Philosophy Movies

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

A film by Spetsnaz, narrated through a first person perspective, documenting his journey and the journeys of countless other men. "A Documentary...

Johan van der Keuken explains, "Some fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a film series in a relay style for a very popular variety program on Dutch...

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...

An astrophysics professor leads a lecture about a black hole that absorbs everything around it. He doesn't know yet that he will also be enveloped by...

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

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism....

A film essay on origin, life, religion, decay and more.

A girl meets her soul

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

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

Christopher Gabriel, a young American, suffers from constant nightmares. These dreams have been coming for a long time, and nothing seems to be able...

After being for eleven years in the city, José António Baptista returned to his home village to focus on literature.

This remastered, rare, local production from the 80s is an unfiltered look into the mind and heart of the world-renowned folk artist Howard Finster....

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

During a writer's block, a frustrated writer becomes obsessed with the idea that he or she is a fictional character.

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