The Green Fairy (2016) on Netflix

Plot summary

The docudrama covers the history of absinthe from 1730 to the years when the drink was banned around the world, and it also looks at how absinthe is made and drunk today. The Green Fairy, the mystical creature said to possess the drink, is part of the story, and the film follows the lives of the artists and the changes absinthe is said to have brought them. Oscar Wilde, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin are among the figures in the docudrama, which stages scenes from the drink's past and present. Jean Lanfrey, Mrs. Lanfrey, Daughter Lanfrey, Rachel, Henriette Henriod, Robert Ross and Schwyzerdutsch are among the other characters.