Slow-burn 3708 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Arctic
2018 · ★ 6.5
The Temple of Wild Geese
1962 · ★ 6.5
Typhoon Club
1985 · ★ 6.5
Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
1964 · ★ 6.5
Joe
2014 · ★ 6.5
Reminiscence
2021 · ★ 6.5
Pale Cocoon
2005 · ★ 6.5
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024 · ★ 6.5
That Night's Wife
1930 · ★ 6.5
The Last Valley
1971 · ★ 6.5
The Moon
2023 · ★ 6.5
Widows
2018 · ★ 6.5
Fukushima 50
2020 · ★ 6.5
Coup d'Etat
1973 · ★ 6.5
Be Sure to Share
2009 · ★ 6.5
Ring of Curse
2011 · ★ 6.5
A Courtesan with Flowered Skin
2014 · ★ 6.5
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 1 - One Year After the Battle
2017 · ★ 6.5
Euphoria
2018 · ★ 6.5
Perfect Proposal
2015 · ★ 6.5
The Mayor
2017 · ★ 6.5
Caravaggio's Shadow
2022 · ★ 6.5
The United States of Leland
2003 · ★ 6.5
Ghost Lab
2021 · ★ 6.5
The Creatures
1966 · ★ 6.5
Heaven
2002 · ★ 6.5
A Ship to India
1947 · ★ 6.5
The Salvation
2014 · ★ 6.5
12 Suicidal Teens
2019 · ★ 6.5
Too Late the Hero
1970 · ★ 6.4
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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