What are your favorite cerebral movies?

[buckhorn]

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[Third Coast]

I took that scene in NCFOM as Jone's character imagining Chigurh lurking in the motel room, but he wasn't really there.

I also tend to believe that while it was the Cartel guys that killed Llewelyn, Chigurh got the money because of the dime Jones character found in the room. The vent was plenty deep enough to hold the bag, because when Llewelyn hid it, he pushed it back a ways into the duct.

 

[7out]

The Man Who Fell to Earth
Monte Walsh
Midnight Cowboy

 

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[Clean]

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[Third Coast]

Thanks for the correction Clean. It's been years since i last watched it.

 

[Hu_Fan]

There is a very old French film from around the 60s, called "The Secret" that is very hard to find. Searches on La Secret or Le Secret brings up other films.

This film is about someone who was accursed of having a secret that they never really had, and they end up in an Asylum. It's a spy flick. Taunting tale the way it draws to it's conclusion. I saw in during the 60s, and to this day cannot get it fully out of my mind.

Current films... I'll go with
"The Lives of Others" German.
"The Very Long Engagement," French.
and a little-known Russian film,
"Siberian Barber"
Finally...
"Breathless" Centurion Edition.

I also have the fascinating Russian TV spy series of the Russian WWII agent, Stirlitz. It's a 12-part series and is called "Seventeen Moments of Spring." Well done, and I don't think it could be cast with any actors than those in it.

I have all of those in my library.

I don't own, but also vote for Brazil and 12 Monkeys.

 

[Third Coast]

Speaking of cerebral foreign movies, I saw a couple of Norwegian films from director Erik Poppe on Netflix streaming that I enjoyed - "Hawaii Oslo" and "Troubled Water". I give both 4 out of 5 stars.

 

[Hu_Fan]

My list above may not be all that cerebral..
How about...
"Happy Accidents"
"Go" (cerebral Lite!)
"The Thirteenth Floor" also kind of Lite

I just read down the whole list on the thread, and many outstanding ones, and I've seen nearly all of them.

There's another I can't think of the title... a guy in an institution with memory problems, and the question of whether he's really in the future or past... Those in charge convince him of one reality, but it's really another..

 

[buckhorn]

12 Monkeys/ La Jete

 

[Dionysus]

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[Third Coast]

Not a big horror film fan, but I thought "Triangle" with Melissa George was a good mind twister. But then it's not really what I would consider a typical horror movie.