Philosophy Movies

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by...

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch...

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by...

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking....

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and...

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can...

Published in 1949, The Second Sex became the bible of global feminism. An essential work that passionately advocates for gender equality, women's...

A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry...

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal...

As a kid, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things...

How have the changing views on children been reflected in their representation in art? From Baby Jesus to the first photographic portraits, an...

Even death is in movement, since the soul is going someplace else. A short film inspired by Jacques Languirand's philosophic work.

The Pollard family is calmly discussing their impending death by atom bomb when Mrs. Pollard recounts a dream in which she sensually bathes herself...

Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place...

Devout Roman Catholic Jean-Louis subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of 17th-century physicist Blaise Pascal. When he...