Cerebral 940 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
High Flying Bird
2019 · ★ 5.7
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 · ★ 5.5
Demonic
2021 · ★ 4.8
Naked Singularity
2021 · ★ 4.6
AA
2006 · ★ 4.6
The Invisible Guest
2017 · ★ 8.1
Network
1976 · ★ 7.8
The Face of Another
1966 · ★ 7.8
Batman Begins
2005 · ★ 7.7
Waltz with Bashir
2008 · ★ 7.7
Synecdoche, New York
2008 · ★ 7.5
A Man for All Seasons
1966 · ★ 7.4
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · ★ 7.2
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
1966 · ★ 7.2
The Emperor's Club
2002 · ★ 7.1
Husbands and Wives
1992 · ★ 7.0
The Five Obstructions
2003 · ★ 6.9
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022 · ★ 6.9
Lincoln
2012 · ★ 6.8
We Have a Pope
2011 · ★ 6.8
The Sky Crawlers
2008 · ★ 6.7
The Ninth Configuration
1980 · ★ 6.4
Naqoyqatsi
2002 · ★ 6.1
Eye in the Sky
2015 · ★ 7.0
The Jacket
2005 · ★ 6.9
The Hour of the Furnaces
1968 · ★ 6.9
Lions for Lambs
2007 · ★ 6.0
Ken
1964 · ★ 8.0
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran 1
2019 · ★ 7.9
Man with a Movie Camera
1929 · ★ 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.
How are these films tagged "cerebral"?
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