Psychedelic movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant psychedelic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychedelic, surreal, weird, cult classic, mind bending and psychological films and TV shows about / with surrealism, trippy, female nudity, dream, drug, hallucination, psychology, nightmare, moving and acid plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as psychedelic: Enter the Void (2009), The Wave (2019), The Holy Mountain (1973), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), A Scanner Darkly (2006), Fantastic Planet (1973), Fritz the Cat (1972), Midsommar (2019), The Midnight Gospel (2020), Candy (1968).

List of psychedelic movies

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 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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 6.1
 7K
The Wave (2019)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug trip, hallucinogenic drug, psychedelia, karma, time travel, drug, surrealism, husband wife relationship, acid trip, hallucination, dealer, visual hallucination ...
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, road movie, atmospheric, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, addiction, psychedelia, trippy, surrealism, american dream, hallucination, drug, journalist ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place: las vegas, usa
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style: psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, bleak ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, drug abuse, trippy, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, addiction, dystopia, dystopian future, society, fighting crime, consciousness, drug ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place: california, texas, usa, san diego california
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: trippy, surrealism, giant, dystopia, alien, slave, distopia, alien life-form, alien species, meditation, baby, utopia ...
Time: distant future, year 1973, future
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 6.2
 14K
Fritz the Cat (1972)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's.
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, grindhouse, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual abuse, hippie, satire, sex, cat, comic book, stoner, addiction, drug, interspecies sex, sexual humor, social satire ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1966
Place: new york, usa
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 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Midnight Gospel (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Traversing trippy worlds inside his universe simulator, Clancy the space caster explores existential questions about life, death and everything in between.
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, adult cartoon, entertaining, anime ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: universe, surrealism, creature, interview, philosophy, shapeshifting, multiverse, parallel universe, adult humor, male protagonist, space travel, space and aliens ...
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 5.1
 4K
Candy (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
Style: sexy, psychedelic, melancholic, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: seduction, satire, teenager, naive girl, plot twist, guru, uncle niece relationship, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, obsession, sex, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, new york, italy, europe, usa ...
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Son of the White Mare (1981)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story’s main character is Fehérlófia, who is a man with superhuman power. He is born as the third son of a horse. He listened to old tales, mostly about the Forefather and the end of his reign, caused by evil dragons.
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, fairy tale, surreal, experimental ...
Plot: folklore, mythology, trippy, surrealism, princess, superhuman powers, castle, dragon, peplum, sword and sorcery, acid trip, psychedelia ...
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 7.7
 96K
Paprika (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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.
Style: surreal, psychological, psychedelic, anime, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: dream, surveillance, virtual reality, lucid dream, surrealism, villain, trippy, scientist, mental illness, hallucination, psychiatrist, introspection ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 6.7
 41K
Spun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up ...
Style: psychedelic, disturbing, surreal, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, drug addict, drug addiction, addiction, junkie, masturbation, drug, drug trip, drug use, strong sexual content, methamphetamine, crazy ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, las vegas
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 7.3
 15K
Daisies (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, nihilism, flapper, feminist, feminism, female friendship, absurd humor, teenage girl, women, satire, trippy, youth ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, europe
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 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, tibet
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 7.5
 107
Delirium (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ukraine, Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, ...
Style: art house, non-linear, neo noir, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot: insanity, murder, hanging, suicide, surrealism, time loop, psychotic, twins, villa, father, family relations, paranoia ...
Place: ukraine
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John Dies at the End (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, absurd, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: invasion, dark humor, end of the world, dog, fictional reality, monster, out of body experience, buddies, anti hero, psychic power, save the world, portal ...
Time: year 2012
Place: usa
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, psychology, surrealism, gang, dystopia, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, brutality, sociopath ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1971, year 1995, 70s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychedelic, tech noir, mind bending, psychological, non-linear ...
Plot: computer, alternate reality, programmer, video game, free will, time travel, repeated scene, cyberpunk, technology, computer game, conspiracy, plot twist ...
Time: 80s, near future, 2010s, year 1984
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
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 6.9
 56K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
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 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
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 8.2
 10K
Mulholland Dr. (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, captivating, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, secret society, investigation, audition, amnesia, twists and turns, hollywood, actress, passion, death, psychology, mind game ...
Time: 90s
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 6.3
 13K
Wizards (1977)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An ambiguous battle between good and evil wages in a post-apocalyptic earth populated by netherworld creatures who have re-emerged after the nuclear winter. Two wizard twin brothers - the evil Blackwolf and the good Avatar - battle for supremacy. ...
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, anime, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sword and sorcery, magic, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, mutant, dark future, nymph, wizard, world war two, surrealism, trippy, good versus evil ...
Time: 20th century, future, near future, distant future
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Under a Kaleidoscope (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Caleb Loomis is an agoraphobic twenty-something. In his spare time he makes UFO videos with miniature cities and takes an unhealthy amount of LSD. One afternoon he hears Beatrice, the lady next door, being abused. After striking an odd friendship ...
Style: psychedelic, underground film
Plot: insanity, craziness, violence, surrealism, inner city
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Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
Style: anime, psychedelic, hentai, adult animation, experimental ...
Plot: deal with the devil, wedding, surrealism, snake, rape, witch, trippy, female nudity, occult, woman, pagan, women ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: japan, france
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style: psychological, surreal, melancholic, romantic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, new york
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 6.3
 35K
Tideland (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heroin, isolation, imagination, mental illness, surrealism, child neglect, mentally challenged, imaginary friend, addiction, insanity, drug addiction, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, denmark, texas, usa
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Dream Corp LLC (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Helmed by the easily distracted Dr. Roberts, a psychotherapeutic facility treats patients with troubling dreams. Roberts employs a team of incompetent scientists to help analyze and record those thoughts plaguing the doctor's patients.
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, humorous, psychological ...
Plot: dream, psychosis, clinic, surrealism, sleeping, humour, absurdism, working class, absurd humor, workplace situations, silly humor, dream within a dream ...
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