Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2011 · ★ 7.7
La Terra Trema
1949 · ★ 7.7
The Leopard
1963 · ★ 7.7
Angel's Egg
1985 · ★ 7.7
Vivre Sa Vie
1962 · ★ 7.7
Floating Clouds
1955 · ★ 7.7
The Sacrifice
1986 · ★ 7.7
Dreams
1990 · ★ 7.7
Late Autumn
1960 · ★ 7.7
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
1989 · ★ 7.7
The Night of Counting the Years
1969 · ★ 7.7
Twice: The Extraordinary Life of Tsutomu Yamaguchi
2010 · ★ 7.7
ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie
2015 · ★ 7.7
Two Seasons, Two Strangers
2025 · ★ 7.7
Old Partner
2009 · ★ 7.7
Il Posto
1961 · ★ 7.7
The Life of Oharu
1952 · ★ 7.7
More
1998 · ★ 7.7
Cast Away
2000 · ★ 7.7
Onibaba
1964 · ★ 7.7
Cléo from 5 to 7
1962 · ★ 7.7
I Vitelloni
1953 · ★ 7.7
The Killing
1956 · ★ 7.6
The Gleaners and I
2000 · ★ 7.6
The Old Man and the Sea
1999 · ★ 7.6
The Lost Weekend
1945 · ★ 7.6
Detachment
2011 · ★ 7.6
Il Divo
2008 · ★ 7.6
Fitzcarraldo
1982 · ★ 7.6
Germany, Year Zero
1948 · ★ 7.6
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.
Why is film X not on this list?
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