Philosophers in movies
Occasionally I take time out from working on the history of philosophy to watch a movie; of course, I try to make sure the movie involves some philosophers. Hence I recently saw "The Physician," which features Ben Kingsley playing Avicenna, and "The Imitation Game," featuring Benedict Cummerbatch playing Alan Turing. The latter movie is far better, I think, and pays due honor to Turing's massive achievement in WW2 even if it is attracting some criticism for various historical inaccuracies. I don't know enough about Turing's life to judge how (in)accurate "The Imitation Game" was, but "The Physician" is almost comically off the mark in portraying Avicenna: everything we know about Avicenna suggests that he was imperious, arrogant, and wore his brilliance on his sleeve, and also that he prioritized philosophy far above medicine, which he probably did practice but only to a relatively small extent (unlike the earlier al-Razi). In the movie by contrast he's a more or less saintly figure whose life revolves mostly around running a teaching hospital. It's comparable to "Agora" which pretty much just invents a whole bunch of stuff about Hypatia, including that she intuited the elliptical orbits of planets around the sun (!). All of which made me wonder, are there any convincing/accurate portrayals of real historical philosophers in movies? Many examples seem to fall either into the too-good-to-be-true saint category (as with Avicenna) or the socially incompetent freak category (as with Turing).
David Oyelowo is great as
David Oyelowo is great as Martin Luther King in Selma.
Socrates "Bill and Ted's
Socrates "Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure"
Hello Peter,
Hello Peter,
I am grateful for the precious bits you introduce and the sustained hard work you invest to make philosophy Geeks happy. I am going to visit London between 8 & 14 April, and I wonder if there is any possibility seeing you there.
regards,
Monir
In reply to Hello Peter, by Monir
Actually I don't live in
Actually I don't live in London! I moved to Munich in 2012, and am only back occasionally to visit, sorry.
Some philosophers in movies:
Some philosophers in movies:
There’s an Italian TV movie of Socrates by Rossellini. I have it on DVD. (He also made films about Augustine and Pascal (not seen them) and I think they were conceived as a trilogy.) Aristotle appears briefly in the Alexander movies (old and new).
Cicero appears briefly in Cleopatra, and more fully in the BBC/HBO series Rome. Seneca appears in Quo Vadis. Marcus Aurelius appears in The Fall of the Roman Empire and then more recently in Gladiator. I quite like Richard Harris’s portrayal.
There’s a movie of Abelard and Heloise called Stealing Heaven (not seen). There’s also a movie of Giordano Bruno just called ‘Giordano Bruno’ (also not seen). There’s a movie about Martin Luther in which the philosopher-theologian Cardinal Cajetan appears briefly. Machiavelli appears in the TV series The Borgias.
There is the slightly odd The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (I think in French).
More recently there is a movie about Hannah Arendt.
That’s all from memory; there may be a few slips. I’m sure you already know the Averroes musical, Le Destin!
And Bertie Russell and
And Bertie Russell and Wittgenstein in Jarman's film: https://youtu.be/IIu70Jo38eo
Here's one - the 1966 six
Here's one - the 1966 six-Oscar-winning A Man For All Seasons, based on the play by Robert Bolt, about Thomas More. (It's the reason my parents named me Thomas!) You'll definitely want to watch it when you get to him.
Technically, couldn't we say
Technically, couldn't we say that this tradition dates to Plato depicting Socrates as a too-good-to-be-true saint?
In reply to Technically, couldn't we say by Alexander Johnson
If you mean the fictional
If you mean the fictional representation of philosophers, then yes, I guess that is one of the earliest cases (you could also argue for instance that the Upanisads include fictionalized representations of various sages). As far as I know Plato never made any actual movies, but I wouldn't put it past him.
Here's a list. As for the
Here's a list. As for the acurracy of the portrayals, I guess it is up to debate in many cases. Enjoy!
