Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Metropia
2009 · ★ 6.1
Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · ★ 6.1
The Life Before Her Eyes
2007 · ★ 6.1
A Quiet Passion
2016 · ★ 6.1
Nocebo
2022 · ★ 6.0
Una
2017 · ★ 6.0
Memoria
2021 · ★ 6.0
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005 · ★ 6.0
All Is True
2018 · ★ 6.0
A Map of the World
1999 · ★ 6.0
1BR
2019 · ★ 6.0
Mill of the Stone Women
1960 · ★ 6.0
The Last Days
2013 · ★ 6.0
Son
2021 · ★ 6.0
The Silence
2019 · ★ 6.0
Dark Harvest
2023 · ★ 6.0
6 Balloons
2018 · ★ 6.0
Sister Death
2023 · ★ 6.0
Moloch
2022 · ★ 6.0
Miami Vice
2006 · ★ 6.0
Over Your Dead Body
2014 · ★ 6.0
Tamako in Moratorium
2013 · ★ 6.0
Muybridge's Strings
2011 · ★ 6.0
The Similars
2015 · ★ 6.0
Cop Car
2015 · ★ 6.0
Ken Park
2003 · ★ 6.0
Pyewacket
2017 · ★ 6.0
Containment
2015 · ★ 6.0
Cosmos
2019 · ★ 6.0
Cemetery of Splendor
2015 · ★ 5.9
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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