Cerebral 991 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Billion Dollar Brain
1967 · ★ 5.6
To the Stars by Hard Ways
1981 · ★ 5.6
Death of a Tea Master
1989 · ★ 5.6
Sayonara Jupiter
1984 · ★ 5.5
Damsels in Distress
2012 · ★ 5.5
Volition
2019 · ★ 5.5
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 · ★ 5.5
Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)
1969 · ★ 5.5
Radio Free Albemuth
2010 · ★ 5.4
Control
2022 · ★ 5.4
From the Clouds to the Resistance
1979 · ★ 5.3
The Titan
2018 · ★ 5.3
Anamorph
2007 · ★ 5.1
Slipstream
2007 · ★ 4.9
The Assassination of Ryoma
1974 · ★ 4.8
Naked Singularity
2021 · ★ 4.6
AA
2006 · ★ 4.6
The Dinner
2017 · ★ 4.6
Judge
1991 · ★ 4.5
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
2007 · ★ 7.5
Patlabor 2: The Movie
1993 · ★ 7.4
Lost Illusions
2021 · ★ 7.4
Antonio Gaudí
1984 · ★ 7.2
Reprise
2006 · ★ 7.1
Shattered Glass
2003 · ★ 7.0
The Platform
2019 · ★ 7.0
Benny's Video
1992 · ★ 6.9
21
2008 · ★ 6.7
Infamous
2006 · ★ 6.5
Crooked House
2017 · ★ 6.4
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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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