Cerebral 940 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Ulysses' Gaze
1995 · ★ 7.4
Patlabor 2: The Movie
1993 · ★ 7.4
Clara
2018 · ★ 7.4
The Collini Case
2019 · ★ 7.4
Lost Illusions
2021 · ★ 7.4
Mass
2021 · ★ 7.4
Lifeboat
1944 · ★ 7.4
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · ★ 7.3
Wit
2001 · ★ 7.3
Claire's Knee
1970 · ★ 7.3
Silence
1971 · ★ 7.2
Masculin Féminin
1966 · ★ 7.2
Elizabeth
1998 · ★ 7.2
Seobok
2021 · ★ 7.2
Superheroes
2021 · ★ 7.2
Tenet
2020 · ★ 7.2
Resurrection
2025 · ★ 7.2
Molly's Game
2017 · ★ 7.1
Time of EVE: The Movie
2010 · ★ 7.1
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965 · ★ 7.1
Concussion
2015 · ★ 7.1
Moby Dick
1956 · ★ 7.1
Contempt
1963 · ★ 7.0
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
2013 · ★ 7.0
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · ★ 7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · ★ 7.0
Martin Eden
2019 · ★ 7.0
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
2010 · ★ 7.0
Howards End
1992 · ★ 7.0
Gettysburg
1993 · ★ 7.0
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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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