Philosophy Movies

Shot during an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) seminar in Berlin, a group fluxuates between guided meditation and discussion on consciousness and s...

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him, and he had to rethink everything.

Carried by a rich narration from Orson Welles, this rarely seen 1973 animated adaptation of Plato’s 'allegory of the cave' populates the tale with hau...

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 ex...

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

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

A Baker and a Train Driver meet during a festival to play a game of chess. While playing the game, both exchange ideas about Life and Death and their...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) is a Swedish documentary film from 1998 directed by...

Alan Watts discusses the Western dichotomy of work and play, and explains that when you take the play out of work life becomes joyless drudgery.

People are forever using excuses and defending those excuses as if they were actually true. Such statements as 'It would be very difficult for me to c...

Antoine - a grieving loner - spends his days in a cafe on Place Clichy watching people. Every day, he sees a woman he calls Albertine get out of the s...

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

Documentary on writer/philospher Simone de Beauvoir via interviews of herself and friends supplimented with archive footage resulting in an intimate p...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew anal...

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

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice in Wonderland...