Movies like Wasted
If Wasted's mix of high school, friendship and small town stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Wasted's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Trainspotting
1996 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 94 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, heroin, drugs
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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The Basketball Diaries
1995 · Directed by Scott Kalvert · 102 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: heroin, drugs
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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Tape
2001 · Directed by Richard Linklater · 87 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: high school, drugs · From the same decade (2000s)
Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the…
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Brick
2006 · Directed by Rian Johnson · 110 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: high school, drugs · From the same decade (2000s)
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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One False Move
1992 · Directed by Carl Franklin · 105 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: small town, texas
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding.
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River's Edge
1986 · Directed by Tim Hunter · 100 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: high school, drugs
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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Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, texas
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Palmer
2021 · Directed by Fisher Stevens · 110 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: small town
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home.
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Lean On Me
1989 · Directed by John G. Avildsen · 108 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: high school
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls.
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The Doors
1991 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 140 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: drugs
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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Appaloosa
2008 · Directed by Ed Harris · 115 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: small town · From the same decade (2000s)
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Heaven Knows What
2015 · Directed by Benny Safdie · 97 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: heroin
A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.