Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
2071: Mutan-Bestien gegen Roboter
1964 · ★ 5.1
The Ship
2019 · ★ 5.0
Kotsutsubo
2012 · ★ 5.0
Plastic Tree
2003 · ★ 5.0
Die Blüte des Einklangs
2018 · ★ 4.9
Junk Food
1997 · ★ 4.9
Beautiful Fucking Day
2013 · ★ 4.9
The Assassination of Ryoma
1974 · ★ 4.8
Ghost Train
2006 · ★ 4.8
Emmanuelle
2024 · ★ 4.7
Metamorphosis - Das Monster in dir
2011 · ★ 4.7
Murderer
2014 · ★ 4.4
Twilight Dinner
1998 · ★ 4.3
I Am Sono Sion!
1985 · ★ 4.3
Schock Labyrinth 3D
2009 · ★ 4.3
Ermittlungen gegen einen über jeden Verdacht erhabenen Bürger
1970 · ★ 8.2
Auf meiner Haut
2018 · ★ 8.0
Unsere Erde
2007 · ★ 7.6
Unter dem Banner der aufgehenden Sonne
1972 · ★ 7.5
Patlabor 2: Der Film
1993 · ★ 7.4
Verlorene Illusionen
2021 · ★ 7.4
The Hours - Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit
2002 · ★ 7.3
Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
1982 · ★ 7.2
The Piper
2015 · ★ 7.2
Haus aus Sand und Nebel
2003 · ★ 7.2
Antonio Gaudí
1984 · ★ 7.2
The Nightingale - Schrei nach Rache
2018 · ★ 7.1
The Zone of Interest
2023 · ★ 7.0
Lüge und Wahrheit - Shattered Glass
2003 · ★ 7.0
Millennium Mambo
2001 · ★ 7.0
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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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