1. Heraclitus - Héraclite l'obscur (1967) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278492/
2. Empedocles - Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094159/?ref_=nv_sr_1
3. Socrate – Socrate (1971) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210296/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_8
4. Confucius – Kong Zi (2010) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397498/?ref_=nv_sr_1
5.Hypatia of Alexandria - Agora (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/?ref_=nv_sr_1
6. Augustin – Agostino d'Ippona (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072617/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_6
7. Adi Shankara - Adi Shankaracharya (1983) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085138/?ref_=nv_sr_1
8. Pierre Abelard - Stealing Heaven (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096170/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
9. Averroes - Al-massir (1997) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/
10. Al-Ghazali - The Alchemist of Happiness (2004) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439430/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
11. Hildegard von Bingen - Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995850/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1
12. Humanism - L'età di Cosimo de Medici (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069684/
13. Thomas Morus - A Man for All Seasons - dif. vers. - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/
14. Giordano Bruno - Giordano Bruno (1973) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070109/?ref_=nv_sr_1
15. Galileo Galilei - Galileo (1975) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073029/
16. Descartes – Cartesius (1974) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4
17. Pascal – Blaise Pascal (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_7
18. Baruch Spinoza - The Apostle of Reason (1994) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9r8xIbc3_k
19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Les chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077322/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
20. Voltaire - Voltaire (1933) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024742/?ref_=nv_sr_5
21. Voltaire - Ce diable d'homme (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187672/?ref_=nv_sr_1
22. Denis Diderot - Le libertin (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214878/?ref_=nv_sr_1
23. Immanuel Kant – Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109601/?ref_=nv_sr_7
24. Karl Marx - Le jeune Karl Marx (2017) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699518/?ref_=nv_sr_1
25. Henry David Thoreau - Marbles with Thoreau (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1471183/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
26. Friedrich Nietzsche - Al di là del bene e del male (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075652/?ref_=nv_sr_1
27. Friedrich Nietzsche - Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297856/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
28. Friedrich Nietzsche - The Twilight of the Gods (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2345168/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
29. Sigmund Freud - Freud (1962) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055998/?ref_=nv_sr_1
30. Carl Jung & Sigmund Freud - A Dangerous Method (2011) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=nv_sr_2
31. Antonio Gramsci - Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075688/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
32. Ludwig Wittgenstein – Wittgenstein (1993) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/?ref_=nv_sr_2
33. Edith Stein - A hetedik szoba (1996) - The Seventh Room - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114461/
34. Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre - Les amants du Flore (2006) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/?ref_=nv_sr_1
35. Jean-Paul Sartre - Sartre, l'âge des passions (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922597/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
36. Ayn Rand - The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/?ref_=nv_sr_1
37. Alan Turing - Breaking the code (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/
38. Alan Turing – The Imitation Game (2014) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/?ref_=nv_sr_1
39. Hannah Arendt - Hannah Arendt (2012) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/?ref_=nv_sr_1
40. Iris Murdoch - Iris (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
41. G.I. Gurdjieff - Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079542/
In reply to Here's a list. As for the by id
Wow, amazing! I love it when
Wow, amazing! I love it when such old posts get such good comments, it's a powerful case for leaving all this stuff up on the net for people to find.
In reply to Here's a list. As for the by id
What a wonderful list! I'm
What a wonderful list! I'm trying to find Marbles with Thoreau to watch with my daughter, but we can't seem to locate it on any of the usual platforms - not even for sale as a DVD. Any suggestions? Thank you!
Here's an update to the list…
Here's an update to the list. I think at least some of them, such as "Marbles with Thoreau", can be found on youtube. Enjoy!
1. Confucius (551-479 A.C.)
- Kong Fuzi (1940) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1616538/
– Kong Zi (2010) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397498/?ref_=nv_sr_1
2. Heraclitus (535 – 475 A.C.)
- Héraclite l'obscur (1967) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278492/
