Cerebral 1383 films
The pleasure itself is thinking: debate, deduction, ideas as the action. My Dinner with Andre, The Seventh Seal, Before Sunset.
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
1958 · ★ 7.2
Thank You for Smoking
2005 · ★ 7.2
She Said
2022 · ★ 7.2
The Celluloid Closet
1996 · ★ 7.2
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
2011 · ★ 7.2
Carnage
2011 · ★ 7.2
The Travelling Players
1975 · ★ 7.2
Music Box
1989 · ★ 7.1
Death on the Nile
1978 · ★ 7.1
Score: A Film Music Documentary
2017 · ★ 7.1
Following
1999 · ★ 7.1
Dead Ringers
1988 · ★ 7.1
Red Cliff
2008 · ★ 7.1
The Man Standing Next
2020 · ★ 7.1
Compulsion
1959 · ★ 7.1
Stories We Tell
2012 · ★ 7.1
My Beautiful Broken Brain
2014 · ★ 7.1
The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 · ★ 7.1
Julius Caesar
1953 · ★ 7.1
The Pawnbroker
1965 · ★ 7.1
The Master
2012 · ★ 7.1
Columbus
2017 · ★ 7.1
Traffic
2000 · ★ 7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · ★ 7.1
WarGames
1983 · ★ 7.1
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · ★ 7.1
Death and the Maiden
1994 · ★ 7.1
Moby Dick
1956 · ★ 7.1
Death Note
2006 · ★ 7.1
The Thirteenth Floor
1999 · ★ 7.1
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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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