Slow-burn 2194 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
It Feeds
2025 · ★ 6.7
The Kingdom
2007 · ★ 6.7
The Witness
2018 · ★ 6.7
Rapture
1980 · ★ 6.7
Spaceman
2024 · ★ 6.7
Captive's Island
1966 · ★ 6.7
The Night Porter
1974 · ★ 6.7
Masquerade Hotel
2019 · ★ 6.7
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021 · ★ 6.7
The Power of Kangwon Province
1998 · ★ 6.7
Intruder
2020 · ★ 6.7
Operation Finale
2018 · ★ 6.7
Under Fire
1983 · ★ 6.7
Ride or Die
2021 · ★ 6.7
All the Way
2016 · ★ 6.7
2010
1984 · ★ 6.7
Harper
1966 · ★ 6.7
Contagion
2011 · ★ 6.6
Wifelike
2022 · ★ 6.6
The Crimson Kimono
1959 · ★ 6.6
Spring
2014 · ★ 6.6
Death Hunt
1981 · ★ 6.6
The Last Ronin
2010 · ★ 6.6
Zatoichi at Large
1972 · ★ 6.6
Return
2015 · ★ 6.6
The Man Without a Map
1968 · ★ 6.6
Rain Town
2011 · ★ 6.6
A War
2015 · ★ 6.6
Heaven Is Still Far Away
2016 · ★ 6.6
Breakheart Pass
1975 · ★ 6.6
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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