Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Nosferatu
1922 · ★ 7.7
The Others
2001 · ★ 7.6
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2007 · ★ 7.5
Winter Sleep
2014 · ★ 7.5
Days of Heaven
1978 · ★ 7.5
Ordinary People
1980 · ★ 7.4
Drive My Car
2021 · ★ 7.4
A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · ★ 7.4
Blow Out
1981 · ★ 7.4
5 Centimeters per Second
2007 · ★ 7.3
The Illusionist
2010 · ★ 7.3
Wake in Fright
1971 · ★ 7.3
2046
2004 · ★ 7.2
A Hen in the Wind
1948 · ★ 7.1
3 Women
1977 · ★ 7.1
Macbeth
1971 · ★ 7.1
Dogtooth
2009 · ★ 7.0
Pieces of a Woman
2020 · ★ 7.0
Away from Her
2007 · ★ 7.0
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019 · ★ 7.0
The Red and the White
1967 · ★ 7.0
There Was a Father
1942 · ★ 7.0
Zero Dark Thirty
2012 · ★ 7.0
The Queen
2006 · ★ 7.0
Up in the Air
2009 · ★ 6.9
Ju-on: The Curse
2000 · ★ 6.8
I Am Love
2010 · ★ 6.8
The Tree of Life
2011 · ★ 6.7
The Ring
2002 · ★ 6.7
1984
1956 · ★ 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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