Cerebral 940 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Mr. Nobody
2009 · ★ 7.8
Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · ★ 7.8
Ex Machina
2015 · ★ 7.6
L'Avventura
1960 · ★ 7.5
Forbidden Planet
1956 · ★ 7.2
Broadcast News
1987 · ★ 6.8
Oppenheimer
2023 · ★ 8.0
Dial M for Murder
1954 · ★ 8.0
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
2017 · ★ 8.0
Andrei Rublev
1966 · ★ 8.0
Ordet
1955 · ★ 8.0
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · ★ 7.8
World of Tomorrow
2015 · ★ 7.8
Never Look Away
2018 · ★ 7.7
PlayTime
1967 · ★ 7.7
Inside Job
2010 · ★ 7.7
Sleuth
1972 · ★ 7.7
JFK
1991 · ★ 7.6
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · ★ 7.6
The Big Sleep
1946 · ★ 7.6
Rikyu
1989 · ★ 7.5
The Reader
2008 · ★ 7.5
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
2007 · ★ 7.5
Contact
1997 · ★ 7.4
Last Year at Marienbad
1961 · ★ 7.4
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
2009 · ★ 7.4
Predestination
2014 · ★ 7.4
The Life of David Gale
2003 · ★ 7.4
Spellbound
1945 · ★ 7.4
Meet Joe Black
1998 · ★ 7.4
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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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