Opium Movies

Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance...

A newly qualified priest meets with a difficult partitioner.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

An exploration into the opium trade in Central Asia and the devastating effect on its people.