Films like Light Sleeper
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame...
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Heaven Knows What
Film · 2015 · also crime and dramaA young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
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25th Hour
Film · 2002 · also crime and dramaOn the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to hi...
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The Unforgivable
Film · 2021 · also crime and dramaA woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Adulthood
Film · 2008 · also crime and dramaAfter serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
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American Gangster
Film · 2007 · also crime and dramaLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes retu...
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Clubbed
Film · 2008 · also crime and dramaAn underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
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Requiem for a Dream
Film · 2000 · also crime and dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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King of New York
Film · 1990 · also crimeA former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in thi...
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Once Upon a Time in America
Film · 1984 · also crime and dramaA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of...
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Paid in Full
Film · 2002 · also crime and dramaAce is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in...
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