Stoner Movie List!
A great list of films about marijuana! This is the most extensive list available on the net! Let’s keep it going so please feel free to add any films you think we’ve missed in the comment section below!
There are many movies about “stoners,” films with characters who frequently use cannabis, and films that specifically target cannabis users, but these films are not, by definition, stoner films. A stoner film is a movie whose story line is patently centered around cannabis. The series of movies in the 1970s starring Cheech & Chong are archetypal “stoner movies.” Some historic films like Reefer Madness have also become popular as “stoner movies,” because their anti-drug message is seen by some modern viewers as so over the top that the film amounts to self-parody.
High Times magazine regularly sponsors the Stony Awards to celebrate stoner films and television. Many of these films do not fit the category of “stoner film” as a subgenre, but contain enough cannabis use to be deemed noteworthy by the periodical. For a list of films containing frequent cannabis use, see films containing frequent marijuana use.
Many stoner movies have certain elements and themes in common.[3][4] The template involves two male friends who possess or are attempting to possess marijuana and have some task to complete. Stoner movies are always comedies, the plots of which are simplistic. Often stoner films involve evading authority figures, sometimes law enforcement agents, who are portrayed as comically inept, but also parents, coworkers, friends, and security guards who disapprove of the protagonists’ marijuana usage usually out of a greater lack of acceptance of their lifestyle of leisure and innocence. Most serious moments are intended ironically, often to parody overwrought counterparts in mainstream cinema. The comic story arcs often approach or fall over the line into slapstick.
Stoner films almost always have male protagonists. Smiley Face was the first to feature a female protagonist. The men are well-meaning and usually sexually frustrated, and will usually come comically close to sexual success with exceedingly beautiful women only to have the opportunity lost due to chance or ineptitude.[3]
Here’s the complete list:
* Reefer Madness (1936)
* Marihuana (1936)
* Hi De Ho (1947)
* Marihuana (1950)
* High School Confidential (1957)
* Help! (1965)
* Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
* I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
* The Harder They Come (1972)
* Arnold’s Wrecking Co. (1973)
* Rockers (1978)
* Cheech & Chong (series) (1978-1985)[1]
* Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
* That Was Then… This Is Now (1985)
* 1969 (1988)
* Far Out Man (1990)
* The Stoned Age (1994)
* Friday (1995)
* Bongwater (1997)
* Half Baked (1998)
* Homegrown (1998)
* Idle Hands (1999)
* Grass (1999)
* Freak Talks About Sex (1999)
* Human Traffic (1999)
* Outside Providence (1999)
* Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)
* Road Trip (2000)
* Next Friday (2000)
* Saving Grace (2000)
* Cash Crop (2001)
* How High (2001)
* Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
* Killer Bud (2001)
* Super Troopers(2001)
* The Wash (2001)
* Friday After Next (2002)
* High Times’ Potluck (2002)
* The Simpsons Weekend at Burnsie’s (2002)
* Rolling Kansas (2003)
* Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
* Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)[1]
* Grandma’s Boy (2006)
* Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)
* Diggers (2006)
* Evil Bong (2006)
* Everything’s Gone Green (film) (2006)
* Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
* A Bug and a Bag of Weed (2006)
* National Lampoon’s Totally Baked: A Potumentary (2007)
* Super High Me (2007)
* Smiley Face (2007)
* Remember the Daze (2008)
* Strange Wilderness (2008)
* Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
* Surfer, Dude (2008)
* Humboldt County (2008)
* Brighton Wok: The Legend of Ganja Boxing (2008)
* Pineapple Express (2008)
* Stone Bros. (2009)
* Evil Bong 2: King Bong (2009)
* Sexpot (2009)
* Leaves of Grass (2009)
* Growing Op (2009)
* Grass Roots (2012)
