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Slow Burn Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
3,252 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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Curfew
2012 · Drama
Speechless
2012 · Drama
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012 · Sci-Fi
The Deep Blue Sea
2012 · Drama
Architecture 101
2012 · Comedy
The Wise Kids
2012 · Drama
Attenberg
2012 · Drama
Footnote
2012 · Drama
Home for the Weekend
2012 · Drama
Beauty
2012 · Drama
The Turin Horse
2012 · Drama
The Outraged
2012 · Documentary
Romancing in Thin Air
2012 · Drama
If Only Everyone
2012 · War
A Man Escaped (1956)
2012 · Drama
Norwegian Wood
2012 · Drama
The Hunter
2012 · Thriller
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2012 · Drama
El Sicario: Room 164
2011 · Documentary
Albert Nobbs
2011 · Drama
Taxi Driver
2011 · Comedy
Red Hook Black
2011 · Drama
W.E.
2011 · Drama
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Thriller
Sleeping Beauty
2011 · Drama
Sengadal
2011 · Drama
Mayakkam Enna
2011 · Family
House of Pleasures
2011 · Drama
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
2011 · Crime
Tomboy
2011 · Drama
Rajanna
2011 · Drama
Melancholia
2011 · Sci-Fi
The Last Rites of Joe May
2011 · Drama
Sidewalls
2011 · Drama
The Perfect Stranger
2011 · Drama
Below Zero
2011 · Horror
Apartment in Athens
2011 · Drama
Bombay Beach
2011 · Drama
Three Quarter Moon
2011 · Drama
Taking Chances
2011 · War
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