Opium Movies

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

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

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

An evil Caucasian jewel smuggler named Robertson (Conwyn Sperry) enlists a small army to steal a map leading to a rare Chinese treasure hidden in...

Noi runs a rural bar and guesthouse called the Paradise Hotel. He tends bar and arm wrestles any challengers. The hotel, which has only one room,...

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...

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.