Want to Read a Philosophical Novel?: A Recommendation Flowchart (zoom in as necessary).
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Films that I have taught in my Philosophical Films class:
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon Ho, 2013
Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley, 2018
Cold Souls, Sophie Barthes, 2009
Us, Jordan Peele, 2019
The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2017
Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman, 2008
Remainder, Omer Fast, 2015
Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley, 2012
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012
Or recommend to students:
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Alien, Ridley Scott, 1979
Aliens, James Cameron, 1986
American Psycho, Mary Harron, 2000
Amores Perros, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2000
Annihilation, Alex Garland, 2018
Another Earth, Mike Cahill, 2011
Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016
Bamboozled, Spike Lee, 2000
Beau Travail, Claire Denis, 1999
Being There, Hal Ashby, 1979
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
Breaking the Waves, Lars von Trier, 1996
Cache, Michael Haneke, 2005
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón, 2006
The City of Lost Children, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971
The Conversation, Francis Ford Copploa, 1974
Cube, Vincenzo Natali, 1997
Dark City, Alex Proyas, 1998
Dear White People, Justin Simien, 2014
Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009
Dogville, Lars von Trier, 2003
The Endless, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2017
Enemy, Denis Villeneuve, 2013
Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, 2004
Event Horizon, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
Ex Machina, Alex Garland, 2014
The Face of Another, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966
Fargo, Coen Brothers, 1996
Faults, Riley Stearns, 2014
Fight Club, David Fincher, 1999
Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, 2014
The Game, David Fincher, 1997
Gattaca, David Niccol, 1997
Get Out, Jordan Peele, 2017
A Ghost Story, David Lowery, 2017
The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, 2013
Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, 1993
Her, Spike Jonze, 2013
Hereditary, Ari Aster, 2018
A History of Violence, David Cronenberg, 2005
I Heart Huckabees, David O. Russell, 2004
Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa, 1952
Inception, Christopher Nolan, 2010
Intacto, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2001
Je t'aime, je t'aime, Alain Resnais, 1968
La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962
Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Resnais, 1961
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015
Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997
Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012
Memento, Christopher Nolan, 2000
Minority Report, Steven Spielberg, 2002
Moon, Duncan Jones, 2009
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins, 2016
Mother!, Darren Aronofsky, 2017
Mr. Nobody, Jaco Van Dormael, 2009
Mullholland Drive, David Lynch, 1999
Native Son, Rashid Johnson, 2019
Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek, 2010
No Country for Old Men, Coen Brothers, 2007
The One I Love, Charlie McDowell, 2014
Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch, 2013
Open Your Eyes, Alejandro Amenábar, 1997
Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, 2019
Phoenix, Christian Petzold, 2014
Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, 1950
Reprise, Joachim Trier, 2006
Run Lola Run, Tom Tykwer, 1998
The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman, 1957
Sound of My Voice, Zal Batmanglij, 2011
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols, 2011
Thank You for Smoking, Jason Reitman, 2005
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007
The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick, 1998
Timecrimes, Nacho Vigalondo, 2007
The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick, 2011
The Truman Show, Peter Weir, 1998
Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer, 2013
Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, 2013
Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983
Wild Tales, Damián Szifron, 2014
Woman in the Dunes, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964
Youth, Paolo Sorrentino, 2015
Bonus: I won't try to claim that there's anything specifically philosophical about my taste in mannered indie rock, but since college, I have made a mixtape of newish music once or twice a year for friends. Here are the most recent (links are to Spotify playlists):
Perpetual Autumn Machine (fall 2019)
I Have Been to the Mountain (winter 2019)
The Year of the Woman, Part 2 (fall 2018)
I Remember the Glow (fall 2017)
More Songs for On-Ramps (fall 2016)