Opium Movies

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous...

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

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...

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

During the 1960s there was a group of writers in Buenos Aires who, influenced by the North American Beatnik movement, called themselves Opium....

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Manfredi, an habitual user of opium, is a piano player in a Chinese café. A wealthy tourist becomes interested in the young musician and sends...

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

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

Over 90% of the world's opium now comes from Afghanistan. In this shocking new film, we ride the drugs caravan, from cultivation, to process, to...

Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for...

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

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