School of Athens

E-List: Movies

Films for Philosophy Students

  • 2001 Space Oddessey, Stanley Kubrick
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Werner Herzog
  • Apocolypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Brazil, Terry Gilliam
  • Citizen Kane, Orson Wells
  • Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick
  • Fargo, Coen Brothers
  • Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog
  • Land of Plenty, Wim Wenders
  • Manderlay, Lars von Trier
  • Metropolis, Fritz Lang
  • Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin
  • Network, Sidney Lumet
  • Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Where the Green Ants Dream, Werner Herzog

Documentaries for Philosophy Students

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog
  • Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog
  • Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog
  • Frontline: Merchants of Cool, Barak Goodman
  • Untold History of the United States, Roger Stone

Recommended Directors

Italian

  • Federico Fellini
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Bernardo Bertolucci

German

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Wim Wenders
  • Werner Herzog

Japanese

  • Akira Kurosawa

Russian

  • Andrei Tarkovsky