Psychedelic movies

List of the best psychedelic films according to visitors: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Un chien andalou, The Red Shoes, Cargo 200, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Daisies, Undone, Point Blank, Fight Club, Down House.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:58
CharactersJournalists, Lawyers, Reporters
PlotTravel, Drug addict
PlaceDeserts, Casino
StyleMind-altering, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Smart, Psychedelic

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrehorror, fantasy, short
CountryFrance
Duration00:17
CharactersAnts
PlotDeath, Art, Dreams
StyleAtmospheric, Serious

Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies. Most famous is the scene of a woman’s eye being cut with a knife.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:13
CharactersBallerinas, Artists
PlotDancing, Music, Obsession, Ballet, Success
PlaceLondon
StyleRomantic, To cry, Atmospheric, Touching, Serious

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:30
PlotHostage
PlaceRussia
StylePsychological problems, Heavy, Depressive, Serious, Disturbing

A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantastic, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:29
CharactersScientists, Investigators, Astronauts
PlotAdventure, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
PlaceSpace, Spaceships, Moon
TimeFuture
StylePhilosophical, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Psychedelic, Epic

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy
CountryCzechoslovakia
CharactersTeens
PlotUprising
StyleSmart, Black humor, Psychedelic

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantasy, drama, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration02:11
CharactersFamily, Friends, Fathers, Sisters, Girlfriends
PlotLove, Time travel, Superpowers, Wedding, Investigation
PlaceHospitals, USA, Office
StyleExciting, Psychedelic, Touching

After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:32
CharactersGangsters
PlotRevenge, Pursuit
PlaceLos Angeles
StyleExciting, Atmospheric, Heavy, Smart, Serious

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:11
CharactersLosers
PlotFight, Fights without rules, Obsession, Split personality, Loneliness
StyleInteresting, Popular, Unexpected ending, Psychological problems, Mind-altering

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration01:20
PlotLove triangle
StyleTense

The plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 SUVs, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
Duration02:07
CharactersAnimals, Tigers
PlotSurvival, Disasters, Adventure, Travel, Death
PlaceSea, Islands, Ships, Nature, Ocean
StyleBeautiful, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Vital signs

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, detective
CountryRussia
Duration02:00
CharactersFamily
StyleFascinating, Tense

A mother loses her son during a winter visit to a remote town.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:35
CharactersBikers, Hippies
PlotAdventure, Travel, Motorcycles, Friendship, Freedom
StyleInspirational, Atmospheric, Psychedelic

A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09
CharactersScientists, Psychologists
PlotDisasters, Apocalypse, Time travel, End of the world, Time machine
TimeFuture, Post apocalypse
StyleUnexpected ending, Psychological problems, Dystopian, Action, Twisted plot

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52
PlotLove, The escape, Death

An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot)...

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:38
CharactersMonsters, Programmers, Psychologists, Psychiatrists
PlotTime travel, Karate, Computer games, Computers, Technology
StylePsychological problems, Twisted plot, Psychedelic, Intellectual

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:43
CharactersGangsters
PlotSupernatural, Chase, Ghosts
StyleRomantic, Exciting, Atmospheric, Touching, Serious

While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration02:41
PlotDrug addict, Death, Supernatural, Life after death, Ghosts
PlaceJapan, Asia
StyleAtmospheric, First person, Explicit scenes, Psychedelic, Touching

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, cartoon
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30
CharactersHeroes
PlotAdventure, Travel, Music
PlaceSubmarines, England
StyleLight, Atmospheric, Fancy, Psychedelic

The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and goes to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:34
CharactersSpy
PlotTime travel, Adventure, Passion, Saving the World
PlaceAircraft

As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:51
CharactersNuns, Priests
PlotSupernatural, Political, Uprising
PlaceFrance
StylePsychological problems, Atmospheric, Depressive

A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryGermany
Duration01:27
CharactersGangsters, Gangsters, Friends, Terminally ill, Partners
PlotFriendship, Chase
PlaceGermany
StylePopular, Exciting, Inspirational, Touching

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
Duration01:54
CharactersTeachers, Doctors
PlotTravel, Gambling, Hunting
PlaceAustralia
TimeNew Year

Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryMexico
Duration02:33
CharactersGangsters, Old man
PlotFight

Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gunshot Rotweiler.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, China
Duration02:10
CharactersMonsters, Giants, Psychologists, Terminally ill, Sisters
PlotMagic, Fight, Mystery, Death, Cancer
PlaceSea, School, Forest, Beach, Cemetery
StylePsychological problems, Atmospheric, Heavy, Psychedelic, Sad ones

Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:16
CharactersAliens, Punks, Single mothers, Singers
PlotLove, Poker, Mystery
PlaceParty, London
StylePsychedelic

Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48
CharactersScientists, Inventors
PlotLove, Loneliness, Death, Pursuit, Religious
PlaceIndia, USA, New York
StylePsychological problems, Mind-altering, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Makes me think

I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:15
CharactersPhotographers, Friends, Poets
PlotDeath, Water, Love triangle
PlaceRussia
TimeHoneymoon
StyleSoulful, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Serious

Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, drama, cartoon
CountryIsrael, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, USA, India
Duration01:58
CharactersDoubles, Actors
PlotMeaning of life
PlaceParallel worlds, USA
TimeFuture
StyleBy books, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Smart, Makes me think

More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, Robin Wright decides to take her final job: preserving her likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her digital doppelganger will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want, with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio’s head animator, Wright’s double rises to immortal stardom. With her contract expiring, she is invited to speak at Miramount's "Futurological Congress". However, a group of terrorists plot an attack on the convention.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryMexico
Duration01:55
CharactersThieves, Heroes, Soldier, Wizards, Architects
PlotAdventure, Superpowers, Political, Fate
PlaceMexico
StyleAtmospheric, Fancy, Serious

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.





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