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2 | Title | Year | Director | Writer | Themes | Readings | Warnings | |
3 | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Barry Jenkins | black masculinity, existentialism | Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | ||
4 | Counterpart (TV series) | 2017-2019 | various | various | identity, counterpart theory, choice | |||
5 | Shinsekai Yori (From the New World) | 2012-2013 | ||||||
6 | Dekalog (Series) | 1989-1990 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz | ||||
7 | Midsommar | 2019 | Ari Aster | Ari Aster | moral and cultural relativism | |||
8 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho | Class division, | ||||
9 | Replicas | 2019 | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Parfit, personal identity and survival | ||||
10 | Us | 2019 | Jordan Peele | colonialism, | Fanon, Wretched of the Earth | |||
11 | Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland | Alex Garland | Personal identity, environmental philosophy | Some disturbing, violent images | ||
12 | Black Panther | 2018 | Ryan Coogler | Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole | Afrofuturism, Science fiction, postcolonial studies | |||
13 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 2018 | Marielle Heller | Heller and Holofcener | Authenticity, fakes and forgeries | Alcoholism, violence | ||
14 | capernaum | 2018 | Nadine Labaki | |||||
15 | First Reformed | 2018 | Paul Schrader | Paul Schrader | Environmentalism, anti-natalism, Christianity, forgiveness | An off-screen suicide | ||
16 | Happy As Lazzaro | 2018 | Alice Rohrwacher | Alice Rohrwacher | Ethics, consequentialism, modern indentured servitude, culture, modern slavery | |||
17 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2018 | Raoul Peck | James Baldwin | Civil RIghts, Natural Law | Pair w some Baldwin, King, X, Black Panthers, Rachels on Cultural Relativism, Crito | Police brutality and violence | |
18 | Leave No Trace | 2018 | Deborah Granik | Peter Rock | PTSD, ethics, | |||
19 | Minding the Gap | 2018 | Bing Liu | family, gender, race and class | "Man Child" | We hear recordings of intimate partner violence. | ||
20 | Ready Player One | 2018 | Spielberg | Simulated experience | Mark Silcox, A Defense of Simulated Experience | |||
21 | Roma | 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón | ||||
22 | Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | Boots Riley | Boots Riley | Among other things, the image of the cave | |||
23 | The Rider | 2018 | Chloe Zhao | Masculinity, gender in the USA | ||||
24 | American Vandal (TV Series [Netflix], Season 1) | 2017 | Tony Yacenda | Tony Yacenda & Dan Perrault | implicit bias, testimony, epistemic injustice (credibility excesses & deficits) | Miranda Fricker, "Testimonial Injustice" (from Epistemic Injustice) | crude humor | |
25 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | Jordan Peele | Race/racism, double consciousness, white privilege | Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks; DuBois (The Souls of Black Folk, especially Ch. 1 on "double consciousness") | ||
26 | Ghost in the Shell | 2017 | Rupert Sanders | Shirow Masamune, Jamie Moss | Identity, biopolitics, ethics of bioengineering and augmentation, mind-body relationship | Descartes | ||
27 | Okja | 2017 | Bong Joon Ho | Bong Joon Ho, Jon ronson | Animal rights, ecoterrorism | Mild violence and some animal abuse | ||
28 | The Young Marx | 2017 | Raoul Peck | Pascal Bonitzer & Raoul Peck | Marx bio-pic, marxism, class consciousness, social class | Communist Manifesto (many other possibilities, e.g., letters, etc.) | Turn on subtitles: multi-lingual! | |
29 | 13th | 2016 | Ava Duvernay | Spencer Averick, Ava DuVernay | Racism, Bias, US Prison System | |||
30 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villenueve | Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang | Eternal return, amor fati, Translation, time travel, seeing the future | Nietzsche. Quine and Davidson on Radical Translation. | ||
31 | Manchester by the Sea | 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Kenneth Lonergan | grief, moral luck, forgiveness | |||
32 | San Junipero (Black Mirror S3:E4) | 2016 | Owen Harris | Charlie Brooker | immortality, mind-body, personal identity, virtual reality | |||
33 | Advantageous | 2015 | Jennifer Phang | Jacqueline Kim and Jennifer Phang | Phil Mind, Personal Identity, Ecomonic Oppression and Choice, Sexism, Racism | |||
34 | Eye in the Sky | 2015 | Gavin Hood | Guy Hibbert | Trolly problem | |||
35 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen | Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen | cognitive architecture, emotions, memory | |||
36 | Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt | 2015 | Ada Ushpiz | Ada Ushpiz | Hannah Arendt's ideas, esp. on status of immigrants | many choices from Hannah Arendt; poss. R Bernstein, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? (short book) | ||
37 | A Girl Walks Home at Night | 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | Ana Lily Amirpour | Ethics, implicit bias (perhaps?) | |||
38 | Art and Craft | 2014 | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman | Art, forgery, duplication, authenticity, creativity | Lessing “What’s Wrong With a Forgery?” Stalnaker, “Fakes and Forgeries” Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |||
39 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | 2014 | Anthony and Joe Russo | Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely | ||||
40 | Copenhagen | 2014 | Mark Raso | Mark Raso | redemption through love, sexual encounters with underaged partners | |||
41 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland | Alex Garland | artificial intelligence, misogyny | Beauvoir, the Second Sex, literally any feminism | ||
42 | Force Majeure | 2014 | Ruben Östlund | Ruben Östlund | Virtue as Dispostion to Act | Nicomachean Ethics | ||
43 | The Lego Movie | 2014 | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | ||||
44 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze | Spike Jonze | artificial intelligence, love | |||
45 | Le Week-End | 2013 | Roger Michell | Hanif Kureishi | ||||
46 | Night Moves | 2013 | Kelly Reichardt | Ethics of ecoterrorism | ||||
47 | Oblivion | 2013 | Joseph Kosinski | Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt, Joseph Kosinksi | Personal identity (https://tl.net/blogs/451221-some-metaphysical-questions-in-the-film-oblivion) | |||
48 | Snowpiercer | 2013 | Joon-ho Bong | Joon-ho Bong | Class warfare. Climate change. | Marx. Veblen. Bourdieau. | ||
49 | The Philosophers // After the Dark | 2013 | John Huddles | John Huddles | Thought Experiments | |||
50 | It’s Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt | Meaningfulness of life, mental health, end of life | Camus, Myth of Sisyphus | |||
