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 4.6, is Red Oleanders Raktokarobi.
The complex historical figure of Leon Trotsky comes to life in this epic biography that depicts the tumultuous life of the Russian revolutionary.
10 December 2018 | Show | 2017
At top-secret U.S.-Australian joint defense facility Pine Gap, fissures appear in the critical alliance as spies work with, and against, each other.
10 December 2018 | Show | 2018
When King Sejong the Great embarks on a quest to devise a writing system for his subjects in 15th-century Korea, intrigue ensues.
3 December 2018 | Show | 2011
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
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
3 December 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 113 minutes
Torn between his duty to the FBI and his disgust with the Nixon administration, high-ranking FBI official Mark Felt becomes an infamous secret source.
3 December 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 103 minutes
A story of greed and corruption in the global quest for oil unfolds through the fates of a CIA operative, an energy analyst and other power players.
3 December 2018 | Movie | 2005 | 127 minutes
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.
28 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.
23 November 2018 | Show | 2018
Prior to World War I, Cambridge don G.H. Hardy helps Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan navigate the labyrinth of academia and racial prejudice.
23 November 2018 | Movie | 2015 | 108 minutes
A linguist charged with finding a way to communicate with aliens that have landed on Earth uncovers a connection with meaning for mankind and herself.
13 November 2018 | Movie | 2016 | 116 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
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
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.
1 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.
1 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.
24 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
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
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
30 September 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 97 minutes