Movies Similar to Avgörandet

Seduction of the Innocent(1961)

Jeanette, a pretty high school student, is looking for “kicks”. She starts hanging out with a wild crowd, and begins popping bennies, uppers and other pills. Soon she graduates from barbiturates to marijuana…

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Ape Principal(2023)

A new principal comes to the underdeveloped village school that is affected by lazy teachers and drugs.

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Not Me, It's A Trap

Professor Whyze and his 11-year-old son Tommy discover a hidden underworld where terrorist forces, led by veteran Hack, wage a “War on Kids,” using alcohol, drugs, and tobacco to stunt youth. They enlist Halfweed, a rebel from the tobacco ranks, to expose the epidemic. Mocked by classmates and ignored by authorities until death threats strike, Tommy must choose to warn his peers, stand with Halfweed, and help end the addiction assault, because it’s never wrong to do what’s right.

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Crackdown Big City Blues(2018)

Set in New York City in the 1990s, community activists seek to rid their neighborhood of the anguish, brutality, and violence associated with local drug dealers.

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Angel Dusted(1981)

Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is forced to wrestle with the crisis.

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LSD: Trip to Where?(1968)

Three sailors are talked into trying LSD and marijuana--which, this film implies, are basically the same thing--and the effects of the drugs endanger the lives of their fellow sailors aboard ship.

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Heaven and Hell(1969)

Norwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is safer than alcohol. Together with some friends they decide to try the drug. The start of a drug hell for all involved. The film was poorly received by the critics, but it nonetheless became one of the highest-grossing theater films in Norway in 1969.

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Həyat Naminə(2023)

Short film about rehabilitation, dedicated to a healthy future at the Hayat Namine rehabilitation center.

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Parks and People: Dope(1970)

The transcript discusses the prevalent drug culture, particularly marijuana use, among youth in national parks. It highlights the perception that marijuana is less harmful than harder drugs and reflects on the challenges park rangers face in enforcing drug laws. While acknowledging the existence of drug trafficking, the narrative emphasizes that marijuana use is often seen as a minor issue compared to alcohol consumption or harder narcotics. The conversation also touches on the need for a more nuanced understanding of drug use, suggesting that current laws may be overly stringent and not reflective of societal attitudes.

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Marijuana The Great Escape(1968)

“Marijuana the Great Escape” was distributed by BFA and produced and directed by J. Gary Mitchell. This film tells the story of a young man who aspires to be a professional drag racer. But, he starts smoking marijuana, which impairs his ability to drive safely, and that leads to a terrible reckoning. The film was created in cooperation with the Inglewood Police Department.

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LSD(1967)

1967 Navy training film MN-10507-A. Navy physician talks about the dangers of LSD or "Russian roulette in a sugar cube." National Archives Identifier: 6379 "How LSD was discovered, the extreme dangers of using it and how it affects the brain and body."

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WEED(1971)

This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The Story of Marijuana” combines time-lapse, montage, illustrations, animation (by Paul Fierlinger and emigre Pavel Vošický) and dramatized, documentary-style interviews to survey the evolving role of cannabis in U.S. society, with emphasis on the legal risks faced by young people. A unique score of experimental synthesizer music is provided by Tony Luisi on an EMS VCS 3 “Putney”

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It's My Hobby(1974)

A high school student faces a moral dilemma, should he turn in a friend who is dealing pills.

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Grass(1999)

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discernible ill effect, it continues to be reviled by many governments on Earth. In this Genie Award-winning documentary veteran Canadian director Ron Mann and narrator Woody Harrelson mix humour and historical footage together to recount how the United States has demonized a relatively harmless drug.

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Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue(1990)

The plot chronicles the exploits of Michael, a teenager who is using marijuana and stealing his father's beer. His younger sister, Corey, is worried about him because he started acting differently. When her piggy bank goes missing, her cartoon tie-in toys come to life to help her find it. After discovering it in Michael's room along with his stash of drugs, the various cartoon characters proceed to work together and take him on a fantasy journey to teach him the risks and consequences a life of drug-use can bring and save the world.

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From Candy to Cocaine(1986)

In this film titled “From Candy to Cocaine” from 1986, the “Teens Kick-Off” performance group, a performance group recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, perform a modern theater piece on their personal stories of addiction and recoveries. The film also portrays adolescents, who share their stories from use and abuse to recovery. Real people, not actors, speak frankly about their addiction in a theater setting. Parents share their feelings, illustrating the family’s struggles. The film ends on a positive note, emphasizing recovery. It is produced in cooperation with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Health and Human Services, directed by Terry Losardo, photographed by Charles Shedd, and edited by David Sherwin.

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Dead Is Dead(1974)

An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy.

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Users Are Losers(1971)

Educational film about the dangers of drug use and abuse in high school. Framed around the death of a classmate from overdose.

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Drug Addiction(1951)

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to "H," and Marty's decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and reformed. Drug Addiction's stilted view of the urban drug culture and unrealistic portrayals of stoned slackers make it entertaining viewing today. It belongs to that little-known "second wave" of anti-drug films, the postwar scare stories about middle-class kids overcome by junkiedom. What this wave of films reveals is that drugs were an issue for white adolescents long before the psychedelic Sixties, and that the official response to the threat expressed a general, not specifically targeted paranoia.

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Sinister Harvest(1930)

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune; the booming voice of the narrator informs us that the addict has perished. Footage used is from the silent film Dope Fiends.

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