51 | Kumare | 2012 | Vikram Gandhi | Documentary/No writer credit | Philosophy of Religion, | Wiil to Believe, | ||
52 | Life of Pi | 2012 | Ang Lee | David Magee | Pragmatic arguments for belief in god | Moderate violence between animals | ||
53 | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn et.al | Genocide, guilt, self-rationalization | Stanley, On propoganda. | |||
54 | The Last Supper (Wang de Shengyan) | 2012 | Chuan Lu | Seth Le, Chuan Lu | Lesser of two evils | |||
55 | The Lorax | 2012 | Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda | Cinco Paul, Dr Seuss | Business and environmental ethics, value of nature | |||
56 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Ethics of torture. NB, I think the film is much more nuanced and critical on the topic than the hot takes at the time acknowledged. It emphasizes the epistemic haze of torture. | Henry Shue, "Torture." | |||
57 | Another Earth | 2011 | Mike Cahill | Brit Marling | counterpart theory, identity, fate | |||
58 | Holy Motors | 2011 | Leos Carax | Leos Carax | Performance, reproduction, repetition, | |||
59 | How to Die in Oregon | 2011 | Peter Richardson | Documentary | right to die, aid in dying | |||
60 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi | 2011 | David Gelb | n/a | work ethic, eudaimonia, | |||
61 | Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) | 2011 | Michelangelo Frammartino | Ontology, transfiguration, the sublime, the sacred, | ||||
62 | Margaret | 2011 | Kenneth Lonergan | Kenneth Lonergan | ||||
63 | Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier | End of the world, human extinction, loss of value, death | , Freud | ||
64 | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 2011 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan | ||||
65 | The Sunset Limited | 2011 | Tommy Lee JOnes | Cormac McCarthy | ||||
66 | This is Not a Film | 2011 | Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, | Jafar Panahi | ||||
67 | Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | Terrence Malick | Problem of Evil | Mackie “Evil and Omnipotence” | ||
68 | Upstream Color | 2011 | Shane Carrouth | Shane Carrouth | Personal Identity, Interconnection, Free Will, Determinism | |||
69 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2011 | Lynne Ramsay | Lionel Shriver | School shooter, anti-natalism | It’s about a school shooter so it’s brutal | ||
70 | Adventure Time - “City of Thieves” episode | 2010 | Larry Leichliter | State of nature, Social contract | First 5 minutes of episode are perfect to illustrate state of nature for teaching Social contract, Rousseau | |||
71 | Certified Copy | 2010 | Abbas Kiarostami | Abbas Kiarostami, Caroline Eliacheff | Memory, authenticity, reproduction, love, ontology | |||
72 | Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy | Art, street art, creativity, authorship | Nick Riggle, "Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces" | |||
73 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan | time, psychoanalysis | |||
74 | Unthinkable | 2010 | Gregor Jordan | Peter Woodward | Ethics of torture | Graphic violence | ||
75 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen | existentialism, religion, absurdity | Kierkegaard, "Either Or"; any Sartre | ||
76 | Agora | 2009 | Alejandro Amenábar | Alejandro Amenábar & Mateo Gill | Hypatia bio, religious fanaticism, gender roles, reason, violence | Edward Watts, "The Murder of Hypatia: Acceptable or Unacceptable Violence" | brief nudity in violent context, depicts mob violence | |
77 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell | ||||
78 | Dogtooth | 2009 | Yorgos Lanthimos | Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos | Importance of community to self-identity; language acquisition | Violence, incest | ||
79 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | Duncan Jones | personal identity, clones | |||
80 | The Invention of Lying | 2009 | Ricky Gervais / Matthew Robinson | Ricky Gervais / Matthew Robinson | Lying, Kant, God | |||
81 | White Material | 2009 | Claire Denis | Claire Denis | Decolonization and violence, Fanon | |||
82 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | John Patrick Shanley | religion, uncertainty, ambiguity, perspectivalism | |||
83 | Examined Life | 2008 | Astra Taylor | Astra Taylor | Philosophers on philosophy, value of philosophy | Russell “The Value of Philosophy” | ||
84 | God on Trial | 2008 | Andy de Emmony | Problem of evil | ||||
85 | Hunger | 2008 | Steve McQueen | Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen | Prison, Politcal Unrest, Direct Action, Politcal Imprisonment | King, "Letter From a Birmingham Jail; Plato, Crito | Police brutality, torture | |
86 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | Martin McDonagh | Purgatory, Competing Moral Codes | |||
87 | Step Brothers | 2008 | Adam McKay | Will Ferrell, Adam McKay | ||||
88 | Synechoche, NY | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman | Charlie Kaufman | ||||
89 | The Beaches of Agnes | 2008 | Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget | ||||
90 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | Christopher and Jonathan Nolan | ||||
91 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | Mark Boal | ||||
92 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | Ari Folman | ||||
93 | My Winnipeg | 2007 | Guy Maddin | Guy Maddin | Memory, reproduction, personal identity, historiography, | |||
94 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen | Moral nihilism, Amoralism | |||
95 | Persepolis | 2007 | Marjane Satrapi | Satrapi | Religion, oppression, | |||
96 | Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind | 2007 | John Gianvito | Memory, memorialization, historiography, representing the other | ||||
97 | The Man from Earth | 2007 | Richard Schenkman | Jerome Bixby | ||||
98 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Paul Thomas Anderson | Ethics, Capitalism | |||
99 | XXY | 2007 | Lucia Puenzo | Lucia Puenzo | Gender identity, Sexuality (the film centers around an intersex teenager) | There is a difficult sexual assault scene about 2/3 of the way through the film | ||
100 | Youth Without Youth | 2007 | Francis Ford Coppola | Francis Ford Coppola | time/time-travel, memory, | |||
101 | After the Wedding | 2006 | Susanne Bier | Ethics, consequentialism, integrity objections | ||||
102 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón | Scheffler, “Death and the Afterlife” and NYT post | |||
103 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | Memory, imagination, personal identity | ||||
104 | Stranger than Fiction | 2006 | Marc Foster | Zach Helm | ||||
105 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | Science, Morality | ||||
