What can make movie-watching a more pleasurable experience? You guessed it right! It is watching a movie high. Essentially any movie becomes a stoner movie when you are stoned. However, here we are going to talk particularly about those that either feature the magical green herbs or take the movie-viewing experience to a whole different level while being high.

Top Stoners Movies 

1. Soul plane (2004)

This movie entails Snoop Dogg’s finest acting performance. This hilarious movie is about Nashawn Wade whose pet dies after having an awful flying experience. Nashawn sues the airline and wins a million-dollar settlement. He then uses the money to come up with his own airline service that tends to African-American people. The movie and the plane ride are both smooth as the airplane’s captain-Snoop Dogg’s commentary.

2. How High (2001)

This is one of the best movies about stoners. You asked for a high movie and we are giving you a movie that is all about being high and having high aspirations. In this stoner movie, rap superstars Method Man and Redman come across a magical herb, smoking which allows them to ace their college entrance exam. Their high scores land them in Harvard where they find themselves out of place. They were just seen trying to take everything in their stride that Harvard had to offer when their magical herbs ran out. Now, the students have to rely on their own wits to get the grade.

3. Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express is one of the great movies about stoners. Dale Denton, an office goer comes across a rare strain of marijuana called ‘Pineapple Express’ from his dealer Saul. Incidentally, after smoking the weed, Dale goes to work but witnesses two people murder an Asian man. He frantically leaves the place, but in a hurry, he drops his roach of Pineapple express. Dale then learns that the rare marijuana can be traced to Saul so goes to Saul’s place to warn him. Saul and Dale later decide to leave the city and try to escape from the murderers, one of them being a police officer named Brazier.

4. Dude, Where’s my car?

This weed movie is mind-boggling and amazing at the same time. The story revolves around two best friends Chester and Jesse. The best friends have the time of their lives and wake up the next morning, only to find that they have lost all their memory.

They find the t.v. on, a big pile of pudding in the fridge, and angry messages from their twin girlfriends on the answering machine. Later Jesse realizes that he can’t find his car anywhere and the whole film revolves around the best friends trying to retrace their whereabouts last night to find Jesse’s car.

In that endeavor, they encounter UFO cultists, a transgender stripper, and a Cantonese-speaking tailor.

5. The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is one of the funny stoner movies. In the whole movie, there is a big confusion between the two Jeffery Lebowskis. “The Dude” Jeffery Lebowski is an average Joe who is attacked at his home by people who are looking for his namesake and a big philanthropist, Jeffery Lewbowski (The Big Lebowski). The attackers pee on the Dude’s rug, but soon realize that he is not their guy.

An enraged dude consults his two bowling friends and goes on to find his namesake, the Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski refuses to compensate him for the rug and the dude takes another rug from his mansion with the help of Jeffery’s assistant. In the movie, the attackers later kidnap Big Lebowski’s trophy wife Bunny and Jeffery hires dude to deliver the ransom bag to the attackers.

6. Ted

The weed movie, Ted is filled with a roller coaster of emotions. In 1985, in a suburban area of Boston, an 8-year-old John wishes his Christmas gift, a big teddy bear to come alive and become his best friend. John’s wish coincides with a shooting star and miraculously the teddy, Ted comes to life.

Fast forward to 30 years, now John is a 35-year-old man who is going out with his girlfriend (Lori) for 4 years. Lori wishes to marry John but is bothered and unhappy with John and Ted’s immaturity and hedonistic lifestyle. Lori conveys the same to John. John tries to get his acts together and helps Ted to move out of his apartment. Later, Lori finds out that John is ditching work to spend time with Ted in his apartment. Lori dumps John and saddened by John’s sadness, Ted tries to unite the loving couple.

7. Dazed and Confused

Dazed and confused is sure to bring back the memories of your high school days. This is one of the stoner movies where there are a whole lot of things happening in the plot and will help you to enjoy your high.

This stoner movie is set in the year 1976 when a batch of high school seniors is having their last day at their school. The seniors have planned to haze the entire freshman students and the story revolves around how two freshman boys try to escape the hazing.

8. We’re the Millers

In Denver, a low-level drug dealer, David Clark gets mugged and loses all his stash and money. His supplier, Brad Gurdlinger forces David Clark to smuggle a big load of marijuana from the borders of Mexico. To accomplish this task, David creates a fake family of a stripper, a runaway girl, and a lost boy.

This is one of the best weed movies to watch with your friends. It is packed with funny scenes and hilarious storylines that will help you have a fun evening.

9. Scary Movie

If you are someone who likes to watch funny movies when you are high you definitely need to pick this one! It is completely opposite of what the movie name suggests. Scary movie is a parody movie that mocks the most talked about scenes from popular films, commercials, and TV.

10. Knocked Up

Knocked up, though not a total stoner movie should be included in the list of good stoner movies because it’s full of emotions. Ben stoner is our stoner in the movie who is an immature adult who lives off of injury compensation. Ben and his friends go to a nightclub where Alison Scott, a newly promoted journalist goes to celebrate her promotion with her sister. Both party hard and end up having a one-night stand. The next morning, they talk with each other only to discover that they are very different people and go their separate ways.

After 8 weeks, Alison calls up Ben to inform him that she’s pregnant. Both decide to raise the child together despite their differences. In the entire movie, Alison and Ben wonder if they have made the right decision.  Both are involved in a personal journey to adjust to this new development in their lives.

11.  Road Trip

The best weed movie of all time, Road Trip is a crazy journey. A college boy takes a road trip with his friends to save his relationship with his high school sweetheart. Tiffany Henderson and Josh Parker were childhood friends who later fell in love. Both decided to have a long-distance relationship when Josh went to the University of Ithaca and Tiffany to the University of Austin. 

