Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Giant
1956 · ★ 7.6
Night Will Fall
2014 · ★ 7.6
Damnation
1988 · ★ 7.6
The Spirit of the Beehive
1973 · ★ 7.6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · ★ 7.6
The way back
2014 · ★ 7.6
Microcosmos
1996 · ★ 7.6
The Last Emperor
1987 · ★ 7.6
Moon
2009 · ★ 7.6
Poetry
2010 · ★ 7.6
A Geisha
1953 · ★ 7.5
The New Land
1972 · ★ 7.5
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
2003 · ★ 7.5
The Hand of God
2021 · ★ 7.5
The Music Room
1958 · ★ 7.5
Au Hasard Balthazar
1966 · ★ 7.5
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1952 · ★ 7.5
Zodiac
2007 · ★ 7.5
The End of Summer
1961 · ★ 7.5
Early Spring
1956 · ★ 7.5
The Taste of Tea
2004 · ★ 7.5
Black Narcissus
1947 · ★ 7.5
Charulata
1964 · ★ 7.5
The Ballad of Narayama
1958 · ★ 7.5
Paisan
1946 · ★ 7.5
The Conversation
1974 · ★ 7.5
Cure
1997 · ★ 7.5
L'Avventura
1960 · ★ 7.5
The Passion of Anna
1969 · ★ 7.5
Drishyam
2015 · ★ 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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