Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
A Tale of Two Sisters
2003 · ★ 7.1
Columbus
2017 · ★ 7.1
The Throne
2015 · ★ 7.1
Bed and Board
1970 · ★ 7.1
Nanook of the North
1922 · ★ 7.1
Séance
2001 · ★ 7.1
Submarino
2010 · ★ 7.1
Someone's Gaze
2013 · ★ 7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · ★ 7.1
A Woman's Life
1963 · ★ 7.1
First Cow
2020 · ★ 7.1
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · ★ 7.1
Moby Dick
1956 · ★ 7.1
The Wild Child
1970 · ★ 7.1
The Piano Forest
2007 · ★ 7.1
Ride the High Country
1962 · ★ 7.1
The Lovely Bones
2009 · ★ 7.1
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · ★ 7.1
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
1976 · ★ 7.1
The Andromeda Strain
1971 · ★ 7.1
Scarecrow
1973 · ★ 7.1
Take Shelter
2011 · ★ 7.1
Read My Lips
2001 · ★ 7.1
Wonderland
2024 · ★ 7.1
Memory
2023 · ★ 7.0
Caché
2005 · ★ 7.0
The Psychic
1977 · ★ 7.0
The Beguiled
1971 · ★ 7.0
Lone Star
1996 · ★ 7.0
Night of the Demon
1957 · ★ 7.0
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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