Do you feel like watching something cerebral? This overview contains all Netflix movies and series in the cerebral genre and is updated with new releases daily. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 20, is 100 Days of Solitude.
The complex historical figure of Leon Trotsky comes to life in this epic biography that depicts the tumultuous life of the Russian revolutionary.
11 December 2018 | Show | 2017
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
3 December 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 113 minutes
Husband and father Pedro becomes increasingly suspicious that a series of mishaps at a resort during a family vacation are part of a sinister plan.
3 December 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 96 minutes
When King Sejong the Great embarks on a quest to devise a writing system for his subjects in 15th-century Korea, intrigue ensues.
29 November 2018 | Show | 2011
An unconventional judge sets out to prove the innocence of her brother, a convict accused of rape and murder, with the help of a fellow justice.
29 November 2018 | Show | 2017
An ardent, empathetic courtroom judge partners with a fellow rookie, a principled man of integrity, to negotiate the legal system and those they serve.
26 November 2018 | Show | 2018
In 1947 Los Angeles, the disappearance of four men, including his own detective, leads a police captain to a cavern where an eerie discovery awaits.
8 November 2018 | Movie | 2016 | 11 minutes
Actors, crew members and others who were there discuss the tumultuous creation of Orson Welles's final, unfinished film, “The Other Side of the Wind.”
8 November 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 98 minutes
On the last day of his life, a legendary director struggles to complete a new project and contemplates his legacy in this layered film by Orson Welles.
8 November 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 122 minutes
In 1992, Sandi Tan and her friends shot a quirky film on the streets of Singapore. Then the footage disappeared, sending her on a hunt for answers.
2 November 2018 | Documentaries | 2018 | 97 minutes
Over six days in 1971, brilliant writer Sergei Dovlatov encounters maddening barriers to publishing his work under the repressive Soviet regime.
2 November 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 126 minutes
A professor mysteriously vanishes, leaving behind a host of suspects, a shadowy history and a clue: the anonymous birthday gift of a Bengali classic.
25 October 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 150 minutes
After devastating terror attacks in Norway, a young survivor, grieving families and the country rally for justice and healing. Based on a true story.
11 October 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 144 minutes
When a Japanese high schooler comes into possession of a mystical notebook, he finds he has the power to kill anybody whose name he enters in it.
3 October 2018 | Show | 2006
In 1960, Israeli spies undertake a daring mission to capture notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and bring him to justice. Based on real events.
3 October 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 123 minutes
Complications around the cremation of their deceased friend inspire three septuagenarian friends to build their own mortuary.
1 October 2018 | Movie | 2016 | 73 minutes
After his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to Berlin, a theater director stages an autobiographical play in a massive New York City warehouse.
29 September 2018 | Movie | 2008 | 123 minutes
An unlucky, debt-ridden teen resorts to his math skills when he's forced into a deadly tournament of rock-paper-scissors run by a diabolical host.
28 September 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 130 minutes
Two struggling strangers connect during a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial involving a doctor with mother issues and an emotionally complex computer.
21 September 2018 | Show | 2018
When a theater group stages a production of a Rabindranath Tagore play, they begin to notice parallels between the story and their own lives.
15 September 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 111 minutes