Movies like Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness (2019)
The best movies like Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness (2019) are Another Day of Life (2018), The Alpinist (2021) and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967). If Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness hooked you with its documentary and animation, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCasino Royale (1967)5.2/10 from 877 votes
- NewestJourneys (2026)Released 2026
Another Day of Life (2018)
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Alpinist (2021)
The life of Canadian mountain climber Marc-André Leclerc as he pushes the boundaries of climbing while on an expedition to Patagonia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both documentary & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTurn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967)
5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique" USA 1966-69, 3 min "San Francisco" Great Britain 1967/68, 15 min. "Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable" USA/Great Britain 1967, 12 min. "Eyetoon" USA 1967/68, 8 min.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
LSD: The Beyond Within (1986)
This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious hallucinogenic drug is notably free of moral judgmental, and features contributions from such legendary heroes of psychedelia as Albert Hoffman - the Swiss scientist who discovered the drug - Aldous Huxley - author of 'The Doors of Perception' - Ken Kesey - author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Kathmandude (2017)
A burnt-out globetrotter, disconnected from his family, wanders into a psychedelic adventure in Kathmandu.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
The Psychedelic Experience (1965)
Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Ambient Trip Commander (2022)
AMBIENT TRIP COMMANDER is the story of Samantha Tapferstern, a geeky young woman who lives a rather dull life in a medium-sized European city. She works a mundane job at a synthesizer store and spends her lonely evenings playing RPG games. One day she receives a cryptic email from a hacker group inviting her to Lonetal, a village secluded somewhere deep in the European Alps. As we follow her journey to Lonetal, things become more sinister and a grand mystery starts to unfold…
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Swinging Light (2025)
An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Island (2023)
A losing bet forces a group of youngsters to spend the night on a deserted island, where they unleash an ancient demon bound by a forgotten curse. A bloodthirsty entity, lurking in the shadows and driven by an insatiable hunger for human flesh and blood, begins hunting them one by one. Their only hope lies with a young woman whose supernatural gift may uncover the island’s horrifying past, where forbidden love awakened an evil that refuses to die.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Anijam (1984)
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Goddammit (2016)
Glare from a setting Sun prompts three travelers to consider their place in the Universe.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Casino Royale (1967)
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnigma: Nazo (1978)
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
ZAPPER! (2023)
In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods (2010)
Philosopher, pop-icon, shaman and story teller - as one of the most influential comic book writers in the market today, Grant Morrison is all of these things. His explosive and often controversial 30 year career has made him a household name for comic fans, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Morrison's career is now taking a new turn, as he explores media beyond comic books. With film and television projects on the horizon, more and more people are asking "Who is Grant Morrison?" Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is a feature length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the man behind such pivotal titles as Batman RIP, The Invisibles, All Star Superman, The New X-Men, and many more. Featuring candid interviews with Morrison and his most important collaborators, Talking with Gods reveals an intelligent and thought provoking side of comic books that is often overlooked in Hollywood adaptations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Journeys (2026)
A deep dive into the rapidly expanding world of Psilocybin Psychedelic Therapy. How it's being used in large (Heroic) and microdose form for PTSD, depression, end-of-life care, as well as the science, ethics and structure of the practice.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Organism Tests (2009)
IN A DESERT LANDSCAPE DOTTED WITH THE SMOKING CARCASSES OF CAR WRECKS, VEHICULAR AUTOMOTIVE BEINGS RACE TOWARDS EACH OTHER, SPUTTERING, ROARING, IN LUSTY SCREECHING EMBRACE, TOWARDS TOWERING DESTRUCTION WITH FORNICATIVE FERVOR. THREE YOUNG ARE FLUNG, SPRUNG FROM THE FUMING WRECKAGE, BLASTING OFF INTO THE SUN, INTO THE GIANTS MOUTH.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Descending the Mountain (2021)
What happens if you give magic mushrooms (psilocibine) to experienced Zen practitioners who have never used drugs? What does that teach us about the mystical experience of oneness with nature? Based on these questions, psychiatrist Franz Vollenweider and Zen master Vanja Palmers set up a legal science experiment in a monastery at the top of Mount Rigi in Switzerland. Exactly 50 years after the magic mushrooms were officially banned, a new story begins in what is now called the “psychedelic renaissance”. While in 2021 most studies with psychedelics mainly focus on their promising medical applications, Frans and Vanja are already going a step further. Can the combination of meditation and psilocibin help humanity get out of the mess we have created on ourselves and the planet with our neo-liberal society?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Out of Body (2024)
A poetic and psychedelic journey, tracing flows of waste materials across species boundaries, in and out of hum/animal bodies through sites of scientific control. Oscillating between poetry, documentary, and reenactment, the film slips between the cracks of industrial spaces; below ground, across membranes, factory walls and into orifices and hidden worlds of work. The film is woven together by a series of poems performed by Logan February in which borrowed language accumulates. Sourced from different fields these lyrical experiments refer to fluid dynamics, spirituality, medical history, psychoanalysis and reproductive science.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning (2004)
In the 21st century Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the Daisy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
Acid Delirium of the Senses (1968)
The film, set almost entirely in New York, tells of the life of some young people of the late Sixties: of the use they make of various drugs, including the terrible LSD, of their sex life and their freedom of costume and thought.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both documentary
Woos Whoopee (1928)
One of Otto Messmer's most unusual Felix cartoons. It portrays Felix as an inebriated feline being chased by all kinds of demons only to be welcomed by the greatest demon of all, the angry wife.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation
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What are the best movies like Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness?
The closest matches to Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness are Another Day of Life (2018), The Alpinist (2021) and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness?
Start with Another Day of Life (2018), the closest match to Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness.
What is the highest-rated movie like Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness?
Casino Royale (1967), rated 5.2/10 by 877 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness?
Journeys (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness?
Yes: Another Day of Life (2018), The Alpinist (2021) and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967).
How are movies similar to Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.