Stoner Movies are loved by thousands of weed smokers all over the globe. Movies who belong to the genre of stoner films are characterized by the fact, that their entire plot (or at least most of it) revolves around the use of marijuana. Although our stoner movie list mainly consist of “real stoner movies”, we also feature selected films without drug use, which qualify themselves by great stories, funny dialogues and things like that (e.g. The Big Lebowski). The reason for this is that we believe that pot movies don’t necessarily need to have a plot containing marijuana, in the first place we think every movie can be a great stoner movie as long as it is fun to watch when you are high.

Here are 10 must watch stoner movies in no particular order.

1. Half Baked

Half Baked from 1998 starring Dave Chapelle is definitely one of the best stoner movies in our list of the Top 10 Stoner Movies !

The whole story revolves around Thurgood Jenkins (Dave Chapelle), Scarface, Brian and Kenny, four funny stoner buddies who are living together in a New York flat. Beside their more or less boring jobs, they all love to spend their time smoking weed at home and having fun. The plot starts with one of those days, after work they have their usual smoking session, this day its up to Kenny to get the pizza, ice cream, and all the other junk food to satisfy their ravenous appetites. On the way home from the munchie run, Kenny accidentally murders Buttercup, a diabetic police horse, by feeding it all the junk food he initially bought for himself and his starving stoner friends.

Shortly after the incident Kenny is put in jail with a 1 million dollar bail. In order to save Kennys ass from his weird inmate Nasty Nate, the now trio consisting of Thurgood, Scarface and Brian decides to sell medical marijuana Thurgood obtains for free thanks to a stoner doc whose doing “research” on the green herb at the pharmaceutical lab where he works as a janitor… what a dream ! And if this wasn’t enough Thurgood falls in love with Mary Jane, a pot-hating daughter of a convicted marijuana dealer. Their marijuana selling business “Mr. Nice Guy” becomes a overnight success in Manhattan : They make friends with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot (whose also their best client) and become rivals of Samson Simpson, the other big shot in New Yorks drug selling underworld who wants to eliminate “Mr. Nice Guy” !

The entire stoner film Half Baked lives from funny dialogues and typical stoner behaviour and many cameos (including Snoop Dogg). Although one must admit that Half Baked is an rather undemanding stoner movie, it is definitely a great stoner movie to watch when you are high !

 

2. The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy of mistaken identities, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film provides insights into the life of slacker and bowling-enthusiast Jeff Lebowski, who’s living a pretty relaxed lifestyle in Los Angeles, until he get’s involved in a kidnapping case. If Jeff Lebowski, also known as “The Dude”, isn’t bowling with his friends Walter Sobchak and Donny Kerabatsos, he spends his time listening to whale songs, having some drinks and of course having a joint now and then. The Dude’s life starts getting hectic, when he is mistaken by two thugs for the millionaire Jeffrey Lebowski… he gets bashed, one thug pisses on his rug and the other thug forces him to pay a ransom of 1 million dollar for the kidnapped wife of millionaire Lebowski. Next day “The Dude” visits the wealthy millionaire, also known as  The Big Lebowski, to claim compensation for his ruined rug. The old millionaire refuses, but offers the unemployed Dude a one-time job with high pay-off instead. The Dude accepts the job, which involves the ransom handover for the kidnapped millionaire’s wife Bunny Lebowski. Gradually the Dude gets behind the kidnapping case and steals the 1 million dollar ransom, which brings him into real big trouble with all sorts of rowdies…

3. Harold & Kumar Go to the White Castle

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is the first movie of the Harold and Kumar series and also known as “Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies”, which is a pretty good summary of the plot. Its a regular friday afternoon, Harold Lee and Kumar Patel are getting high at home. After some time of watching TV Harold and Kumar get the munchies and decide to go to the White Castle, after seeing an advertisement for White Castle Burgers in TV. But the way to White Castle and their tasty burgers the two stoner buddies are craving for, turns out to be longer than expected. On their endless trip the stoners have to overcome many obstacles including a raccoon, a racist officer, and a horny Neil Patrick Harris until they finally arrive..

