Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Antibodies
2005 · ★ 6.8
Tony Takitani
2004 · ★ 6.7
As Above, So Below
2014 · ★ 6.7
Atlantics
2019 · ★ 6.7
Café Lumière
2004 · ★ 6.7
Osaka Elegy
1936 · ★ 6.7
The Comb
1991 · ★ 6.7
Ursa Minor Blue
1993 · ★ 6.7
Charisma
1999 · ★ 6.7
In Vanda's Room
2001 · ★ 6.7
Cul-de-sac
1966 · ★ 6.7
Dog Soldiers
2002 · ★ 6.7
Dearest
2012 · ★ 6.7
I Am Mother
2019 · ★ 6.7
Land
2021 · ★ 6.7
Nosferatu
2024 · ★ 6.7
Transit
2018 · ★ 6.7
Breath
2007 · ★ 6.7
The Brides of Dracula
1960 · ★ 6.7
The Fog
1980 · ★ 6.7
Cronos
1993 · ★ 6.7
Matango
1963 · ★ 6.7
Morvern Callar
2002 · ★ 6.7
Son of Frankenstein
1939 · ★ 6.7
The Long Excuse
2016 · ★ 6.7
Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito
2016 · ★ 6.7
Late Autumn
2011 · ★ 6.7
Twins of Evil
1971 · ★ 6.7
Electroma
2006 · ★ 6.7
Miss Hokusai
2015 · ★ 6.7
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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