Movies like Up in Smoke
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Up in Smoke (1978)
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
Style:
funny, humorous, parody, road movie, absurd, clever, psychedelic, unusual plot structure, melancholic, harsh ...
Plot:
marijuana, stoners, drugs, weed, rock and roll, road trip, stoner, cult, satire, chase, exploitation, farce, buddies, hitchhiker, hippie, slacker, love, catastrophe, prison, teenager, drug addict, music, summer, crazy, male nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
los angeles, mexico, california, vietnam, usa, asia, latin america ...
Most similar movies to Up in Smoke
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, cult film and realistic films with plots about storytelling, brutality, drugs, catastrophe, mentor, runaway and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Music and Adventure genres. Some movies like Up in Smoke: Still Smokin (1983), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Friday (1995), Rolling Kansas (2003), Nice Dreams (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. And that's exactly what happens to Harold and his roommate, Kumar, when they set out to get the best stoner fix money can buy: White Castle hamburgers. Both guys are at a ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
road trip, marijuana, stoners, weed, college, stoner, drugs, nothing goes right, party, teenager, friendship, racial slur ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, amsterdam
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100%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, stoners, buddies, mistaken identity, goofy hero, misfit, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse, artists and showbiz, partners ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland
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100%

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Jay and Silent Bob learn that their comic-book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic, have been sold to Hollywood as part of a big-screen movie that leaves them out of any royalties, the pair travels to Tinseltown to sabotage the production.
Style:
humorous, funny, talky, absurd, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
stoners, weed, drugs, hollywood, road trip, hitchhiker, chase, monkey actor, filmmaking, orangutan, superhero, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, california, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
african american, weed, marijuana, hip hop, ghetto, rap, rapper, friendship, gang, friends, hip hop culture, drugs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of friends go on a journey to a secret marijuana forest in Kansas.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, road movie, realistic ...
Plot:
road trip, marijuana, stoners, friendship, on the road, weed, goofy hero, nothing goes right, buddies, farce, disorder, stoner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kansas, usa, texas, america
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Cheech and Chong house sit for a marijuana grower and rip off the crop. Stalked by keystone-style cops, Los Guys have a series of encounters with L.A. area characters even weirder than themselves
Style:
humorous, sex comedy, psychedelic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, stoners, weed, drugs, cannabis, buddies, surveillance, life & death, lone hero, writers, insanity, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrants, deportation, mistaken identity, adaptation, farce, twists and turns, fish out of water, disorder, false accusation, comedy of errors, interracial relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of ...
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, light, road movie ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, stoners, weed, drugs, space and aliens, stoner, drug abuse, nude, hippie, violence, dysfunctional family, motorcycle ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride ...
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, talky, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, stoners, marijuana, drug use, weed, drugs, drug abuse, buddies, cannabis, youth, lifestyle, gangsters ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
boston, usa, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having satisfied their urge for White Castle, Harold and Kumar jump on a plane to catch up with Harold's love interest, who's headed for the Netherlands. But the pair must change their plans when Kumar is accused of being a terrorist. Rob ...
Style:
funny, humorous, ridiculous, sex comedy, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
marijuana, stoners, weed, drugs, college, road trip, race issues, stereotypes, interracial relations, party, prison sex, nothing goes right ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, alabama, cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
Style:
parody, humorous, melancholic, splatter, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, weed, twins, mistaken identity, farce, destiny, fight scenes, gangsters, death, first contact, mentor, adaptation ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 80s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are shown attempting to finish a "video album" for their novelty record Get Out of My Room.
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
marijuana, weed, drugs, latin, stoners, disorder, friends, drug abuse, showbiz, filmmaking, misfit, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%

Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throught the car.
Style:
humorous, road movie, harsh, enigmatic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
lust, drugs, weed, road trip, desert, chase, stoners, nude, gas station, limousine, drug addiction, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, midwest, new jersey, las vegas
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a ...
Style:
parody, humorous, witty, satirical, thought provoking ...
Plot:
hip hop, satire, music, musician, hip hop culture, rock and roll, nude, catastrophe, vengeance, adaptation, brutality, chase ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, new jersey, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Style:
funny, psychotronic, humorous, sexy, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock and roll, high school, music, teenager, rock, school, punk, youth, dancing, musician, cult, rebellion ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style:
humorous, light, satirical, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, blackmail, ambition, music band, disorder, partners, media, artists and showbiz, buddies, showbiz, rock and roll, punk ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are ...
Style:
humorous, funny, ironic, witty, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, music band, nothing goes right, introspection, musician's life, ambition, buddies, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, beer, death, heavy metal culture ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style:
funny, humorous, parody, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, rock, farce, hip hop, stupidity, drug abuse, rock and roll, success, team, lifestyle, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 90s ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar who has dropped off the radar in recent years. Record company intern Aaron Green is faced with the ...
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, road movie, cynical ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
showbiz, marijuana, drugs, musician's life, lifestyle, disorder, plan gone awry, rock and roll, celebrity culture, alcohol abuse, escapades, friends ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, california, new york, london ...
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29%

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jane (Anna Faris), a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats ...
Style:
surreal, humorous, stylized, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, stoners, goofy hero, drugs, escapades, stoner, roommate, youth, stoned, comedy of errors, actor's life, paranoid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't apear to know as much about rap music ...
Style:
funny, clever, humorous, sexy, parody ...
Plot:
hip hop, music, rap, gangsters, hip hop culture, nude, satire, crime gone awry, adaptation, first contact, farce, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, stylized, absurd ...
Plot:
rock, heavy metal culture, musician, music, devil, farce, rock and roll, drugs, obsessive quest, rock star, weed, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But he gets kicked out of his apartment and is forced to move in with his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, psychedelic, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, stoners, marijuana, slacker, stupidity, roommate, workplace, geek, teenager, drugs, older woman younger man relationship, party ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an AM rock station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
Style:
funny, humorous, light, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heavy metal culture, music, rock band, hostage, rock and roll, farce, radio, stupidity, satire, music band, artists and showbiz, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Style:
road movie, humorous, funny, light, satirical ...
Plot:
music, road trip, music business, music band, career, family relations, americana, rock and roll, artists and showbiz, siblings relations, dream, dancing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, mexico, new orleans, russia, finland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is ...
Style:
humorous, funny, intense, satirical, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, fish, marijuana, hippie, justice, unlikely friendships, corruption, guilt, transformation, fantasy world, writers, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 60s
Place:
usa, new york
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27%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations, Wayne frets that a record producer is putting the moves ...
Style:
funny, absurd, humorous, parody, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
rock and roll, music, buddy, satire, rock, dream, wedding, farce, espionage, teenager, musician, nerd ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
illinois, usa, london
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27%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle. I'm gonna talk cods hit to strangers all night. I'm gonna lose the plot ...
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, realistic, spectacular, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
clubbing, party, nightlife, drugs, music, lifestyle, weed, society, paranoia, loneliness, addiction, insanity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, amsterdam, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Determined to avoid another night of driving aimlessly around Torrance in the Blue Torpedo, Joe and Hubbs set out on a quest for fine chicks. Their paths soon cross with Tack, from whom they learn about a pair of foreign radical chicks hanging out ...
Style:
funny, realistic, feel good, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot:
party, stoner, coming of age, rebelliousness, drugs, weed, teenage life, youth, partners, lifestyle, slacker, rock music ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A hip and happenin' all girl rock group head to LA to claim lead-singer Kelly's inheritance and make it (and make it) in LA. Soon the girls fall into a morass of drugs and deceit as their recording success soars. It takes several tragedies ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, psychotronic, psychedelic, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
satire, drugs, erotica, lesbian, friendship, hollywood, sex, cult, sexploitation, rock and roll, showbiz, price of fame ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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