Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
Twelve Monkeys
1995 · ★ 7.6
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021 · ★ 7.6
Güeros
2014 · ★ 7.6
Stray Dog
1949 · ★ 7.6
Gattaca
1997 · ★ 7.6
Café Noir
2010 · ★ 7.5
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · ★ 7.5
The Black Phone
2022 · ★ 7.5
The Machinist
2004 · ★ 7.5
The Invisible Man
1933 · ★ 7.5
Man Facing Southeast
1987 · ★ 7.5
The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · ★ 7.5
Dolls
2002 · ★ 7.5
Fabrizio De André: Principe libero
2018 · ★ 7.5
Peppermint Candy
2000 · ★ 7.5
Love and Honor
2006 · ★ 7.5
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
2021 · ★ 7.5
My Darling Clementine
1946 · ★ 7.5
Miller's Crossing
1990 · ★ 7.5
Balkan Line
2019 · ★ 7.4
Three Outlaw Samurai
1964 · ★ 7.4
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower
2017 · ★ 7.4
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II - Artesia's Sorrow
2015 · ★ 7.4
Belladonna of Sadness
1973 · ★ 7.4
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space
1982 · ★ 7.4
Happiness
1965 · ★ 7.4
Secret: A Hidden Score
2024 · ★ 7.4
A Hometown in Heart
1949 · ★ 7.4
True Mothers
2020 · ★ 7.4
The Net
2016 · ★ 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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