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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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Dulcima
1971 · Drama
The Ceremony
1971 · Drama
The Glass Ceiling
1971 · Mystery
Summer of '42
1971 · Drama
Vamsha Vriksha
1971
The Emigrants
1971 · Drama
Death in Venice
1971 · Drama
Dr. Cook’s Garden
1971 · Drama
Uphaar
1971 · Drama
Claire’s Knee
1970 · Romance
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 · Drama
Road to Salina
1970 · Drama
Dodes’ka-den
1970 · Drama
I Never Sang for My Father
1970 · Drama
Crime and Punishment
1970 · Drama
Monte Walsh
1970 · Western
How Awful About Allan
1970 · Horror
The Wild Child
1970 · Drama
The Spider’s Stratagem
1970 · Drama
The Beast in the Cellar
1970 · Horror
La Piscine
1970 · Drama
The Angel Levine
1970 · Drama
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970 · Drama
A Walk in the Spring Rain
1970 · Drama
The Virgin and the Gypsy
1970 · Drama
Samskara
1970 · Drama
Let It Be
1970 · Music
It Was In May
1970 · Drama
A Day at the Beach
1970 · Drama
Tristana
1970 · Drama
Ryan’s Daughter
1970 · Drama
Sunflower
1970 · War
Adelheid
1970 · Romance
Lonely Hearts
1970 · Drama
The Only Game in Town
1970 · Drama
Days and Nights in the Forest
1970 · Drama
Sole Survivor
1970 · Drama
The Lovers
1970 · Romance
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Adventure
Boom!
1968 · Horror
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