Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
The Cursed
2021 · ★ 6.6
The Emperor in August
2015 · ★ 6.6
The Girl with All the Gifts
2016 · ★ 6.6
The White Crow
2018 · ★ 6.6
Okuni and Gohei
1952 · ★ 6.5
Things to Come
1936 · ★ 6.5
New York, New York
1977 · ★ 6.5
Tales from Earthsea
2006 · ★ 6.5
Fragile
2005 · ★ 6.5
True Crime
1999 · ★ 6.5
The Affair
1967 · ★ 6.5
Journey to the Shore
2015 · ★ 6.5
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · ★ 6.5
The Invisible Guardian
2017 · ★ 6.5
The Demon of Mount Oe
1960 · ★ 6.5
The Sheltering Sky
1990 · ★ 6.5
Pale Moon
2014 · ★ 6.5
The Life of Budori Gusuko
2012 · ★ 6.5
Eyes
2015 · ★ 6.5
The Night I Swam
2018 · ★ 6.5
Our House
2017 · ★ 6.5
Suddenly in the Dark
1981 · ★ 6.5
A Quiet Life
2010 · ★ 6.5
Mute Witness
1995 · ★ 6.5
Before We Vanish
2017 · ★ 6.5
Guilty by Suspicion
1991 · ★ 6.5
Julia
1977 · ★ 6.5
Offering to the Storm
2020 · ★ 6.5
Old Czech Legends
1953 · ★ 6.5
Radiance
2017 · ★ 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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