Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
A Most Violent Year
2014 · ★ 6.6
The Imperial Navy
1981 · ★ 6.6
Mother and Son
1997 · ★ 6.6
Harmonium
2016 · ★ 6.6
Volare
2019 · ★ 6.6
On the Beach at Night Alone
2017 · ★ 6.6
Grass
2018 · ★ 6.6
The Last Man on Earth
1964 · ★ 6.6
Dragged Across Concrete
2019 · ★ 6.6
The Masque of the Red Death
1964 · ★ 6.6
Yeelen
1987 · ★ 6.6
Occult
2009 · ★ 6.6
The Puppetmaster
1993 · ★ 6.6
It Follows
2015 · ★ 6.6
The Last War
1961 · ★ 6.6
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
2004 · ★ 6.6
Z
2019 · ★ 6.6
Hamburger Hill
1987 · ★ 6.6
Dead Calm
1989 · ★ 6.6
Renaissance
2006 · ★ 6.6
The Vast of Night
2019 · ★ 6.6
Zigeunerweisen
1980 · ★ 6.6
Hungry Hearts
2015 · ★ 6.6
Jauja
2014 · ★ 6.5
Without Memory
1996 · ★ 6.5
Zama
2017 · ★ 6.5
Voices of a Distant Star
2002 · ★ 6.5
Mr. Turner
2014 · ★ 6.5
The Legacy of the Bones
2019 · ★ 6.5
Zone
1995 · ★ 6.5
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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