Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Oasis
2002 · ★ 7.7
The Thin Blue Line
1988 · ★ 7.6
Shame
1968 · ★ 7.5
Oslo, August 31st
2011 · ★ 7.5
Thesis
1996 · ★ 7.5
The Experiment
2001 · ★ 7.4
Still Life
2006 · ★ 7.2
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · ★ 7.2
In the Name of the Land
2019 · ★ 7.2
The Purity of Vengeance
2018 · ★ 7.2
Time of EVE: The Movie
2010 · ★ 7.1
Ryan's Daughter
1970 · ★ 7.1
The Hole
1999 · ★ 7.0
A Chorus of Angels
2012 · ★ 7.0
This Must Be the Place
2011 · ★ 7.0
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
2009 · ★ 7.0
Knox Goes Away
2024 · ★ 7.0
Nightmare Alley
2021 · ★ 7.0
Tracks
2013 · ★ 6.9
The Good Nurse
2022 · ★ 6.9
Macadam Stories
2015 · ★ 6.9
Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · ★ 6.8
Bird
1988 · ★ 6.8
A Passage to India
1984 · ★ 6.8
Oki's Movie
2010 · ★ 6.7
The Gift
2015 · ★ 6.7
Querelle
1982 · ★ 6.6
In Between Seasons
2018 · ★ 6.6
Blood and Bones
2004 · ★ 6.6
Meek's Cutoff
2011 · ★ 6.5
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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