Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
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2018 · ★ 7.3
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999 · ★ 7.3
Belle de Jour
1967 · ★ 7.3
The Mother and the Whore
1973 · ★ 7.3
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944 · ★ 7.3
Hello World
2019 · ★ 7.3
Welfare
1975 · ★ 7.3
Stranger Than Fiction
2006 · ★ 7.3
Moneyball
2011 · ★ 7.3
Conspiracy
2001 · ★ 7.3
From the Life of the Marionettes
1980 · ★ 7.3
American Fiction
2023 · ★ 7.3
Deconstructing Harry
1997 · ★ 7.3
Ask This of Rikyu
2013 · ★ 7.2
Nashville
1975 · ★ 7.2
Side by Side
2012 · ★ 7.2
Russian Ark
2002 · ★ 7.2
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 · ★ 7.2
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · ★ 7.2
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · ★ 7.2
No
2012 · ★ 7.2
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
2021 · ★ 7.2
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003 · ★ 7.2
Venus in Fur
2013 · ★ 7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 · ★ 7.2
Face to Face
1976 · ★ 7.2
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · ★ 7.2
La Belle Noiseuse
1991 · ★ 7.2
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · ★ 7.2
The Great Passage
2013 · ★ 7.2
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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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