American Dreamer

Il delitto Varani

March 2018 •Italian

A docu-film about the events related to the murder of a Roman boy of Macedonian origins, Luca Varani, 23, which took place on the morning of 4 March 2016. Manuel Foffo, a 29-year-old university student, from a wealthy family, confesses to his father Valter the atrocious crime committed during a sex and drug-based party that lasted three days and three nights and which involved another boy named Marco Prato, thirty years old, homosexual and well known in the Roman environment of organized parties. Manuel and Marco, totally addicted to alcohol and cocaine, allegedly lured Luca Varani into Manuel's apartment on a pretext to then drug him, torture him and finally kill him cruelly with hammers and stabs. Manuel Foffo will plead guilty and will be sentenced to thirty years in prison with the abbreviated procedure, while Marco Prato, who will claim to be innocent and only subjected (for love) to Manuel's will, will commit suicide the day before the start of the trial.

Money Talk

April 2023 •English

Two troubled high school students find a bag full of money that could be the salvation for all of their problems.

Fatal Fix

March 1980 •Italian

A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.

Psychotropical

September 2016 •English

After Charlie takes an unknown psychotropic drug, she and her secret lover are transported to a strangely sinister paradise.

Death of a Salesman: A DELTARUNE Short FIlm

March 2024 •English

What happens when a deal gone wrong turns into a matter of life and death? Can bygones stay by-gone, or will they go up in flames?

4 Kings II

November 2023 •Thai

After a drug dealer schemes against them in secret, two student gangs ignite a bitter feud that triggers a chain of violent consequences.

By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture

September 2019 •Korean

An advocate of the concept ‘thoughts create reality’, Chan-woo endeavors to realize his dream of running a high-end nightclub when he finds himself caught in the center of a power game in the criminal underworld.

Sweet Girl

August 2021 •English

A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

The Meeting Room

May 2024 •English

A satiric short film of drugs and betrayal.

Skeet

September 2024 •English

After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.

Vita segreta di Maria Capasso

July 2019 •Italian

Narcos PQ

May 2019 •French

Documentary about the Mexican cartel in Quebec

Swaarangi

September 2015 •Urdu

Salma is not happy with her husband Jamal due to his drug addiction. Zaryaab tries to keep Jamal in this habit because he set some goals for himself. Zaryaab cannot achieve his goals without the help of Saieen. Jamal cross all the limits to get drugs regularly.

Discarnate

February 2019 •English

A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.

Buffalo Boys

August 2013 •English

After discovering the man who raised him is not his biological father, 15-year-old Ian's world is forever changed. His mother refuses to identify his real father, fueling Ian's desire to escape suburbia. His girlfriend urges him to stay and work things out, while his best friend continues to lead him down a violent path. The duo sell drugs to make money – until their dealer offers an easier, deadlier way to get rich quick.

Purity Squad

November 1945 •English

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.

I love you mum, I promise I won't die

December 2021 •English

In May 2014, just months after Dan died, the DSM Foundation commissioned award-winning playwright Mark Wheeller to write a verbatim play that told his story, so other young people could learn the lessons he sadly no longer could, and make choices that would keep them safe. The title takes Dan’s joking last words to his mum, Fiona, before he left home for what turned out to be the last time: ‘I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’. Mark worked on the very first production with his talented youth theatre company in Southampton, Oasis Youth Theatre, and the play had its first public performances in March 2016, with previews in Southampton and its premiere at the BRIT school, just a mile from Dan’s home in Croydon, South London.

Synchronic

October 2020 •English

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Fabula

January 2025 •Dutch

Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and his friends laugh at him openly. As he scrambles to fix a drug deal that went catastrophically wrong, he desperately searches for an answer to the question: Who or what is punishing me!?

Ferry

May 2021 •Dutch

Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life.