Movies & Documentaries

1. Waking Life

waking life

Date: 2001

Runtime: 1h 39m

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Richard Linklater

"A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe."

2. Baraka

baraka

Date: 1992

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : United States & None

Director: Ron Fricke

"A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion."


3. Samsara

samsara

Date: 2011

Runtime: 1h 42m

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country & Original Language : United States & None

Director: Ron Fricke

"Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimeter film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders."

4. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds
Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds

Date: 2012

Runtime: 2h 2m

Genre: Documentary, History

Country & Original Language : Canada & English

Director: Daniel Schmidt

"There is one vibratory field that connects all things. It has been called Akasha, Logos, the primordial OM, the music of the spheres, the Higgs field, dark energy, and a thousand other names throughout history."

5. Human
Human

Date: 2015

Runtime: 3h 10m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : France & French, English

Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

"A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human."

6. Home

Home

Date: 2009

Runtime: 1h 58m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : France & French, English

Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

"With aerial footage from fifty-four countries, 'Home' is a depiction of how Earth's problems are all interlinked."

7. Boyhood​

boyhood

Date: 2014

Runtime: 2h 45m

Genre: Drama

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Richard Linklater

"The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college."

 8. The Truman Show 

the truman show

Date: 1998

Runtime: 1h 43m

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Peter Weir

"An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show."

9. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Date: 2003

Runtime: 1h 43m

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country & Original Language : South Korea, Germany & Korean

Director: Kim Ki-duk

"A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons."

10. I Am

iam

Date: 2010

Runtime: 1h 18m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Tom Shadyac

"Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it."

11. Awake: The Life of Yogananda

Awake: The Life of Yogananda

12. Peaceful Warrior

12. Peaceful Warrior

Date: 2006

Runtime: 2h

Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport

Country & Original Language : Germany, United States & English

Director: Victor Salva

"A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast."

13. Adaptation

Adaptation

Date: 2002

Runtime: 1h 55m

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Spike Jonze

"A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen."


14. Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day

Date: 1993

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genre: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Harold Ramis

"A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day, and the day keeps repeating until he gets it right."

15. Spirited Away
Spirited Away

Date: 2001

Runtime: 2h 5m

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family

Country & Original Language : Japan & Japanese

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

"During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts."


16. Soul

Soul

Date: 2020

Runtime: 1h 40m

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers

"After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife."

 17. The Fountain

The Fountain

Date: 2006

Runtime: 1h 37m

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Darren Aronofsky

"As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi."

18. Happy

Happy

Date: 2012

Runtime: 1h 16m

Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Roko Belic

"Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy."

19. I Origins

I Origins

Date: 2014

Runtime: 1h 46m

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Mike Cahill

"A molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it."

 20. Becoming Nobody 

Becoming Nobody

Date: 2019

Runtime: 1h 21m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Jamie Catto

"Director's interviews, accompanied by archival footage and original music, Ram Dass explores our universal human condition and behaviors in connection to the journey of the soul and the shared unity of all of our lives."


21. Planetary

Planetary

Date: 2015

Runtime: 1h 25m

Genre: Documentary, History

Country & Original Language : United States, United Kingdom & English

Director: Guy Reid, Steve Watts Kennedy

"We are in the midst of a global crisis of perspective. We have forgotten the undeniable truth that everything is connected. PLANETARY is a provocative and breathtaking wakeup call, a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. PLANETARY is a poetic and humbling reminder that it's time to shift our perspective."

 23. Your Name

Your Name

Date: 2016

Runtime: 1h 46m

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country & Original Language : Japan & Japanese

Director: Makoto Shinkai

"Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?"

24. Into the Wild

Into the Wild

Date: 2007

Runtime: 2h 28m

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Sean Penn

"After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life."

25. Ashes and Snow

Ashes and Snow

Date: 2005

Runtime: 1h 2m

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Country & Original Language : United States & English, Spanish, Japanese

Director: Gregory Colbert

"Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals."


26. Life in a Day

Life in a Day

Date: 2011

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Country & Original Language : United States, United Kingdom & English, Italian, Japanese, German, Spanish, Indonesian, Balinese, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Creole, Catalan, Dutch, Bengali, Masai, Hindi, Arabic, Quechua, Russian, Telugu, Tamil

Director: Kevin Macdonald

"A documentary shot by film-makers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, 2010."


