohol
Her mother dead, 18-year-old Vladka travels to a remote village in the dead of winter to find the father she has never met. The happiness of their initial meeting gives way to the daughter’s disappointment and concern over the hardworking man’s alcoholism.
Movie | Venezuela | 01/26/2020 | Drama | Alcohol
To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes distorted when he joins old friends to work in an illegal gold mine controlled by Colombian guerrillas. The violence required to work in the mine plunges Roque into a cycle of self-destruction that devours his interior. He will need the fortitude to get out and start anew.
Movie | New Zealand | 05/19/1993 | Drama | Family Ties
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.