There are already various lists online that feature films that explore philosophical themes. This list only features films that are explicitly connected to philosophy either by featuring philosophers, or by being based on works by philosophers.
It is a work in progress, and will be updated from time to time.
(The list was last updated in February 2015 on academia.edu. From 2019 onwards, I will be updating the list on this website only.)
Agora (2009) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/) (about Hypatia)
Giordano Bruno (1972) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070109/)
Confucius (2010) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397498/)
Al-Ghazali: The alchemist of happiness (2004) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439430/)
Les derniers jours d'Emmanuel Kant (1994) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109601/)
Beyond Good and Evil (1977) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075652/)
Wittgenstein (1993) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/)
Les amants du Flor (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0778611/) (about Sartre and Beauvoir)
Iris (2001) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280778/)
Hannah Arendt (2012) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/)
Bertrand Russell makes his appearance in Tom and Viv (1994)) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111454/) (biopic about T.S. Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood)
Socrate (1971) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210296/)
Augustine of Hippo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072617/)
Cartesius (1974) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/)
Blaise Pascal (1972) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/)
The examined life (2008) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1279083/)
Waking life (2001) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/) with an appearance by Robert Solomon
Sofies Verden [Sofie’s World] (1999) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125507/)
Human, all too Human (BBC series on Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human,_All_Too_Human_%28TV_series%29)
When Nietzsche Wept (2007) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760188/)
Nietzsche and the Nazis (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2215351/)
Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297856/)
Le journal du séducteur (1996) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113489/)
Marx reloaded (2011) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1884351/)
Bryan Magee’s interviews with some important twentieth-century Anglophone philosophers in the 1970s for the BBC http://www.youtube.com/user/flame0430
Logic Lane (a series of interviews with Oxford philosophers from 1972, directed by Michael Chanan):
You might just as well say 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see' (Ryle and Urmson): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XRwygBUd2Y
The Idea of Freedom (Pears and Murdoch): http://youtu.be/zJHIwnr3UlI
Appearance and Reality (Williams and Ayer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCrEA2nCqw
Language and Creativity (Strawson and Evans): http://youtu.be/u_vGj9BuY18
"I'm Going To Tamper With Your Beliefs A Little" (Hampshire and Berlin): http://youtu.be/PhrEYmVfm9Y
Logic Lane: A Philosophical Retrospective: http://youtu.be/kA-rc3G2Kig
Justice vs. Power (1971) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myy3vL-QKI4)
L'abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (1996) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408472/)
Στα μονοπάτια της σκέψης (http://www.ert-archives.gr/V3/public/main/d--index-archive-tv-programs.aspx#results) (Greek national television interviews 20th century intellectuals including Danto, Spivak, Said, Cixous, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Sollers, Bourdieu, Vattimo, Guattari)
Cornelius Castoriadis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFVqht3mlhI)
The Ister (2004) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397477/)
Only a God can save us (2009) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1479743/)
Im denkens unterwegs (1975) (in German)
Interview: Martin Heidegger and Thai Monk Bhikku Maha Mani http://youtu.be/L8HR4RXxZw8
Being in the world (2010) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515195/)
Derrida (2002) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303326/)
D'ailleurs Derrida (1999) (French)
Ta monopatia tis skepsis (1999) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1427179/)
Ghost Dance (1983) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085589/) (Derrida makes his appearance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nmu3uwqzbI , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_JA6SJD8k)
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828154/)
Zizek! (2005) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478338/)
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (2004) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419142/)
Love Without Mercy: Slavoj Zizek (2003) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469790/)
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2152198/)
[More appearances by Zizek http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1670978/.]
