Cerebral 940 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Shoah
1985 · ★ 8.2
The Usual Suspects
1995 · ★ 8.2
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · ★ 8.1
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · ★ 7.7
Sophie's Choice
1982 · ★ 7.3
Naked
1993 · ★ 7.3
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961 · ★ 8.4
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970 · ★ 8.2
Red Beard
1965 · ★ 8.1
Persona
1966 · ★ 8.1
8½
1963 · ★ 8.1
All About Eve
1950 · ★ 8.1
Bo Burnham: Inside
2021 · ★ 8.0
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · ★ 8.0
Rashomon
1950 · ★ 8.0
Before Sunrise
1995 · ★ 8.0
The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · ★ 8.0
Suzuki=Bakudan
2025 · ★ 8.0
Close-Up
1990 · ★ 7.9
Rope
1948 · ★ 7.9
A Separation
2011 · ★ 7.9
Winter Light
1963 · ★ 7.9
Perfect Strangers
2016 · ★ 7.9
Knives Out
2019 · ★ 7.8
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · ★ 7.8
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
1939 · ★ 7.8
Fail Safe
1964 · ★ 7.8
Argentina 1985
2022 · ★ 7.8
Spotlight
2015 · ★ 7.8
Le Samouraï
1967 · ★ 7.8
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What does "Cerebral" mean in our catalog?
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
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