죽을 날이 머지않은 황제 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스는 막시무스를 총애하여 아들이 아닌 그에게 권력을 넘겨주기로 한다. 황제의 아들 코모두스는 이에 질투와 분노를 느껴 황제를 살해한다. 왕좌를 이어받은 코모두스는 막시무스와 그의 가족을 죽이라고 명령한다. 가족을 모두 잃고 겨우 살아남은 막시무스는 노예로 전락하고, 투기장의 검투사가 된다. 그에게 남은 건 오직 황제 코모두스에 대한 복수 뿐. 검투사로서 매 경기마다 승리로 이끌면서 살아남자 그의 명성은 날로 높아 간다. 그러던 어느 날 오래 전 사랑했던 황제의 누이 루실라를 다시 만나게 되는데...
독일계 유대인 철학자이자 정치 사상가인 한나 아렌트가 1960~1964년까지 겪었던 실화를 다루었다. 한나는 나치 전범인 칼 아돌프 아이히만의 재판 내용을 보며, “악의 평범성”을 개념화한다. 하지만 그녀의 행동은 가족, 유대계 커뮤니티와 사상계 등 모든 사람의 반대에 부딪히게 된다. 사회적 반감과 살해 위협 속에서도 자신의 주장을 굽히지 않았던 한나 아렌트. , 에 이은 강인한 실존 여성 인물 3부작의 완성!
단순한 대화는 인간관계에 오해를 불러일으키기도 한다. 잔느는 프랑스 고등학교의 철학 선생님이다. 그녀의 약혼자는 멀리 떠났고, 그녀는 그의 아파트에 머물고 싶지 않았다. 그녀는 혼자지내기가 적적하여 그녀의 사촌의 집에 방문하기도 하다가 파티에서 만난 음악을 배우는 학생 나타샤와 함께 살기로 한다. 나타샤는 잔느의 아버지 이고르의 방에 머물게 된다. 그러던 어느 날, 나타샤는 잔느에게 목걸이를 잃어버렸다는 말을 하고 이브가 의심스럽다고 한다. 마침내 그들이 모두 모인 저녁 식사 시간, 나타샤는 드이어 입을 열려고 하는데...
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs of his people. Louis admires Voltaire, but is increasingly influenced against him by his minister, the Count de Sarnac.
"Finding Joseph I" is a feature documentary chronicling the eccentric life and struggles of punk rock reggae singer, Paul "HR" Hudson, a.k.a. Joseph I, the legendary lead singer from Bad Brains.
Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.
A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
Director Victor Kossakovsky dedicated his documentary debut to the Russian philosopher and religious thinker Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988), who died shortly after the completion of the film.
A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply and things take a turn for the worse when Julia's seductive younger sister arrives.
A voyage to the center of the thought of Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a tireless explorer of the margins, a brilliant and atypical thinker, through excerpts from his books and lectures, and the use of images that resonate with them.
A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.
Alan Watts discusses the Western dichotomy of work and play, and explains that when you take the play out of work life becomes joyless drudgery.
In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.
Secrets of a Soul: Margarethe, Creator of bizarre sculptures! Night club dancer? Mad woman? Victim of an occult conspiracy?! Dark menaces steal her soul and organs. Though dead they keep her alive...
Alan Watts talks about our perception of the world, and how we derive metaphysics from it. Watts recorded this video in 1971 as a pilot for a public television series in the United States.
The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