3. Empedocles (495 – 435 A.C.)
- Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094159/?ref_=nv_sr_1
4. Socrates (470 – 399 A.C.)
– Socrate (1971) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210296/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_8
5. St. Augustin (354 – 430)
– Agostino d'Ippona (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072617/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_6
- Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire (2010) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327890/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
6. Hypatia of Alexandria (360 – 415)
- Agora (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/?ref_=nv_sr_1
7. Adi Shankara (788 – 820)
- Adi Shankaracharya (1983) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085138/?ref_=nv_sr_1
8. Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131)
- Omar Khayyam (1957) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050799/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294806/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
9. Al-Ghazali (1058 – 1111)
- The Alchemist of Happiness (2004) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439430/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
10. Pierre Abelard (1079 – 1142)
- Stealing Heaven (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096170/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
11. Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)
- Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995850/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1
12. Averroes (1126 – 1198)
- Al-massir (1997) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/
13. Ramon Llull (1232 – 1315)
- Jo, Ramon Llull (2016) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6024708/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Discovering Ramon Llull (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5711210/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
14. Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
- The Mystery of Dante (2014) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2650486/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
15. Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
- Duns Scotus (2011) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872050/
16. John Wycliffe (1320 – 1384)
- John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390145/
- https://www.morningstarfilm.co.uk/
17. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
- Niccolò Machiavelli il Principe della politica (2012?) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400403/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
18. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543)
- Kopernic (1973) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070278/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
19. Thomas Morus (1478 – 1535)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/
- A Man for All Seasons (1988) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095578/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
20. Paracelsus (1493/4 – 1541)
- Paracelsus (1943) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036249/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
21. Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600)
- Giordano Bruno (1973) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070109/?ref_=nv_sr_1
22. Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
- Galileo (1968) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062998/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- Galileo (1975) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073029/
- Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants (2011) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205959/?ref_=kw_li_tt
23. Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630)
- Johannes Kepler (1974) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071698/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
24. Descartes (1596 – 1650)
– Cartesius (1974) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4
25. Pascal (1623 – 1662)
– Blaise Pascal (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_7
26. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
- The Apostle of Reason (1994) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9r8xIbc3_k
27. Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/7)
- Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs (1997) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217687/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
28. Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
- Voltaire (1933) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024742/?ref_=nv_sr_5
- Ce diable d'homme (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187672/?ref_=nv_sr_1
29. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974-1975) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363319/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- Benjamin Franklin (2002) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348896/?ref_=tt_sims_tt
30. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)
- Les chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077322/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
31. Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784)
- Le libertin (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214878/?ref_=nv_sr_1
32. Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
– Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109601/?ref_=nv_sr_7
33. Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740 – 1814)
- Marat/Sade (1967) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060668/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Marquis (1989) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097839/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Quills (2000) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180073/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
- Sade (2000) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217019/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
34. Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805)
- Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457907/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- The Young Schiller (2005) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458469/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
35. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843)
- Feuerreiter (1998) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127594/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
36. Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837)
- Leopardi (2014) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3152602/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
37. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
- Marbles with Thoreau (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1471183/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
38. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
- Le jeune Karl Marx (2017) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699518/?ref_=nv_sr_1
39. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
- Al di là del bene e del male (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075652/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297856/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- When Nietzsche Wept (2007) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760188/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- The Twilight of the Gods (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2345168/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free (2016) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4976588/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
40. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
- Freud (1962) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055998/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- When Nietzsche Wept (2007) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760188/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- A Dangerous Method (2011) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=nv_sr_2
- Freud (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8667956/
41. Miguel de Unamuno (1864 – 1936)
- While at War (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7818580/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2
42. G.I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
- Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079542/
43. Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1986) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091869/
44. Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
- A Dangerous Method (2011) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=nv_sr_2
45. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
– Wittgenstein (1993) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/?ref_=nv_sr_2
46. Antonio Gramsci (1891 – 1937)
- Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075688/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
47. Edith Stein (1891 – 1942)
- A hetedik szoba/The Seventh Room (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114461/
48. Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982)
- The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/?ref_=nv_sr_1
49. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980)
- Les amants du Flore (2006) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- Sartre, l'âge des passions (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922597/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpGg-gGNIg
50. Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975)
- Hannah Arendt (2012) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/?ref_=nv_sr_1
51. Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986)
- Les amants du Flore (2006) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- Violette (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2976920/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
52. Georges Devereux (1908 – 1985)
- Jimmy P. (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2210834/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
53. Alan Turing (1912 – 1954)
- Breaking the code (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/
- The Imitation Game (2014) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/?ref_=nv_sr_1
LIST OF BIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES ABOUT PHILOSOPHERS / LISTĂ FILME BIOGRAFICE DESPRE FILOSOFI
1. Confucius (551-479 A.C.)
- Kong Fuzi (1940) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1616538/
– Kong Zi (2010) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397498/?ref_=nv_sr_1
2. Heraclitus (535 – 475 A.C.)
- Héraclite l'obscur (1967) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278492/
3. Empedocles (495 – 435 A.C.)
- Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (1987) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094159/?ref_=nv_sr_1
