Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Millennium
1989 · ★ 5.4
Silent Fall
1994 · ★ 5.3
Mountainhead
2025 · ★ 5.3
Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths
2005 · ★ 6.9
Vita & Virginia
2019 · ★ 6.8
Three Christs
2017 · ★ 6.6
Da 5 Bloods
2020 · ★ 6.5
Insignificance
1985 · ★ 6.4
The Prodigies
2011 · ★ 6.0
Stowaway
2021 · ★ 6.0
Robots
2023 · ★ 5.6
Evangelion: Another Impact (Confidential)
2015 · ★ 6.7
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010 · ★ 6.5
12:01
1993 · ★ 6.2
God's Puzzle
2008 · ★ 6.1
Bad Company
1995 · ★ 4.9
The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel
2013 · ★ 7.3
Himiko
1974 · ★ 6.9
Hero
2007 · ★ 6.5
The Joneses
2010 · ★ 6.2
Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno
2015 · ★ 6.1
The Body
2001 · ★ 5.5
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
2024 · ★ 7.8
Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black
2007 · ★ 7.3
Executive Order
2022 · ★ 6.9
Infinite
2021 · ★ 6.6
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
1979 · ★ 6.5
Unacknowledged
2017 · ★ 6.3
The Morning Sun Shines
1929 · ★ 5.8
Complete Unknown
2016 · ★ 5.2
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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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