4. How High

The 2001 stoner movie How High starring the famous rappers Method Man and Redman) is an absolute must-see if you like weed films, its definitely one of the funniest stoner comedies we have ever seen, just light up a fat doobie, watch it and laugh your head off !

In the stoner movie How High the two stoner buddies and marijuana growers Silas and Jamal (played by Method Man and Redman) smoke weed fertilized with the ashes of their dead friend Ivory who was run over a bus recently. Whenever they are smoking the weed fertilized with “Ivory”, their dead friend Ivory magically appears in a cloud in front of them. Luckily their friend in heaven is a real genius and helps them to pass their Testing for Higher Credentials (THC). With the help of their mate Ivory the two rather dumb potheads Silas and Jamal accomplish to ace their exams easily ! Unbelievably, they get accepted by probably the world’s most famous university : Harvard ! As you can imagine, the disaster is just waiting to happen as Silas and Jamal two lazy weed-smoking troublemakers from the hood actually decide to “study” at Harvard university…

5. Grandma’s Boy

The stoner movie Grandma’s Boy may not have received critical praise, but in the realm of stoner films, you’ll still find it to be among the upcoming classics.

The whole weed movie revolves around Alex (Allan Covert), who is probably the world’s oldest videogame tester and a real freak, at night he is secretly creating what could get to be the next great video game. But Alex’s work starts getting more difficult after he’s kicked out from his flat – after some bad days of sleeping at a pretty weird mate, he decides to move in with his crazy grandmother Lilly (Doris Roberts) and her two friends, Grace (Shirley Jones) and Bea (Shirley Knight). As one can imagine, his new home is not much of a improvement, its all getting kinda crazy with the three old ladies, the stoner movie starts getting really funny when his mates and co-workers find out who the ” 3 hot chicks” are he’s living with!

6. Pineapple Express

Coming from the guys who made funny flicks like Superbad the stoner movie Pineapple Express starring Seth Rogen and James Franco definitely belongs to the best stoner movies of 2008, if not to the best stoner movies ever made ! First of all, Seth Rogens first real stoner movie Pineapple Express persuades with a hilarious plot, which contains a lot of action scenes perfectly mixed with stoner comedy !

Laid back court-process worker and stoner Dale Denton just has one reason to see his just as lazy pot dealer Saul Silver: to get his beloved weed, precisely, a very rare new marijuana strain titled “Pineapple Express”. The Pineapple Express strain not only turns out to be the best but also the most dangerous weed Dale has ever smoked when he accidently becomes the only witness to a killing by Ted Jones one of the city’s biggest drug lords and a corrupt cop. Dale panic-struck dumps his Pineapple Express joint at the crime scene, a momentous mistake since the joint easily identifies his dealer Saul Silver ! When he becomes aware of this fact, he has just one more reason to visit his Saul : To save his ass from Ted Jones and his killers !
As Dale and Saul flee for their lives, they soon realize that they are not suffering from weed-related paranoia: unbelievably, Ted Jones and his gang of crooks actually are hot on their heels… hell-bent on killing both of them !

If you haven’t watched Pineapple Express yet, you should make up for it soon, its really one of the best stoner movies of the decade which must be included in every good Stoner Movies Top 10 list.

7. Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke

Up In Smoke from 1978 was the first movie of the stoner comedy duo Cheech and Chong consisting of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. The stoner movie Up In Smoke features the drug-addled potheads Cheech and Chong on a road trip all the way through California in the hope to find some top quality pot. In fact, a number of incidents end up in both Cheech and Chong being deported to Mexico. Wanting to come back to the United States in order to play in their band’s concert later that night, Cheech and Chong unknowingly accept to drive a pretty special van over the border – instead of iron and numerous metal parts, the van is built completely out of weed. Back in the United States Cheech and Cong are together with two crazy female hippie hitchhikers, the stoned group hits the road attempting to get its musical performance right. Through out the movie the two stoner buddies Cheech and Chong consistently manage to escape from Sergeant Stedenko and the law enforcement authorities by a hairs breath. And the funniest thing about all that is probapely that Cheech and Chong are so stoned all the time they don’t even realize that this bunch of fools headed by Sgt. Stedenko is hot on their heels.

