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Movies with an Objectivist Theme

Posted by Itheliving 10 years, 10 months ago to Movies
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Name as many as you can that I have missed. Not counting Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead OK here is one just now available on BluRay

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  • Posted by WilliamCharlesCross 10 years, 10 months ago
    This one may surprise you--"Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead." Not exactly an Objectivist theme to it, but it is the only movie I've seen (prior to Atlas) with a woman named Dagny as the female lead--or in any role--who at one point tells her lover: "I thought we were making an exception..."

    It is an imaginative movie, complete with it's own made up catch phrases and a lot of really interesting scenes.
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  • Posted by salta 10 years, 10 months ago
    The novelist/screenwriter James Clavell was an advocate for capitalism and free markets, which comes across in all of his work.
    Try the movie "King Rat" (1965 B&W) about a free market operating in a prison camp, and the epic Shogun (TV mini series) about an Englishman surviving in a strange land using only his wits and intelligence. Both novels are excellent.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I watched this movie first on a "pirate" streaming service then again on Amazon. I am amazed that this movie was ignored by the public, well done and terrific story.
    Don't want to sound like a broken record but I repeat my candidate for an objectivist themed movie "A Most Violent Year" because it depicts a man of principles, no matter the consequences.
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  • Posted by Itheliving 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is available on BluRay, DVD and instant view on Amazon. Will check it out. Link for others below.
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  • Posted by Vinay 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oops, I thought that was Kaila's comment. Forget the June giving a copy to Dale (unless Kails can't get it).
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  • Posted by Vinay 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, there is a DVD. If yo don't get it in the US, I will buy one for you and give it to Dale in June. It did well in Spain. Christian groups opposed it in the U.S., and it had a very limited theatrical release.
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  • Posted by Vinay 10 years, 10 months ago
    Belle (2014), On the Waterfront, Dallas Buyers Club, The Counterfeiters,The Imitation Game.
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  • Posted by Vinay 10 years, 10 months ago
    Agora is the quintessential Objectivist movie, its theme is Faith versus Reason., its protagonist a female philosopher-astronomer.
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  • Posted by Itheliving 10 years, 10 months ago
    Come on movie lovers. Where are you. How about Our Man Flint?
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