Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
The Card Counter
2021 · ★ 6.1
Marjorie Prime
2017 · ★ 6.1
Aniara
2019 · ★ 6.1
The Souvenir
2019 · ★ 6.1
The Zero Theorem
2013 · ★ 6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · ★ 6.1
Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · ★ 6.1
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005 · ★ 6.0
Redacted
2007 · ★ 6.0
Anon
2018 · ★ 6.0
The Portrait of a Lady
1996 · ★ 6.0
Antiviral
2012 · ★ 6.0
Advantageous
2015 · ★ 6.0
Dual
2022 · ★ 6.0
Cosmos
2019 · ★ 6.0
Zardoz
1974 · ★ 5.9
The Last Five Years
2014 · ★ 5.9
Fear X
2003 · ★ 5.8
Dangerous Game
1993 · ★ 5.8
Patty Hearst
1988 · ★ 5.7
The House
2021 · ★ 5.5
Wavelength
1967 · ★ 5.4
Approaching the Unknown
2016 · ★ 5.3
The Amputee
1974 · ★ 5.1
The Girlfriend Experience
2009 · ★ 5.1
The World Is a Window: Making The Colour of Pomegranates
The World Is a Window: Making The Colour of Pomegranates
2011
The Seventh Seal
1957 · ★ 8.2
Persona
1966 · ★ 8.1
Metropolis
1927 · ★ 8.1
Oppenheimer
2023 · ★ 8.0
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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.
How are these films tagged "cerebral"?
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