The unbelievably low-budget stoner movie Up in Smoke by Cheech and Chong amazed critics, was a huge box office hit and of course laid the corner stone of the Cheech and Chong Stoner Movie Series which consolidated Cheech and Chong’s cult-status among potheads and stoner movie fans all over the globe.

8. Super High Me

Super High Me is rather a stoner documentary than a stoner movie, in which Doug Benson, californian stand up comedian and Ex-Stoner of the Year, adventures a crazy self experiment in order to find out the true effects of cannabis on the human body. The experiment starts with a 30 day period of Cannabis Abstinence, which is followed by another 30 day period in which Benson consumes massive amounts of marijuana – precisely Doug Benson is high 24/7 for 30 days ! Benson’s experiences are of course well documented, which makes the stoner movie  documentary Super High Me much more than just an funny story of one man’s pursuit to get super high, nevertheless the documentary Super High Me also looks at the fiercely competitive discussion over the legalisation of medical cannabis in our modern society.

9. Dazed and Confused

The stoner movie Dazed and Confused shows the events happening during the last day of school at Robert E. Lee High School, somewhere in a small texan city in the glourious hippie era of the 1970′s, precisely in year 1976. The seniors are dedicated to the traditional hazing of the arriving freshmen, which in plain language means physical punishment of the newbies for no reason. And of course, everybody’s top priorities seem to be is getting high, drunk or laid. Freshmen and baseball player Mitch Kramer can’t enjoy the great party atmosphere since he becomes the main target of the senior hazing after his older sister stupidly asks one of the senior rowdys to reprieve her little brother. At the end of the day even the good senior athletes, among them Randall “Pink” Floyd the school’s biggest football talent decide to party, booze up and smoke with all the stoners, nerds, greasers, etc and that although they signed a contract do stay away from drugs.

Dazed and Confused isn’t only a great stoner movie with features funny pothead dialogues and typical stoner characters like Ron Slater, it is also one of the greatest high school movies ever made. Our recommendation of the stoner film Dazed and Confused is supported by the fact that the stoner movie was not only a critically acclaimed movie but also a huge box office hit. What can we say, another movie which has to be on every Top 10 Stoner Movies List !

10. Puff, Puff, Pass

Puff, Puff, Pass is another great stoner comedy you should have seen. The movie starts off with the two potheads, Rico and Larry, who are kicked out of their one-room apartment for being late with rent.  As if this wasn’t enough, the stoner buddies favorite movie “The Shawshank Redemption” is running on TV. They pull out all stops in order not to miss the movie, which in fact means, they end up in a drug rehab (because they got free cable TV there). Rico and Larry quickly realize, that rehab life is no fun at all, they find themselves out of place among hard drug addicts and crazy counselors. After a weird night at the drug rehab, the two stoners get kicked out of there as well… Homeless again, the two potheads need money urgently, they call on Big Daddy a rich aquaintance, who offers them a nice job…

I like the 2006 stoner film Puff, Puff, Pass, it has a clever story, decent acting and really funny dialogues. It really holds your attention and entertains you throughout. Puff, Puff, Pass is directed by Mekhi Phifer and starring Ronnie Warner (Rico) and Danny Masterson (Larry) in the main roles.

Conclusion

Nowadays, movies are thick with the smoke of weed – and it’s coming from the action on the screen. Imagine… Which movie genre could be more fun to watch for Stoners than Funny Weed Movies ? Of course it depends on your taste but we can’t think of a genre that was bigger fun to watch when you are high than Stoner Movies ! And it gets even better if you get to watch a great stoner film in the movies, isn’t it ?! If you haven’t been stoned in the movies already, you should definitely give it a try soon : Call some mates, choose a great movie (comedy and action movies are great, stoner movies are perfect of course), Get your movie tickets, Light up a big spliff at a safe and quiet spot or vaporize your preferred herb, Get some food and shit, Enjoy the movie.