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 4.5, is Downton Abbey.
Pressured by his traditional family to marry, a filmmaker explores the idea of monogamy and the possibility of lifelong union without sexual fidelity.
19 October 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 83 minutes
After inventing a drug that induces time-compressed virtual realities, young Ren grapples with partner Sam over how to use their powerful creation.
19 October 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 95 minutes
Actors:
Tiriel Mora,
Ben C. Lucas,
T.J. Power,
Maggie Meyer,
Jessica De Gouw,
Clarence John Ryan,
Thomas Cocquerel,
Liam Graham,
Adriane Daff,
Priscilla-Anne Forder,
Ian Toyne
A gay movie director finds himself on both sides of the camera, blurring the line between his real sex life and erotic filmmaking.
22 September 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 122 minutes
Actors:
Julián Hernández,
Gabino Rodríguez,
Hugo Catalán,
Andrea Portal,
Alan Ramírez,
Emilio von Sternerfels,
Rocío Reyes,
Iván Álvarez,
Gloria Contreras,
Gerardo Del Razo,
Aladino R. Blanca
4.10
During World War II, a gay mathematician leads a team of cryptanalysts as they work feverishly to break the Germans' notorious Enigma code.
7 September 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 113 minutes
Actors:
Charles Dance,
Mark Strong,
Keira Knightley,
Tom Goodman-Hill,
Steven Waddington,
Matthew Goode,
Rory Kinnear,
Matthew Beard,
Morten Tyldum,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Allen Leech,
James Northcote
On the run from authorities, a troubled man recalls the mysterious events -- and the strange drifter -- that inspired his unusual transformation.
31 August 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 97 minutes
Actors:
Nicholas Pryor,
DJ Qualls,
Lin Shaye,
Toby Huss,
Mark Kelly,
Teresa Yenque,
Rami Malek,
Sandra Ellis Lafferty,
Kate Lyn Sheil,
Sarah Adina Smith,
Bruce Bundy,
Sukha Belle Potter
Icons of '60s counterculture, Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Ram Dass became estranged until an illness inspired their fascinating reunion.
31 August 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 95 minutes
Unhappy with his commercial film work, a jaded Hollywood actor moves to Argentina to participate in an experimental thesis on social philosophy.
18 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 94 minutes
Form, montage and mesmerizing kinetics propel this experimental meditation on the destructive power of the nuclear bomb, featuring music by The Acid.
4 August 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 59 minutes
4.31
Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means death, a jury of 12 men must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of killing his father.
4 August 2017 | Movie | 1957 | 96 minutes
Actors:
Martin Balsam,
Lee J. Cobb,
Henry Fonda,
Jack Klugman,
Sidney Lumet,
E.G. Marshall,
Jack Warden,
Robert Webber,
Ed Begley,
John Fiedler,
Edward Binns,
Joseph Sweeney,
George Voskovec
3.00
A racially themed bash thrown by white Ivy League students sparks four black classmates to reflect on their identity in this knowing satire.
4 August 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 108 minutes
Actors:
Dennis Haysbert,
Kyle Gallner,
Tessa Thompson,
Tyler James Williams,
Malcolm Barrett,
Brandon P. Bell,
Brittany Curran,
Peter Syvertsen,
Brandon Alter,
Teyonah Parris,
Marque Richardson,
Justin Simien,
Justin Dobies
3.20
In this star-studded drama, six seemingly disparate stories explore the complicated links that humanity shares through the generations.
4 August 2017 | Movie | 2012 | 171 minutes
Actors:
Halle Berry,
Jim Broadbent,
Keith David,
Tom Hanks,
Hugo Weaving,
Lilly Wachowski,
Lana Wachowski,
Tom Tykwer,
Zhou Xun,
Doona Bae,
James D'Arcy,
Jim Sturgess,
Ben Whishaw
3.30
Two computer scientists work to achieve technological singularity to create a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
20 July 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 114 minutes
A woman from a small mountain village disobeys her village elders and sets out for the big city in search of her missing husband.
13 July 2017 | Movie | 2013 | 103 minutes
After waking next to his now-dead lover in a hotel room, a young businessman hires a prominent lawyer to figure out how he ended up a murder suspect.