106 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | Jonathan Nolan | personal identity, fission cases, philosophy of David Bowie | Parfit, Reasons and Persons | ||
107 | Grizzly Man | 2005 | Werner Herzog | Werner Herzog | Environmental Ethics, Human/non-human interaction, | |||
108 | Thank You for Smoking | 2005 | Jason Reitman | Jason Reitman, Christopher Buckley | ||||
109 | The Island | 2005 | Michael Bay | Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman | Utiltarianism vs Kantianism, Clones, Organ Harvesting | |||
110 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | Lana and Lilly Wachoswki | Political Philosophy, Violence, Vigilantism | |||
111 | Zizek! | 2005 | Astra Taylor | What is philosophy, and its role in society? Can/should philosophers be celebrities? | ||||
112 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | Charlie Kaufman | memory, personal identity | |||
113 | I Heart Huckabees | 2004 | David O. Russell | David O. Russell | existentialism | |||
114 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carrouth | Shane Carruth | Time travel (spoiler), fission, personal identity | |||
115 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | Brad Bird | the übermensch, justice, individual vs. society | Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra | ||
116 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson | Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach | ||||
117 | The Ninth Day | 2004 | Volker Schloendorff | Integrity, Recognition & respect | Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic; Williams's "Against Utilitarianism" | |||
118 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier | Retributive theories of punishment, relativism, evil (nb this is a pretty rapey film) | |||
119 | Hidden in Plain Sight | 2003 | John Smihula | John Smihula | ||||
120 | The Five Obstructions (De fem benspænd) | 2003 | Lars van Trier | Sophie Destin, Asger Leth | Artistic creativity | |||
121 | Whale Rider | 2003 | Niki Caro | With Ihimaera | Feminism, Cultural Relativism, Indigenous concerns | |||
122 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | Brian Aldiss | identity, artificial intelligence | |||
123 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | Nick Hornby | Kierkegaard | |||
124 | Adaptation | 2002 | Spike Jonze | Susan Orlean, Charlie Kaufman | ||||
125 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | Philip K Dick | free will, fate, policing | Dick | ||
126 | Frailty | 2001 | Bill Paxton | Brent Hanley | ||||
127 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask | Plato, Symposium | |||
128 | K-Pax | 2001 | Iain Softley | transcedentalism | ||||
129 | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | David Lynch | David Lynch | Dreams and Reality, Personal Identity | Reid & Craig's new book _Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch_ | ||
130 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater | free will; existentialism, psychoanalysis | |||
131 | Vanilla Sky | 2001 | Cameron Crowe | Epistemology, personal identity | ||||
132 | Code Unknown | 2000 | Michael Haneke | Michael Haneke | ||||
133 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | Christopher and Jonathan Nolan | Personal identity, memory | |||
134 | Possible Worlds | 2000 | Robert Lepage | Robert Lepage | Possibility, brains in vats, block and slab languages | |||
135 | Sound and Fury | 2000 | Josh Aronson | Documentary | disability, consent, parental obligations | |||
136 | Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) | 2000 | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | László Krasznahorkai | ||||
137 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | Charlie Kaufman | Personal Identity, Dualism/Materialism | |||
138 | eXistenZ | 1999 | Cronenburg | Cronenburg | external world skepticism, VR | Descartes, Meditations; Frankfurt, "Demons, Dreams, and Madmen" | ||
139 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | Jim Jarmuch | ||||
140 | Magnolia | 1999 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Paul Thomas Anderson | Truth, Testimony, Moral Luck, Moral Development, Identity and Responsibility, Co-constitution | |||
141 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady | hypocrisy, corruption of the youth, war, good and evil, life and afterlife, homosexuality, farting | Aristophanes, The Clouds; Plato, Apology | ||
142 | The Big Kahuna | 1999 | John Swanbek | Roger Rueff | ||||
143 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachoswki | Lana and Lilly Wachoswki | Skepticism | Descartes, Plato, Republic VII, Allegory of the Cave | ||
144 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aranofsky | |||||
145 | The Apple (Sib) | 1998 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Samiraand Mohsen Makhmalbaf | ||||
146 | The Last Days of Disco | 1998 | Whit Stillman | Whit Stillman | ||||
147 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | Andrew Niccol | Epistemology (especially epistemic luck), ethics (care ethics, virtue ethics, etc), and existentialism (must we imagine Truman happy?) | |||
148 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | Andrew Niccol | Bioethics (genetics), freewill, determinism | Dan Brock, “The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms–The Case of Wrongful Handicaps”; Julian Savulescue on Procreative Beneficence"; Walter Glannon: "Genetic Enhancemen"; Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch on the Disability Rights Critique; Michael Sandel, "The Case Against Perfection"; etc. | ||
149 | Open your eyes | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | Epistemology, personal identity | ||||
150 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier, Peter Asmussen | ||||
151 | For Ever Mozart | 1996 | JL Godard | The obligations of artists with respect to atrocity | ||||
152 | La Promesse | 1996 | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | |||||
153 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan | ||||
154 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | Todd Haynes | ||||
155 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | Chris Marker, David Peoples | time travel | Lewis, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" | ||
156 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | Kenneth Branagh | Mary Shelley | ||||
157 | Spinoza: The Apostle of Reason | 1994 | Christopher Taylor | Tariq Ali | Spinoza | |||
158 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | Stephen King, Frank Darabont | Plato, Crito | |||
159 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis et al. | ethics, virtue, value theory, self interest, egoism | Nietzsche, eternal return | ||
160 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Michael Crichton | cloning, environmental ethics, species reintroduction | |||
161 | Brother’s Keeper | 1992 | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Moral Responsibiliy, Justice | ||||
