Darren Aronofsky initially wanted the three main heroin addicts featured in the film (Harry, Marion, and Tyrone) to be much younger than they were in Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel and screenplay. Aronofsky felt that changing the principal characters' ages to around 14 to 16 would further demonstrate the devastating impact of drugs and lead to a greater emotional reaction from the audience. Selby agreed with the director, however the film's producers felt that American audiences would find the film too horrific if young teenagers were to experience such awful events. Selby and Aronofsky lobbied for the characters to be made younger, but producers argued that the film could not be shown in theaters if the protagonists were made out to be teens. Selby acquiesced to the point, but Aronofsky only reluctantly agreed to continue the project with the older characters.
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Christiane F. 1981
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. Shes fascinated by the ...
Christiane F. features rough, disturbing, serious, gloomy and bleak style.
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The Basketball Diaries 1995
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carrolls epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
The Basketball Diaries features emotional, disturbing, rough, bleak and realistic style.
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Candy 2006
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 ...
Candy features touching, emotional, surprise ending, romantic and disturbing style.
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Drugstore Cowboy 1989
Bob and his friends Dianne Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Drugstore Cowboy features dark humor, serious, realistic, thought provoking and gloomy style.
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Black Swan 2010
A ballet dancer wins the lead in quotSwan Lakequot and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile the Black Swan.
Black Swan features psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, twist ending and cerebral style.
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Gia 1998
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving she meets Wilhelmina Cooper a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Coopers help and her own natural instincts ...
Gia features psychological, rough, sexual, melancholic and factual style.
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Sid and Nancy 1986
Following their breakout success in England flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend Nancy Spungen along for the ride. Along the way the ...
Sid and Nancy features cult film, captivating, gloomy, serious and disturbing style.
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Spun 2002
Over the course of three days Ross a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend the local meth producer The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up ...
Spun features rough, stylized, semi serious, realistic and depressing style.
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Boogie Nights 1997
Set in 1977 back when sex was safe pleasure was a business and business was booming idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Boogie Nights features captivating, sentimental, touching, stylized and talky style.
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Naked Lunch 1991
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Naked Lunch features psychedelic, disturbing, atmospheric, serious and realistic style.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn 1989
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption violence taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors the prostitute the union bosses the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Last Exit to Brooklyn features rough, bleak, social, tense and based on true events style.
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Manic 2001
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Manic features rough, disturbing, psychological, compassionate and depressing style.
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Trainspotting 1996
Renton deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Trainspotting features disturbing, dark humor, captivating, psychedelic and semi serious style.
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The Master 2012
Freddie a volatile heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd the charismatic leader of a new quotreligionquot he forms after World ...
The Master features stylized, intellectual, atmospheric, art house and psychological style.
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Gia 1998
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving she meets Wilhelmina Cooper a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Coopers help and her own natural instincts ...
Gia features psychological, rough, sexual, melancholic and factual style.
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Spun 2002
Over the course of three days Ross a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend the local meth producer The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up ...
Spun features rough, stylized, semi serious, realistic and depressing style.
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Manic 2001
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Manic features rough, disturbing, psychological, compassionate and depressing style.
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Candy 2006
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 ...
Candy features touching, emotional, surprise ending, romantic and disturbing style.
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Gia 1998
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving she meets Wilhelmina Cooper a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Coopers help and her own natural instincts ...
Gia features psychological, rough, sexual, melancholic and factual style.
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