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Movies Like allure: a re-imagining of light sleeper

If you liked allure: a re-imagining of light sleeper (2025), a movie directed by Nicole Won, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Less Than Zero

    Less Than Zero (1987)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.

  2. 2Clean and Sober

    Clean and Sober (1988)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing…

  3. 3Postcards from the Edge

    Postcards from the Edge (1990)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

  4. 4Trainspotting

    Trainspotting (1996)

    ★ 8/10

    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. After cleaning…

  5. 5The Get Out

    The Get Out (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A nightclub owner is on the verge of leaving his dangerous past behind for retirement with his girlfriend. When masked gunmen rob him and he finds himself squeezed by ruthless cartels, a mysterious newcomer arrives…

  6. 6Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

    Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)

    ★ 6.3/10

    It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and…

  7. 7Being Charlie

    Being Charlie (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he…

  8. 8A Million Little Pieces

    A Million Little Pieces (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.

  9. 9Light Sleeper

    Light Sleeper (1992)

    ★ 6.7/10

    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. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something…

  10. 10Beautiful Boy

    Beautiful Boy (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10

    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

  11. 11Pulp Fiction

    Pulp Fiction (1994)

    ★ 8.5/10

    A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip…

  12. 12Flashback

    Flashback (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury…

  13. 13Heaven Knows What

    Heaven Knows What (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10

    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.

  14. 14The Baker

    The Baker (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back…

  15. 15True Romance

    True Romance (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

  16. 16Candy

    Candy (2006)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of…

  17. 17Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10

    An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

  18. 18Reminiscence

    Reminiscence (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life…

  19. 19Half Baked

    Half Baked (1998)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.

  20. 20Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

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