162 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | David Mamet | ||||
163 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen | ||||
164 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | WWII ethics, passing | There is a brutal uncircumcision attempt if i remember correctly - so violence | |||
165 | Lord of the Flies | 1990 | Harry Hook | William Golding, Jay Presson Allen | State of Nature/Social Contract | |||
166 | Mindwalk | 1990 | Bernt Am,Deusterhof Capra | Bernt Capra (story) Floyd Bears & Fritjof Capra (screenplay) | philosophy of science, environmentalism, holism/systems theory and systems thinking, quantum mechanics and particle physics, political and social problems | Capra, F. (1982) The Turning Point, Wilmington, M. (Oct. 21, 1991) MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Mindwalk': Alluring but Limited Look at World, Los Angeles Times | ||
167 | Paris Is Burning | 1990 | Jennie Livingston | Documentary | LGBTQ issues, representation, aesthetics | |||
168 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | 1990 | Tom Stoppard | Tom Stoppard | Free will, determinism, fatalism, death | |||
169 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | Philip K Dick | skepticism, time, identity | Dick | ||
170 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | Woody Allen | is it better to do good or to be perceived as good? Virtue and happiness | |||
171 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | Spike Lee | Ethics | Police brutality - police killing | ||
172 | The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent ) | 1989 | Michael Haneke | Michael Haneke | Suicide, meaninglessness, absurdity, authenticity | |||
173 | After Life (Wandafuru Raifu) | 1988 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Hirokazu Koreeda | the good life | |||
174 | The Vanishing (Spoorloos) | 1988 | George Sluizer | George Sluizer, Tim Krabbe | Evil, Epistemic Value | Violence | ||
175 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter | John Carpenter, Ray Nelson | Marx, Critical Theory | |||
176 | Au Revoir les Enfantes | 1987 | Louis Malle | Louis Malle | WWII, memory, self-blame and responsibility | WWII, child killing (off screen) | ||
177 | Blind Chance | 1987 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Krzysztof Kieślowski | ||||
178 | Housekeeping | 1987 | Bill Forsyth | the draw of, and liberation from, conventional norms of living | ||||
179 | Moonstruck | 1987 | Norman Jewison | John Patrick Shanley | family and relationships, ritual, mortality | Confucians, Apology | ||
180 | Robocop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner | Consumerism and authoritarianism | |||
181 | The Running Man | 1987 | Paul Michael Glaser | Stephen King, Steven de Souza | prison studies | |||
182 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger | ||||
183 | Desert Hearts | 1986 | Donna Deitch | authenticity and sexuality | ||||
184 | Routine Pleasures | 1986 | Jean-Pierre Gorin | Patrick Amos, Jean-Pierre Gorin | ||||
185 | The Name of the Rose | 1986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Umberto Eco | Epistemology, rationality, religion, semiotics | William of Ockham, Umberto Eco | ||
186 | Trip to Bountiful | 1985 | Peter Masterson | Meaning of the end of life | ||||
187 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | 1984 | W.D. Richter | Earl Mac Rauch | the will to power, humanity, identity, masks | Nietzsche | ||
188 | Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1983 | Douglas Williams | John Varley | ||||
189 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura | Shôhei Imamura | Bestiality, incest | |||
190 | The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam | The Monty Python Troupe | meaning of life | |||
191 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod | Situationism about character | *rewatch before assigning | ||
192 | Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) | 1982 | Ridley Scott | Hampton Fancher, David Peoples | artificial intelligence, the problem of evil, problem of other minds | |||
193 | My Dinner With Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle | Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory | ||||
194 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | Andrzej Zulawski | Desire, illusion, social cognition | |||
195 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan | ||||
196 | Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren | Nietzsche | |||
197 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | Jerzy Kosinski | ||||
198 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman | Art imitating life | *Allen has a sexual relationship with a teenager in this movie | ||
199 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy | ||||
200 | Gates of Heaven | 1978 | Errol Morris | |||||
201 | Girlfriends | 1978 | Claudia Weill | second wave feminism | ||||
202 | Killer of Sheep | 1978 | Charles Burnett | The transmutation of the non-aesthetic into the aesthetic, film as a medium | Ziff, "Anything Viewed", Roemer, "The Surfaces of Reality" | |||
203 | Harlan County USA | 1976 | Barbara Kopple | Doccumentary | Labor issues, ethics, poverty, strikes, police violence | |||
204 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir | Joan Lindsay, Cliff Green | ||||
205 | Cartesius | 1974 | Rossellini | Descartes, science and religion | ||||
206 | Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen | 1974 | Michael Snow | philosophy of language, semiotics | ||||
207 | Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Mallick | Agency, Activity-Passivity, State of Nature vs. Rule of Law, Love, Crime, Innocence and Guilt | ||||
208 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Fakes, forgeries, authenticity | |||
209 | La Grande Bouffe | 1973 | Marco Ferreri | Marco Ferreri | Gluttony, Utilitarianism, Suicide, Meaning of Life | |||
210 | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Some students find this movie very disturbing | |||
211 | World on a Wire (Welt am Draht, TV Series) | 1973 | ||||||
212 | Blaise Pascal | 1972 | Rossellini | Pascal, early Enlightenment and church opposition, religion and science | ||||
213 | Letter to Jane | 1972 | Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | ||||
214 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Stanislav Lem, F. Gorenshteyn | ||||
215 | The Heartbreak Kid | 1972 | Elaine May | monogamy and commitment | ||||
216 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | Anthony Burgess | Kantianism, theories of punnishment | Ethics: Kant, Theories of Punnishment (deterrence) | Brutal rape, ultra-violence | |
217 | Socrates | 1971 | Roberto Rossellini | Socrates! | ||||
218 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | Artifical Intelligence, | |||
