Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Sandakan N° 8
1974 · ★ 7.7
À l'ouest des rails
2004 · ★ 7.7
Le goût de la cerise
1997 · ★ 7.7
Nazarin
1959 · ★ 7.6
Chien enragé
1949 · ★ 7.6
Café Noir
2010 · ★ 7.5
Peppermint Candy
2000 · ★ 7.5
Trois Samouraïs hors-la-loi
1964 · ★ 7.4
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower
2017 · ★ 7.4
Mobile Suit Gundam III : Rencontres dans l'espace
1982 · ★ 7.4
Eli, eli, lema sabachthani ?
2005 · ★ 7.3
L'Obsédé
1965 · ★ 7.3
Les femmes du 20e siècle
2016 · ★ 7.3
A Midsummer's Fantasia
2015 · ★ 7.3
Seventeen Ninja
1963 · ★ 7.3
Mononoke, le film : Chapitre II – Les cendres de la rage
2025 · ★ 7.3
Mr. Long
2017 · ★ 7.3
Galileo XX
2013 · ★ 7.3
Telepolis
2007 · ★ 7.2
L'ouest sauvage
2003 · ★ 7.2
Pique-nique à Hanging Rock
1975 · ★ 7.2
Phone Call to the Bar
2011 · ★ 7.2
Trespassers
2024 · ★ 7.2
Sept ans au Tibet
1997 · ★ 7.2
The Third Shadow Warrior
1963 · ★ 7.2
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
1945 · ★ 7.1
Vertige
2022 · ★ 7.1
Fahrenheit 451
1966 · ★ 7.1
House of the Disappeared
2017 · ★ 7.1
Pourquoi Bodhi-Dharma est-il parti vers l'Orient ?
1989 · ★ 7.1
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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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