Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Ghost Stories
2018 · ★ 6.4
Malice
1993 · ★ 6.3
Blood Ties
2013 · ★ 6.1
Lions for Lambs
2007 · ★ 6.0
The American
2010 · ★ 6.0
Cry Macho
2021 · ★ 5.9
Rear Window
1998 · ★ 5.4
Summer Time
2001 · ★ 5.2
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · ★ 8.1
Ken
1964 · ★ 8.0
Ivan's Childhood
1962 · ★ 7.8
Oasis
2002 · ★ 7.7
On the Silver Globe
1989 · ★ 7.7
The Thin Blue Line
1988 · ★ 7.6
Shame
1968 · ★ 7.5
Oslo, August 31st
2011 · ★ 7.5
Thesis
1996 · ★ 7.5
The Experiment
2001 · ★ 7.4
Life of Pi
2012 · ★ 7.4
Jiseul
2013 · ★ 7.4
Journey to Italy
1954 · ★ 7.3
The Piano Teacher
2001 · ★ 7.3
Still Life
2006 · ★ 7.2
Memories of Underdevelopment
1968 · ★ 7.2
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · ★ 7.2
The Insect Woman
1963 · ★ 7.2
In the Name of the Land
2019 · ★ 7.2
Han Gong-ju
2014 · ★ 7.2
The Purity of Vengeance
2018 · ★ 7.2
The Zen Diary
2022 · ★ 7.2
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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