Movies: Philosophy

A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy....

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview....

Bhavitavya, a philosophy student, is full of questions about life. When his favourite professor passes away, Bhavitavya embarks on a journey of self-discovery, wondering who he is and what his life means....

The film tells of old Antonio, 81, who refuses to stay in a mental home and walks away. He hits the streets to give a message to people: be yourselves, tell what you think, make love and stop with violence against the weaker members of society. When ...

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love...

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Investigates the central ideas of Marshall McLuhan using pictorial techniques and including his own comments. Examines the reaction of others to his views and points out that his interest is the impact of electronic technology on the contemporary wor...

Exploring the life and impact of the greatest spiritual and legal philosopher in Islamic history, this film examines Ghazali's existential crisis of faith that arose from his rejection of religious dogmatism, and reveals profound parallels with our o...

Based on motifs from The Triple Life of Antigone by Slavoj Žižek, this film reflects on today’s planet and political “chaos” by placing the politicians, the decision-makers and the influencers of today in the roles of Žižek’s version of the ancient G...

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism. Both men emerged from the turmoil of the Habsburg Empire in its closing days with the idea of analy...

a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. love—and nothing besides!...

The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence....

A philosophical film work based on the French philosopher Simone Weil's thoughts, beautifully translated into grainy 16mm footage from early modernism's absolute center, Paris, and divided into chapters like stations on a night-time ride with the met...

A documentary film about the renowned football coach of our times Mircea Lucescu. The film examines the football philosophy of the world-class sports coach, tracks the influences on its formation (football player career, coaching in different teams a...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make t...

Kuwait’s constitution says that every person has the right to a job, so in some places 20 people are employed for one person’s job. In South Korea, they work so much that a policy has been introduced to turn off computers at the end of the day so tha...

A film about people on having different perspective on life. It's a journey in a car of two different people having a conversation on difficulties of life....

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose...

A film by Jack Adam Miceli & Hunter Rock. The film premiered at the Quiet Corner Film Festival in 2018 and received the Award for Best Cinematography....

Charlotte is a young woman alienated in her existential struggles. Lucca Riviera is a beginning musician with promising talent. When nobody shows up to Lucca's first concert, he decides to perform anyways, unaware of the impact he will have when Char...