The Best Movies To Watch High In 2026

*Updated 2026

If you fell down a Reddit rabbit hole looking for the absolute best movies to watch high, you can stop scrolling. We got the list.

With cannabis now legal in much of the country, we thought it was time to update our Best Movies to Watch While Stoned list for a whole new generation of cannabis users, movie fans, and doomscrollers looking for cerebral films that will completely rearrange their brains.

We broke this list into four kinds of trips: cult classics that bend reality, surreal Latino and Hispanic mind-melts, psychedelic animation no “kid” should see, and comedies so dumb they turn profound. Each one is designed to mess with how you perceive reality. Weed is the key, and these films are the doorways.

Watch, experience, and enjoy! 🌳🚬

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Quick Picks If You’re Already High

Best brain melt: Waking Life

Best Latino mind melter: The Holy Mountain

Best animated trip: Akira

Funniest profound movie: This Is the End

Best “don’t watch this too high” movie: Enter the Void

MINDCRUSHERS

Waking Life

Best for: Philosophical highs. People who need to crack the code on reality.

Synopsis: This is our all-time favorite film and one of the most cerebral movies you will ever see. It’s full of mindfuck insights. I mean, just Richard Linklater‘s plot alone says it all: a man shuffles through a dream, meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

House

Best for: Horror fans who want their movie stupid, scary, funny, and fully unhinged.

Synopsis: This comedy horror is as trippy as they come. Seven girls on their summer trip pay a visit to a possessed house, which plans to eat them in extremely bizarre and surreal ways.

Altered States

Best for: People who want an actual drug-trip sci-fi experience.

Synopsis: It takes the old question, “What if I go too deep?” and turns it into a full laboratory meltdown. A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

Holy Motors

Best for: The film snob who wants to feel humble and superior at the same time.

Synopsis: Eva Mendes co-stars in this dream trip. Lincoln Center’s magazine Film Comment made this movie their Best Movie of 2012. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the shadowy life of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar. It’s a “WTF am I watching, but I can’t stop watching” movie.

Under the Skin

Best for: A solo night when you want a movie to slow-burn like your trees.

Synopsis: Scarlett Johansson is in full alien seduction mode. In Under the Skin, a mysterious alien woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in… Scotland? She slowly begins a process of self-discovery that will have you glued to the end.

Other suggestions like these: Only God Forgives, Samsara, Primer, Ninja Scroll, General Orders No. 9, Beyond the Black Rainbow

LATINO MIND MELTERS

Latino and Hispanic filmmakers have been making mindfuck cinema for almost a century, and somehow most stoner movie lists never write about them. Well, we are. These are films from deep inside the psyche of identity, culture, religion, violence, memory, and power. They feel like madness staring right back at you.

The Holy Mountain

Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973

Best for: The full spiritual brain melt.

Synopsis: Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky made arguably the greatest cult classic of all time. Just ask Ryan Gosling. The plot is almost impossible to explain: a thief, an alchemist, and a group of powerful people go on a spiritual journey toward immortality. It turns religion, greed, power, the body, and the soul into one giant hallucination.

Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé, 2009

Best for: When you want your soul to leave your body.

Synopsis: Your eyes won’t know what’s going on. Argentine-born Gaspar Noé directs this story about a young American drug dealer living in Tokyo who gets killed, and his spirit floats through the city watching memory, trauma, and death in neon blood. It feels like you’re inside Tokyo’s nervous system.

Un Chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, 1929

Best for: The shortest and trippiest film ever made.

Synopsis: 17 minutes of pure surrealist violence against logic. Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, two Spanish surrealists, will make your brain question its purpose. The eyeball scene alone has been messing people up for almost a century.

La Casa Lobo

Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, 2018

Best for: When you want the walls to start breathing.

Synopsis: Tim Burton who? Chilean directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña made one of the most disturbing stop-motion horror films of the century. Inspired by Colonia Dignidad, the real Chilean cult compound led by Nazi fugitive Paul Schäfer, La Casa Lobo plays like a fairy tale brought back from hell. This shit hits hard. Watch this with a friend and double-toke for this one.

