Alain de Botton

Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan – determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, – flashes back to his last five relationships (in the last four years) and considers what caused each one to fail. Based on the novel 'Essays in Love' by Alain de Botton.

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 self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.

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

Alain de Botton, Edgar Morin, Fredric Jameson, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Orhan Pamuk converse with Brazilian thinkers and artists, creating a dialogue based on their theories and constructing a reflection on identity in the contemporary world.

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

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 mean, lazy, or actively trying to ruin our lives.

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 definition of an important term.

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.