A Canterbury Tale (1944), THX-1138 (1971), PK (2014), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Home and the World (1984), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Philosophical Reflection movies.
Storyline: A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Plot Keywords: english countryside, mystery, classic film, black and white, patriotism, cultural heritage, historical context ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George Lucas' nightmarish vision of a dehumanized future where mankind has been reduced to emotionless zombies.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, dystopian, human nature exploration, minimalism, identity crisis, technophobia, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: P. K. is a comedy of ideas about a stranger in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People who are set in their ways for generations, are forced to reappraise their world when they see it from PK's innocent eyes. In the process PK makes loyal friends and powerful foes. Mends broken lives and angers the establishment. P. K.'s childlike curiosity transforms into a spiritual odyssey for him and millions of others. The film is an ambitious and uniquely original exploration of complex philosophies. It is also a simple and humane tale of love, laughter and letting-go. Finally, it is a moving saga about a friendship between strangers from worlds apart.—Abhijat Joshi
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, drama, social satire, alien, bollywood, human nature exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband ('Max von Sydow'). They are joined by Karin's father ('Gunnar Björnstrand'), who is a world-traveling author that is estranged to his children. The film depicts how Karin's grip on reality slowly slips away and how the bonds between the family members are changing in light of this fact.
Plot Keywords: psychological drama, family relationships, mental illness, crisis of faith, isolation, father-daughter relationship, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, french cinema, social issues, poverty, environmentalism, sustainability, agriculture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: literary adaptation, indian cinema, nationalism, love triangle, social change, female awakening, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, existentialism, slow cinema, man and nature, cultural conflict, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
Plot Keywords: anthology film, experimental film, art film, independent film, emotional exploration, european cinema, cultural diversity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young German (Rudiger Vogler) and his companions (Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech) discuss dreams, poetry and politics.
Plot Keywords: road movie, drama, 1970s, existentialism, self-discovery, loneliness, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.—Mike Myers <mmyers@ucsd.edu>
Plot Keywords: magical realism, symbolism, love story, cultural heritage, surreal, visual art, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A professor (Johannes Zeiler) meets a devilish moneylender (Anton Adasinsky) and sells his immortal soul in exchange for knowledge.
Plot Keywords: gothic, allegory, dark fantasy, moral dilemma, redemption, tragedy, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Godard's documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news media, the mediated image, a growing technocratic society, women's liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between three major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within Western culture. Although he believes Western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual"—<gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>
Plot Keywords: cult film, black comedy, road movie, existentialism, absurdism, social satire, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One long and painful decade after the brutal assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and fugitive anarchist poet, Sebastian, when he breaks into her ancestral castle in nineteenth-century Oberwald. In this dark and stormy night, bold Sebastian is bent on killing the grief-stricken aristocrat; however, the would-be assassin's striking resemblance to her late husband paves the way for an unexpected three-day pact, without turning him in to the police, and the ignoble Count of Foehn. Nevertheless, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: science fiction, mars, space exploration, aliens, dystopian, interstellar travel, retro style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, psychological thriller, romance, experimental film, surreal, dreamlike, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected.—Arcadia Motion Pictures
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, future, cloning, artificial intelligence, human nature exploration, romance, life and death ...
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