Movies & Documentaries
1. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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."
22. Awakening the Soul
Date: 2021
Runtime: 1h 9m
Genre: Documentary
Country & Original Language : United Kingdom & English
Director: Samuel Austin
"A psychedelic trip into the heart of Ayahuasca deep diving into how and why this medicine is so profoundly effective at unraveling and healing the root causes of trauma, addiction and mental health issues."
23. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.”
36. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Date: 2010
Runtime: 1h 15m
Genre: Documentary
Country & Original Language : United States & English
Director: Mitch Schultz
“An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.”
37. 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
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
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. Her
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
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
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
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
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
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.”