Opium Movies

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

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

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 C...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...