Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
The Whispering of the Gods
2005 · ★ 5.4
Needle in a Timestack
2021 · ★ 5.3
Two Girls and a Guy
1998 · ★ 5.3
A Forest with No Name
2003 · ★ 5.2
Creative Control
2016 · ★ 5.2
Errors of the Human Body
2012 · ★ 5.2
Lucy in the Sky
2019 · ★ 5.0
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020 · ★ 4.9
Black and White
1999 · ★ 4.6
Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015 · ★ 7.7
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024 · ★ 8.5
Twenty Years Later
1984 · ★ 8.4
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017 · ★ 8.0
SPEC: Zero
2013 · ★ 7.9
Deep Red
1975 · ★ 7.7
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
2014 · ★ 7.6
Seto and Utsumi
2016 · ★ 7.6
The Wave
2008 · ★ 7.5
The Irishman: In Conversation
2019 · ★ 7.5
Zelig
1983 · ★ 7.4
The Last Duel
2021 · ★ 7.4
Pain and Glory
2019 · ★ 7.4
Special 26
2013 · ★ 7.3
Official Secrets
2019 · ★ 7.2
The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966 · ★ 7.2
24
2016 · ★ 7.2
I Will Buy You
1956 · ★ 7.1
Quills
2000 · ★ 7.1
A Foreign Affair
1948 · ★ 7.1
Samurai Wolf
1966 · ★ 7.1
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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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