Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
In Cold Blood
1967 · ★ 7.5
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · ★ 7.5
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
2001 · ★ 7.5
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
1927 · ★ 7.5
Gon, the Little Fox
2019 · ★ 7.5
Lesson in Murder
2022 · ★ 7.5
The Silence
1963 · ★ 7.5
The Name of the Rose
1986 · ★ 7.5
Brink of Life
1958 · ★ 7.5
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - The Movie
2013 · ★ 7.5
Salvatore Giuliano
1962 · ★ 7.5
The Innocents
1961 · ★ 7.5
Talvar
2015 · ★ 7.5
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · ★ 7.5
Il Grido
1957 · ★ 7.5
The Beasts
2022 · ★ 7.5
The Green Ray
1986 · ★ 7.5
The White Ribbon
2009 · ★ 7.5
Be with You
2004 · ★ 7.5
The Age of Adaline
2015 · ★ 7.5
Still Life
2013 · ★ 7.5
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2011 · ★ 7.5
Sans Soleil
1983 · ★ 7.5
Through the Olive Trees
1995 · ★ 7.5
The Makioka Sisters
1983 · ★ 7.4
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · ★ 7.4
The Red Turtle
2016 · ★ 7.4
The Thin Red Line
1998 · ★ 7.4
Last Year at Marienbad
1961 · ★ 7.4
Maborosi
1995 · ★ 7.4
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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