Philosophical Movies

DARK CITY

Dark City and Matrix came almost out at the same time out.

BLADE RUNNER

The best... People still have questions about the movie

6 TH DAY

Arnold plays in this one but it is a movie about cloning. I liked it.

THE GHOST IN THE SHELL

The Matrix was almost a copy of this Japanese animation. Very good soundtrack and interesting ideas.
 
Couple that I havn't seen metioned yet:

One flew over the cuckoo's nest (amazingly powerful movie about freedom)
Minority Report (determinism vs free will)
Return to Paradise (personal ethics and courage, Joquain Phoenix gives an outstanding performance in his role, reminiscent of his late brother)

If I think of any more i'll post em here.
 
I just watched Donnie Darko and Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala.

I warmly reccomend both these movies. They are quite philosphical.
 
Donnie Darko was good, I want to watch the director's commentary though.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was such a beautiful movie, there's that other Carey movie that had him in a serious role, it was a bit philisophical.....
Isn't everything philisophical in a way? There's always some meaning hidden which makes you think.
Uh, one movie that I saw recently Dawn of the Dead (I think that's what it's called), the infected corpse things and the humans behaved equally insane....that's the directors trying to be philisophical...? I don't know. The inhumane way people treat each other......?
 
You're thinking of The Truman Show, I believe.

And the original Dawn of the Dead was intended as a parody of American consumerism.

And I suppose that all movies could be seen to have some philosophical overtones - for example, Predator presents a unique depiction of evolutionary theory, and the conflict between the DeNiro and Stiller characters in Meet the Parents was almost Kafkaesque, reminscient particularly of ... shit, I can't remember the name, but the one where the dad essentially orders the son to kill himself.

Actually, the interrogation scene in the first Matrix is a pretty decent distillation of Kafka.
 
Speaking of consumerism-dawn of the dead had a whole lot of shameful advertising of Pepsi in the first few scenes.
 
Must-see philosophically-themed films!

Ingmar Bergman is an amazing philosophical director.
Must-see films:
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
(the next three are part of his religious trilogy)
Through A Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
The Virgin Spring
Fanny & Alexander

Also, Federico Fellini's "8 1/2" is great.
Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows"

Tarkovsky is a great director for philosophically-themed films too (with a sci-fi edge):
Solaris
Stalker


More great ones (that reflect Sartre, Marcuse & Fanon's thinking):
The Battle of Algiers
Brazil

And one that resembles Kierkegaard's thinking:
The Sacrifice


These are all superb films for the philosophy enthusiast! Hope this helped :)
 
great list afterglow. wild strawberries may be the best movie ever.

Anyone mention "dinner with andre"? The entire movie is two guys talking over dinner. Yet it is somehow fascinating.
 
glaucon said:
Vanilla Sky
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not to be an artsy try hard but i liked the original version of that movie a lot more (potuguese? called "open your eyes") the ending was a lot more positive.



i think appleseed is one of the best movies ive seen for probing irrationality.
 
I liked the movie "The Fountain"



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