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 4.39, is Luther.
A crisis of faith sets renowned fundamentalist preacher Carlton Pearson on a new spiritual path that jeopardizes everything he holds dear.
19 April 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 105 minutes
2.50
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.
5 April 2018 | Movie | 2018 | 97 minutes
A woman who's been alone on a spaceship her whole life becomes enamored with an engineer who suddenly enters her world and upends her universe.
29 March 2018 | Movie | 2017 | 94 minutes
3.08
Spirited 22-year-old activist and photojournalist Dan Eldon rushes to the frontline of a dangerous relief effort for Somalian refugees in this biopic.
9 November 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 123 minutes
3.02
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
2.95
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
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
3.39
Form, montage and mesmerizing kinetics propel this experimental meditation on the destructive power of the nuclear bomb, featuring music by The Acid.
2 August 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 59 minutes
3.50
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
3.91
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
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
3.11
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
3.76
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
3.19
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
2.83
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
2.83
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
3.17
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
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
3.93
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
3.31
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
3.15
A young woman visits a gravesite in Buenos Aires, prompting a fractured, troubling journey into a past shaped by two very different mother figures.
2 February 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 112 minutes
Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.
26 January 2017 | Show | 2017
An ill and addled man recalls what seems to be a brief but powerful past romance with a kindred spirit, a young Russian woman who lived a lonely life.
20 January 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 100 minutes
Wicked one-liners and soul-baring confessions converge in this uniquely intimate stand-up special from "Chappelle's Show" co-creator Neal Brennan.
29 December 2016 | Movie | 2017 | 65 minutes
3.30
Filmmaker Herzog presents a history of the Internet, starting with its birth in 1969, and ponders the joys and sorrows of its societal influence.
22 December 2016 | Documentaries | 2016 | 98 minutes
4.30
Five very different students navigate life at the Capuchin seminary, facing tough questions of faith under the guidance of a freethinking priest.
15 December 2016 | Show | 2015
Actors:
Jean-Luc Bideau,
Jacques Bonnaffé,
Michel Duchaussoy,
Yannick Renier,
Samuel Jouy,
Julien Bouanich,
Clément Roussier,
David Baïot,
Thierry Gimenez,
Céline Cuignet,
Gauthier Baillot,
Guy Denize,
Christophe Grégoire,
Jacques Develay,
Clément Manuel
4.15
A series of incidents in Afghanistan set complicated political and personal events in motion for a returning Norwegian Special Forces officer.
15 December 2016 | Show | 2016
Actors:
Tuva Novotny,
Aksel Hennie,
Anders Danielsen Lie,
Christian Rubeck,
Rolf Kristian Larsen,
Kyrre Hellum,
Mads Sjøgård Pettersen,
Dennis Storhøi,
Hallvard Holmen,
Eirik Evjen,
Samuel Fröler,
Atheer Adel