Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
La ligne verte
1999 · ★ 8.5
Les Sept Samouraïs
1954 · ★ 8.4
Harakiri
1962 · ★ 8.4
Twenty Years Later
1984 · ★ 8.4
La Condition de l’homme III
1961 · ★ 8.4
Silent Voice
2016 · ★ 8.4
Entre le ciel et l'enfer
1963 · ★ 8.4
Made in Abyss : Le crépuscule errant
2019 · ★ 8.3
Le Trou
1960 · ★ 8.3
A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · ★ 8.3
Mushishi Zoku Shô - Les Larmes des Grelots
2015 · ★ 8.3
Doukyuusei
2016 · ★ 8.3
Nuit et Brouillard
1956 · ★ 8.3
Letter from the Mountain
2002 · ★ 8.2
Baraka
1992 · ★ 8.2
Be with You
2018 · ★ 8.2
Alien : Le 8e Passager
1979 · ★ 8.2
Innocent
2005 · ★ 8.1
Barberousse
1965 · ★ 8.1
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · ★ 8.1
Paris, Texas
1984 · ★ 8.1
Scènes de la vie conjugale
1974 · ★ 8.1
Le Décalogue 1, un seul Dieu tu adoreras
1989 · ★ 8.1
Vivre !
1994 · ★ 8.1
Remember You
2016 · ★ 8.1
Samsara
2011 · ★ 8.1
Les Contes de la lune vague après la pluie
1953 · ★ 8.0
Après le tremblement de terre
2025 · ★ 8.0
Lawrence d’Arabie
1962 · ★ 8.0
Room: le monde de Jack
2015 · ★ 8.0
Questions sur ce 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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