Alain de Botton Movies

Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan – determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, – flashes back...

The period of time we find hardest to inhabit is the present; for a range of powerful reasons we should take on board.

A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day...

A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead...

Social status in a capitalistic society is a major factor in how people live their lives. This social status greatly revolves around a person’s...

The history of still life painting with oil paints

Alain de Botton, Edgar Morin, Fredric Jameson, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Orhan Pamuk converse with Brazilian thinkers and artists, creating a dialogue...

Based on Alain de Botton's book The Architecture of Happiness.

We are - almost all of us - deeply attracted to the idea of being normal. But what if our idea of 'normal' isn't normal? A plea for a broader...

Behind so many of the troubles of love lies a frustrating mystery: why do they behave the way they do? Late at night, we might write them off as...

Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are - somewhere deep down - furious or hurt.

There is a huge emphasis on having new experiences; but very little emphasis on revisiting them in memory. We would be wiser (and happier) if we...

Hypervigilance is a term psychologists use to refer to those among us who are locked into a state of almost continuous wariness, rumination and...

Those of us who aspire to work in a creative field often end up despairing that such roles seem so few and far between. Yet the search is less...

Only once we give up on the absurd dream of finding the Right Person (who doesn't exist for anyone), can we start to make it work with that far more...

The modern world firmly equates how much we earn with how good, noble, wise and worthy of honor we are. This is a brutal misunderstanding of how...