3 July 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 105 minutes
An African American Gullah family leaves their coastal island home in 1902 and risks losing their culture to start a new life on the U.S. mainland.
16 June 2017 | Movie | 1991 | 112 minutes
Actors:
Kaycee Moore,
Cora Lee Day,
Tommy Redmond Hicks,
Cornell Royal,
Julie Dash,
Cheryl Lynn Bruce,
Bahni Turpin,
Alva Rogers,
Adisa Anderson,
Trula Hoosier,
Barbarao
This documentary follows former Palestinian and Israeli soldiers, tired of endless war, who form a group advocating peace through nonviolent action.
9 June 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 86 minutes
Explore how Caesar, Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler and modern-day dictators consolidated their considerable power through bold and brazen coups.
2 June 2017 | Documentaries | 2017 | 47 minutes
Following the written instructions of his friend, senile Zev crosses the country to find and murder the Nazi who killed their families in Auschwitz.
18 May 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 94 minutes
A scientist whose proof of an afterlife caused a rash of suicides forges ahead with his research, while his disapproving son falls for a troubled woman.
13 April 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 102 minutes
In 1970s London, a defecting KGB officer reveals a terrifying Soviet plot, igniting a top-secret MI5 operation filled with double agents and moles.
5 April 2017 | Show | 2014
4.15
In this gripping Emmy-nominated miniseries, a baroness trying to forge new ties between Israelis and Palestinians stirs up international intrigue.
5 April 2017 | Show | 2014
Actors:
Stephen Rea,
Janet McTeer,
Tobias Menzies,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Lindsay Duncan,
Paul Herzberg,
Lubna Azabal,
Igal Naor,
Eve Best,
Genevieve O'Reilly,
Andrew Buchan,
Katherine Parkinson,
Philip Arditti,
Martin Hutson,
Reeve Fletcher,
George Georgiou,
Nicole Lopes
4.10
Five decades after acquiring a giant egg on Madagascar, David Attenborough returns to learn more about the extinct bird and other wildlife there.
5 April 2017 | Documentaries | 2011 | 52 minutes
A Hollywood screenwriter battles insecurity as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief -- a book about a mercurial orchid poacher named John Laroche.
5 April 2017 | Movie | 2002 | 115 minutes
Actors:
Nicolas Cage,
Brian Cox,
Ron Livingston,
Meryl Streep,
Tilda Swinton,
Judy Greer,
Chris Cooper,
Spike Jonze,
Cara Seymour,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Jay Tavare
The cast, producers and mental health professionals discuss scenes dealing with difficult issues, including bullying, depression and sexual assault.
5 April 2017 | Documentaries | 2017 | 29 minutes
Actors:
Kate Walsh,
Tom McCarthy,
Derek Luke,
Dylan Minnette,
Miles Heizer,
Selena Gomez,
Alisha Boe,
Justin Prentice,
Christian Navarro,
Brian Yorkey,
Katherine Langford,
Brandon Flynn,
Jay Asher,
Alexis Jones,
Mandy Teefey,
Dr. Helen Hsu,
Dr. Rebecca Hedrick,
Dr. Rona Hu
Based on the audio diaries of academic and theologian John Hull, this film offers an impressionistic re-creation of his slow descent into blindness.
23 March 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 86 minutes
3.30
When a mass of skeletons are found in a shallow grave, cutting-edge forensics and ancient texts tell a story of greed, betrayal and retribution.
17 March 2017 | Documentaries | 2011 | 44 minutes
Roger Guenveur Smith gives voice to the man at the center of the brutal police beating that helped fuel the 1992 LA riots. Spike Lee directs.
17 March 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 52 minutes
After Robert Ford joins the most notorious gang in the West, he grows tired of the charismatic Jesse James and begins to resent his widespread fame.
9 March 2017 | Movie | 2007 | 159 minutes
Actors:
Ted Levine,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Michael Parks,
Brad Pitt,
Sam Rockwell,
Sam Shepard,
Casey Affleck,
Zooey Deschanel,
Andrew Dominik,
Garret Dillahunt,
Jeremy Renner,
Paul Schneider
Five acclaimed contemporary directors tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II.
2 March 2017 | Show | 2017