Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
The Andromeda Strain
1971 · ★ 7.1
Wonderland
2024 · ★ 7.1
Hawking
2004 · ★ 7.1
Red Dragon
2002 · ★ 7.0
The Report
2019 · ★ 7.0
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
2014 · ★ 7.0
Caché
2005 · ★ 7.0
Religulous
2008 · ★ 7.0
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · ★ 7.0
Lone Star
1996 · ★ 7.0
The End of the Tour
2015 · ★ 7.0
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · ★ 7.0
Naked Lunch
1991 · ★ 7.0
Certified Copy
2010 · ★ 7.0
Amistad
1997 · ★ 7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · ★ 7.0
Theorem
1968 · ★ 7.0
Eye in the Sky
2015 · ★ 7.0
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate
2019 · ★ 7.0
Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 · ★ 7.0
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
2010 · ★ 7.0
Zero Dark Thirty
2012 · ★ 7.0
The Class
2008 · ★ 7.0
Into the Inferno
2016 · ★ 7.0
First Reformed
2018 · ★ 7.0
Amen.
2002 · ★ 7.0
David Lynch: The Art Life
2017 · ★ 7.0
The Last of Sheila
1973 · ★ 7.0
Insomnia
2002 · ★ 7.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 · ★ 6.9
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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.
How are these films tagged "cerebral"?
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