219 | Death by Hanging | 1968 | Nagisa Ôshima | Michinori Fukao, Mamoru Sasaki | Racism and captial punishment, personal identity and moral responsibility | |||
220 | Battle of Algiers | 1967 | Gillo Pontecorvo | Ethics of torture, ethics of insurgency | Henry Shue, "Torture" | |||
221 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | Jacques Tati | ||||
222 | Portrait of Jason | 1967 | Shirley Clarke | Ethics of interviewing, ethics of documentary filmmaking, oppression at the intersection of race and sexuality | ||||
223 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilova | Feminism, breaking social conventions | ||||
224 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | ||||
225 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | Lewis John Carlino, David Ely | ||||
226 | Le Bonheur | 1965 | Agnès Varda | Patriarchy | ||||
227 | The Train | 1965 | John Frankenheimer | Can the preservation of art justify a loss of human life? | ||||
228 | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | game theory, absurdity | |||
229 | Woman in the Dunes (Suna No Onna) | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Kôbô Abe | ||||
230 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | Negative Emotions, Feminism | ||||
231 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | Ethics, meaning of life, philosophy of religion | |||
232 | Cleo From 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda | Existentialism, Meaning of Life / Happiness | |||
233 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | Time travel, philosophy of film | ||||
234 | My Live to Live (Vivre sa vie) | 1962 | JL Godard | Prostitution and autonomy | ||||
235 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza | Existentialism, The Absurd, Hobbesian State of Nature | Sartre, Hobbes | ||
236 | L’Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Michelangelo Antonioni | ||||
237 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | Marguerite Duras | Liberation from the hold of the past | |||
238 | On the Beach | 1959 | Stanley Kramer | John Paxton, Nevil Shute | ||||
239 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | Reginald Rose | Deliberative Democracy, Social Decision-making | Landemore, Democratic Reason. | ||
240 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | Existentialism, Problem of Evil, God | |||
241 | Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Arnaud | ||||
242 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosowa | Akira Kurosowa | Individual vs society, authenticity, meaning of life | |||
243 | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosowa | Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa | perspectivalism | Nguyen, "Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles", and associated Aeon article; Nietzsche | ||
244 | The Third Man | 1949 | Carol Reed | Graham Greene | Conflict between friendship/partiality and morality | Susan Wolf, Morality and Partiality; Cocking/Kennett, Friendship and Moral Danger; Julia Driver, Justice Mercy Friendship in the Third Man. | ||
245 | Adam’s Rib | 1948 | George Cukor | Ruth Gordon | ||||
246 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton | ||||
247 | It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | Frances Goodrick, Albert Hackett et al. | suicide, community | |||
248 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | John Van Druten, Walter Reisch | Epistemic injustice. Psychological manipulation. Feminist epistemology. | Epistemic Injustice with Fricker. The recent literature on "epistemic gaslighting", where the term actually originates with this fim. Kate Abramson, "Turing Up the Lights on Gaslighting"; Kate Manne, Down Girl | ||
249 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren | Maya Deren | Dreams, gender roles, psychoanalysis, the other | |||
250 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein | Camus | |||
251 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | ||||
252 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang | Collective Action, Justice, Society in Decay, Mass Panic | |||
253 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | Thea von Harbou | ||||
254 | CitizenFour | 204 | Laura Poitras | Doumentary | Whistleblowers survaleince state | |||
255 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Artificial Intelligence/AI Risk | Omohundro, "The Basic AI Drives"; https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/21/18126576/ai-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-safety-alignment, esp. section 3; Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs" | |||||
256 | Avengers: Infinity War | Kantianism vs Consequentialism in ethics | https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/5/17/17343442/avengers-infinity-war-captain-america-thanos-sequel-moral-dilemma | |||||
257 | Doctor Strange | Value of immortality/Badness of Death | Williams, "The Makropolous Case"; Fischer, "Why Immortality is Not So Bad"; Nagel, "Death" | |||||
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259 | Up - the documentary series | Michael Apted | ||||||
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1 | Title | Year | Director | Writer | Themes | Readings | Warnings | |
2 | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | Sidney Lumet | Reginald Rose | Deliberative Democracy | Landemore, Democratic Reason. | ||
3 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | Artifical Intelligence, | |||
4 | A Girl Walks Home at Night | 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | Ana Lily Amirpour | Ethics, implicit bias (perhaps?) | |||
5 | A Serious Man | 2009 | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen | ||||
6 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | Brian Aldiss | identity, artificial intelligence | |||
7 | About a Boy | 2002 | Chris and Paul Weitz | Nick Hornby | Kierkegaard | |||
8 | Adam’s Rib | 1948 | George Cukor | Ruth Gordon | ||||
9 | Adaptation | 2002 | Spike Jonze | Susan Orlean, Charlie Kaufman | ||||
10 | Advantageous | 2015 | Jennifer Phang | Jacqueline Kim and Jennifer Phang | Phil Mind, Personal Identity, Ecomonic Oppression and Choice, Sexism, Racism | |||
11 | After Life (Wandafuru Raifu) | 1988 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Hirokazu Koreeda | ||||
12 | After the Wedding | 2006 | Susanne Bier | Ethics, consequentialism, integrity objections | ||||
13 | Arrival | 2016 | Denis Villenueve | Eric Heisserer, Ted Chiang | Eternal return, amor fati, Translation, time travel, seeing the future | Nietzsche. Quine and Davidson on Radical Translation. | ||
14 | Art and Craft | 2014 | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman | Art, forgery, duplication, authenticity, creativity | Lessing “What’s Wrong With a Forgery?” Stalnaker, “Fakes and Forgeries” Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | |||
