Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin' Jim's truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band's pursuit of success "playing games," but he agrees to help Jennie anyway.

The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD

2011

German

7.1

♡ 8

71%

lysergic acid diethylamide

pharmaceutical lab

pharmaceuticals company

psychedelic drug

psychedelics

Martin Witz Director

John Lennon as Himself

Ronald Reagan as Himself

Timothy Leary as Himself

Paul McCartney as Himself

By coincidence rather than by design, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact that reaches far beyond the scientific world. THE SUBSTANCE is an investigation into our troubled relationship with LSD, told from its beginnings to today.

The Tingler

1959

English

6.6

♡ 12

78%

William Castle Director

Darryl Hickman as David Morris

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin

Ernest Torrence as Luke Hatburn, in clip from Tol'able David

George DeNormand as Member of Silent Movie Audience

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness

2020

English

7.5

♡ 1

Susan Hess Director

Rupert Sheldrake as

Michael Murphy as

Jill Purse as

Susan Mokelke as

The Way of the Psychonaut explores the life and work of Stanislav Grof, Czech-born psychiatrist and psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer. Stan’s quest for knowledge and insights into the healing power of non-ordinary states of consciousness, influenced the discipline of psychology and profoundly changed many individual lives. One of those transformed by Stan is filmmaker Susan Hess Logeais. The documentary utilizes Susan’s personal existential crisis as a gateway to Grof’s impact, from the micro to the macro.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971

English

3.5

♡ 6

Al Adamson Director

Forrest J. Ackerman as Dr. Beaumont

Angelo Rossitto as Grazbo

Regina Carrol as Judith Fontaine

Russ Tamblyn as Rico

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.

The People Next Door

1970

English

6.1

♡ 5

41%

David Greene Director

Anita Dangler as Blonde Mother

Mike Kellin as Dr. Margolin

Sandy Alexander as Elliott

Don Scardino as Sandy Hoffman

A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.

Mandy

2018

English

6.5

♡ 144

91%

Panos Cosmatos Director

Ned Dennehy as Brother Swan

Bill Duke as Caruthers

Andrea Riseborough as Mandy Bloom

Nicolas Cage as Red Miller

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

The Trip

1967

English

6.1

♡ 10

39%

Roger Corman Director

Angelo Rossitto as Dwarf in Forest Fantasy

Bruce Dern as John

Susan Strasberg as Sally Groves

Mitzi Hoag as Wife

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

The Naked Zoo

1970

English

4.0

♡ 2

William Grefé Director

Rita Hayworth as Helen Golden

Joe E. Ross as Mr. Barnum

Jeff Gillen as Oscar

Fay Spain as Pauline

Love and crime in Miami's Cocoanut Grove artist's colony. Swinging young writer Stephen Oliver has a falling-out with benefactress Rita Hayworth in the wake of a wild LSD party. Rita foolishly tries blackmail after Oliver's reconciliation attempt leaves her crippled millionaire husband dead.

The Net

2003

German

6.9

central intelligence agency (cia)

Lutz Dammbeck Director

Ted Kaczynski as Self

Timothy Leary as Self

Chris Waits as Self

Henry A. Murray as Self

Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th century web of technology—a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.

Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes

2021

German

5.0

♡ 2

100%

Kevin Kopacka Director

Ekaterina Gribanova as

Anna Platen as Eva Ziehnagel

Jeff Wilbusch as Gregor Grause

Bill Becker as Sandwich

After inheriting a run-down castle, a dispirited woman and her ill-tempered husband decide to spend the night, as time and reality shift around them.

Blue Sunshine

1977

English

5.9

♡ 5

86%

Jeff Lieberman Director

Robert Walden as David Blume

Charles Siebert as Detective Clay

Mark Goddard as Edward Flemming

Argentina Brunetti as Mrs. Rosella

At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.

Flashback

1990

English

6.2

♡ 10

40%

Franco Amurri Director

Liz Jury as Barmaid

Kiefer Sutherland as John Buckner

Kathleen York as Sparkle

Paul Dooley as Stark

A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.

Beyond LSD

6.3

Paul Burnford Director

Phil Harvey as Dr. Wright

Philip C. Harvey as Dr. Wright

Educational film for parents to discuss LSD with their children.

I Drink Your Blood

1971

English

5.9

♡ 7

60%

David E. Durston Director

David E. Durston as Dr. Oakes

Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury as Horace Bones

Riley Mills as Pete Banner

George Patterson as Rollo

A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - with deadly results.

My Psychedelic Love Story

2020

English

6.2

♡ 3

90%

Errol Morris Director

Timothy Leary as Self

Johanna Harcourt-Smith as Self

An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

Neurons to Nirvana

2013

English

7.6

♡ 2

Oliver Hockenhull Director

Lesley Ewen as Narrator

Ronald Reagan as Self

Rick Doblin as Self

Julie Holland as Self

Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs, Neurons to Nirvana looks into why our society has created such a social and political bias against even allowing research to continue the exploration of any possible positive effects they can present in treating some of today's most challenging afflictions.

Death Walks at Midnight

1972

Italian

6.3

♡ 7

25%

Luciano Ercoli Director

Simón Andreu as Gio Baldi

Luciano Rossi as Hans Krutzer

Elio Veller as Pino

Nieves Navarro as Valentina

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.

Malibu Road

2021

English

4.2

♡ 3

Montgomery Markland Director

Benita Robledo as Caroline Dupre

Rachel Noll James as Deborah Eisner

Steven Shaw as Old Wise

Jessica Jade Andres as Sally Dorsey

Dr. Raymond Forrester, professor of psychology at UCLA, takes student and Hollywood starlet Dorothy Crowder to a Malibu hotel of questionable reputation. The two ingest LSD, sent in a mysterious package to Forrester, and become some of the first Americans to go on a psychedelic experience. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year's Eve 1960 and now the duo must rediscover reality or be trapped in an endless cycle of sex, drugs and murder in 'paradise.'

No No: A Dockumentary

2014

English

7.2

♡ 1

97%

Jeffrey Radice Director

Ron Howard as Self

Vera Clemente as Self

Roberto Clemente Jr. as Self

Jim Sundberg as Self

Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD, then worked for decades counseling drug abusers. Dock's soulful style defined 1970s baseball as he kept hitters honest and embarrassed the establishment. An ensemble cast of teammates, friends, and family investigate his life on the field, in the media, and out of the spotlight.

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I Drink Your Blood

My Psychedelic Love Story

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