Maximo, um general das legiões romanas, é querido por todos e o favorito do imperador Marco Aurélio, que o elege como sucessor, pondo de lado o próprio filho, o invejoso e cruel Cómodo. Movido pelo ódio, ele mata o pai, toma o poder e decide banir Maximo, condenando-o à morte e matando a sua família. Mas a vida dá voltas e Máximo voltará a Roma como gladiador em busca de vingança.
Após assistir ao julgamento do nazi Adolf Eichmann, a filósofa política Hannah Arendt atreve-se a escrever sobre o Holocausto em termos inauditos. O seu trabalho provoca imediatamente escândalo mas Arendt mantém-se firme ao ser atacada tanto por inimigos, quanto por amigos.
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Com direção do mestre italiano Roberto Rossellini (Roma, Cidade Aberta), esta superprodução européia é a cinebiografia de Sócrates (470 - 333 a.C.), um dos maiores filósofos da Humanidade. Rossellini mostra o final da vida de Sócrates, em especial seu julgamento e sua condenação à morte, com destaque para os célebres diálogos socráticos: "Apologia", discurso de defesa do filósofo; "Críton", em que um dos seus discípulos tenta convencê-lo a fugir da prisão; e "Fédon", com seus últimos ensinamentos antes de tomar a cicuta.
The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.
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.
What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these existential questions, this movie invites us to find out an universal wisdom, meeting shamans, healers, yogis, but also philosophers and doctors. From Mongolia plains to the Amazonian forest, it leads us far than we expected at first.
A vida e obra da filósofa política alemã de ascendência judaica Hannah Arendt (1906-75), que causou um alvoroço quando cunhou um conceito subversivo, a banalidade do mal, em seu livro de 1963 sobre o julgamento do criminoso de guerra nazista Adolph Eichmann (1906-62), realizado em Israel em 1961, que ela cobriu para a revista New Yorker.
In the moment when Belgrade industrialist Života Cvijović had dreams to marry off his son Milorad, Doctor of Philosophy, to a minister of transport's daughter, a telegram from Milorad's professor from Heidelberg arrives, saying that he wants to visit them. Bad luck is that Velimir, a poor student, was financed by Milorad, and studying under his name received a diploma.
The last few days in the life of Socrates, including his trial.
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.
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 biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
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.
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.
Lucien is a high school student lost in a meaningless adolescence. One day, he comes across a book by Nietzsche. This literary encounter is an absolute love at first sight, which leads to their meeting - in real life. The philosopher will then help Lucien to open himself to the girl he has a crush on.
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...