Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Capone
2020 · ★ 5.0
Nightmare
2000 · ★ 4.7
The Recall
2017 · ★ 4.7
Amnesiac
2015 · ★ 4.6
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
Hotarubi no Mori e
2011 · ★ 8.3
Woman in the Dunes
1964 · ★ 8.2
Yearning
1964 · ★ 8.1
Late Spring
1949 · ★ 8.0
Chinatown
1974 · ★ 7.9
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
L.A. Confidential
1997 · ★ 7.8
A Day
2017 · ★ 7.8
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · ★ 7.7
Future Boy Conan
1979 · ★ 7.7
Ritual
2000 · ★ 7.7
The Geisha House
1999 · ★ 7.7
Él
1953 · ★ 7.7
A Night to Remember
1958 · ★ 7.7
Alice: Boy from Wonderland
2015 · ★ 7.7
The Searchers
1956 · ★ 7.7
The Tiger
2015 · ★ 7.7
Primal Fear
1996 · ★ 7.7
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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