This may be a French or German film, all I remember is a guy who has a job putting alcohol or some fluid into specimen jars in the back room of possibly a museum? The back room has lines and lines of specimen jars and over time he starts to drink from the specimen jars and it is a miraculous thing (life changing) for him.
Pretty sure that's in the German flick, Mosquito (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074920/)