Philosophy Movies

Following a tragic event that shattered her life, renowned author Alice Chevalier struggles to find meaning in her existence. Searching for answers...

With their relationship on the rocks, David and Emily move to Halifax to catch a break from the pandemic and their monotonous routine. Upon meeting...

Two boys ponder questions of existence in a surreal landscape. The viewer might wonder whether this film is sincere or not.

These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded...

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...

Somewhere, a man tinkers, cooks, and smokes in silence, caught between the tranquility of an afternoon nap and the strangeness of time stretching out.

In 1973 Yorkshire public television made a short film of the Nobel laureate while he was there. The resulting film, Take the World from Another Point...

One of the most interesting shows ever aired on public television was Wim Kayzer's interviews with six leading intellectuals who represented both the...

My Friend Friedrich opens on awkward, bespectacled Columbia student Nate having a heart to heart on the phone with his mother. Then, in a philosophy...

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

Documentary-maker David Malone delves into the secrets of ocean waves. In an elegant and original film, he finds that waves are not made of water,...

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th century, French writers, form a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers...

A visual journey through Michel Foucault's thinking and his ideas about the Panopticon as a power structure. With an eye on René Magritte.

Amid Guanajuato's vibrant streets, an aging filmmaker becomes a modern Don Quixote, joined by a spirited young animator as his loyal Sanchia....

Documentary examining the medieval myth of the Philosopher's Stone, a Holy Grail-type relic which supposedly held the key to alchemy and immortality....

The latest work from Australian political satirist, cartoonist and filmmaker Bruce Petty contemplates our efforts to imagine the future using...

Almost one hundred years ago, the project to reduce the world to mathematical physics failed suddenly and completely: “One of the best-kept...

An absurd man, feeling hopeless, decides to end his life. The night before, he dreams of a perfect world with no pain. In this dream, he sees how...