Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Detour
1945 · ★ 7.2
Summer Ghost
2021 · ★ 7.2
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965 · ★ 7.2
Russian Ark
2002 · ★ 7.2
People on Sunday
1930 · ★ 7.2
The Orphanage
2007 · ★ 7.2
The Long Day Closes
1992 · ★ 7.2
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · ★ 7.2
Ida
2013 · ★ 7.2
Asura
2012 · ★ 7.2
Black Girl
1966 · ★ 7.2
A Bridge Too Far
1977 · ★ 7.2
K-PAX
2001 · ★ 7.2
Masculin Féminin
1966 · ★ 7.2
Every Day a Good Day
2018 · ★ 7.2
Spring in a Small Town
1948 · ★ 7.2
After the Storm
2016 · ★ 7.2
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
2021 · ★ 7.2
A Hidden Life
2019 · ★ 7.2
Watership Down
1978 · ★ 7.2
The Driver
1978 · ★ 7.2
Face to Face
1976 · ★ 7.2
Saraband
2003 · ★ 7.2
The Deserted Archipelago
1969 · ★ 7.2
Horse Money
2014 · ★ 7.2
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · ★ 7.2
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · ★ 7.2
La Belle Noiseuse
1991 · ★ 7.2
The Whispering Star
2015 · ★ 7.2
100 Yen Love
2014 · ★ 7.2
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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