Philosophy movies and TV shows – page 4
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140K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style:
thought provoking, mind bending, spiritual, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, genetics, buddhism, religion, atheism, death, spirituality, love story, sex scene, elevator ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, usa, new york, asia, delhi ...
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692K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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221K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, ...
Style:
independent film, cerebral, philosophical, satirical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anarchist, slacker, subculture, coming of age, anarchism, philosophy, loser, one day, existentialism, twenty something, teenager, hangout ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, dallas texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style:
romantic, humorous, touching, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
afterlife, death, heaven, destiny, life & death, fall in love, reincarnation, courage, courtroom, honest, life, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A student working on a thesis explores the life of Confucius and the impact of his teachings on modern society.
Style:
thought provoking, historical drama, philosophical, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, historical figure, wise man, wisdom, student, journalist, disciple, life philosophy, historical character, biopic, chinese history ...
Time:
6th century
Place:
ancient china, china
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style:
psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, adult animation, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, drug abuse, dystopia, schizophrenia, conspiracy, disorder, addiction, trippy, society, fighting crime, consciousness, losing-it hero ...
Time:
future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place:
california, texas, usa, san diego california
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in 19th-century Russia, Allen is a cowardly serf drafted into the Napoleonic war, who would rather write poetry and obsess over his beautiful but pretentious cousin. Allen's cowardice serves him well when he hides in a cannon and is shot ...
Style:
parody, philosophical, surreal, intellectual, witty ...
Plot:
satire, war, philosophy, napoleonic wars, irreverent, nothing goes right, love and romance, disorder, fall in love, military, goofy hero, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1975, 1810s, 1800s, 19th century, 1930s ...
Place:
russia, ussr, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sparkling comedic chronicle of a middle-class young man’s romantic misadventures among New York City’s debutante society. Stillman’s deft, literate dialogue and hilariously highbrow observations earned this debut film an Academy Award ...
Style:
independent film, cult classic, intellectual, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, christmas, friendship, philosophy, campus, preppy, christmas eve, taxi, socialite, aristocracy, dancing, alpha male ...
Time:
year 1990, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, upper east side
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310K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style:
inspirational, philosophical, cerebral, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
science, nasa, space travel, scientist, alien encounter, astronomy, first contact, religion, space and aliens, intelligence, alien contact, research ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, distant future
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, florida, washington d.c., usa ...
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12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, doctor, poetry, chemotherapy, hopes, dying, nurse, terminal illness, philosophy, regret ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
sincere, independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, obsession, suicide attempt, philosophy, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, crumbling marriage, couple relations, hopes, breakup ...
Time:
year 1951, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new haven connecticut ...
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Athens falls under the government of the Thirty Tyrants, the lives of citizens are no longer safe. The philosopher Socrates, meanwhile, continues his so-called philosophical "preaching", gathering more and more young disciples. The ...
Style:
artsy, philosophical
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, ancient, ancient world, atheist, greek mythology, antiquity, quantum physics, ancient history, lawyer, italian neorealism, peplum ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
ancient greece, athens greece, greece
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: New Zealand, Japan, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, emotional, road movie, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
motorcycle, human spirit, against the odds, motorcycle race, follow your dream, car race, racing, auto mechanic, elderly, race, goodhearted, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1914 ...
Place:
new zealand, california, nevada, utah, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental
Plot:
professor, philosophy, young boy, only child, tv reporter, nature, child prodigy, coming of age, boy, married couple, girl, gentleman ...
Place:
geneva switzerland, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
Style:
surreal, touching, sentimental, art house, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, marriage proposal, philosophy, death of wife, magic realism, love affair, love and romance, escapades, illness, love story, stop motion, cancer ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style:
psychological, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Kim Young Joon is a philosophy major at a university. He confesses his feelings to a female classmate, but she rejects him. He takes her rejection hard. Kim Young Joon then meets a mysterious homeless man, Kim Deuk Hwan who lives under a small ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic ...
Plot:
unrequited love, philosophy, rejection, friendship, problem, love story, relationships, male female relationship, love affair, love and romance, relationship problems, rejecting a marriage proposal ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
Style:
philosophical, experimental, existential, art house, silent ...
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, symbolism, solitude, reflection, literary, european, memory, nihilism, research, voice over narration, urban decay ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
italy, turin italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Hannah Arendt is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, realistic, political, anthropological ...
Plot:
holocaust, philosopher, nazi, feminist, strong female character, strong female lead, philosophy, biopic, nazi war criminal, world war two, war crime, legal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2012, 60s, year 1961
Place:
israel, germany, new york, usa, jerusalem
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A journey through C.S. Lewis’ early life and his dramatic conversion story about his inner conflict.
Style:
christian film, spiritual, philosophical
Plot:
world war one, atheism, christianity, religion, oxford, biopic, philosophy, christian, flashback, journey, religious conversion, adaptation ...
Time:
year 1919, year 1929
Place:
oxford university
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, philosophy, isolation, missing child, father daughter relationship, robot, implanted memory, memory, memorabilia, childhood memory, boy, couples ...
Place:
vienna
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3K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man discovers a hole in the floor of a local motel that leads to yesterday.
Style:
twisted
Plot:
time travel, time loop, diner, philosophy, breaking up with girlfriend, time, arrest, gas station, interrogation, german shepherd, repeated scene, parallel universe ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Style:
allegory, surreal, philosophical, black and white, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
incest, disfigured face, brother sister incest, philosophy, new identity, existentialism, face, plastic surgery, plastic surgeon, disfigured, surgery, body horror ...
Time:
year 1966, distant future, 60s
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
astronaut, atheism, mental illness, insanity, therapy, psychotherapy, nervous breakdown, nightmare, psychiatric hospital, castle, religion, insane asylum ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2016, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
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28K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, thought provoking, sad, captivating ...
Plot:
desert, philosophy, ex marine, elderly, aging, old age, small town, father son relationship, doctor, friendship, secret, guilt ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 60s, year 1968 ...
Place:
okinawa japan, the philippines, europe, kentucky
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30K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and ...
Style:
parody, spoof, futuristic, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
space travel, satire, deep space, artificial intelligence, space opera, alien, philosophy, space exploration, alien invasion, imagination, moon, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 22nd century
Place:
malibu california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Style:
disturbing, biblical, surreal, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
end of the world, black magic, swinger couple, sex scene, atheism, religion, group sex, religious conversion, philosophy, murder, faith, christian ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
los angeles
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148K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Style:
funny, sexual, independent film, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
bisexuality, lgbtq, lesbian, jealousy, bisexual, twists and turns, friendship, lesbian love, happy ending, sexuality, glbt, comic book ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
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