Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Cassandra's Dream
2007 · ★ 6.3
Blood Is Dry
1960 · ★ 6.3
State and Main
2000 · ★ 6.3
Bergman Island
2021 · ★ 6.3
The Paradine Case
1947 · ★ 6.3
Red Lights
2012 · ★ 6.2
Dog 51
2025 · ★ 6.1
Shattered
1991 · ★ 6.1
Under Suspicion
2000 · ★ 6.1
Nouvelle Vague
1990 · ★ 6.1
Alien Nation
1988 · ★ 6.1
Triple Cross
1966 · ★ 6.1
The Limits of Control
2009 · ★ 6.0
All the Old Knives
2022 · ★ 6.0
Good Kill
2015 · ★ 6.0
Leaves of Grass
2009 · ★ 6.0
S1m0ne
2002 · ★ 6.0
Night Drum
1958 · ★ 5.9
$9.99
2009 · ★ 5.9
Reasonable Doubt
2014 · ★ 5.8
Hamlet
2000 · ★ 5.8
Vanishing Waves
2012 · ★ 5.8
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1970 · ★ 5.7
Animal Farm
1999 · ★ 5.7
Cosmopolis
2012 · ★ 5.7
The Statement
2003 · ★ 5.6
Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets
2017 · ★ 5.6
Ismael's Ghosts
2017 · ★ 5.5
In the Blink of an Eye
2026 · ★ 5.5
The Man from Earth: Holocene
2017 · ★ 5.5
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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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