Recovery Movies

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level...

The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera...

An economist Basque (Gorka Ochoa) based in Barcelona becomes embroiled in a difficult emotional dilemma between his girlfriend (Bárbara...

A portrait of the life of Prince Amponsah, a young actor who survived a near-fatal fire in 2012, and the journey of mental recovery that brought him...

After the death of his brother and serving two years in prison, Joshua moves back in with his mom while under house arrest and is forced to address...

A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy.

The Great Chuetsu Earthquake which struck Niigata Prefecture on October 23, 2004 is permanently engraved in the memories of most Japanese people...

Today is the day Terry Dean quits drinking. How will his addiction demons take the news?

An unconventional portrait of a recovering addict. Tales of drugs, sex, death, and hope.

While recovering from gender-affirming surgery, a sexually frustrated trans woman gets one of her dilators trapped in her new vagina.

When a high school tutor discovers a painful secret about her favorite client, she is quickly triggered by a similar darkness from her own past.

A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.

A woman gets involved in a delivery scam that grows increasingly strange.

A laconic nurse gets sentenced to community service where she has to clean the filthy house of a wildly impulsive recluse.

Unveiling the harsh reality of substance use in Thunder Bay, Ontario, this universally themed documentary, told through personal narratives and...

A homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willing psychiatrist and a court mandate, while a man...

In the documentary, we follow twin brothers Mike and Chuck Rollins, former addicts who now work in addiction recovery. They know firsthand the...

The Mirror Room is a 38-minute hybrid AI + human film by Malaysian artist Armen Jay. Part monologue, part memory ritual, this cinematic experience...

An inspiring feature documentary film about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.