Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Lovely Molly
2011 · ★ 5.1
They
2002 · ★ 5.0
The Tunnel
2014 · ★ 5.0
Welcome the Stranger
2018 · ★ 5.0
Air
2015 · ★ 5.0
The Ring Virus
1999 · ★ 4.9
At the Devil's Door
2014 · ★ 4.8
Planetarium
2016 · ★ 4.6
Vegetarian
2010 · ★ 4.6
The Fog
2005 · ★ 4.6
Sword for Truth
1990 · ★ 4.2
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · ★ 8.9
Twin Peaks
1989 · ★ 8.5
The Seventh Seal
1957 · ★ 8.2
Persona
1966 · ★ 8.1
Incendies
2010 · ★ 8.1
A Special Day
1977 · ★ 8.1
The World of Apu
1959 · ★ 8.1
The Father
2020 · ★ 8.1
Das Boot
1981 · ★ 8.1
Oppenheimer
2023 · ★ 8.0
Day of Wrath
1943 · ★ 8.0
Werckmeister Harmonies
2001 · ★ 7.8
Shoplifters
2018 · ★ 7.8
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
1939 · ★ 7.8
Love Letter
1995 · ★ 7.8
Kagemusha
1980 · ★ 7.8
The Wind Rises
2013 · ★ 7.8
Solaris
1972 · ★ 7.8
El Sur
1983 · ★ 7.7
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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