Recommend me movies for my 'Movie Philosophy' class

[RoughNTumble]

The professor is letting us choose 8 movies to watch this semester.

I'm not really sure what to pick, but i want this class to be as interesting as it can be.

I'm looking for movies that pose interesting/provocative philosophical questions or circumstances.

 

[darkseid26]

2001
8 1/2
The Seventh Seal

 

[Ponyboy]

All these movies kinda deal with death, issues of control, playing God, etc...

Limitless
What Dreams May Come
Devil
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Wicker Man (w/ Christopher Lee)
My Life
The Adjustment Bureau
Twelve Monkeys
Million Dollar Baby
Minority Report
Gattaca
Doubt
The Manchurian Candidate (the original)

 

[Secret Fawful]

Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku
Ghost in the Shell
Lars Von Trier's Antichrist
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
The Invention of Lying

 

[Rocketman]

Movies that made me think the most:

The Matrix
Inception
Fight Club
American Psycho
The Truman Show
Watchmen
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Blade Runner
Memento
The Village
Minority Report
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
V For Vendetta
The Dark Knight

I'd say these are essential movies dealing with big, philosophical ideas. The five in bold especially so.

 

[PWN3R]

The Stuntman - Forgotten 80's film that really plays with perception vs. reality. Damn good movie, plus, Peter O'Toole eats up every scene in his role.

 

[childeroland]

The Seventh Seal.
William Holloway's adaptation of David Lindsay's great A Voyage to Arcturus, if you can find it.
Synecdoche, NY
The Decalogue
Juliet of the Springs
Wild Strawberries

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Dirty Harry

 

[Fanticon]

I'll second Memento, because it's a movie that's hard to immediately decipher and poses the question of whether or not he's guilty of his own crimes if he can't remember them, despite setting out on an insane quest to avenge the death of his wife as his memories continue to deteriorate.

Also, I just watched a pretty good movie called Black Death. It was about a group of Knights/Crusaders on a quest to find what they believe to be a witch responsible for the Bubonic Plague and the things they encounter on the way to finding out the truth. Religious and philosophical topics throughout. In one scene they save a woman from an angry mob accusing her of witchcraft, but then kill her to spare her from the mob surely catching up with her to burn her. Lesser of two evils kind of stuff.

 

[THANOSRULES]

I agree The Seventh Seal


Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

The Fountain
Truman Show
Pan's Labyrinth
Stranger Than Fiction
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Artificial Intelligence
Taxi Driver

 

[Max J Power]

A Serious Man
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rope
Being John Malkovich
Network
Dark City
Groundhog Day
Unforgiven
Punch Drunk Love
The New World
The Night of the Hunter
Rashomon
High Noon
Grizzly Man
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Munich
Being There

 

[DACrowe]

-2001: A Space Odyssey (existentialism, spirituality, technology, life)
-A Clockwork Orange (morality, torture)
-There Will Be Blood (the whole swath of the American dream from capitalism to religion to nihilism to existentialism)
-Taxi Driver (nihilism, absolutism)
-The Manchurian Candidate (politics-heavy)
-Seven Days in May (politics-heavy)
-Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
-The Prestige (originality, immortality)
-The Royal Tennenbaums
-Lost in Translation
-The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
-Fight Club
-Watchmen (all here--absolutism, utilitarianism, nihilism, deotonology, spirituality, existentialism, morality, etc.)
-The Third Man
-Pulp Fiction
-Black Swan
-Empire of the Sun
-Blade Runner
-The Graduate

Have fun.

 

[childeroland]

Oh, and Rashomon, like Max said.

 

[Franklin Richards]

The People VS Larry Flynt.

 

[Spidermatrix53]

Oldboy.

I'm surprised no one suggested this. It's about how far you are willing to go for revenge and such.