Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "college", "philosophy"

1. The Master (2012)

R | 138 min | Drama, History

7.1

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86 Metascore

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons

Votes: 186,124 | Gross: $16.38M

2. The Life of David Gale (2003)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.5

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31 Metascore

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Cleo King

Votes: 126,048 | Gross: $19.59M

3. Midnight Express (1978)

R | 121 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

7.5

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59 Metascore

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli

Votes: 88,197 | Gross: $35.00M

4. Brideshead Revisited (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

8.6

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The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls

Votes: 8,033

5. Shadowlands (1993)

PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

7.3

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C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby

Votes: 20,436 | Gross: $25.84M

6. Torso (1973)

R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

6.5

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A string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, John Richardson

Votes: 7,809 | Gross: $0.74M

7. Peaceful Warrior (2006)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

7.2

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40 Metascore

Dan, a college student and a world-champion gymnast, is disturbed and wants to add some meaning to his life. A chance encounter leads him to discover an enlightened way ahead.

Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart, Tim DeKay

Votes: 29,847 | Gross: $3.96M

8. The Best of Youth (2003)

R | 374 min | Drama, Romance

8.5

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89 Metascore

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti

Votes: 23,199 | Gross: $0.27M

9. Golden Time (2013–2014)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

7.6

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With freshmen law students Banri and Mitsuo, it's friendship at first sight. But trouble gets stirred up with talk of a fiancé.

Stars: Yui Horie, Makoto Furukawa, Mike Haimoto, Ai Kayano

Votes: 4,690

10. The Addiction (1995)

Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror

6.4

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A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco

Votes: 11,513 | Gross: $0.30M

11. Admission (2013)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

5.7

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48 Metascore

A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.

Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Nat Wolff, Gloria Reuben

Votes: 36,137 | Gross: $18.00M

12. Simple Men (1992)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

7.1

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Dennis is a handsome & bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man & thief. Together they search for their dad, confront their expectations of each other, themselves, & their attitudes towards women.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Karen Sillas

Votes: 4,792 | Gross: $0.14M

13. 13 Conversations About One Thing (2001)

R | 104 min | Drama

7.0

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74 Metascore

In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

Director: Jill Sprecher | Stars: Alan Arkin, John Turturro, Matthew McConaughey, David Connolly

Votes: 11,493 | Gross: $3.29M

14. Harvard Man (2001)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

4.8

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49 Metascore

A basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game.

Director: James Toback | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adrian Grenier, Joey Lauren Adams, Eric Stoltz

Votes: 4,582 | Gross: $0.06M

15. The Tao of Steve (2000)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.7

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70 Metascore

Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.

Director: Jenniphr Goodman | Stars: Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, John Harrington Bland

Votes: 7,784 | Gross: $4.34M

16. Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)

R | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

5.6

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When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler (Fugit) has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.

Director: Scott Lew | Stars: Patrick Fugit, Olivia Wilde, Deon Richmond, Tyler Francavilla

Votes: 3,487

17. Blue Like Jazz (2012)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

5.8

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48 Metascore

Don, a nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, tries to escape his Bible Belt upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at the most godless campus in America.

Director: Steve Taylor | Stars: Marshall Allman, Claire Holt, Tania Raymonde, Justin Welborn

Votes: 3,047 | Gross: $0.59M

18. College Kickboxers (1991)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action

5.0

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A college freshman who trains in martial arts is beaten up at work by a racist gang. His co-worker, a Chinese cook, beats the gang up and trains the young man in kung fu. When a tournament ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Sherman | Stars: Ken McLeod, Tak-Wing Tang, Matthew Ray Cohen, Marc D. Williams

Votes: 268

19. Davy Wallace (2022)

151 min | Drama

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As he graduates from college in North Carolina, a troubled, young artist must confront his traumatic childhood, with support from an older, grieving high school teacher.

Director: Drew Bowen | Star: Drew Bowen

20. Pas de repos pour les braves (2003)

Unrated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.0

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A scintillating metaphysical tale, the film follows the picaresque adventures of Basile, an angst-ridden French teenager who is convinced that he will die if he falls asleep. This leads him... See full summary »

Director: Alain Guiraudie | Stars: Thomas Suire, Laurent Soffiati, Thomas Blanchard, Jeanine Canezin

Votes: 379

21. Prologue (I) (1970)

87 min | Drama

6.2

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Presents the rival philosophies of young people, militant protest or communal retreat, set against the political upheaval of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Director: Robin Spry | Stars: John Robb, Elaine Malus, Gary Rader, Peter Cullen

Votes: 21

22. Meet Me by Our Spot (2023)

Short, Drama, Romance

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A disheartened college student recollects with his childhood friend about work, school, and his startling encounters with the mysterious Ellie Frankie Daze.

Director: Andrew Cao | Stars: Hunter Crone, Bri'Yon Watts, Lillian Yaemi, Audie Barker

23. Hu(mammal) Behavior

Drama | Announced

A genre-blending unrestrained locomotion of storytelling, showcasing humankind's inability to evade participation in the animal kingdom.

Director: Scott Hellon

24. The Dean of Thin Air (1983 TV Movie)

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Director: Deirdre Friel | Stars: Daniel von Bargen, Keith Jochim, Richard Kneeland, Timothy Crowe

25. Decision to Ask Why (2004)

114 min | Drama

5.8

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The lives and personalities of several college students are explored as they struggle with issues of sex, identity, stereotyping, the pressures of media influence on body image, and other harsh realities of young adulthood.

Director: Scott Hellon | Stars: Nicole Spaulding, Lorri Hornisher, Mike Mainwold, Antonia Morris

Votes: 6