Cerebral 940 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
On the Silver Globe
1989 · ★ 7.7
The Name of the Rose
1986 · ★ 7.5
Hamlet
1996 · ★ 7.3
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 · ★ 7.2
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion II - Transgression
2018 · ★ 7.1
Richard III
1995 · ★ 6.8
Ambition
2014 · ★ 6.6
Frequencies
2013 · ★ 6.5
Night and Fog in Japan
1960 · ★ 6.5
Homicide
1991 · ★ 6.3
The Last Days of Disco
1998 · ★ 6.3
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · ★ 8.2
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-
2025 · ★ 8.0
The Imitation Game
2014 · ★ 8.0
Kokuho
2025 · ★ 8.0
Bad Genius
2017 · ★ 7.9
Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater
2011 · ★ 7.8
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
2019 · ★ 7.8
The Attorney
2013 · ★ 7.8
More
1998 · ★ 7.7
Brazil
1985 · ★ 7.7
The Traitor
2019 · ★ 7.6
The Thin Blue Line
1988 · ★ 7.6
The Banker
2020 · ★ 7.6
A Moment of Innocence
1997 · ★ 7.6
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 · ★ 7.6
Gattaca
1997 · ★ 7.6
I Origins
2014 · ★ 7.6
Suspect X
2008 · ★ 7.6
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · ★ 7.5
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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"?
We infer mood tags from TMDB keywords, runtime, year, genre, and language using rule-based heuristics. A film gets the cerebral tag when at least one of those rules fires with weight ≥ 0.5. The catalog refreshes the inference every time new films enter.
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