Movies with cerebral vibe

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Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Bleak Minimalist

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Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

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Grief shaping identity, Authorship and doubt, Illness under pressure, Academic prestige vs integrity, Mentorship under scrutiny, Memory and mathematical work

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Steady Intimate Bleak Dry Deliberate

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Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

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Public manipulation, Military-industrial complex, Perpetual wartime policy, Veterans and casualties, Economic incentives of war, Policy dominance and influence

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Steady Claustrophobic Dry Deliberate Clinical

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Imagine a world where two engineers create a device that lets them relive the past six hours. Now, as they manipulate time to outsmart the stock market, they risk becoming lost in a loop of their own making.

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Causal loop ethics, Foreknowledge vs improvisation, Physiological cost of travel, Collaborative strain under pressure, Timeline interference and adaptation, Risk management vs curiosity

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Intimate Bleak Dry Deliberate Clinical

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Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

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Funding and research independence, Scientific inquiry vs social norms, Moral panic and censorship, Public sex education debate, Personal life vs professional duty, Taboos and acceptance dynamics

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Tense Claustrophobic Atmospheric Clinical Relentless

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A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

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Trauma-induced amnesia, Memory control, Abuse impact on youth, Time travel consequences, Peer bullying dynamics, Therapy and coping

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Dry Clinical Intense Measured Oppressive

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British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

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Death penalty scrutiny, Post-conviction appeals, Trauma under trial, Legal strategy under pressure, Finances and ethics in defense, State vs defense tension

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Bleak Deliberate Clinical Relentless Minimalist

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Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

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Corporate personhood debate, Corporate social responsibility, Economic externalities, Democracy vs markets, Limited liability concept, Private power public welfare

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Tense Claustrophobic Brutal Procedural Clinical

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Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

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Dual identities, Abuse and control, Media manipulation, Police profiling, Traumatic upbringing, Obsessive compulsion

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Immersive Bleak Relentless Stylish Minimalist

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A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

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Competition elevates money, Tempo of technology breeds war, Language yields to code, Globalized imagery replaces place, Spectacle over consequence, Fame as prime value

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Realistic Intimate Intense Measured Charged

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Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

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Hidden romance, Academic rivalry, Ideological tension, Cross era ties, Collaboration vs rivalry, Literary legacy

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