Top 10 Movies to Watch When You’re Stoned

This isn't just a film, it's an experience. Director Gaspar Noé takes you on a hallucinatory, first-person journey through death, reincarnation and the subconscious. It plays like one long psychedelic trip, full of neon lights, floating camera movements and visual mind-bending. Watching it feels like being sucked into the screen.

Based on Hunter S. Thompson's cult book, this film is a chaotic rollercoaster ride through Las Vegas, drugs, hallucinations and madness. Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro play a journalist and his attorney who completely lose it under the influence of everything they can get their hands on. Perfect if you want to question your own reality while laughing your head off.

Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece is one big trip even if you're completely sober. The combination of surreal images, slow space travel and that iconic climax makes it hypnotic viewing. The final Star Gate sequence, in which the astronaut flies through a psychedelic tunnel of light, feels like being pulled straight into another dimension.

Sometimes you just want something relaxed and hilarious. Jeff Bridges as The Dude is the perfect guide through a film full of absurd situations, slow-burn dialogue and a plot that makes no sense yet is still brilliant. It feels like a lazy Sunday in movie form: relaxed, weird and unforgettable.

Nicolas Cage in a bloody, hallucinatory revenge film full of demonic cults, heavy metal and psychedelic visuals. Mandy starts slow, but once it gets going it becomes a neon-drenched nightmare. With trippy colors, bizarre creatures and Cage at his craziest, it pulls you into a hypnotic trance.

Based on Pink Floyd's legendary album, this is a film in which music and surreal animation merge into one giant psychedelic experience. It feels like being pulled into the mind of a disturbed rock star, with images that descend into madness and a soundtrack that carries you along. An absolute must for Pink Floyd fans.

An animated Beatles film that doesn't even try to be logical. Everything is brightly colored, dreamy and completely detached from reality, like a long psychedelic trip in cartoon form as the band travels through the Sea of Time and the Sea of Nothing. Perfect for a cheerful, floaty mood.

This film is fully animated with rotoscoping, giving everything a dreamy, hazy glow. Keanu Reeves plays an undercover agent in a dystopian future where a new drug is taking over and the line between reality and hallucination disappears. It feels like being caught in a paranoid trip yourself.

A French-Czech animated science fiction film from the '70s in which giant blue aliens keep tiny humans as pets. The animation style is hypnotic and otherworldly, and the whole film feels like it came from another reality. If you love strange worlds and strange music, it's perfect.

This Studio Ghibli film isn't psychedelic in the traditional sense, but its magical atmosphere and imaginative visuals make it a wonderful choice. It follows a girl who ends up in a mystical bathhouse full of bizarre spirits and talking animals. Everything moves dreamily, the music is enchanting and the colors are gorgeous.