More Latino cinema worth watching high: Embrace of the Serpent, Bacurau, Los Viajes del Viento

PSYCHEDELIC CARTOONS

Fantastic Planet

Best for: When Adult Swim won’t cut it. Alien psychedelic phantasmagoria that really does feel like it came from another planet.

Synopsis: This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. Once you see this, life will never be the same.

Allegro non Troppo

Best for: Classical music lovers who want their cartoons absurd and deranged.

Synopsis: This might actually be the trippiest film of the whole list. An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he’s come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music. It feels like Disney’s Fantasia, but on psychedelics.

Coraline

Best for: When you want to finally confront your inner childhood demons.

Synopsis: This movie is a masterpiece to us. An adventurous little girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her family home. It’s like Cinderella meets Sinister.

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Best for: Tiny heroes, ruined worlds, and apocalyptic puppet sadness.

Synopsis: Tim Burton brings us the story of a rag doll that awakens in a post-apocalyptic future that holds the key to humanity’s salvation. The texture of the world is the trip.

Akira

Best for: Pure animated power that feels massive and definitive.

Synopsis: Considered by many to be the greatest animated film of all time, Akira is beautiful, surreal, savage, unnerving, and repugnant. It’s about two kids trying to stop a secret military project endangering Neo-Tokyo after it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath.

Rango

Best for: Animation and Western movie junkies who love Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Synopsis: A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it. It’s not supposed to work, and yet… it’s a fucking masterpiece.

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This Is the End

Best for: Losing your mind laughing with your best friends.

Synopsis: The most original, meta, and surreal comedy of the modern film era. While attending a party at James Franco’s house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, and a slew of other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse. This one never gets old and always kills.

The Lego Movie

Best for: Lego maniacs and toy fans watching their childhood as adults.

Synopsis: A straight-up masterpiece. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied “Special,” is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis. Get those tears ready.

Black Dynamite

Best for: When you want to laugh and scream in pain.

Synopsis: This plot is everything. Black Dynamite is the greatest Black action star of the 1970s. When his only brother is killed by The Man, it’s up to him to find justice. This is a guaranteed laugh for when you can’t think of something to watch on a Friday night with the crew.

Team America: World Police

Best for: When politics feel like puppets.

Synopsis: The creators of South Park create another tear-inducing banger. Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. He must battle terrorists, celebrities, and falling in love to save the world.

Kung Fu Hustle

Best for: All-out laughter, kung-fu chaos. It feels like those “80s FOX 5 Saturday noon kung-fu movies.”

Synopsis: One of the funniest movies you’ll ever see. In Shanghai, China, in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious Axe Gang while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. Perfect timing for the World Cup 2026.

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

Best for: When you want a twsited childhood-nightmare feeling.

Synopsis: One of Tim Burton’s and Pee-Wee Herman’s greatest works. Pee-Wee gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight and sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life. Every scene feels like it came out of a candy nightmare.

Other suggestions like these: Kentucky Fried Movie, What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, Flash Gordon

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Questions We Always Get Asked

What are the best animated movies to watch while stoned?

Start with Fantastic Planet. Nothing looks like it, and the alien logic hits harder when you’re baked. Then Allegro non Troppo if you want something absurd, Akira if you want something that feels enormous, and Coraline if you want something that starts warm and slowly turns sinister. Everything is in the PSYCHEDELIC CARTOONS section above.

What are the best trippy movies to watch while high?

Waking Life for the philosophical spiral you can’t escape. House for the horror that keeps breaking its own rules. Holy Motors if you want to feel like the smartest and most confused person in the room simultaneously. For the full brain melt, go to LATINO MIND MELTERS: Jodorowsky, Noé, Buñuel, León, and Cociña. Nothing on any other list goes that deep.

What are the best Latino movies to watch high?

The entire LATINO MIND MELTERS section above was built for exactly this. The Holy Mountain is the entry point. Chilean-born Jodorowsky made one of the most visually insane films in cinema history. Un Chien Andalou is only 17 minutes, and it’ll still mess with you. La Casa Lobo is the one you watch when you want stop-motion horror, cult history, and fairy-tale trauma to crawl out of the walls. Don’t start with Enter the Void.