21 Jump Street 2012 - HFS - (holy fucking shit) a hallucinogenic drug cocktail
22 Jump Street 2014 - WHYPHY
The 51st state 2001 - POS 51 - a synthetic drug that is 51 times as potent as other drugs
Adaptation 2002 - Ghost Orchid powder
Alien Nation 1988 - Digitalis - a sedative to enslave humans
The Andromeda Strain - Kalocin - a drug used to cure every known virus, bacterium, fungus, and parasite, and cancer
A Scanner Darkly - Substance D - a hallucinatory drug in a pill that causes euphoria
Batman series - Venom - super steroid increases physical performance and stamina - used by Bane
Batman Begins 2005 - Fear Toxin - a hallucinogenic gas that causes the victim's worst fears to come to life
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy 1996 - GLeeMONEX - a powerful antidepressant that lets the user relive the happiest moment of their life
Brave New World 1980 - Soma - a soothing, happiness-producing drug
Captain America 2011 - Super-soldier serum - gives solders superhuman powers
Children of Men - Quietus - a lethal sedative distributed by the Government to be used as a suicide pill
Clockwork Orange - Vellocet, Synthemesc, Drencrom - mixed in Milk - called Moloko Plus - sharpens you up and makes you ready for ultra-violence
Crank 2006 - Beijing Cocktail - a synthetic drug which when injected inhibits the flow of adrenaline, slowing the heart, and eventually killing the victim
Dredd 2012 - Slo-Mo slows the user's perception to 1% - slows down time
Dune - Melange (spice) increases life expectancy strength and intelligence
Equilibrium - Prozium - injection - suppresses emotions and feelings - required - mind control
The Faculty - Scat - stimulant, instant death if you are an alien
Firestarter 1984- Dilysergic Triune Acid - gives the user psychic abilities
Formula 51 (The 51st State) 2002 - a fictional drug like ecstasy
Get Him to the Greek 2010 - The Jeffery - a fictional drug cocktail that is mostly weed, with added opium, heroin, ecstasy, Clorox bleach, methadone, morphine, peyote, PCP, and some other stuff
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Dittany - a clear liquid that heals wounds immediately
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 - Felix Felicis or Liquid Luck - gives the user fortune in every endeavor for a short time
Heavy Metal - Plutonian Nyborg - inhaled white powder that causes euphoria
The Hunger Games - Morphling - a powerful addictive painkiller
I Come in Peace (Dark Angel) 1990 - Barsi - a drug made with extraterrestrial technology that extracts endorphins from the brains of heroin users
Inception - Somnacin - injected - allows the user to share a dream state with others connected to the same device
Jacob's Ladder - The Ladder - a drug created by the U.S. Army's chemical warfare division to massively increase aggression in soldiers
Limitless 2011 - NZT-48 - gives you super intelligence
Looper - Dropper - eye drops that cause euphoria and give energy
Lucy 2014 - CPH4 - a powerful synthetic drug that gives the user intelligence by increasing their mental capacity from 10 to 100%
The Matrix - the red pill - helps the user to realize that humans are nothing but virtual reality slaves in the matrix
Max Payne - Valkyr - a drug subsidized by the military to create super-soldiers that increases speed and strength in a few subjects, but causes insanity in most
Minority Report 2002 - Neuroin (Clarity) - psychoactive drug with a euphoric high. Gives children psychic powers
Misery - Novril - a painkiller with sedative effect
Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990 - Mist - makes the user lazy when smoked
Repo! The Genetic Opera - Zydrate - addictive hallucinogenic painkiller extracted from corpses
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 - ALZ-113 - an artificially created retrovirus designed to cure Alzheimer's but enhanced the intelligence of apes used as test subjects
Robocop 2 - Nuke - a cheap, strong, and very addictive red liquid drug sold in syringes that are shot behind the ear
The Running Man - Ortho Pure Procreation Pills - increase the chance of pregnancy
Scanners - Ephemerol - inhaler - gives euphoria and increased telekinetic powers
Serenity - Pax - drug given to settlers to make them less aggressive but caused apathy and giving up on life
Southland Tales - Fluid Karma - when injected either causes a dream state or makes the user see into the past and future and develop telepathy
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back - Bacta - a thick gelatinous substance with great healing properties, helping the body regrow tissue, nerves, skin, and muscle
Synchronic 2019 - Synchronic - a deadly designer drug that makes a person experience time non-linearly
Twelve 2010 - Twelve - an addictive drug cocktail
Urge 2016 - URGE - a designer drug that tones down the user's sense of morality and strips them of their inhibitions
World War Z 2013 - Phalanx - a vaccine fraudulently marketed to protect against the zombification virus
Code 8: Part II 2024 - Psyke - an addictive drug made from the spinal fluid of people with paranormal powers
Trancers 1984 - Time travel is accomplished by injecting a drug into the neck.
Reminiscence 2021 - Baca is a highly addictive narcotic drug that is eaten like candy.
The Substance 2024 - A black-market drug called "The Substance" replicates cells to temporarily create a younger better version of the user.
City Hunter 2024 - an unnamed experimental blue liquid drug gives whoever injects it super-human strength and makes them extremely aggressive, then they die.
Side Effects 2013 - Ablixa is an experimental antidepressant that may have a side effect - sleepwalking.
Project Power 2020 - "Power" is a pill that unlocks superpowers that are unique to each user, but they only last for five minutes.
Mickey 17 2025 - Pure undiluted Oxyzofol is an outlawed addictive recreational drug.
The Fix 2024 - In a world where the atmosphere is toxic, people need to wear breathing masks to survive, but the rich take a drug called AIRemedy (AIRem) to help them breathe. There is also a new party drug around called Blue. A woman who takes a massive dose of it mutates, gaining superhuman powers - super-hearing, super strength, the ability to climb walls and jump off buildings and spit acid. She grows tarsal claws like an insect, and she produces the same enzyme used in AIRemedy, making her immune to the atmospheric toxin. Eventually she mutates into a human dragonfly with giant wings.
OtherLife 2017 - OtherLife is a black liquid dropped into the user's eye that the inventor says is not a drug but "biological software" that lets the user create experiences indistinguishable from the real thing. There are different drops for different experiences, including sky diving, rock climbing, snow boarding, and being locked up in a prison for a year.