Classic Philosophical Movie Recommendations
# Gattaca
Anno: 1997 | Paese: US
Regista: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Alan Arkin, Loren Dean
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Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
# Lucy
Anno: 2014 | Paese: France
Regista: Luc Besson
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt
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A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
# Inception
Anno: 2010 | Paese: United Kingdom, United States of America
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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inc
# Paprika
Anno: 2006 | Paese: JP
Regista: Satoshi Kon
Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Tohru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Furuya, Akio Otsuka
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When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
# 2001: A Space Odyssey
Anno: 1968 | Paese: GB
Regista: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter
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Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
# Being John Malkovich
Anno: 1999 | Paese: United States of America
Regista: Spike Jonze
Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Charlie Sheen, John Malkovich
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One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking
# The Wall
Anno: 2017 | Paese: US
Regista: Doug Liman
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli
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An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
# Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Anno: 2004 | Paese: United States of America
Regista: Michel Gondry
Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood
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Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still
# Her
Anno: 2013 | Paese: United States of America
Regista: Spike Jonze
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde
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In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops b
# Fight Club
Anno: 1999 | Paese: United States of America
Regista: David Fincher
Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Helena Bonham Carter
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A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every
# The Man from Earth
Anno: 2007 | Paese: US
Regista: Richard Schenkman
Cast: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford, Annika Peterson
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A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.
# Apocalypse Now
Anno: 1979 | Paese: US
Regista: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne
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At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
# Life of Pi
Anno: 2012 | Paese: IN
Regista: Ang Lee
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon, Gautam Belur, Adil Hussain
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The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
# The Matrix
Anno: 1999 | Paese: United States of America
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Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
# Blade Runner
Anno: 1982 | Paese: US
Regista: Ridley Scott
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
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In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
# The Truman Show
Anno: 1998 | Paese: United States of America
Regista: Peter Weir
Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Ed Harris
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Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consu