15 | Au Renoir les Enfantes | 1987 | Louis Malle | Louis Malle | WWII, memory, self-blame and responsibility | WWII, child killing (off screen) | ||
16 | Barton Fink | 1991 | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen | ||||
17 | Before Sunrise | 1995 | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan | ||||
18 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | Charlie Kaufman | Personal Identity, Dualism/Materialism | |||
19 | Being There | 1979 | Hal Ashby | Jerzy Kosinski | ||||
20 | Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) | 1982 | Ridley Scott | Hampton Fancher, David Peoples | artificial intelligence, the problem of evil, problem of other minds | |||
21 | Blind Chance | 1987 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Krzysztof Kieślowski | ||||
22 | Breaking the Waves | 1996 | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier, Peter Asmussen | ||||
23 | Brother’s Keeper | 1992 | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Moral Responsibiliy, Justice | ||||
24 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 2018 | Marielle Heller | Heller and Holofcener | Authenticity, fakes and forgeries | Alcoholism, violence | ||
25 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | 2014 | Anthony and Joe Russo | Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely | ||||
26 | Casablanca | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein | Camus | |||
27 | Certified Copy | 2010 | Abbas Kiarostami | Abbas Kiarostami, Caroline Eliacheff | Memory, authenticity, reproduction, love, ontology | |||
28 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón | Scheffler, “Death and the Afterlife” and NYT post | |||
29 | Cleo From 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda | Existentialism, Meaning of Life / Happiness | |||
30 | Code Unknown | 2000 | Michael Haneke | Michael Haneke | ||||
31 | Copenhagen | 2014 | Mark Raso | Mark Raso | redemption through love, sexual encounters with underaged partners | |||
32 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1989 | Woody Allen | Woody Allen | is it better to do good or to be perceived as good? | |||
33 | Death by Hanging | 1968 | Nagisa Ôshima | Michinori Fukao, Mamoru Sasaki | ||||
34 | Dekalog (Series) | 1989-1990 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz | ||||
35 | Desert Hearts | 1986 | Donna Deitch | authenticity and sexuality | ||||
36 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell | ||||
37 | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | Spike Lee | Ethics | Police brutality - police killing | ||
38 | Dogtooth | 2009 | Yorgos Lanthimos | Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos | Importance of community to self-identity; language acquisition | Violence, incest | ||
39 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier | Retributive theories of punishment, relativism, evil (nb this is a pretty rapey film) | |||
40 | Doubt | 2008 | John Patrick Shanley | John Patrick Shanley | ||||
41 | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | game theory, absurdity | |||
42 | Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren | Nietzsche | |||
43 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | Charlie Kaufman | memory, personal identity | |||
44 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | WWII ethics, passing | There is a brutal uncircumcision attempt if i remember correctly - so violence | |||
45 | Ex Machina | 2014 | Alex Garland | Alex Garland | artificial intelligence, misogyny | Beauvoir, the Second Sex, literally any feminism | ||
46 | Examined Life | 2008 | Astra Taylor | Astra Taylor | Philosophers on philosophy, value of philosophy | Russell “The Value of Philosophy” | ||
47 | Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Banksy | Art, street art, creativity, authorship | Nick Riggle, "Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces" | |||
48 | Eye in the Sky | 2015 | Gavin Hood | Guy Hibbert | Trolly problem | |||
49 | F for Fake | 1973 | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Fakes, forgeries, authenticity | |||
50 | Force Majeure | 2014 | Ruben Östlund | Ruben Östlund | Virtue as Dispostion to Act | Nicomachean Ethics | ||
51 | Frailty | 2001 | Bill Paxton | Brent Hanley | ||||
52 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | John Van Druten, Walter Reisch | Epistemic injustice. Psychological manipulation. Feminist epistemology. | Epistemic Injustice with Fricker. The recent literature on "epistemic gaslighting", where the term actually originates with this fim. Kate Abramson, "Turing Up the Lights on Gaslighting"; Kate Manne, Down Girl | ||
53 | Gates of Heaven | 1978 | Errol Morris | |||||
54 | Gattaca | 1997 | Andrew Niccol | Andrew Niccol | Bioethics (genetics), freewill, determinism | Dan Brock, “The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms–The Case of Wrongful Handicaps”; Julian Savulescue on Procreative Beneficence"; Walter Glannon: "Genetic Enhancemen"; Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch on the Disability Rights Critique; Michael Sandel, "The Case Against Perfection"; etc. | ||
55 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | Jordan Peele | Race/racism, double consciousness, white privilege | Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks; DuBois (The Souls of Black Folk, especially Ch. 1 on "double consciousness") | ||
56 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | Jim Jarmuch | ||||
57 | Ghost in the Shell | 2017 | Rupert Sanders | Shirow Masamune, J amie Moss | Descartes | |||
58 | Girlfriends | 1978 | Claudia Weill | second wave feminism | ||||
59 | Glengarry Glen Ross | 1992 | James Foley | David Mamet | ||||
60 | Grizzly Man | 2005 | Werner Herzog | Werner Herzog | Environmental Ethics, Human/non-human interaction, | |||
61 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | Danny Rubin, Harold Ramis et al. | ethics, virtue, value theory, self interest, egoism | Nietzsche, eternal return | ||
62 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask | Plato, Symposium | |||
63 | Her | 2013 | Spike Jonze | Spike Jonze | artificial intelligence, love | |||
64 | Hidden in Plain Sight | 2003 | John Smihula | John Smihula | ||||
65 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | Marguerite Duras | Liberation from the hold of the past | |||
66 | Holy Motors | 2011 | Leos Carax | Leos Carax | Performance, reproduction, repetition, | |||
67 | Housekeeping | 1987 | Bill Forsyth | the draw of, and liberation from, conventional norms of living | ||||
68 | How to Die in Oregon | 2011 | Peter Richardson | Documentary | right to die, aid in dying | |||
69 | Hunger | 2008 | Steve McQueen | Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen | Prison, Politcal Unrest, Direct Action, Politcal Imprisonment | King, "Letter From a Birmingham Jail; Plato, Crito | ||
70 | I Heart Huckabees | 2004 | David O. Russell | David O. Russell | existentialism | |||
