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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Volcano
2018 · Drama
Leave No Trace
2018 · Drama
The Cakemaker
2018 · Drama
Dark River
2018 · Drama
Winter Brothers
2018 · Drama
The Road Not Taken
2018 · Comedy
Never Steady, Never Still
2018 · Drama
Sunday's Illness
2018 · Drama
The Yellow Birds
2018 · Drama
Hereditary
2018 · Drama
Nancy
2018 · Drama
Rodin
2018 · Biography
Summer 1993
2018 · Drama
First Reformed
2018 · Drama
Saving Brinton
2018 · Documentary
On Chesil Beach
2018 · Drama
Sir
2018 · Romance
The Escape
2018 · Drama
Ee.Ma.Yau.
2018 · Drama
Disobedience
2018 · Drama
October
2018 · Romance
The Rider
2018 · Adventure
Zama
2018 · Drama
You Were Never Really Here
2018 · Drama
Outside In
2018 · Drama
The Last Movie Star
2018 · Drama
Final Portrait
2018 · Biography
The Poe Clan
2018 · Music
Us and Them
2018 · Drama
Claire's Camera
2018 · Drama
The Leisure Seeker
2018 · Adventure
Oh Lucy!
2018 · Drama
Before Winter Comes
2018 · Drama
3 Days in Quiberon
2018 · Drama
Western
2018 · Drama
Nostalgia
2018 · Drama
Golden Exits
2018 · Drama
On Body and Soul
2018 · Drama
Les Unwanted de Europa
2018 · History
Ekvtime: Man of God
2018 · Drama
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