This landscape literature review on cinema and philosophy shows a notable distinction between continental philosophy and analytical philosophy. In continental tradition, many contemporary thinkers have devoted their most recent studies to thinking cinema, especially after Gilles Deleuze’s seminal work. Moreover, in the analytical tradition there is a stream of philosophical thinking with a pedagogical purpose – in line with the pedagogical vocation of the cinema itself – from which films, directors and genres are studied as tools for teaching logic, aesthetics, ethics, bioethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics and politics. From this perspective, the aim is to learn philosophy at the same time as appreciating the important scopes of the film experience during and after the projection. This work explores the pedagogical possibilities of both traditions and emphasises the scope of the analytical tradition, for their interest in teaching philosophy – or any other discipline – through cinema.