Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
They Drive by Night
1940 · ★ 6.9
Summer of 84
2018 · ★ 6.9
Breakdown
1997 · ★ 6.9
Looper
2012 · ★ 6.9
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice
2009 · ★ 6.9
Last Quarter
2004 · ★ 6.9
Sword of Desperation
2010 · ★ 6.9
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007 · ★ 6.9
The Tale of Iya
2013 · ★ 6.9
Shadows in the Palace
2007 · ★ 6.9
Missing
2016 · ★ 6.9
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · ★ 6.9
Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963 · ★ 6.9
Eight Men Out
1988 · ★ 6.9
The Cathedral
2002 · ★ 6.9
Combustible
2012 · ★ 6.9
The Young Karl Marx
2017 · ★ 6.8
Wendy and Lucy
2008 · ★ 6.8
Too Late
2016 · ★ 6.8
His Three Daughters
2024 · ★ 6.8
Wings
1966 · ★ 6.8
Wanda
1970 · ★ 6.8
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · ★ 6.8
Godzilla 1985
1985 · ★ 6.8
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
2007 · ★ 6.8
Still the Water
2014 · ★ 6.8
Taira Clan Saga
1955 · ★ 6.8
In the Valley of Elah
2007 · ★ 6.8
Super 8
2011 · ★ 6.8
Sharaku
1995 · ★ 6.8
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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