Cerebral 991 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Salinger
2013 · ★ 6.4
Proof
2005 · ★ 6.3
Too Big to Fail
2011 · ★ 7.0
State of Play
2009 · ★ 6.8
The Green Knight
2021 · ★ 6.6
Lemonade
2016 · ★ 8.4
The Thin Blue Line
1988 · ★ 7.6
Suspect X
2008 · ★ 7.6
Shame
1968 · ★ 7.5
Nuremberg
2025 · ★ 7.5
The Experiment
2001 · ★ 7.4
Miss Sloane
2016 · ★ 7.4
Blow-Up
1966 · ★ 7.3
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · ★ 7.2
Trumbo
2015 · ★ 7.2
Time of EVE: The Movie
2010 · ★ 7.1
True Story
2015 · ★ 6.3
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
1968 · ★ 6.2
The Nines
2007 · ★ 6.0
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995 · ★ 5.9
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War
1993 · ★ 8.3
Black Butler: Book of Murder
2014 · ★ 8.0
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran 1
2019 · ★ 7.9
Bad Genius
2017 · ★ 7.9
Taste of Cherry
1997 · ★ 7.7
The Files of Young Kindaichi: Legend of the Shanghai Mermaid
1997 · ★ 7.6
Purple Noon
1960 · ★ 7.6
Liar Game: The Final Stage
2010 · ★ 7.5
Mirage
2018 · ★ 7.5
Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser
2009 · ★ 7.3
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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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