Cerebral 991 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
La Belle Époque
2019 · ★ 7.4
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · ★ 7.3
Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors
2009 · ★ 7.3
Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century
1999 · ★ 7.3
SPEC: Close~Incarnation
2013 · ★ 7.3
The Wandering Earth II
2023 · ★ 7.3
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · ★ 7.3
Frost/Nixon
2008 · ★ 7.3
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · ★ 7.2
The Sunset Limited
2011 · ★ 7.2
Where to Invade Next
2015 · ★ 7.2
The Garden of Sinners: Murder Speculation Part B
2009 · ★ 7.2
The Music Never Stopped
2011 · ★ 7.2
The Advocate: A Missing Body
2015 · ★ 7.2
Conclave
2024 · ★ 7.2
Birdy
1984 · ★ 7.1
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
1998 · ★ 7.1
The Professor and the Madman
2019 · ★ 7.1
Snowden
2016 · ★ 7.1
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target
1998 · ★ 7.1
Zen
2009 · ★ 7.1
Hitler: A Film from Germany
1978 · ★ 7.1
Lorenzo's Oil
1992 · ★ 7.1
Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence
2011 · ★ 7.1
Steel Rain
2017 · ★ 7.1
Midsummer's Equation
2013 · ★ 7.0
Contempt
1963 · ★ 7.0
My American Uncle
1980 · ★ 7.0
Heroic Purgatory
1970 · ★ 7.0
Elephant Song
2015 · ★ 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.
How are these films tagged "cerebral"?
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