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1. Gifted (2017)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer
Votes: 130,450 | Gross: $24.80M
2. The Life of David Gale (2003)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Cleo King
Votes: 126,132 | Gross: $19.59M
3. Palm Swings (2020)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After moving to Palm Springs, a young married couple puts their love to the test when they discover their neighbors are swingers.
Director: Sean Hoessli | Stars: Tia Carrere, Diane Farr, Jason Lewis, Sugar Lyn Beard
Votes: 1,276
4. Irrational Man (2015)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Joe Stapleton
Votes: 67,117 | Gross: $4.03M
5. God's Not Dead (2014)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
College philosophy professor Mr. Radisson's curriculum is challenged by his new student, Josh, who believes God exists.
Director: Harold Cronk | Stars: Shane Harper, Kevin Sorbo, David A.R. White, Dean Cain
Votes: 44,969 | Gross: $60.76M
6. The Conformist (1970)
R | 113 min | Drama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
Votes: 33,724 | Gross: $0.54M
7. Here and Now (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A dark dramedy about a progressive Portlandian family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Liberia, Vietnam and Colombia, and one biological daughter, who find their sanity tested and values challenged in 2018 America.
Stars: Tim Robbins, Holly Hunter, Daniel Zovatto, Jerrika Hinton
Votes: 5,146
8. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson
Votes: 8,885
9. Leaves of Grass (2009)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Henry Max Nelson, Lucy DeVito
Votes: 27,890 | Gross: $0.07M
10. My Night at Maud's (1969)
GP | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez
Votes: 14,558
11. In Praise of Older Women (1978)
Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Andras Vajda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a ... See full summary »
Director: George Kaczender | Stars: Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Susan Strasberg, Helen Shaver
Votes: 729
12. Another Woman (1988)
PG | 81 min | Drama
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner
Votes: 15,055 | Gross: $1.56M
13. Accident (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York
Votes: 4,989
14. Anesthesia (2015)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol
Votes: 5,027 | Gross: $0.02M
15. The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Director: John Malkovich | Stars: Javier Bardem, Laura Morante, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez
Votes: 6,881 | Gross: $2.38M
16. Endgame (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, History
A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong
Votes: 2,865 | Gross: $0.01M
17. Larks on a String (1969)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská
Votes: 2,189
18. Le Week-End (2013)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum, Igor Gotesman
Votes: 8,691 | Gross: $2.22M
19. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,934
20. La cena (1998)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
A multitude of characters face personal problems while having dinner in a roman restaurant.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Antonio Catania, Francesca d'Aloja, Riccardo Garrone
Votes: 1,363
21. Passing Strange (2009)
TV-MA | 135 min | Documentary, Musical
Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
Directors: Spike Lee, Annie Dorsen | Stars: Stew, De'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo
Votes: 419
22. Midas Run (1969)
M | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A veteran Secret Service Agent from Britain hijacks a government shipment of fifteen million dollars of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Fred Astaire, Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 184
23. Graduate First (1978)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Michel Caron
Votes: 994
24. Spanish Fly (1998)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman reporter in over her head in trying to write a book on the male machismo in Spain finds the men don't match her story's expectations. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.
Director: Daphna Kastner | Stars: Felipe García Vélez, Daphna Kastner, Toni Cantó, Antonio Castro
Votes: 229 | Gross: $0.01M
25. Un Buda (2005)
115 min | Drama
Un Buda follows two brothers orphaned as children when their parents were taken by military.
Director: Diego Rafecas | Stars: Agustín Markert, Carolina Fal, Diego Rafecas, Julieta Cardinali
Votes: 811
26. Gender Wars (2023 TV Special)
Documentary
Stars: Linda Bellos, Julie Bindel, Finn Mackay, Kathleen Stock
Votes: 19
27. Student Tour (1934)
Passed | 84 min | Musical
A college rowing team's world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Ann, the instructor's niece, convinces him to tutor the team on the ocean ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Maxine Doyle, Phil Regan
Votes: 159
28. A Wise Man Once Said...
Animation, Short, Comedy | Announced
An inquisitive young man searches for the meaning of life - and finds that it isn't quite what he expected it to be.
Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher
29. La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes (1933)
75 min | Drama
Director: Henri Fabert | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Georges Benoît, Camille Bert, Christiane Delyne
30. The Philosopher and the Wolf
Drama | Announced
An extraordinary relationship between Mark, a young British philosophy professor, and his wonderful pet wolf, Brenin. As we travel with them from America to France, Brenin leads Mark to re-evaluate his attitude to love, death & happiness.
31. Philosophy Acquired - Philosophy Education (2023 Podcast Series)
History
This podcast is about philosophy. I'd like for you to consider the episodes of this podcast as educational courses. We believe learning philosophy gives you life-long intelligence and wisdom.
Star: Philosophy Education
32.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode:
P.E.T.A.
(2004)
TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Documentary
Penn and Teller look at animal liberation and expose PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) as hypocrites.
Directors: Star Price, Kevin Barry, Christopher Poole, Scott Schaefer, Chip Selby, R.L. Shontell | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Steven Best, Rod Coronado
Votes: 283
33.
Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979)
Episode:
Class in Crime
(1978)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Hutch goes undercover as a college student to catch a professor committing murder.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton
Votes: 224
34.
Crossfire (1982–2014)
Episode:
Episode dated 23 September 2013
(2013)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: S.E. Cupp, Van Jones, William Kristol, Barack Obama
35.
Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode:
Beyond Good and Evil: Part 2
(2014)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Several suspects are caught in lies and an unexpected death leads the detectives to the solution.
Director: David Drury | Stars: Kevin Whately, Angela Griffin, Joe Dixon, Clare Holman
Votes: 420