Recommendations
Movies
The feature film is the art form of our time. At no other time has the medium of film been so advanced and present, as it is today. In addition to all the negative effects attached to this medium, it also has the potential to intensively influence a person within 45 to 120 minutes and to sustainably change his or her view of himself and the world. With a good movie, questions can be raised and new thoughts can be stimulated. I think that this medium should also be used psychotherapeutically for this reason to widen someone’s view and awareness. In the following, I therefore point out some films that may be of interest to you.
How do you feel if you got a depression?
- Helen (Sandra Nettelbeck 2009)
What is it like to be a refugee because of war in your home country?
- Innen Leben (Van Leeuw 2017)
- Human Flow (Weiwei 2017)
How big is the destructive power of drugs?
- Christine F. The Children of Zoo Station (Ulrich Edel 1981)
What makes us happy?
- Yalom's Guide to Happiness (Gisiger 2014)
- Happy (Belic 2011)
- Happy People - One Year in the Taiga (Herzog 2010)
What is love?
- Theory of Relativity of Love (Otto Alexander Jahrreiss 2011)
Is loyalty and steadfastness important in life?
- Of People And Gods (Beauvois 2010)
- Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro 2006)
- The Little Prince (Osborne 2015)
How can I get the courage to embrace life?
- Der Ja-Sager (Peyton Reed 2008)
- Precious (Lee Daniels 2009)
How can I get a new perspective of the world?
- The Truman Show (Weir 1998)
- Jungle Child (Roland Sosu Richter 2011)
- Life in a Day - One Day on Earth (McDonald and Clisby 2011)
- Given (Bianci 2016)
- Tortuga (Stringer 2009)
- Living on One Dollar (Temple and Ingrasci 2013)
How and what should we eat?
- You are what you eat (Colquhoun 2008)
- The perfect human diet (Hunt 2012)
- 10 billion - How are we all getting full? (Thurn, Valentin 2015)
- Hope for All: Our Food - Our Hope (Messinger 2016)
- Food as Medicine (Eklund 2016)
- Supersize Me (Morgan Spurlock 2004)
- Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (Cross and Engagehr 2011)
How can we cope with suffering and death?
- Tuesdays with Morrie (M. Jackson 1999)
- The sea in me (Alejandro Amenábar 2004)
- Behind the horizon (Vincent Ward 1998)
- The hut: a weekend with God (Hazeldine 2017)
- In my heaven (P. Jackson 2009)
- The end is my beginning (Baier 2010)
- The five people who meet you in heaven (Kramer 2004)
How beautiful is our planet? Is it worth protecting?
- Microcosm (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou 1996)
- The journey of the penguins (Luc Jacquet 2005)
- Nomads of the skies: the secret of migratory birds (Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud 2001)
- Home (Yann Arthus-Bertrand 2009)
- Our Earth - The Movie (Fothergill and Linfield 2007)
- Planet Earth (Fothergill 2006)
How do we destroy our planet?
- An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim 2006)
- The True Cost - The Price of Fashion (Morgan 2015)
- A Plastic Ocean (Leeson 2016)
Do animals have rights too?
- Okja (Bong 2017)
- Blackfish (Cowperthwaite 2013)
New ideas for a better future
- Sustainable (changer 2016)
- Minimalism (D'Avella 2015)
- Human - Humanity (Arthus-Bertrand 2015)
- Time for Utopias (Langbein 2018)
Educational children's films
- The Brothers Lionheart (Hellbom 1977)
- Overfed and Undernourished (Troy Jones 2014)
- Momo (Schaaf 1986)
- Letters to God (Nixon 2010)
Movies worth watching
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier 2011)
- The Fall (Tarsem Singh 2006)
- The Fabulous World of Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2001)
- Les Miserables (Claude Michel Schoenberg 2012)
- Sleep brother (Vilsmaier 1995)
- The seventh seal (Bergmann 1957)
- Wild strawberries (Bergmann 1957)
... and finally some movie tips for fun
- Rango (Gore Verbinski 2011)
- The Starwalker (Vaughn, Metthew 2007)
- Pretty best friends (Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano 2011)
- Avatar (James Cameron 2009)
- Life of Pi (Ang Lee 2012)
- Maleficent (Stromberg, Robert 2014)
- John Carter - Between the Worlds (Stanton 2012)
- As in heaven (Kay Pollak 2004)