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002), (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318742/)
The Intruder (2004), (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422491/) based on a novel written by Nancy
Filmography: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0765683/
Filmography: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133411/
Spinoza, The Apostle of Reason (1994) http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7d94bc06 [A play about Spinoza’s life by Tariq Ali]
Aristotle’s Lagoon (2010) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1505796/ [BBC Documentary about Aristotle’s biology and its relation to the island of Lesvos]
The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory in Clay (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1338565/
Plato's Allegory of the Cave (1973) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9a1SZgdJQ
Sir Isaiah Berlin interviewed about his life by Michael Ignatieff (1997) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAGngAc9_M
Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature (1971) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8&feature=youtu.be
Ta monopatia tis skepsis: Jacques Derrida (1999) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1427179/) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUfxWnQdM4U
Ta monopatia tis skepsis: Kostas Axelos (1993) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPXhIkefivc
Interview with Cornelius Castoriadis, conducted by Chris Marker for the TV Series ‘L’ Heritage de la chouette (1989) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096615/) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HL22xsVK4c [1]
Cornelius Castoriadis - Interview on Autonomy and Democracy [On ERT, ‘Παρασκήνιο’] (1984) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9ZsKj-o1k
Benjamin in Konya (2010) http://www.rajkowska.com/en/filmy/92
Walter Benjamin: Piet Mondrian 63–69 (2013?) http://vimeo.com/61669696
Interview with Rudolf Carnap on German TV (1964) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhx02mtYskk
Having posted my last update online, I received some suggested additions to this list by two colleagues, Dr. Mike Lewis and Dr. Timothy Secret, who I would like to thank.
Dr. Lewis suggested an addition to the list of Zizek films:
Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst! (1996) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebe_Dein_Symptom_wie_Dich_selbst!
Freud (1962) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055998/
See also:
Filmography on Lacan: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1123851/
Filmography on Freud: a) as a character http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027184/ b) as an ‘actor’ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294438/
Dr. Secret’s list is the following:
Love in the post (2014) [inspired by Derrida’s The Post Card] http://loveinthepost.co.uk/
The Philosophie series on Arte http://www.arte.tv/fr/vous-avez-rate-une-emission/2235124,CmC=2947412.html
Return to Source: Philosophy & The Matrix (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439783/
Dinner in Purgatory (1994) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109626/
Filmography on Socrates (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0046456/
Filmography on Machiavelli (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0064727/
Filmography on Nietzsche: a) as a character http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0052534/, and b) as a ‘writer’ etc http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0631346/
Inspired by the above I thought I might include similar filmographies on other philosophers. The results are the following:
Plato (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0137312/
Aristotle (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034663/
Voltaire (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0043844/
Diderot (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0044966/
Marx (as a character) http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0033066/ & Unveiling Karl Marx (2013) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3637216/ & Karl Marx (TV Series presented by Stuart Hall, 1983) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3605300/
Kierkegaard: a) as a writer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452567/, and also b) appearing as a character in Kierkegaard: Dangerous Thoughts (2013) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3347916/
Plus some more recent intellectuals:
Michel Foucault http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288223/
Jacques Derrida http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1104986/
Edward Said http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756429/
Raymond Williams http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2150822/
Stuart Hall http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0356130/
Julia Kristeva http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1221096/
Cornel West http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922002/
Martha Nussbaum http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1767972/
[There’s too many for this indicative list to be all-inclusive, perhaps with time I will try to improve it.]
In the process I also discovered:
‘Denker des Abendlandes’ (TV series, 2005-) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880825/
Great Thinkers: In their own words (2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3549042/ (BBC archive footage of various intellectuals, including some philosophers)
A Parliament of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millennium (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800294/
Alain de Botton’s mini-series ‘Philosophy: A guide to Happiness’ (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371472/
Why Beauty Matters (2009) www.imdb.com/title/tt3006616/
The State and Society (1984-1985) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3651538/
Archimedes makes his appearance in the Italian sword and sandals classic ‘Siege of Syracuse’ (1960) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055762/
Rousseau, or on Education (2012) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3041358/
Averroes appears in:
Destiny (Al-massir) (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119629/
The Physician (2013) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101473/
Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1604147/
Averroès, un lien civilisationnel (2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2595380/
This film, titled Schopenhauer (2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902326/, doesn’t seem to be directly related to Schopenhauer’s work.
Archive footage of Husserl from 1936 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4qzUR5SCHY
Who killed Walter Benjamin? (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0781462/
[1] Many thanks to Evangelos Kapros (@ekapros on twitter) for pointing out the existence of a number of videos about Castoriadis on youtube.
[2] The way I’m doing the updates is getting a bit messy, I will eventually make a version integrating them into the initial taxonomy.