4. Socrates (470 – 399 A.C.)
– Socrate (1971) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210296/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_8
5. St. Augustin (354 – 430)
– Agostino d'Ippona (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072617/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_6
- Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire (2010) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327890/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
6. Hypatia of Alexandria (360 – 415)
- Agora (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/?ref_=nv_sr_1
7. Adi Shankara (788 – 820)
- Adi Shankaracharya (1983) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085138/?ref_=nv_sr_1
8. Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131)
- Omar Khayyam (1957) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050799/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294806/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
9. Al-Ghazali (1058 – 1111)
- The Alchemist of Happiness (2004) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439430/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
10. Pierre Abelard (1079 – 1142)
- Stealing Heaven (1988) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096170/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
11. Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)
- Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995850/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1
12. Averroes (1126 – 1198)
- Al-massir (1997) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/
13. Ramon Llull (1232 – 1315)
- Jo, Ramon Llull (2016) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6024708/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Discovering Ramon Llull (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5711210/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
14. Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
- The Mystery of Dante (2014) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2650486/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
15. Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
- Duns Scotus (2011) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872050/
16. John Wycliffe (1320 – 1384)
- John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390145/
- https://www.morningstarfilm.co.uk/
17. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
- Niccolò Machiavelli il Principe della politica (2012?) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400403/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
18. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543)
- Kopernic (1973) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070278/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
19. Thomas Morus (1478 – 1535)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/
- A Man for All Seasons (1988) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095578/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
20. Paracelsus (1493/4 – 1541)
- Paracelsus (1943) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036249/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
21. Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600)
- Giordano Bruno (1973) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070109/?ref_=nv_sr_1
22. Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
- Galileo (1968) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062998/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- Galileo (1975) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073029/
- Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants (2011) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205959/?ref_=kw_li_tt
23. Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630)
- Johannes Kepler (1974) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071698/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
24. Descartes (1596 – 1650)
– Cartesius (1974) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_4
25. Pascal (1623 – 1662)
– Blaise Pascal (1972) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_7
26. Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677)
- The Apostle of Reason (1994) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9r8xIbc3_k
27. Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/7)
- Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs (1997) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217687/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
28. Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
- Voltaire (1933) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024742/?ref_=nv_sr_5
- Ce diable d'homme (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187672/?ref_=nv_sr_1
29. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
- The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974-1975) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363319/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- Benjamin Franklin (2002) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348896/?ref_=tt_sims_tt
30. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)
- Les chemins de l'exil ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1978) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077322/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
31. Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784)
- Le libertin (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214878/?ref_=nv_sr_1
32. Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
– Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109601/?ref_=nv_sr_7
33. Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740 – 1814)
- Marat/Sade (1967) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060668/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Marquis (1989) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097839/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Quills (2000) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180073/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
- Sade (2000) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217019/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
34. Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805)
- Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457907/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- The Young Schiller (2005) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458469/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
35. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843)
- Feuerreiter (1998) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127594/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
36. Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837)
- Leopardi (2014) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3152602/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
37. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
- Marbles with Thoreau (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1471183/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
38. Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
- Le jeune Karl Marx (2017) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699518/?ref_=nv_sr_1
39. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
- Al di là del bene e del male (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075652/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297856/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- When Nietzsche Wept (2007) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760188/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- The Twilight of the Gods (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2345168/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free (2016) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4976588/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
40. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
- Freud (1962) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055998/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- When Nietzsche Wept (2007) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760188/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
- A Dangerous Method (2011) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=nv_sr_2
- Freud (2020) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8667956/
41. Miguel de Unamuno (1864 – 1936)
- While at War (2019) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7818580/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2
42. G.I. Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949)
- Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079542/
43. Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1986) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091869/
44. Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
- A Dangerous Method (2011) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/?ref_=nv_sr_2
45. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)
– Wittgenstein (1993) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/?ref_=nv_sr_2
46. Antonio Gramsci (1891 – 1937)
- Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075688/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
47. Edith Stein (1891 – 1942)
- A hetedik szoba/The Seventh Room (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114461/
48. Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982)
- The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/?ref_=nv_sr_1
49. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980)
- Les amants du Flore (2006) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- Sartre, l'âge des passions (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0922597/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpGg-gGNIg
50. Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975)
- Hannah Arendt (2012) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/?ref_=nv_sr_1
51. Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986)
- Les amants du Flore (2006) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/?ref_=nv_sr_1
- Violette (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2976920/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
52. Georges Devereux (1908 – 1985)
- Jimmy P. (2013) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2210834/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
53. Alan Turing (1912 – 1954)
- Breaking the code (1996) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/
- The Imitation Game (2014) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/?ref_=nv_sr_1
54. Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999)
- Iris (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
54. Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999)
- Iris (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
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I suppose the depiction of
I suppose the depiction of Aristotle in Alexander (2004) is somewhat accurate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UGTvRbdUs