Hero (2002), Andrei Rublev (1969), The Little Prince (2015), Marat/Sade (1967), Grass (2018), My Life to Live (1962), Truman (1995), The Girl on the Bridge (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Philosophical movies.
Storyline: A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he ...
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, drama, human nature, classic, psychological, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small, unnamed country there is an area called the Zone. It is apparently inhabited by aliens and contains the Room, where in it is believed wishes are granted. The government has declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed off the area with barbed wire and border guards. However, this has not stopped people from attempting to enter the Zone. We follow one such party, made up of a writer, who wants to use the experience as inspiration for his writing, and a professor, who wants to research the Zone for scientific purposes. Their guide is a man to whom the Zone is everything, the Stalker.
Plot Keywords: philosophical, science fiction, psychological, mystery, art film, surreal, existential ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Macedonian town, a schoolboy (Marko Kovacevic) named Marko finds refuge from a terrible home life and attacks from bullies by keeping a low profile and hanging around the railyard. A teacher (Mustafa Nadarevic) discovers Marko's hidden talent for poetry and encourages him to enter a contest, but then a soldier (Nikola Djuricko) arrives on the scene and teaches him a more violent set of skills.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, time travel, parallel universe, crime, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A British airman escapes death by mistake and resists the messenger who keeps summoning him to the beyond.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, war, surreal, life and death, heaven, pilot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the true story of twin Iranian girls whose parents locked them away until they were 12 years old.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, crime, mystery, drama, action, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two friends discover mysterious items in a countryside guesthouse, including a hanging cat.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, mystery, indie film, black comedy, surreal, philosophical, cosmos ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Plot Keywords: drama, death, family, grief, redemption, life and death, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion...
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, mystery, french film, european film, art film, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.
Plot Keywords: philosophical, existential, art film, apocalyptic, sacrifice, religious, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
Plot Keywords: art film, autobiographical, poetic, nonlinear narrative, memory, dreamlike, philosophical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, western, drama, mystery, violence, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, dystopian, action, violence, futuristic, tokyo, punk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During World War II an opportunistic Czech waiter (Ivan Barnev) climbs the ladder of success and becomes involved with an idealistic Nazi (Julia Jentsch).
Plot Keywords: comedy, history, war, drama, adaptation, satire, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During civil war, two musicians retreat to a rural island to farm. They are apolitical; a neighbor sometimes gives them a fish; wine is a luxury. They love each other, but there are problems: the war upsets Jan, he is weepy, too sensitive; Eva wants children, he does not. The war suddenly arrives: rebels attack, neighbors die. When the other side restores order, Jan and Eva are arrested as collaborators. After frightening and roughing them up, the local colonel releases them; then he begins appearing at their farmhouse: to talk or to pursue Eva? He gives her money. The rebels return; chaos ensues. Jan becomes violent and murderous; they flee. Can they escape? If so, to what?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, swedish, black and white, psychological, loneliness, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to the troubled, although those efforts are not always successful. Among those they are currently observing are: the cast and crew of a movie - a detective story set in WWII Nazi Germany - which include a sensitive and perceptive Peter Falk; an elderly man named Homer looking for eternal peace; and the troupe of a financially failing circus, which has closed early for the season because of those financial problems. One day, Damiel tells Cassiel that he wants to become human, to feel not only the sensory aspects of physical beings, but also emotional aspects. He embarks on this thought with the full realization that there is no turning back if he decides to do so. His thoughts are largely ...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, romance, berlin, black and white, poetic, philosophical ...
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