Best movies for stoners

Enjoying that sweet marijuana high while indulging in visual arts is a classic activity. Watching movies while glued to the couch requires minimum effort, perfect for those lazy highs caused by consuming elevated amounts of Kush. Of course, selecting the best movie for a baked evening is an artform in its own right. Here we simplify the selection process with the following list of weed-friendly films. Do not forget to prepare your delicious cannabis corn popcorn. Get into the stoner movie mode and let’s begin!

Pineapple Express (2008)

The movie surrounds the adventures kickstarted by the magnificent cannabis strain called Pineapple Express. There’s a lot of action involved, outlandish conversations under the influence of marijuana, bizarre situations, dirty cops, dirty money, and plenty of underground weed plants. This movie is a must for your baked evening.

If you’ve ever smoked weed and felt like a slice of butter, melting over a big pile of flapjacks, Pineapple Express is a movie for you. If you’re a cannabis enthusiast and want to understand the stoner stereotypes of the 21st century, Pineapple Express is perfectly equipped to educate and make you laugh.

Pineapple Express. There’s a lot of action involved, outlandish conversations under the influence of marijuana, bizarre situations, dirty cops, dirty money, and plenty of underground weed plants. This movie is a must for your baked evening.

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Up In Smoke (1978)

Cheech N’ Chong, the classic duo that re-established the stoner stereotype during the 70’s spread much laughter across the media. The movie “Up In Smoke” is their quintessential masterpiece. The adventures, laughter, drugs, and joy carry the audience on an epic journey.

The best scene in the movie is when Cheech (Richard Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong) sit in Cheech’s car, smoke an enormous joint, having a hilarious conversation, and taking hotboxing to the next level. They made many subsequent sequels that follow the narrative of these stoners and various adventures they face.

This movie is probably the first mainstream stoner film in the history of mankind, definitely worth being included in your movie collection.

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Fantasia (1940)

This Disney movie is a must for cannabis aficionados, due to its outlandish effects, otherworldly storyline, and old-school imagination. This film was released in 1940, hence it wasn’t intended for cannabis consumers because during the time marijuana was extremely stigmatized in the US..

However, it’s hard not to appreciate this film under the influence of sweet Mary Jane. Trippy fairies, characters, Mickey Mouse, shapes, patterns, mushrooms dancing, moving, and transforming through the power of classical music is something absolutely extraordinary. This movie is an explosion of colors and themes, perfect for couch-locked tokers.

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Big Lebowski (1998)

This film surrounds the adventures of The Dude (Jeff Bridges), a relaxed and completely “zen” character that enjoys his White Russian drinks, bowling, and takin’ it easy. You may call him Dude, El Duderiño, His Dudeness, and Duder. This movie is about the contrast between the most relaxed dude in the world, caught up in a heated kidnapping situation.

His attitude is super chill and on point, even during the darkest hours. With the help of his two bowling buddies, Donny (Steve Buscemi), and of course Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), the much needed badass friend who takes on kidnappers with slight anger issues. There’s a whole religious movement called “Dudeism” based on the spirit of the Dude.

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Enter The Void (2009)

This movie is great for cannabis consumers who like to contemplate over existence, death, and cool visual effects. This movie is quite deep. The plot surrounds the lead character Oscar, who moved to Japan, became a drug dealer, and finally got hold of some DMT.

The events are deeply intertwined with the narrative of the “The Tibetan Book of The Dead”, a book given to Oscar by his friend. There are many colorful and trippy effects, but it’s also a deeper movie that goes into memories, death, and afterlife. It’s a relatively long film, but it’s definitely recommended for all those that seek some interesting movie art that deviates from the Hollywood standards.

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Tropic Thunder (2008)

This movie is a must. Sit back, relax, ingest some Kush-infused edibles, get cozy and enjoy the Tropic Thunder. This movie is a parody of Hollywood stars that get trapped in the middle of the Jungle. Through a sequence of events and adventures, their characters evolve and bring the thunder. This movie includes some of the most prominent actors, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Tom Cruise and many others.

If you like action, laughter, parody, guns, explosions, mysterious jungles packed with underground drug operations, this movie is for you. If you don’t watch this movie, we can quote Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.), “You went full retard, man. Never go full retard”.

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The Interview (2014)

Virtually all movies including Seth Rogan are hilarious and weed-friendly, especially when they include James Franco, which is the case in “The Interview“.

The plot surrounds the adventures of Aaron Rapaport and Dave Skylark, who travel to North Korea to assassinate the dictator. Things turn complicated and many hilarious and ridiculous events unfold. This movie was so controversial that the governing bodies of North Korea, in real life, considered the movie an act of war. “The Interview” is a Hollywood parody surrounding the conflict between the US and North Korea.

You can expect explosions, a badass North Korean soldier lady, partying with the dictator of North Korea, passion, love, betrayal, and much more. Have some cannabis with friends, and enjoy 112 minutes of madness.

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Scary Movie (2000)

Wazzaaaaap! It’s time to go down memory lane and see the movie that started it all. “Scary Movie” is a spoof mainly based on the movie “Scream”.

This hilarious movie became the starting point of a whole new genre of parody films. Even though there are many sequels to this film, they don’t beat the first one. One of the main characters “Shorty” is played by Marlon Wayans. This character elevates the stoner stereotype to the next level. If the normal stoner stereotype is maximum 100% accurate, he elevates it to 420%.

This movie follows the “The Wayans Bros” style and is perfectly suited for cannabis-infused enthusiasts. Smoking bongs out of aquariums with killers, killing joints, killing victims, it’s all there.

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Borat (2006)

This film/documentary follows the adventures of Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen), a reporter from Kazakhstan who enters the US to report back to his country what America is all about. The cultural differences are absolutely hilarious, it’s impossible to watch this movie without experiencing an outburst of laughter. As Borat travels the lands of America with his companion Azamat, he discovers true love, Pamela Anderson from Baywatch. He finally finds her through a series of outrageous events and captures her in a bag.

This film is based on short Borat clips made prior to the movie. There’s a lot of obscenity and humor involved, this movie is a must under the influence of marijuana.