Psychedelic movies

List of the best psychedelic films according to visitors: Videodrome, A Hard Day's Night, Performance, The Sonata, Tekkonkinkreet, The Girl on a Motorcycle, Thomas in Love, Santa Sangre, Paprika, El Topo.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:24

A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, musical, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:27

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:45

Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, Latvia, France
Duration01:59

After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, adventure, cartoon, crime, anime
CountryJapan
Duration01:51

When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Black and White face their greatest adversaries yet. It is up to the destructive Black to save the fate of the city and up to the gentle White to save Black from his own dark nature. On the street of an unnamed city, literally high-flying urchins Black and White look to protect their turf from invasion from other gangs. While he can be tough in a fight or wielding a weapon, White is an 11-year-old who can't even dress himself. Slightly older, Black is more worldly and treats his buddy with paternal love. Both look on their city as "our town." Also prone to seeing the city as his property is world-weary yakuza leader Suzuki, aka the Rat. Feeling the town has become too placid, Suzuki plots his return, much to the consternation of local police.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France

Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryBelgium, France
Duration01:37

Thomas Thomas is agoraphobic, has a computer-generated girlfriend, and hasn't left his home in years. Can a prostitute convince him to leave cyberspace and his home for the real world?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryMexico, Italy
Duration02:03

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, cartoon, detective, anime
CountryJapan
Duration01:30

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, western
CountryMexico
Duration02:05

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:27

The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountryCanada, United Kingdom
Duration01:55

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryFrance, West Germany, Canada

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
Duration02:02

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryMexico, Spain

Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, musical, short, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:39

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan

As one of Suzuki's last fims, it is related to his 1967 Branded to Kill, either as a remake or sequel. The plots of both films involves an assassin (Makiko Esumi) fending off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryChina, Hong Kong
Duration02:04

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder. After revealing several of the stories in his script, Wessler becomes agitated when Schraeder dismisses his outrageous ideas, and he pulls a gun on him and forces him to listen to multiple other stories before making Schraeder consult his manager, Bob Mone, to purchase the film.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
Duration01:48

    A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:18

    In this twisted love story, a man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:47

    A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:37

    Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryChile
    Duration01:38

    Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman—a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy—to come along.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryJapan

    A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUkraine, Czech Republic
    Duration01:40

    Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:21

    Rémi Gaillard is the real character of the World network, troll, provocateur, one of the biggest-selling comic actor in Europe. One and a half milliards of viewing and millions of fans. A day came, and he decided to steady down: got married, settled down on work on a parking place, promised a pregnant wife, that also «goes away to the decree» and gives up the pranks. But how to deafen talent and disorderly conduct of fantasy?. Fans can not assume his care. Gaillard returns.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
    Duration01:55

    We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

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