Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
One-Line
2017 · ★ 6.6
Death on the Nile
2022 · ★ 6.4
Space-Time Traveler - Time Stranger
1986 · ★ 6.5
Killing for the Prosecution
2018 · ★ 6.3
Next
2007 · ★ 6.1
The Gifted Hands
2013 · ★ 6.0
Replicant
2001 · ★ 5.8
The Last Journey
2021 · ★ 5.3
The Brain Man
2013 · ★ 6.2
M
2007 · ★ 5.8
The Adderall Diaries
2016 · ★ 5.3
Schindler's List
1993 · ★ 8.6
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · ★ 8.3
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · ★ 8.2
Memento
2000 · ★ 8.2
Stalker
1979 · ★ 8.1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · ★ 8.1
Blade Runner
1982 · ★ 7.9
Blade Runner 2049
2017 · ★ 7.6
Interstellar
2014 · ★ 8.5
Inception
2010 · ★ 8.4
The Prestige
2006 · ★ 8.2
Good Will Hunting
1997 · ★ 8.2
The Truman Show
1998 · ★ 8.2
There Will Be Blood
2007 · ★ 8.1
No Country for Old Men
2007 · ★ 8.0
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 · ★ 7.4
The Godfather Part II
1974 · ★ 8.6
The Matrix
1999 · ★ 8.2
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · ★ 8.1
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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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