The 20 greatest stoner films

Many films have incorporated characters who are more or less stoned out of their minds. But true stoner movies have something extra, a certain magic that will make you laugh even if you're watching them for the 100th time. Here's our list of 20 greatest stoner movies.

20 | Délire Express (2008)

Délire Express

A man (Dale) tastes a variety of cannabis called «Pineapple Express» supplied by his dealer (Saul). But one day, the man witnesses a murder, and he and his dealer must join forces to escape the killers on their trail.

Highest moment: Saul «I hope to have a job where I can sit and smoke weed all day»

Dale »But you have this job, you're a dealer. You sit around and smoke weed all day.»

Saul: «Hey, you're right! Haha, thanks bro!»

19 | Scam artists in the making (2009)

Budding crooks

A philosophy professor at an Ivy League university returns to his old hometown in Oklahoma after learning that his cannabis-dealing twin brother has been murdered. Once there, he realizes that his brother isn't dead and finds himself embroiled in his own problems.

Highlight: The mixed feeling of laughter and discomfort every time they come face to face, as the same actor plays both twins.

18 | Grandma's Boy (2006)

Grandma's Boy

A 35-year-old video game developer and heavy cannabis user is secretly developing game controllers. His roommate has spent all his rent, and he finds himself evicted and forced to live with his grandmother.

Highest moment: The grandmother after drinking cannabis-infused tea: «I feel like I can hear my hair growing. Would you like some?»

17 | Les Mauvaises Herbes (2016)

WEEDS

A theater actor addicted to gambling finds himself saddled with debts to a mafia drug dealer in Montreal. He finds himself pursued by the latter, and on the run he comes across a hermit who grows cannabis illegally.

Highest moment: There's nothing funnier than a stoner movie with a Quebec accent. It adds humor to a movie where the characters are already crazy.

16 | Kid Cannabis (2014)

Kid Cannabis

Two friends go to Vancouver to buy a large quantity of weed which they hope to smuggle from Canada to Idaho for resale, in the hope of making a lot of money. Federal agents are alerted to the project, and the two friends find themselves in big trouble.

Highest moment: When the two friends are in the dispensary in Vancouver and a man warns them that they are being filmed.

15 | Doobious Sources (2017)

Doobious Sources

Two cannabis-savvy freelance journalists trap crooks by exposing them and sending the scandals to the news. They find themselves targeted by a rich man they've been slandering, who's out for revenge;

Highest moment: The hallucination sequence in which the two journalists try to film a scoop

14 | Puff Puff Pass (2006)

Puff Puff Pass

Two stoners just out of rehab and looking for a new life soon find themselves in a plot to eliminate the city's most dangerous drug dealer, Mr. Big.

Highest moment: When the two heroes smoke a joint and an old man asks them if it's cannabis, he retorts, «Seriously? You know that's not right». One of the two stoners spits out the smoke from the blunt and he says «You bastards, aren't you sharing?»

13 | The Smokers (1998)

Smokers

Stoners who will develop strategies to free their friend from jail and bail him out. They'll do anything for it.

Highest moment: 

12| The Millers, A Family in the Making (2013)

the millers a budding family

A thirty-something drug dealer has all his weed and money taken by thugs, and his boss sends him to Mexico to pick up a large shipment of cannabis. To avoid getting caught at customs, he travels with a stripper, a virgin and a homeless woman, posing as a family on a trip to Mexico. Between humor and adventures, this «family» is going to experience many twists and turns.

The highest moment He says: «That's not a little chouilla! You've got me hauling enough weed to smoke a Rasta colony!»

11 | Five (2016)

Five Film

Five friends have a lifelong dream: to share a flat together. Sam lies to his father about going to medical school, and with his father's money offers to pay half the rent, while the others pay a meager share that fits their budget. But one day his father learns the truth and cuts him off. Sam has no choice but to turn to dealing cannabis to pay the rent.

Highest moment: To escape a police check, Sam and Timothée swallow ecstasy pills. They end up high as a kite, dancing and prancing all over the place.

10 | True Romance (1993)

True Romance

Brad Pitt's best film? We don't think so. He's barely recognizable, embedded in his sofa, a bong on the living room table. Floyd, his character, is a composed guy, whether he's mumbling to himself in front of the TV or inviting a biker gang over for an oinj. His character inspired James Franco's performance in Délire Express (Pineapple Express in French).

Highest moment: we'll stick to Floyd's words: »Hey, bring some beer and cleaning products!»

