Movies and TvShows featuring "new-drug" theme.

In 1969, Dr. Malcolm Sayer is a physician working with catatonic patients who survived an encephalitis epidemic. He discovers certain stimuli can reach these patients and begins testing a new drug called L-Dopa. One patient, Leonard Lowe, fully awakens but experiences side effects and eventually returns to his catatonic state. Despite the temporary nature of the awakening, Sayer realizes that the patients have learned to appreciate and live life. The film ends with Sayer ready to continue his work with Leonard.

In The Wave, a lawyer stumbles upon a new and powerful drug that leads him down a rabbit hole of surreal experiences and dangerous situations. As he delves deeper into the drug's effects, he begins to question his own reality and sanity. With his life and career at stake, he must navigate a web of deception and danger to uncover the truth behind this mind-altering substance.

Disco Godfather (1979) tells the story of Tucker Williams, a former cop and now owner of a popular nightclub. When his nephew becomes addicted to a new deadly drug called "angel dust," Tucker takes it upon himself to clean up the streets and take down the drug dealers responsible. With his martial arts skills, determination, and disco moves, Tucker becomes the Disco Godfather, leading a relentless fight against drugs and corruption. Can he put an end to the drug epidemic and save his community?

Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for transferring personalities from one person's body to another; he becomes obsessed with an outlaw artist (played by performance artist Karen Finley) who destroys paintings in various galleries as a form of anarchist, anticapitalist protest.

A new drug is taking over the streets, coating them in blood, vomit, and other less savory fluids. The six eye-opening stories in this anthology reveal the truth about this new white menace.