Slow-burn 3707 films

Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.

Le Pianiste

2002 · ★ 8.4

Il était une fois dans l'Ouest

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

1928 · ★ 8.0

Où est la maison de mon ami ?

1987 · ★ 7.9

Millennium Actress

2002 · ★ 7.8

Printemps, été, automne, hiver... et printemps

Oncle Boonmee (celui qui se souvient de ses vies antérieures)

2010 · ★ 6.6

Lorsque tombe la nuit

2017 · ★ 5.9

Le Tombeau des lucioles

2005 · ★ 7.9

Ran

1985 · ★ 8.0

Douze hommes en colère

1997 · ★ 7.7

Questions sur ce film

What does "Slow-burn" mean in our catalog?

Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.

How are these films tagged "slow-burn"?

We infer mood tags from TMDB keywords, runtime, year, genre, and language using rule-based heuristics. A film gets the slow-burn tag when at least one of those rules fires with weight ≥ 0.5. The catalog refreshes the inference every time new films enter.

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