Slow-burn 3707 films
Patience required, pay-off in the last reel. Calm, sparse, deliberate. Stalker, Burning, The Assassin. Not for restless viewers.
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
About Elly
2009 · ★ 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
Kes
1970 · ★ 7.4
Maborosi
1995 · ★ 7.4
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000 · ★ 7.4
Cold War
2018 · ★ 7.4
Taipei Story
1985 · ★ 7.4
A Pure Formality
1994 · ★ 7.4
The Emigrants
1971 · ★ 7.4
Ulysses' Gaze
1995 · ★ 7.4
The Secret Garden
1993 · ★ 7.4
A Scene at the Sea
1991 · ★ 7.4
Johnny Guitar
1954 · ★ 7.4
Love Everlasting
2016 · ★ 7.4
The Castle of Sand
1974 · ★ 7.4
Mouchette
1967 · ★ 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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