Philosopher Movies

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...

On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig...

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

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...

This documentary retraces the life of Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), French Christian philosopher. In evoking his life, it paints a portrait of the...

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

Lucien is a high school student lost in a meaningless adolescence. One day, he comes across a book by Nietzsche. This literary encounter is an...

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.

This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent...

The favourite places for thinking of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Sorrento, Engadine, Venice, Genoa, Rapallo, Nice, Turin - with passages...

Documentary about the Austrian philosopher Martin Buber