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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
3,239 slow burn movies, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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Three Times
2020 · Drama
Vivarium
2020 · Sci-Fi
The Roads Not Taken
2020 · Drama
First Cow
2020 · Drama
Hope Gap
2020 · Drama
Devi
2020 · Drama
Homeward
2020 · Fantasy
Filipiñana
2020 · Drama
Colette
2020 · Documentary
The Photograph
2020 · Drama
Ordinary Love
2020 · Drama
Malgudi Days
2020 · Drama
The Lodge
2020 · Drama
Jaanu
2020 · Romance
The Assistant
2020 · Drama
Gretel & Hansel
2020 · Thriller
Coda
2020 · Drama
Incitement
2020 · Thriller
People on Sunday
2020
Voices in the Wind
2020 · Drama
Hammamet
2020 · History
Happy Birthday
2020 · Comedy
Clemency
2019 · Drama
The Song of Names
2019 · Drama
The Tomten and the Fox
2019 · Animation
Limbo
2019 · Drama
A Hidden Life
2019 · Biography
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
2019 · Drama
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · Drama
In Fabric
2019 · Horror
The Wolf Hour
2019 · Drama
Feeling Through
2019 · Drama
Limbo
2019
The Two Popes
2019 · Biography
Coda
2019 · Music
Fragtime
2019 · Romance
Forget Me Not
2019
The Irishman
2019 · Biography
Adopt a Highway
2019 · Drama
Ciao UFO
2019 · Drama
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