Cerebral 991 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
Amistad
1997 · ★ 7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · ★ 7.0
Eye in the Sky
2015 · ★ 7.0
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate
2019 · ★ 7.0
Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 · ★ 7.0
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)
2010 · ★ 7.0
The Class
2008 · ★ 7.0
Into the Inferno
2016 · ★ 7.0
First Reformed
2018 · ★ 7.0
David Lynch: The Art Life
2017 · ★ 7.0
The Last of Sheila
1973 · ★ 7.0
Insomnia
2002 · ★ 7.0
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968 · ★ 6.9
Wag the Dog
1997 · ★ 6.9
sex, lies, and videotape
1989 · ★ 6.9
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · ★ 6.9
River
2023 · ★ 6.9
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004 · ★ 6.9
The Day He Arrives
2011 · ★ 6.9
The Sweet Hereafter
1997 · ★ 6.9
Alphaville
1965 · ★ 6.9
The Rite
1969 · ★ 6.9
"Sr."
2022 · ★ 6.9
Christine
2016 · ★ 6.9
Hannah Arendt
2012 · ★ 6.9
The Five Obstructions
2003 · ★ 6.9
New Trial
2017 · ★ 6.9
Private Life
2018 · ★ 6.9
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · ★ 6.9
The Innocents
2021 · ★ 6.9
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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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