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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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Voice from the Stone
2017 · Drama
Tenderness
2017 · Drama
Dear Basketball
2017 · History
Bishorjan
2017 · Drama
Pa Paandi
2017 · Comedy
A Quiet Passion
2017 · Biography
The Wrong Mother
2017 · Drama
The Transfiguration
2017 · Drama
The Discovery
2017 · Sci-Fi
The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · Thriller
The Death of Louis XIV
2017 · Biography
The Levelling
2017 · Drama
Bokeh
2017 · Sci-Fi
Song to Song
2017 · Drama
After the Storm
2017 · Drama
Frantz
2017 · Drama
Petscop
2017 · Animation
This Beautiful Fantastic
2017 · Drama
The Sense of an Ending
2017 · Drama
Suntan
2017 · Drama
The Human Surge
2017 · Drama
Apprentice
2017 · Drama
Sargi
2017
Things I Know to Be True
2017 · Drama
Two Irenes
2017 · Drama
Pendular
2017 · Drama
Waiting for the Barbarians
2017 · Drama
The Red Turtle
2017 · Fantasy
The Book of Love
2017 · Drama
Paterson
2016 · Drama
Ocean Waves (1993)
2016 · Drama
Silence
2016 · Adventure
Julieta
2016 · Drama
Fences
2016 · Drama
Two Lovers and a Bear
2016 · Drama
Barry
2016 · Biography
The Old Capital
2016 · Drama
The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · Drama
Jackie
2016 · Biography
Evolution
2016 · Sci-Fi
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