Opium Movies

A coat-and-tie-wearing social worker scours the countryside in search of wild opium poppies.

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the...

The opium smoker Hugo is the youngest son of Baron von Kaufmann, who also is a victim of the drug habit. Hugo is insanely jealous of his older...

Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley, the Wickedest Man in the World

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu...

Jonathan, a well-fed ship's cook, and his friend Michael go ashore in an oriental port city after a long sea voyage. They cannot resist the lure of...

At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

When five gentlemen humiliate a merchant in a Tunisian bazaar, the latter curses them, telling them the order of their deaths within a given time...

Noi runs a rural bar and guesthouse called the Paradise Hotel. He tends bar and arm wrestles any challengers. The hotel, which has only one room,...

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only...

Customs of the mountain people has always been strict and respectful to themselves. Doing something wrong will be considered as being disrespect to...

Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance...

An evil Caucasian jewel smuggler named Robertson (Conwyn Sperry) enlists a small army to steal a map leading to a rare Chinese treasure hidden in...

Equal parts documentary, essay, and narrative,"Captain Elliot's Circle" is mostly a poetic interaction with an obscure corner of Chinese and British...

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.

The Thai government sends a man in undercover to a guerrilla compound to bring down Thailand's biggest drug lord, who supplies opium to most of the...

An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.