Opium Movies

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

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...

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks...

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

Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live...

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...

Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, was almost hanged, was granted the rank of Major by Abraham...

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

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

Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to...

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the...

A newly qualified priest meets with a difficult partitioner.

An exploration into the opium trade in Central Asia and the devastating effect on its people.