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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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The Brown Bunny
2004 · Drama
Rosenstrasse
2004 · Drama
Last Life in the Universe
2004 · Drama
They Came Back
2004 · Drama
Intimate Strangers
2004 · Drama
Garden State
2004 · Drama
A Home at the End of the World
2004 · Drama
The Door in the Floor
2004 · Drama
Raincoat
2004 · Drama
Before Sunset
2004 · Drama
Time of the Wolf
2004 · Drama
Facing Windows
2004 · Drama
Father and Son
2004 · Drama
Napoleon Dynamite
2004 · Comedy
Heaven’s Bookstore
2004 · Romance
The Story of the Weeping Camel
2004 · Drama
To Take A Wife
2004 · Romance
Saatchya Aat Gharat
2004
The Mother
2004 · Drama
Fanny and Alexander (re-release)
2004 · Drama
Calvaire
2004 · Horror
Springtime in a Small Town
2004 · Drama
Strayed
2004 · Drama
The Consequences of Love
2004 · Drama
The Mudge Boy
2004 · Drama
Valentin
2004 · Drama
Since Otar Left
2004 · Drama
The Twilight Samurai
2004 · Drama
Sternenberg
2004 · Comedy
The United States of Leland
2004 · Drama
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2004 · Drama
The Whore and the Whale
2004 · Drama
Dogville
2004 · Drama
Noi the Albino
2004 · Drama
Family Sins
2004 · Drama
Distant
2004 · Drama
Kitchen Stories
2004 · Drama
The Halfway House
2004 · Horror
Dog Nail Clipper
2004 · Drama
The Return
2004 · Drama
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