Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Spider Forest
2004 · ★ 6.6
No Man of God
2021 · ★ 6.6
Ieoh Island
1977 · ★ 6.6
My Scientology Movie
2016 · ★ 6.6
Thank You for Your Service
2017 · ★ 6.6
Housebound
2014 · ★ 6.6
Martha Marcy May Marlene
2011 · ★ 6.6
Saint Maud
2020 · ★ 6.6
Dragonslayer
1981 · ★ 6.6
The World of Arata: World's/Start/Load/End
2012 · ★ 6.5
The Long Farewell
1987 · ★ 6.5
Avalon
2001 · ★ 6.5
The Terminal Trust
2012 · ★ 6.5
1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines
2016 · ★ 6.5
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004 · ★ 6.5
Experimenter
2015 · ★ 6.5
Muramasa
1987 · ★ 6.5
HOKUSAI
2021 · ★ 6.5
The Secret Scandal
2013 · ★ 6.5
The Ninth Gate
1999 · ★ 6.5
Causeway
2022 · ★ 6.5
Under the Shadow
2016 · ★ 6.5
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979 · ★ 6.5
Hotel by the River
2019 · ★ 6.5
Blissfully Yours
2002 · ★ 6.5
Foolish Wives
1922 · ★ 6.5
Pontypool
2009 · ★ 6.5
Paris
2008 · ★ 6.5
Maria
2024 · ★ 6.5
Hunter Hunter
2020 · ★ 6.4
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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