Movies like On Thin Ice
If On Thin Ice's mix of drug dealer, killing and asthma stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what On Thin Ice's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Echo Valley
2025 · Directed by Michael Pearce · 105 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer, drug addict
Kate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child.
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Trainspotting
1996 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 94 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer, recovering addict
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride.
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Menace II Society
1993 · Directed by Albert Hughes · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Fresh
1994 · Directed by Boaz Yakin · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 119 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer.
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Light Sleeper
1992 · Directed by Paul Schrader · 103 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business.
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Ben Is Back
2018 · Directed by Peter Hedges · 103 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean.
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River's Edge
1986 · Directed by Tim Hunter · 100 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to…
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Thoroughbreds
2018 · Directed by Cory Finley · 92 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: drug dealer
Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart.