Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Ako
1964 · ★ 6.8
Bright Future
2003 · ★ 6.8
My Little Loves
1974 · ★ 6.8
The Little House
2014 · ★ 6.8
Towa no Quon 1: The Ephemeral Petals
2011 · ★ 6.8
Twilight
2019 · ★ 6.8
Reminiscence
2017 · ★ 6.8
Sakura
2024 · ★ 6.8
Kundun
1997 · ★ 6.8
Mr. Majestyk
1974 · ★ 6.8
The Devil-Doll
1936 · ★ 6.8
Sicily!
1999 · ★ 6.8
The Interview
1998 · ★ 6.8
A Call to Spy
2020 · ★ 6.8
Taps
1981 · ★ 6.8
Anatahan
1953 · ★ 6.8
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
2022 · ★ 6.8
Slacker
1990 · ★ 6.8
Ju-on: The Grudge
2002 · ★ 6.8
Hokuriku Proxy War
1977 · ★ 6.8
The River
1997 · ★ 6.7
The Last Princess
2016 · ★ 6.7
Hush
2016 · ★ 6.7
Untitled 77-A
1977 · ★ 6.7
Best Wishes to All
2024 · ★ 6.7
Bring Me Home
2019 · ★ 6.7
X
2022 · ★ 6.7
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · ★ 6.7
Dragnet Girl
1933 · ★ 6.7
No One Will Save You
2023 · ★ 6.7
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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