Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
With a Girl of Black Soil
2007 · ★ 6.5
Sicilian Ghost Story
2017 · ★ 6.5
Birth/Rebirth
2023 · ★ 6.5
Swimming Pool
2003 · ★ 6.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · ★ 6.5
Extraordinary Tales
2015 · ★ 6.5
Je Tu Il Elle
1974 · ★ 6.5
Burnt Offerings
1976 · ★ 6.5
Watcher
2022 · ★ 6.5
In Absentia
2000 · ★ 6.5
The Ghost of Yotsuya
1959 · ★ 6.5
Toute une nuit
1982 · ★ 6.5
Shara
2003 · ★ 6.5
Don't Listen
2020 · ★ 6.5
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976 · ★ 6.5
Samurai Spy
1965 · ★ 6.4
The Invitation
2016 · ★ 6.4
Arirang
2011 · ★ 6.4
After Yang
2022 · ★ 6.4
Return
Return
2020 · ★ 6.4
Ikebana
1957 · ★ 6.4
Masked Ward
2020 · ★ 6.4
Ripples
2023 · ★ 6.4
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · ★ 6.4
Last and First Men
2020 · ★ 6.4
The Whisperer in Darkness
2011 · ★ 6.4
Cargo
2017 · ★ 6.4
Sweetheart
2019 · ★ 6.4
Norwegian Wood
2010 · ★ 6.4
Oh Mercy
2019 · ★ 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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