philosopher movies

Gladiator (2000)
8.215 / 10

Action, Drama, Adventure

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and...

Voltaire (1933)
5.7 / 10

History, Drama

Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs...

A Tale of Springtime (1990)
6.843 / 10

Drama, Romance

The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her...

The Libertine (2000)
5.7 / 10

History, Comedy

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

Dr (1962)
5 / 10

Comedy

In the moment when Belgrade industrialist Života Cvijović had dreams to marry off his son Milorad, Doctor of Philosophy, to a minister of...

The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
4.8 / 10

Drama, Romance, History, TV Movie

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Socrates (1971)
7.2 / 10

Drama, History

A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.

Monsoon (1952)
4 / 10

Drama, Romance

A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply...

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (2015)
7.4 / 10

Documentary, History

The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept,...

Barefoot in Athens (1966)
6.3 / 10

Drama, History

The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.

Losev (1989)
0 / 10

Documentary

Director Victor Kossakovsky dedicated his documentary debut to the Russian philosopher and religious thinker Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988), who...

Augustine of Hippo (1972)
5.9 / 10

History, Drama

A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

Linnan juhlat (2017)
8 / 10

Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an...

Etugen (2023)
10 / 10

Documentary

What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these...

Secrets of a Soul (2012)
9 / 10

Drama, Mystery

Secrets of a Soul: Margarethe, Creator of bizarre sculptures! Night club dancer? Mad woman? Victim of an occult conspiracy?! Dark menaces steal her...

The Lives of Albert Camus (2020)
8 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most...

Conversation with Myself (1972)
0 / 10

Documentary

Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts recorded this video in 1971 as a pilot for a public...

The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow (2009)
0 / 10

Drama, Mystery

A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.

Camus, l'icône de la révolte (2020)
7.5 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Michel Foucault par lui-même (2003)
0 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

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...