Cerebral 991 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
A Serious Man
2009 · ★ 6.7
The Other Side of the Wind
2018 · ★ 6.7
The Divine Move
2014 · ★ 6.7
The Panama Papers
2018 · ★ 6.7
The Ides of March
2011 · ★ 6.7
Creepy
2016 · ★ 6.7
Of Gods and Men
2010 · ★ 6.7
Che: Part Two
2008 · ★ 6.7
The Third Murder
2017 · ★ 6.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · ★ 6.6
Reversal of Fortune
1990 · ★ 6.6
Vengeance
2009 · ★ 6.6
The Hospital
1971 · ★ 6.6
Side Effects
2013 · ★ 6.6
Hana
2006 · ★ 6.6
Grass
2018 · ★ 6.6
Wilde
1997 · ★ 6.6
Carnal Knowledge
1971 · ★ 6.6
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2016 · ★ 6.6
Renaissance
2006 · ★ 6.6
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 · ★ 6.6
Without Memory
1996 · ★ 6.5
The Double
2014 · ★ 6.5
Jackie
2016 · ★ 6.5
Hard to Be a God
2014 · ★ 6.5
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968 · ★ 6.5
And the Band Played On
1993 · ★ 6.5
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017 · ★ 6.5
Thoroughbreds
2018 · ★ 6.4
Samurai Spy
1965 · ★ 6.4
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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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