Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Dead Awake
2016 · ★ 5.2
The End
2012 · ★ 5.1
Capone
2020 · ★ 5.0
Nightmare
2000 · ★ 4.7
The Recall
2017 · ★ 4.7
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
2016 · ★ 4.6
400 Days
2015 · ★ 4.4
Corpse Prison: Part 1
2017 · ★ 3.9
12 Angry Men
1957 · ★ 8.6
Diabolique
1955 · ★ 7.9
Falling Camellia
2018 · ★ 7.9
Canola
2016 · ★ 7.9
Army of Shadows
1969 · ★ 7.9
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1963 · ★ 7.8
Future Boy Conan
1979 · ★ 7.7
Ritual
2000 · ★ 7.7
The Geisha House
1999 · ★ 7.7
The River Fuefuki
1960 · ★ 7.7
The Last Samurai
1974 · ★ 7.7
One Way or Another
1976 · ★ 7.6
A Touch of Zen
1970 · ★ 7.6
Family of Strangers
2019 · ★ 7.6
Indian Summer
1972 · ★ 7.6
Spring and Chaos
1996 · ★ 7.5
Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn
2019 · ★ 7.5
Where the Crawdads Sing
2022 · ★ 7.5
Cria!
1976 · ★ 7.5
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · ★ 7.5
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962 · ★ 7.5
The Girl from the Other Side
2019 · ★ 7.5
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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