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Here it is! A thread to post movies that you believe any aspiring philosopher or just an interested mind might enjoy! If you'd like to be especially helpful, you could include the imdb.com or other movie database page for the movie so I can link to it when I place the movie in the recommendation post! 3nodding

So post away your recommendations and I'll put them in this thread. biggrin

Movies That Make You Think
Tsotsi -- This is a movie from Africa. Set in present time, a young thug struggles through life in the slums. Dealing with social problems, survival, and decency this movie is one that will leave you thinking at the end.

A Scanner Darkly -- About our future and our government and how bad things are going to become, but it's almost satirical, not outright depressing.

Waking Life -- Mostly about existentialism. The animation style is the same as in A Scanner Darkly.Waking Life

The Matrix -- Using an action and a comic book feel, this movie explores fate, reality and knowledge.

Derrida -- Here's a clip from the documentary of the father of Deconstruction talking about love and being:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMR52v_Kq9Q

Donnie Darko -- A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to committ a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident. View a full plot summary Here.

American Beauty -- Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend. View a full plot summary Here.

Fight Club -- And office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression. View a full plot summary Here, or read the book. biggrin

K-PAX -- Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

Faust -- A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after being lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay model animation and giant puppets.

What The Bleep Do We Know!?!? -- "WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?!" is a radical departure from convention. It demands a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed, not even dreamed of since Copernicus. Read more Here. (Assuming that's the right movie?)

Ghost in the Shell -- Check out information Here. (Assuming that's the right movie?)

Thumbsucker -- Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb. Read more Here.

Darkness Light Darkness -- A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where. Also known as Tma/Svetlo/Tma.

A Beautiful Mind -- After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. Read more Here.

Carnivale -- 1934, America. The Dustbowl. A fugitive named Ben Hawkins finds refuge within a traveling carnival comprised of a tarot card reader and her catatonic/telekinetic mother, a blind mentalist, a bearded lady, and conjoined twins, amongst others. Read more Here.

Dogville -- A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away... Read more Here

Have you guys seen 'A Scanner Darkly' or 'Waking Life'? Both are pretty good movies that offer plenty to talk about after you've seen it with friends. A Scanner Darkly being more about our future and our government and how bad things are going to become, but it's almost satirical, not outright depressing.

Waking Life... i can't say i know how to describe it very well, it's mostly about existentialism. Either way, the animation style is the same as in Scanner Darkly. I recommend both of them if you don't have anything better to do, and of course, if possible just download them or check them out online to see if it's really your cup of tea first razz

i'm not sure where you live, but around here, you can pick it up in just about any large music and video store for about 10 dollars, american. rather inexpensive since it's not a movie that sells very often or appeals to everyone.

as an added note, i found a link for it on amazon.com so you can check it out and read the description and reviews that are on there. they do a much better job of explaining the movie than i did. >.<

Waking Life

Another interesting film was What the bleep do we know? Anyone else see that one?

First post outside the introduction, I thought I'd throw in my hat here:

K-PAX is a must-watch, as is American Beauty and Fight Club.

Pay It Forward is excellent too...

Yeah, I do like Kevin Spacey. Great actor, and alot of things he's in are really great think-movies.

Commenting on both Faust and What the bleep do you know. Both are excellent movies that I couldn't recomend more. I really enjoyed the depth and creativiy behind Faust. I've read the original writings in german and english and this is the best screen/stage adaptation I have ever seen.

What the Bleep do You Know was really hard to follow the first watch through cause it has so many ideas in it that I had to rewatch it several time to process everything. It moved from my netflix list to my owned list so I can fully appriciate it.

I'd like to add "Donnie Darko" as well.

It's kind of hard to explain what it's about.. I'd just say time travel, but you'd have really watch to the movie to understand.

Everyone I've talked to who has seen the movie has said they had the same experiance as me: After watching it we went and sat in a quiet place in a daze for 20 minutes trying to figure out what it was we just saw. It's one of those where you know you've just witnessed something important, but you can't really pin it down.