71 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosowa | Akira Kurosowa | ||||
72 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan | time, psychoanalysis | |||
73 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen | Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen | ||||
74 | It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | Frank Capra | Frances Goodrick, Albert Hackett et al. | suicide, community | |||
75 | It’s Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt | |||||
76 | Jurassic Park | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Michael Crichton | ||||
77 | K-Pax | 2001 | Iain Softley | transcedentalism | ||||
78 | L’Avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Michelangelo Antonioni | ||||
79 | La Grande Bouffe | 1973 | Marco Ferreri | Marco Ferreri | Gluttony, Utilitarianism, Suicide, Meaning of Life | |||
80 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | Time travel, philosophy of film | ||||
81 | La Promesse | 1996 | Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | |||||
82 | Le Bonheur | 1965 | Agnès Varda | Patriarchy | ||||
83 | Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) | 2011 | Michelangelo Frammartino | Ontology, transfiguration, the sublime, the sacred, | ||||
84 | Le Week-End | 2013 | Roger Michell | Hanif Kureishi | ||||
85 | Leave No Trace | 2018 | Deborah Granik | Peter Rock | PTSD, ethics, | |||
86 | Letter to Jane | 1972 | Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | ||||
87 | Life on Mars (TV Series) | |||||||
88 | Lord of the Flies | 1990 | Harry Hook | William Golding, Jay Presson Allen | State of Nature/Social Contract | |||
89 | Manhattan | 1979 | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman | Art imitating life | *Allen has a sexual relationship with a teenager in this movie | ||
90 | Margaret | 2011 | Kenneth Lonergan | Kenneth Lonergan | ||||
91 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | 1994 | Kenneth Branagh | Mary Shelley | ||||
92 | Melancholia | 2011 | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier | End of the world, human extinction, loss of value, death | , Freud | ||
93 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | Christopher and Jonathan Nolan | Personal identity, memory | |||
94 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 1943 | Maya Deren | Maya Deren | Dreams, gender roles, psychoanalysis, the other | |||
95 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | Thea von Harbou | ||||
96 | Midsommar | 2019 | Ari Aster | Ari Aster | moral and cultural relativism, egalitarianism | |||
97 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | Philip K Dick | free will, fate, policing | Dick | ||
98 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | ||||
99 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | Duncan Jones | personal identity, clones | |||
100 | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | David Lynch | David Lynch | Dreams and Reality, Personal Identity | Reid & Craig's new book _Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch_ | ||
101 | My Dinner With Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle | Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory | ||||
102 | My Winnipeg | 2007 | Guy Maddin | Guy Maddin | Memory, reproduction, personal identity, historiography, | |||
103 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Joel and Ethan Coen | Joel and Ethan Coen | Moral nihilism, Amoralism | |||
104 | On the Beach | 1959 | Stanley Kramer | John Paxton, Nevil Shute | ||||
105 | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 2011 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan | ||||
106 | Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1983 | Douglas Williams | John Varley | ||||
107 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | Memory, imagination, personal identity | ||||
108 | Parasite | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho | Class division, | ||||
109 | Paris Is Burning | 1990 | Jennie Livingston | Documentary | LGBTQ issues, representation, aesthetics | |||
110 | Persepolis | 2007 | Marjane Satrapi | Satrapi | Religion, oppression, | |||
111 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | ||||
112 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aranofsky | |||||
113 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir | Joan Lindsay, Cliff Green | ||||
114 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | Jacques Tati | ||||
115 | Portrait of Jason | 1967 | Shirley Clarke | Ethics of interviewing, ethics of documentary filmmaking | ||||
116 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | Andrzej Zulawski | ||||
117 | Possible Worlds | 2000 | Robert Lepage | |||||
118 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carrouth | Shane Carruth | Time travel (spoiler), fission, personal identity | |||
119 | Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind | 2007 | John Gianvito | Memory, memorialization, historiography, representing the other | ||||
120 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1981 | Steven Spielberg | George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan | ||||
121 | Rameau's Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen | 1974 | Michael Snow | philosophy of language, semiotics | ||||
122 | Rashomon | 1950 | Akira Kurosowa | Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa | perspectivalism | Nguyen, "Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles", and associated Aeon article; Nietzsche | ||
123 | Replicas | |||||||
124 | Robocop | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven | Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner | ||||
125 | Roma | 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Alfonso Cuarón | ||||
126 | Rope | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock | Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton | ||||
127 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | 1990 | Tom Stoppard | Tom Stoppard | Free will, determinism, fatalism, death | |||
128 | Routine Pleasures | 1986 | Jean-Pierre Gorin | Patrick Amos, Jean-Pierre Gorin | ||||
129 | Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | Todd Haynes | ||||
130 | Seconds | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | Lewis John Carlino, David Ely | ||||
131 | Shinsekai Yori (From the New World) | 2012-2013 | ||||||
132 | Snowpiercer | 2013 | Joon-ho Bong | Joon-ho Bong | Class warfare. Climate change. | Marx. Veblen. Bourdieau. | ||
133 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Stanislav Lem, F. Gorenshteyn | ||||
134 | Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | Boots Riley | Boots Riley | Among other things, the image of the cave | |||
135 | Sound and Fury | 2000 | Josh Aronson | Documentary | disability, consent, parental obligations | |||
