Trainspotting (1996)

Yes. 92% of real audiences liked it based on 10,275 votes. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

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 up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking. Wikipedia ↗

Trainspotting is a 1996 British dark comedy drama directed by Danny Boyle, based on Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel. Ewan McGregor stars as Mark Renton, a young heroin addict in Edinburgh who oscillates between attempts to get clean and the gravitational pull of addiction and his circle of dysfunctional friends — the psychopathic Begbie, the hapless Spud, the scheming Sick Boy, and the tragic Tommy. Danny Boyle's kinetic directorial style transformed Welsh's darkly comic novel into a visually inventive, high-energy film that was simultaneously horrifying and exhilarating.

The opening "Choose life" monologue, delivered in voiceover as Renton sprints through Edinburgh's streets, became one of the most quoted and culturally significant passages in 1990s cinema — a blistering takedown of consumer culture that paradoxically became an advertising slogan. Boyle used surreal visual techniques — Renton diving into a filthy toilet that becomes an underwater paradise, a baby crawling across a ceiling during a withdrawal nightmare — to externalize the distorted psychology of addiction without glamorizing it. The soundtrack, featuring Iggy Pop, Underworld, Blur, and New Order, captured the convergence of drug culture and Britpop that defined mid-1990s British youth.

Trainspotting earned $72 million worldwide on a $1.5 million budget, a staggering return that made it the most commercially successful British film of the decade, and launched Ewan McGregor as an international star.