Films about alcoholism

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.

1992 film by Martin Brest

2013 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

1931 film directed by Charlie Chaplin

2018 film directed by Bradley Cooper

2014 film directed by Richard Linklater

1945 film by Billy Wilder

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

2012 film directed by Seth MacFarlane

2008 American film directed by Peter Berg

1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks

2002 Hindi film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

2011 film by Todd Phillips

Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. A film adaptation of Rex Pickett's 2004 novel, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer, and Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County wine country to celebrate Jack's upcoming wedding. Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen also star as women they encounter during their trip.

1966 film directed by Mike Nichols

Superbad is a 2007 American coming-of-age teen buddy comedy film directed by Greg Mottola, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and produced by Judd Apatow. It stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as Seth and Evan, two teenagers about to graduate from high school. Before graduating, the boys want to party and lose their virginity, but their plan proves harder than expected. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (in his film debut), Rogen, Bill Hader, Martha MacIsaac, and Emma Stone (in her film debut) provide supporting roles.

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

2014 film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

1995 film directed by Mike Figgis

2013 film directed by John Lee Hancock

2012 film by Robert Zemeckis

2016 film directed by Shane Black

1982 film by Sidney Lumet

2020 film directed by Thomas Vinterberg

1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks

2000 film directed by Betty Thomas

2003 film by Terry Zwigoff

2016 film directed by Tate Taylor

2011 film by Gavin O'Connor

1937 film by William A. Wellman

1978 film by John Landis

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2000 film directed by Mimi Leder

1962 film by Robert Aldrich

Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane. It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth. It stars Gary Oldman in the title role, alongside Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossman, and Charles Dance.

2021 film directed by Guillermo del Toro

1956 film directed by Douglas Sirk

2019 film directed by Robert Eggers

1954 film by George Cukor

1966 film by Howard Hawks

2019 film directed by Mike Flanagan

1948 film by Akira Kurosawa

1982 film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

2013 comedy film directed by Edgar Wright

1981 film directed by Steve Gordon

1970 film by Jean-Pierre Melville

2012 film by Martin McDonagh

1916 film by Charlie Chaplin

2010 American science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Steve Pink

2009 film by Scott Cooper

1997 film by Paul Schrader

1921 film by Victor Sjöström

1954 film by George Seaton

1974 film directed by Bob Clark

2002 film directed by Roger Michell

2019 film directed by Rupert Goold

1917 film by Charlie Chaplin

2013 film directed by James Ponsoldt

1983 film directed by Bruce Beresford

1976 film directed by Frank Pierson