"Velg livet. Velg en jobb. Velg en karriere. Velg en familie..." Dette er historien om Mark Renton og hans såkalte venner, en gjeng tapere, løgnere, psykopater, tyver og junkier. Humoristisk men skremmende, viser filmen oppløsningen av deres vennskap og de fortsetter tilsynelatende mot selvødeleggelse. Mark alene har innsikt og mulighet til å unnslippe sin skjebne, men igjen vil han virkelig "velge livet"?
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Gene Hackman spiller igjen rollen som ga ham en Oscar; Popeye Doyle, den tøffe kriminalbetjenten fra New York som er oppsatt på å knuse en fransk ring av narkosmuglere. Han blir kidnappet av heroinkongen Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) i Marseille, og Doyle blir nådeløst tvunget inn i avhengigheten. Når han blir sluppet fri må Doyle bekjempe avhengigheten og slå seg sammen med sitt motstykke i det franske politiet (Bernard Fresson) for å fange Charnier.
Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.
An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.
Leo Regan follows his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he tries to go cold turkey (detox) from heroin in his council flat and without medication.
Pluto and the cat, goaded by a TV commercial for turkey, raid the fridge and find a turkey inside. The cat gets there first and re-heats the turkey, first on the furnace duct, and then, trying to hide from Pluto, inside the tube-type TV - but he over-does it a bit.
A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
In this chilling documentary about the power of addiction, three friends take their fourth longtime pal Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson to a remote cabin in the Tennessee woods, hoping to force him to kick his heroin habit. The group must cut short their trip when HairKutt's body begins to fail without the drug, and after rushing him to a hospital, the friends are dismayed to find that he quickly returns to his old ways.