Opium Movies

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

China, the early 1930's: martial arts master Wen Biao discovers that his brother has been using their security company for illegal activities. A...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

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

Lost film from 1894, directed by William K.L. Dickson.

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...

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

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

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the...

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

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...

A series of trick film hallucinations and scary doubling effects result when Patachon smokes an opium cigarette.