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1) Julia
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Julia is a 40-year-old alcoholic on the constant decline. She spends the nights partying, usually not knowing where she is when she wakes up. Because of that, she loses her job. Her only friend, Mitch, a recovering alcoholic himself, makes her go to an AA meeting, where she meets her neighbor, Elena. Elena tells Julia that she wants to kidnap her son who is living with his very rich grandfather and go back to Mexico with him and she needs Julia to...
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A former big-time Hollywood movie composer, Jack, hits rock bottom and ends up becoming a chauffeur to pay his bills. Desperate to get his life and career back on track, he attends Alcoholics Anonymous, where he meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who he falls in love with and consults for support. Can Jack reclaim the life he once took for granted? Or will he stay trapped in dreams?
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Matt, a loner alcoholic, struggles to maintain sobriety and honor his mother's dying wish to see him get sober. His AA sponsor offers him refuge at his farm where Matt finds Yup'ik, a stray husky with a unique talent. Their relationship struggles at first, but with the help of their Montana community, the two strays find a connection and discover what it takes to pull through to the finish line.
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Shameless volume 6
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Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
5) The way back
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A former high school basketball phenom, struggling with alcoholism, is offered a coaching job at his alma mater. As the team starts to win, he may have a reason to confront his old demons. But will it be enough to set him on the road to redemption?
7) Gringa
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An outcast teen and a disgraced, alcoholic ex-soccer star get a last chance to form a family when she unexpectedly reunites with him in Mexico. Both hoping things can be put back together, even if all you have are the missing pieces.
8) Telefon
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A Russian officer is sent to USA to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
10) A star is born
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A fading star meets an aspiring actress, falls in love with and marries her. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results.
11) The good house
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Life for New England realtor Hildy Good begins to fall apart when she hooks up with an old flame of hers from New York.
12) Finding Amanda
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A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab in a last ditch effort to save his marriage.
13) California solo
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A former Scottish rocker turned organic farm laborer goes to a farmers' market to sell produce by day and by night drinks himself into a glazed stupor and records podcasts about rock bands of his era. When he is arrested for driving drunk, a past drug offense resurfaces, and he finds himself facing deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative, but he doubts he has...
14) 1500 steps
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This high school drama is set in the beautiful Sydney beach suburb of Cronulla where Jonas "Jobe" O'Brien, a sixteen year old boy lives in a struggling single parent family.
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"In the Southwest in the 1920's, a young woman is found strangled in her bedroom. Her husband, Bryan Talbot, the town libertine, is found drunk and incoherent. He is arrested and subsequently convicted of murder by circumstantial evidence stemming from his frequent violent outbursts on the promiscuous conduct of his wife. Judge Hochstadter leaves on a fishing trip, thereby placing a younger judge, Ben Morealis Lewis, in charge of Talbot's hanging....
16) Crazy Heart
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The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
17) Barfly
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Quasi-autobiography of writer-alcoholic Charles Bukowski. Life on the skids in L.A.'s bars and flophouses.
18) Affliction
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When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade Whitehouse, with the aid of his new girlfriend, is forced to confront his past and reexamine his life.
19) Drunk parents
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Two parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.
20) Remy & Arletta
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Remy is under the thumb of her staunchly religious, yet alcoholic and abusive mother. She latches onto her best friend, Arletta, as a coping mechanism, but soon learns that their friendship is more than she realized.
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