The Best Cheech & Chong Movies

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Vote up the best movies in the Cheech & Chong franchise.

There is no doubt that all these movies are classics and memorable but one of them has to be the best of the Cheech & Chong movies. Will it be the original Up in Smoke film from 1978 that will be on top or could it be one of the follow-ups in the series such as Nice Dreams or Still Smokin?

If you've ever asked yourself, how many Cheech and Chong movies are there? Look below to see all the films listed with the year they were released so you can watch them chronologically or in order of best to worst. Then sit back, relax, and see what antics Cheech and Chong get into. They are listed with the year they are released so you can watch Cheech and Chong movies in order or start with the most popular ones first.

Your votes will help determine the best movies in the Cheech & Chong franchise. Vote up the funniest Cheech & Chong films and vote down the ones you didn't like to ensure the right movie makes it to the top of the list.


  • Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke
    Photo: 20th Century Fox
    An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner (Tommy Chong) ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas (Cheech Marin). 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."
    • Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Stacy Keach, Edie Adams, Tom Skerritt
    • Released: 1978
    • Directed by: Lou Adler
    163 votes

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  • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
    Photo: Universal Pictures
    Perennially stoned Cheech (Cheech Marin) and Chong (Thomas 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 (Evelyn Guerrero), works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza (Rikki Marin), arrives, things get even crazier.
    • Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Evelyn Guerrero, Betty Kennedy
    • Released: 1980
    • Directed by: Tommy Chong
    99 votes

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  • Nice Dreams
    Photo: Columbia Pictures
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    68 VOTES
    Nice Dreams is Cheech & Chong's third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero, Sandra Bernhard, and Timothy Leary. Chong also directed the film.
    • Actors: Paul Reubens, Sandra Bernhard, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Stacy Keach
    • Released: 1981
    • Directed by: Tommy Chong
    68 votes
  • Things Are Tough All Over
    Photo: Things Are Tough All Over
    Drug-addled, down-and-out musicians Cheech (Cheech Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong) finally get a lucky break when two wealthy Arabs, Mr. Slyman (also Marin) and Prince Habib (also Chong), hire them to drive a limousine from Chicago to Las Vegas. What the hapless duo doesn't know is that millions are stashed in the seats of the car. Soon the clueless Cheech and Chong are selling off parts of the limo for money and wind up in the desert with their angry foreign employers in hot pursuit.
    • Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Toni Attell, Mike Bacarella, Billy Beck
    • Released: 1982
    • Directed by: Tom Avildsen
    46 votes

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  • Still Smokin
    Photo: Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
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    Stoners Cheech (Cheech Marin) and Chong (Thomas Chong) reunite and head to Amsterdam for a film festival after getting tickets from a promoter (Hans Man in 't Veld) in L.A. When they show up at a celebrity party, Cheech is mistaken for Burt Reynolds, and Chong for Dolly Parton. The duo rolls with it as they roll more joints, partake in the usual antics and eat every item -- which includes a lot of mushrooms -- on the menu at Amsterdam's Bvlgar Café.
    • Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Hans Man in 't Veld, Carol van Herwijnen, Shireen Strooker
    • Released: 1983
    • Directed by: Tommy Chong
    42 votes

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  • Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
    Photo: Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
    In this parody adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel, a boisterous but unappreciated rock band is kicked out of a quaint French town, only to cross paths with a mystical gypsy, who unfolds the strange tale of two brothers (Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong) from the Corsican family who, although separated at birth, could feel each other's physical pleasures and pains. When the oddly powered pair reunite, their misguided misadventures spark the beginning of the French Revolution.
    • Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Roy Dotrice, Shelby Chong, Rikki Marin
    • Released: 1984
    • Directed by: Tommy Chong
    35 votes

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