OMG: Oh My God! (2012), Tomorrow Ever After (2016), Solaris (1972), No Maps for These Territories (2000), The Man from Earth (2007), The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1991), Insignificance (1985), Experimenter (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Thought Experiment movies.
Storyline: Kanji Lalji Mehta, though an atheist, owns a small shop selling religious goods, concocting cock-and-bull stories to extract higher fees from his customers for his wares. When, in openly defying God, an earthquake destroys his (and only his) only source of income, with the insurance company refusing to pay up on the basis of it being an 'act of God', Kanjibhai takes God to the court. With many similarly unfortunate people pinning their hopes to him, Kanji's lack of courtroom experience may leave him unable to prove his point - that is, until approached by a man introducing himself as Krishna Vasudeva Yadav. Krishna helps Kanji win his case, his family and helps him find his faith in God, along the way showing how priests can turn religion into a business and that God can be found everywhere, particularly in a house of worship.
Plot Keywords: comedy, religion, faith, courtroom, social satire, indian cinema, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a historian living 600 years in the future is stranded in 2015, she navigates the societal woes that she's read about in history books.—Ela Thier
Plot Keywords: science fiction, time travel, dystopia, social critique, independent film, female protagonist, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and the two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for ten years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, philosophy, psychological, space, memory, isolation, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From the back of a chauffeured limousine equipped with a computer, cell phone and digital cameras, legendary science-fiction writer William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer," embarks on an unusual cross-country trip. In this technological cocoon, the man who created the term "cyberspace" comments on an array of subjects -- including his literary success, what led to his writing career and how the modern world is starting to resemble the futuristic one he writes about.
Plot Keywords: documentary, road movie, interview, digital age, creative process, thought experiment, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, philosophy, independent film, low budget, history, mystery, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a "documentary."
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, philosophy, aliens, social satire, female perspective, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future.—Jeanne Baker <jbaker@erim.org>
Plot Keywords: drama, history, fantasy, philosophy, celebrity, fictional, cultural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, psychology, social experiment, ethics, science ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hong Kong police negotiator Lee Chung-Chi has learned that his 16 year old daughter Wing-Chi has disappeared while in Thailand. He travels to Thailand and teams up with Chinese officer Tsui Kit and his partner, Tak, as they face off against American gangster Sacha, who is operating a black market organ smuggling ring. A series of clues lead Chung-Chi to not only learn the fate of his daughter, but overcome the odds to stop the ring once and for—Albert Valentin
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, time travel, thriller, action, crime, suspense, parallel universe ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, black and white, 1930s, american film, classic film, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, independent film, satire, absurd, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the moment he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, fantasy, social satire, original story, humor, dystopian ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People from all walks of life are asked "What is God?"
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, religion, social satire, indian cinema, faith, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the last day of school comes for a group of students in a philosophy class, their instructor, Mr. Zimit, challenges them to different sorts of exercises that take place in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world. While there, they each get chosen professions and have to decide whether who is valuable or not because the bunker they will be staying in for a year has only enough oxygen for 10 people. Mr. Zimit challenges them in different rounds to see how they could survive. Issues arise when they notice Mr. Zimit is disruptive to the game.
Plot Keywords: philosophy, psychology, survival, apocalypse, ethical dilemma, human nature, thought experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: All Tommy Wick has to do is deliver a "Package" to a rival crime lord, nicknamed 'The German'. It seems like a routine job, until another gang tries to hijack the precious cargo and Tommy has to fight every inch of the way to deliver it safely. The problem is, the "Package" isn't what Tommy was led to believe, and now he's in even deeper than he ever thought possible.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: philosophy, survival, apocalypse, moral dilemma, thought experiment, human nature, choice ...
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