Opium Movies

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has t...

While master Wong Fei Hung is away traveling, the impulsive Lau Zhai (Yuen Biao),an initiate into Wong's kung fu school, begins wandering town. He so...

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

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 L...

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

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

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

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 ma...

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

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 fo...

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

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

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 Thai...

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

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...

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, alre...

Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World

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

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 fram...