Cerebral 940 films

The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.

Advantageous

2015 · ★ 6.0

The After-Dinner Mysteries

2013 · ★ 5.9

Duplicity

2009 · ★ 5.9

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition I: Celestial Being

Death of a Tea Master

1989 · ★ 5.6

Listening

2015 · ★ 5.6

In the Blink of an Eye

A Forest with No Name

2003 · ★ 5.2

The Last Thing He Wanted

The World Is a Window: Making The Colour of Pomegranates

2011

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

2024 · ★ 8.5

Twenty Years Later

1984 · ★ 8.4

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War

1993 · ★ 8.3

Project Hail Mary

2026 · ★ 8.2

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

2023 · ★ 7.7

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

2014 · ★ 7.6

The Files of Young Kindaichi: Legend of the Shanghai Mermaid

1997 · ★ 7.6

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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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