9 | Soul Plane (2004)

Soul Plane

The jewel in the crown of the cinésplifféramique quarry in Snoop Dogg. He plays Captain Mack, the sole pilot of NWA, (Nashawn Wade Airlines, references to the rap group NWA) flying through the air on a diet of weed and mushrooms. «This is your private driver, Antoine Mack, speaking. Welcome to flight NWA 069. We're higher than Redman at the Sources Awards!».

Highest moment: When Snoop comatose after taking too many drugs, and the airplane crew wonders if he looks more like dead Wilt Chamberlain, or dead Tupac.

8 | Friday (1995)

Friday

A day in the life of Ice Cube and Chris Tucker, chilling out on a South Central porch. Tucker is one of those dealers who consumes his product. But remember: you don't want to go bothering Big Worm in his stash, because playing with your money is like playing with your emotions («Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions, Smokey.» in VO).

Highest moment: When Tucker teaches Cube the right way to smoke, and the sacrosanct «Shoot, Shoot, Pass» rule.

7 | Harold and Kumar go burger hunting (2004)

Harold and Kumar go burger hunting

A comedy about two buddies in search of the real burger, which in fact hides a portrait of the idiocy of American society. The premise: some nights, a Burger Shack (a kind of Burger King Us) just won't cut it. And during their quest, they face the questions that every stoner has asked himself one day: «Man, didn't we come upon a cheetah?».

Highest moment: cameo by Neil Patrick Harris, who plays an ecstasy-crazed straight man: «It's sausage-fest time here, bro. Let's get laid, and then we'll go to White Castle... The Doogie effect always works on strippers!»

6 | How High (2001)

How High

Method Man and Redman go to Harvard after discovering a trick that turned them into geniuses. Their secret: use the ashes of a dead buddy to fertilize their weed patch.

Highest moment: When they get out of their pad, Meth and Red dig up the body of John Quincy Adams (the Harvard-educated 6th President of the United States) and smoke his bones in the hope of getting better grades.

Note that the release of’How High 2 has been announced for 2018 (as it has every year for the past 5 years, for next year).

5 | Inherent Vice (2015)

Inherent Vice

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Doc Sportella, a weed-boosted private investigator on the hunt for a missing ex-girlfriend. Channeling his inner Lebowski, Joaquin smokes joint after joint as he tries to solve the mystery.

Highest moment: When we got lost in the film, along with Joaquin Phoenix.

4 | This is the end (2013)

This is the end

In Hollywood, James Franco organizes a party with his buddies: Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson... The apocalypse is suddenly unleashed, causing carnage in the small town of Tinseltown and trapping James Franco and his friends in his house. As the outside world slowly disintegrates, the living conditions in the house tear the 6 friends apart.

Highest moment: When Rihanna takes Michaël Cera apart after he pinches her butt. And all of Michaël Cera's scenes.

3 | Génération rebelle, Dazed and Confused in VO (1993)

Dazed and Confused

The film follows teenagers in a small Texas town during the summer of 1976, cruising around in muscle cars on the last day of school. Director Richard Linklater paints a true-life portrait of the ’70s, including how these kids spend their afternoons smoking while listening to Aerosmith and Foghat, talking about aliens, sex and how much weed George Washington smoked.

Highest moment: Matthew McConaughey appears as Wooderson, a guru at the wheel of his red Melba Toast (a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454), cruising from party to party: «The older you get, the more rules are imposed on you. You just gotta keep living, man, v-i-v-r-e.»

2 | Ted (2012)

Ted

As a child, John was desperate for his teddy bear Ted to come to life. His wish magically granted, he naturally moves in with Ted, even after 4 years with his girlfriend, played by Mila Kunis. The adventure follows the relationship between the three, and the countless moments spent smoking.

Highest moment: The fight between Ted and a duck.

1 | The Big Lebowski (1998)

The big Lebowski

How does the Duke pass the time? «Ho, as usual. I poke. I go around the block. Sometimes I get a few halluses.» You don't have to be a faya to enjoy this monument to cinema, but Jeff Bridges gives legendary traits to the Duke: a hippie hero out of bed and still in his robe. And it's good to know he's out there, hating the Eagles and playing his Creedence Clearwater Revival tapes.

Highest moment: When the cops return the Duke's car, and he sets off for a jaunt in the sun, a beer in one hand, a spliff in the other, the volume of his radio cranked up to the max as he taps on the roof of his car.

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