27. Finding Joe

Finding Joe

Date: 2011

Runtime: 1h 20m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Patrick Takaya Solomon

"A truly inspirational film, Finding Joe explores the studies of famed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Take a journey through the human psyche and discover the pattern hidden in every story."

28. Ayurveda: Art of Being

Ayurveda: Art of Being

 

Date: 2001

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : India, Switzerland, Germany & English, Hindi

Director: Pan Nalin

"Ayurveda is science of life and art of healing; where body, mind and spirit are given equal importance. This voyage of thousands of miles across India and abroad takes you on a unique poetic journey, where we encounter remarkable men of medicine or simply a villager who lives in harmony with nature. "Hope is nature's way of enabling us to survive so that we can discover nature itself."

29. Samsara
Samsara

Date: 2001

Runtime: 2h 25m

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Country & Original Language : India, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany & Tibetan, Ladakhi

Director: Pan Nalin

"A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending…"

 30. The Man from Earth

The Man from Earth

Date: 2007

Runtime: 1h 27m

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Richard Schenkman

"An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine."

 31. Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich

Date: 1999

Runtime: 1h 53m

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Spike Jonze

"A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich."

 32. Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

Date: 2001

Runtime: 2h 27m

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country & Original Language : United States, France & English, Spanish, French

Director: David Lynch

“After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.”

33. Samadhi

 

Date: 2017

Runtime: 1h

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : Canada & English

Director: Daniel Schmidt

“Samadhi Part 1 is the first installment in a series of films exploring Samadhi, an ancient Sanskrit word which points toward the mystical or transcendent union that is at the root of all spirituality and self inquiry.”

34. Samadhi: Part 2 - It's Not What You Think

Date: 2018

Runtime: 1h 11m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : Canada & English

Director: Daniel Schmidt

“Samadhi Movie. Part 2 (It’s not what you think) is the second installment of a series of films exploring Samadhi.”

35. Samadhi: Part 3 - The Pathless Path

Samadhi: Part 3 - The Pathless Path

Date: 2021

Runtime: 1h 31m

Genre: Documentary

Country & Original Language : Canada & English

Director: Daniel Schmidt


“The path is you and every obstacle on the path is you. The path to Samadhi is not the sort of path where you put one foot in front of another to get to a place. The path is a stripping away of illusion; a waking-up to exactly who one is.”

37. I Lost My Body

I Lost My Body

Date: 2019

Runtime: 1h 21m

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country & Original Language : France & French

Director: Jeremy Clapin


“A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.”

38. Amelie

Amelie

Date: 2001

Runtime: 2h 2m

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country & Original Language : France, Germany & French, Russian, English

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.”

39. Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love

Date: 2010

Runtime: 2h 13m

Genre: Biography, Romance, Drama

Country & Original Language : United States & English, Italian, Portuguese

Director: Ryan Murphy

“A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to “find herself”.”

40. HerHer

Date: 2013

Runtime: 2h 6m

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama

Country & Original Language : United States & English

Director: Spike Jonze

“In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.”

41. Leon: The Professional

Leon: The Professional

Date: 1994

Runtime: 1h 50m

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country & Original Language : France, United States & English, Italian, French

Director: Luc Besson

“12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade.”

42. PK: Peekay

PK: Peekay

Date: 2014

Runtime: 2h 33m

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama

Country & Original Language : India & Hindi

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

“An alien on Earth loses the only device he can use to communicate with his spaceship. His innocent nature and child-like questions force the country to evaluate the impact of religion on its people.”

43. Dangal

Dangal

Date: 2016

Runtime: 2h 41m

Genre: Action, Biography, Drama

Country & Original Language : India, United States & Hindi, English

Director: Nitesh Tiwari

“Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters struggle towards glory at the Commonwealth Games in the face of societal oppression.”

44. 21 Grams

21 Grams

Date: 2003

Runtime: 2h 4m

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country & Original Language : English

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu


“A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.”

45. Intouchables

Intouchables

Date: 2011

Runtime: 1h 52m

Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy

Country & Original Language : French & English

Director: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano

“After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.”