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The Matrix
1999 American science fiction action thriller film
Inception
Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Wild Strawberries
1957 film by Ingmar Bergman
Contact
1997 film by Robert Zemeckis
Life is a Dream
play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635)
Tenet
Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.
Westworld
2016 American science fiction television series
The Good Place
2016 American fantasy comedy television series
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886 novella by Leo Tolstoy
The Prophet
1923 book with 26 prose poetry fables by Kahlil Gibran
The Decalogue
Dekalog (, also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland.
My Dinner with Andre
1981 film directed by Louis Malle
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
fan fiction story based on Harry Potter
The Talos Principle
2014 video game
Goodbye to Language
2014 film by Jean-Luc Godard
philosophy and literature
academic discipline
Better Than Us
television series
The Egg
short story about the meaning and purpose of life and humankind
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
illustrated philosophy book by Charlie Mackesy
Pantheon
animated television series
philosophical fiction
literary genre of fiction with philosophical themes
Another End
2024 film directed by Piero Messina
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
2005 short story by Nick Bostrom