Josh was already having a hard time at his college when a beautiful girl named Beth asked for his help at a crazy party on campus. Both have sex and record the act which mistakenly gets sent to Josh’s love, Tiffany in Austin.

12. American Beauty

You can count on American Beauty to be one of the best high movies there is. From afar, middle-aged Lester Burnham has a very ordinary life, but as one moves closer and closer to examine this magazine executive’s ordinary family life, there is a volcano of brimming frustrations-Frustrations with his family, his job, and life as a whole.

Lester is in an unhappy marriage with his real estate broker wife Carolyn. They have a 16-year-old daughter (Jane) who hates her parents and has low self-confidence. After going to an event where Jane is cheerleading, Lester becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter’s best friend Angela.

As he is let go from his job, Lester embarks on a journey of his own to find some excitement in his life.

13. Not Another Teen Movie

This movie joins our rank of best stoner movies because it includes all the elements of a great marijuana movie containing comedy, a twisted plot, hot girls, and clichés of all the teen movies that we all love to hate.

John Hughes High is like just another high school. Here, just like any other teen movie, the star football player, Jake Wyler is dating head cheerleader, Priscilla. Priscilla later dumps her boyfriend and goes on to date a shy teenager, Les. 

Austin, Jake’s friend persuades him into a bet where Austin asks Jake to turn a nerdy girl Janey into the next prom queen. Jake accepts the challenge and tries to turn Jane into a drop-dead gorgeous diva but later ends up falling in love with her.

14. The Grand Budapest Hotel

A classic stoner movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel is set in the 1930s. The story revolves around Monsieur Gustave, The Grand Budapest Hotel’s concierge, Gustave used to seduce old and wealthy women and had a two-decade-old affair with an 84-year-old, Madame D. 

After a brief stay at the Grand Budapest Hotel, Madame D, had mysteriously died after a month at her home. Gustave and his newly appointed bell boy Zero, go to her funeral to pay their respects, but later learn that Madame D has left a valuable Renaissance painting, Boy with Apple to Gustave. Learning this, Dmitri, Madame D’s son gets enraged and accuses Gustave of killing his mother.

15. Project X

In this list of best movies about weed, Project X is the ultimate cannabis movie and an ultimate party movie. The story is quite simple, 3 high school boys try to have an epic party that would make them legends in their high school history. 

The party takes place at Thomas’s house whose parents have gone out to enjoy their weekend leaving Thomas home alone. J. B. and Costa, Thomas’s friend arrange an awesome party for their friend’s 17^th Birthday. 

The plan though innocent enough goes wrong when masses of partygoers show up at Thomas’s house. The merriment goes out of control and police officers and news reporters start reporting when the party converts into mass destruction and mayhem.

16. The Gentlemen

The Gentlemen is going to give you high of another level. One of the best stoner movies, The Gentlemen is about a rich cannabis businessman Mickey Pearson. Mickey was very poor growing up. However, he had gotten a chance to study at Oxford University. There, he started selling marijuana to rich students. He later established his marijuana empire through violence which he now wished to sell and retire.

In this movie about weed, you’ll find amazing twists, action, and suspense. If you ask us we would rate it as one of the top stoner movies there is.

17. Due Date

Looking for stoner movies? Look no further than the Due Date. We promise, you and your friends will have a hilarious time. This is one of those high movies that never get old. Robert Downey Jr. stars as a successful architect (Peter Highman) who must travel to Los Angeles from Atlanta to witness the birth of his first child. However, as fate would have it his easy journey becomes a whole lot more complicated when he has a chance encounter with a wannabe actor, Ethan Tremblay.

Ethan Tremblay is a classic stoner who offers a ride to Peter Highman. Ethan is en route to the Grand Canyon to scatter his dead father’s ashes. The road trip they take is full of funny scenes as they try to run from the authorities after getting arrested at the US-Mexican border for the possession of marijuana.

18. Cats

This is a movie for potheads who are also Cat lovers. The movie ‘Cats’ take the audience to the fantasy world of cats. The movie revolves around Victoria, an abandoned white cat who is left by its owner in the middle of the night.

Soon the alley cats take victoria under their wings and introduce her to the Jellicle Ball. A Jellicle Ball is an annual event for the cats where the winner has the privilege to visit the Heaviside Layer and will be given a new life.

19. Bad Trip

Want to watch one of the stoner funny movies? The Bad trip is about the hilarious and wild road trip two best friends take. The movie is about Chris and Bud both of who are facing some hard times in their lives. 

Chris likes a girl named Maria but every time he tries to ask for her number or tries to tell her about his feelings some mishap happens. Chris consults an old dude, who suggests him to follow Maria to New York where she owns an art gallery.

20. Ted 2

If you loved Ted, then you are going to love Ted 2. After the events of the first film, in Ted 2, John is now divorced from Lori while Ted is now happily married to Tami-Lynn. Now the only thing missing in Ted and Tami-Lynn’s life is a child. Since Ted is not a person, he doesn’t have any sperm to impregnate Tami-Lynn who is later found to be infertile, due to years of drug use.

Ted and Tami later decide to adopt a child and a whole new issue of Ted not being a human arises. The state sues Ted and takes away his identity, his job, and freezes his bank accounts. John and Ted set out on a mission to prove that Ted is a person and is capable of showing complex emotions and can take care of a child. Take it from us, this movie about weed and Ted is one of the best movies when high.

final words on best stoner movies:

Stoner movies are often associated with being a low-budget film that is not well known. But there are some that have gone on to be classics and have become iconic in the cannabis community. There are many stoner movies that have been made over the years and it is difficult to narrow down the best of them all. However, there are a few that stand out more than others. These movies vary from comedy to drama, but they all share one thing in common – marijuana as one of the central themes.