Philosophy Movies

Short documentary / tribute to the late, truly great American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, included as an extra in several box sets. Bill Hicks...

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great...

Musings on life and literature in this student drama made by the Cambridge Film Unit.

Menon runs into his former wife Grace, who is married to a bedridden Mathew and loves him immensely. The movie revolves around their crossing and...

Twenty years after tragedy cut their graduation trip short, four friends return to that destination to finish what they started in 1980. However, as...

A disturbingly organic-looking figure speaks to us of life, politics and death as the symbol of the common man toils away. Written and narrated by...

An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art...

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over a hundred short stories and 44 novels of...

A voyage to the center of the thought of Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a tireless explorer of the margins, a brilliant and atypical thinker, through...

An exploration of the ideas of philosopher Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Helena Petrovna von Hahn, called Madame Blavatsky, was an extraordinary personality of her time, regardless of how we decide to observe her...

The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.

A philosophical inquiry about the miracle, through the interview with three specialists that seek to understand the specificity of these phenomena.

An exploration of the link between science and beauty through the work of scientists at CERN, in Geneva.

On the first day of shooting, James Franco, David Shields, and Caleb Powell throw out the script when a real-life argument breaks out between the...

Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with his provocative works. In 2013, Hirschhorn built...

O, a creator who has become lost within his own creation. As Death arrives at 3:33 am—the witching hour—to claim him, O is forced to...