Philosophy Movies

An essay/documentary film that meditates on the concept of life, living & surviving. It tries to raise the questions on how we live, why we live the...

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.

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

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

The film is based on a 2003 novel by the same name, written by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. The main character is the young boy Georg who one...

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...

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

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.

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

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...

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

The tormented loves of the young Ottavio, first for the countess Gamiani and then for the writer Georges Sand.

A poetic exploration of three subterranean telescopes in remote regions of Canada, Japan, and Antarctica that reveal a new way of perceiving the...

A traveler, wandering through all four seasons in just one day, discovers that every season holds its own beauty. With its meditative and magical...

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic...

Attempting to piece together the memories of his recent breakup with Sasha —a quietly perceptive, under-confident fellow writer—Nikhil...

Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective.