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 Ken Burns: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
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.
17 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 94 minutes
A womanizing musician travels to India, where he composes a Bollywood film score and unexpectedly falls for the wife of the French ambassador.
2 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 114 minutes
Actors:
Christopher Lambert,
Venantino Venantini,
Elsa Zylberstein,
Claude Lelouch,
Rahul Vohra,
Amma,
Jean Dujardin,
Kalki Koechlin,
Alice Pol,
Shriya Pilgaonkar,
Abhishek Krishnan
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
When he is blacklisted by Hollywood for his leftist political views, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo struggles to find work in secret as a ghost writer.
3 July 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 124 minutes
Actors:
Bryan Cranston,
John Goodman,
Diane Lane,
Helen Mirren,
Jay Roach,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje,
Dean O'Gorman,
Alan Tudyk,
Louis C.K.,
Elle Fanning,
Michael Stuhlbarg
3.95
In a picturesque and once-peaceful province of Sweden, disillusioned police inspector Kurt Wallander probes a shocking spate of baffling murders.
3 July 2017 | Show | 2012
Actors:
Kenneth Branagh,
David Warner,
Tom Hiddleston,
Polly Hemingway,
Richard McCabe,
Sarah Smart,
Tom Beard,
Sadie Shimmin,
Jeany Spark,
Henning Mankell,
Peter Harness
3.40
As World War II ends, Gen. MacArthur oversees Japan's surrender, an act that dispels the nation's centuries-old beliefs about its emperor.
3 July 2017 | Movie | 2012 | 106 minutes
Actors:
Tommy Lee Jones,
Kaori Momoi,
Peter Webber,
Matthew Fox,
Shohei Hino,
Eriko Hatsune,
Masatoshi Nakamura,
Masato Ibu,
Colin Moy,
Toshiyuki Nishida,
Masayoshi Haneda,
Takataro Kataoka,
Isao Natsuyagi
A TV anchorman discovers that a mysterious bundle of incense has the power to send him back in time, where he has the opportunity to alter the past.
3 July 2017 | Show | 2013
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.
15 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
A law student and his designer friend go to a country inn to write but encounter distractions from strange fellow residents and a bizarre mystery.
15 June 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 101 minutes
This documentary follows former Palestinian and Israeli soldiers, tired of endless war, who form a group advocating peace through nonviolent action.
8 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
3.27
Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of Britain, navigates a career destined to change the rules of leadership and politics.
4 May 2017 | Movie | 2011 | 104 minutes
Actors:
Jim Broadbent,
Nicholas Farrell,
Richard E. Grant,
Meryl Streep,
Julian Wadham,
David Westhead,
Susan Brown,
Iain Glen,
Anthony Head,
Michael Pennington,
John Sessions,
Roger Allam,
Harry Lloyd,
Olivia Colman,
Phyllida Lloyd,
Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
Angus Wright,
Victoria Bewick,
Alexandra Roach
3.90
An auction house owner who lives in seclusion amid a collection of female portraiture is drawn to an enigmatic client who refuses to meet in person.
28 April 2017 | Movie | 2013 | 130 minutes
Overnight success in the cutthroat world of modeling in Los Angeles makes a winsome teenager the object of obsession for a trio of envious rivals.
28 April 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 117 minutes
Actors:
Keanu Reeves,
Alessandro Nivola,
Lauren Adams,
Vanessa Martinez,
Jena Malone,
Nicolas Winding Refn,
Desmond Harrington,
Christina Hendricks,
Elle Fanning,
Charles Baker,
Cody Cameron,
Helen Wilson,
Bella Heathcote,
Rebecca Dayan,
Jamie Clayton,
Abbey Lee,
Karl Glusman
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
The lives and loves of three aristocratic Russian families intertwine against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the French invasion of Russia.
4 April 2017 | Show | 2016
Actors:
Jim Broadbent,
Brian Cox,
Stephen Rea,
Greta Scacchi,
Gillian Anderson,
Mathieu Kassovitz,
Adrian Edmondson,
Tom Burke,
Rebecca Front,
Paul Dano,
Tuppence Middleton,
Olivia Ross,
Lily James,
Aisling Loftus,
Aneurin Barnard,
James Norton,
Jessie Buckley,
Jack Lowden
The biblical story of Jacob is told through the eyes of his daughter Dinah and his four wives, who nurture the girl in the women's special red tent.
4 April 2017 | Show | 2014
The cast, producers and mental health professionals discuss scenes dealing with difficult issues, including bullying, depression and sexual assault.
4 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.
30 March 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 86 minutes
3.30
On the brink of a profound discovery, a molecular biologist has a chance encounter with a young woman who is the only one who can prove his theory.
30 March 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 107 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
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
4.00
In a post-apocalyptic future, a time traveler uses his powers to return to the present and try to stop the plague that is about to decimate humankind.
2 March 2017 | Show | 2015
Ellen, a 20-year-old with anorexia nervosa, goes on a harrowing, sometimes funny journey of self-discovery at a group home run by an unusual doctor.
16 February 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 107 minutes
Four astronomers from England reunite for a 50th anniversary road trip across America while recalling their work for NASA's Apollo space program.
9 February 2017 | Documentaries | 2015 | 87 minutes