Intellectual Movies

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory share life stories and anecdotes over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his...

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings...

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill...

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and...

Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of...

The life of Christopher Hitchens as told through his own words and through archive footage.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

Cursed with horrifying visions of the future, Tatyana Ali stars as a woman looking to save a kidnapped girl in this TV One original movie.

Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the...

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and...

Mildred must choose between authenticity and safety when the only world she knows is the inside of a Library.

The members of a reading group exchange cultural and literary references with such vigor that there’s little room for anything else: an attempt...

A confrontation with Camille Paglia, the infamous author.

Residents of Calcutta find solace from their hectic daily lives in conversations at one cafe or another. Newton is a member of one such group of cafe...