Slow-burn 3708 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
The Booth
2005 · ★ 6.7
Code Unknown
2000 · ★ 6.7
Masquerade Hotel
2019 · ★ 6.7
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021 · ★ 6.7
The Power of Kangwon Province
1998 · ★ 6.7
Intruder
2020 · ★ 6.7
The Good Liar
2019 · ★ 6.7
Along for the Ride
2022 · ★ 6.7
The Contender
2000 · ★ 6.7
Operation Finale
2018 · ★ 6.7
Under Fire
1983 · ★ 6.7
The Ides of March
2011 · ★ 6.7
Ride or Die
2021 · ★ 6.7
The Reflecting Skin
1990 · ★ 6.7
Museum
2016 · ★ 6.7
All the Way
2016 · ★ 6.7
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967 · ★ 6.7
Harper
1966 · ★ 6.7
Contagion
2011 · ★ 6.6
Boston Strangler
2023 · ★ 6.6
Wifelike
2022 · ★ 6.6
Viceroy's House
2017 · ★ 6.6
The Crimson Kimono
1959 · ★ 6.6
Spring
2014 · ★ 6.6
An Actor's Revenge
1963 · ★ 6.6
Stillwater
2021 · ★ 6.6
The Third Murder
2017 · ★ 6.6
Rebel in the Rye
2017 · ★ 6.6
Death Hunt
1981 · ★ 6.6
The Last Ronin
2010 · ★ 6.6
Questions about this 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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