Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
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Dancing Girl
1951 · ★ 6.4
Dog Star Man: Part II
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The Girl by the Lake
2007 · ★ 6.4
L'Amour fou
1969 · ★ 6.4
The Watchers
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Zero Focus
1961 · ★ 6.3
The Mimic
2017 · ★ 6.3
It Came from Outer Space
1953 · ★ 6.3
Murder by Decree
1979 · ★ 6.3
A Dark Song
2016 · ★ 6.3
The Duke of Burgundy
2015 · ★ 6.3
Daughters of the Dust
1991 · ★ 6.3
Assimilate
2019 · ★ 6.3
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005 · ★ 6.3
The Amityville Horror
1979 · ★ 6.3
Sound of My Voice
2011 · ★ 6.3
Real
2013 · ★ 6.3
Au revoir l'été
2013 · ★ 6.3
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2017 · ★ 6.3
The Assistant
2020 · ★ 6.3
5 Is the Perfect Number
2019 · ★ 6.3
The Ritual
2017 · ★ 6.3
Bergman Island
2021 · ★ 6.3
The Limehouse Golem
2016 · ★ 6.2
Ju-on: The Curse 2
2000 · ★ 6.2
Man in the Wilderness
1971 · ★ 6.2
When a Stranger Calls
1979 · ★ 6.2
Canary
2005 · ★ 6.2
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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