136 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | 1999 | Trey Parker | Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady | hypocrisy, corruption of the youth, war, good and evil, life and afterlife, homosexuality, farting | Aristophanes, The Clouds; Plato, Apology | ||
137 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Arkadiy and Boris Strugatskiy | ||||
138 | Step Brothers | 2008 | Adam McKay | Will Ferrell, Adam McKay | ||||
139 | Stranger than Fiction | 2006 | Marc Foster | Zach Helm | ||||
140 | Synechoche, NY | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman | Charlie Kaufman | ||||
141 | Thank You for Smoking | 2005 | Jason Reitman | Jason Reitman, Christopher Buckley | ||||
142 | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Joshua Oppenheimer, et al. | Genocide, guilt, self-rationalization | Stanley, On propoganda. | |||
143 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | 1984 | W.D. Richter | Earl Mac Rauch | the will to power, humanity, identity, masks | Nietzsche | ||
144 | The Apple (Sib) | 1998 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Samiraand Mohsen Makhmalbaf | ||||
145 | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Shôhei Imamura | Shôhei Imamura | ||||
146 | The Beaches of Agnes | 2008 | Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget | ||||
147 | The Big Kahuna | 1999 | John Swanbek | Roger Rueff | ||||
148 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | Christopher and Jonathan Nolan | ||||
149 | The Five Obstructions (De fem benspænd) | 2003 | Lars van Trier | Sophie Destin, Asger Leth | Artistic creativity | |||
150 | The Fountain | 2006 | Darren Aronofsky | Science, Morality | ||||
151 | The Heartbreak Kid | 1972 | Elaine May | monogamy and commitment | ||||
152 | The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Some students find this movie very disturbing | |||
153 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | Mark Boal | ||||
154 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | Brad Bird | ||||
155 | The Island | 2005 | Michael Bay | Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman | Utiltarianism vs Kantianism, Clones, Organ Harvesting | |||
156 | The Last Days of Disco | 1998 | Whit Stillman | Whit Stillman | ||||
157 | The Last Supper (Wang de Shengyan) | 2012 | Chuan Lu | Seth Le, Chuan Lu | Lesser of two evils | |||
158 | The Lego Movie | 2014 | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller | ||||
159 | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson | Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach | ||||
160 | The Man from Earth | 2007 | Richard Schenkman | Jerome Bixby | ||||
161 | The Matrix | 1999 | Lana and Lilly Wachoswki | Lana and Lilly Wachoswki | Skepticism | Descartes, Plato, Republic VII, Allegory of the Cave | ||
162 | The Meaning of Life | 1983 | Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam | The Monty Python Troupe | meaning of life | |||
163 | The Philosophers // After the Dark | 2013 | John Huddles | John Huddles | Thought Experiments | |||
164 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | Jonathan Nolan | personal identity, fission cases | |||
165 | The Rider | 2018 | Chloe Zhao | Masculinity, gender in the USA | ||||
166 | The Running Man | 1987 | Paul Michael Glaser | Stephen King, Steven de Souza | prison studies | |||
167 | The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent ) | 1989 | Michael Haneke | Michael Haneke | Suicide, meaninglessness, absurdity, authenticity | |||
168 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | Existentialism, Problem of Evil, God | |||
169 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | Frank Darabont | Stephen King, Frank Darabont | ||||
170 | The Sunset Limited | 2011 | Tommy Lee JOnes | Cormac McCarthy | ||||
171 | The Truman Show | 1998 | Peter Weir | Andrew Niccol | Epistemology (especially epistemic luck), ethics (care ethics, virtue ethics, etc), and existentialism (must we imagine Truman happy?) | |||
172 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter | John Carpenter, Ray Nelson | Marx, Critical Theory | |||
173 | This is a list of philosophical films for teaching. | Please feel free to add! | Scroll -> for suggested themes and reading pairings | Keep scrolling for content warnings -> | ||||
174 | This is Not a Film | 2011 | Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, | Jafar Panahi | ||||
175 | Total Recall | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven | Philip K Dick | skepticism, time, identity | Dick | ||
176 | Trading Places | 1983 | John Landis | Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod | Situationism about character | *rewatch before assigning | ||
177 | Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | Terrence Malick | Problem of Evil | Mackie “Evil and Omnipotence” | ||
178 | Trip to Bountiful | 1985 | Peter Masterson | Meaning of the end of life | ||||
179 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | Chris Marker, David Peoples | time travel | |||
180 | Up - the documentary series | Michael Apted | ||||||
181 | Upstream Color | 2011 | Shane Carrouth | Shane Carrouth | Personal Identity, Interconnection, Free Will, Determinism | |||
182 | Us | 2019 | Jordan Peele | colonialism, | Fanon, Wretched of the Earth | |||
183 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | Lana and Lilly Wachoswki | Political Philosophy, Violence, Vigilantism | |||
184 | Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Arnaud | ||||
185 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater | free will; existentialism, psychoanalysis | |||
186 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | Ari Folman | ||||
187 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2011 | Lynne Ramsay | Lionel Shriver | School shooter, anti-natalism | It’s about a school shooter so it’s brutal | ||
188 | Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) | 2000 | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | László Krasznahorkai | ||||
189 | White Material | 2009 | Claire Denis | Claire Denis | Decolonization and violence, Fanon | |||
190 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger | ||||
191 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | Ethics, meaning of life, religion | |||
192 | Woman in the Dunes (Suna No Onna) | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Kôbô Abe | ||||
193 | World on a Wire (Welt am Draht, TV Series) | 1973 | ||||||
194 | Youth Without Youth | 2007 | Francis Ford Coppola | Francis Ford Coppola | time/time-travel, memory, | |||
195 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Ethics of torture, pair with Shue. NB I think the film is far more complex and critical on the ethics of torture than the hot takes at the time made it out to be. | ||||
196 | Zizek! | 2005 | Astra Taylor | |||||
197 |