Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
The Lion in Winter
1968 · ★ 7.4
The Social Network
2010 · ★ 7.4
The Counterfeiters
2007 · ★ 7.4
Man on Wire
2008 · ★ 7.4
The Big Short
2015 · ★ 7.4
Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · ★ 7.4
Shine
1996 · ★ 7.4
Blow Out
1981 · ★ 7.4
Remember
2015 · ★ 7.4
A Man for All Seasons
1966 · ★ 7.4
Minority Report
2002 · ★ 7.4
Bad Education
2004 · ★ 7.4
Food, Inc.
2008 · ★ 7.3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · ★ 7.3
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2004 · ★ 7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · ★ 7.3
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2017 · ★ 7.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · ★ 7.3
Hamlet
1996 · ★ 7.3
Fantasia
1940 · ★ 7.3
Dark City
1998 · ★ 7.3
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · ★ 7.3
Dead Man Walking
1995 · ★ 7.3
Seven Days in May
1964 · ★ 7.3
Decision to Leave
2022 · ★ 7.3
Phantom Thread
2017 · ★ 7.3
I Live in Fear
1955 · ★ 7.3
God's Crooked Lines
2022 · ★ 7.3
Wit
2001 · ★ 7.3
Lenny
1974 · ★ 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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