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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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Orpheus
1950 · Fantasy
The Knife
1961 · Drama
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959 · Drama
Parineeta
1969 · Drama
Pather Panchali
1955 · Drama
On the Bowery
1956 · Documentary
In the Cool of the Day
1963 · Romance
The Edge of the World
1937 · Drama
Babul
1950 · Drama
The Long Absence
1961 · Drama
Europe ’51
1952 · Drama
The Man Without a Face
1950 · Thriller
Mademoiselle
1966 · Drama
10:30 P.M. Summer
1966 · Romance
Before the Revolution
1964 · Romance
L’Avventura
1960 · Drama
The Glass Mountain
1949 · Drama
Mouchette
1967 · Drama
Hell in the Pacific
1968 · Drama
Farewell to Dream
1956 · Drama
Amblin’
1968 · Romance
The Rabbit Trap
1959 · Drama
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1968 · Drama
While I Live
1947 · Thriller
The Burmese Harp
1956 · War
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
1936 · Drama
They Came to a City
1944 · Fantasy
Mother Joan of the Angels
1961 · Drama
Chastity
1969 · Drama
One Man’s Journey
1933 · Drama
Life Dances On
1937 · Romance
Track of the Cat
1954 · Drama
King and Country
1964 · Drama
The Wall
1962 · Documentary
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · Drama
Immensee
1943 · Drama
Port of Seven Seas
1938 · Drama
Greenwich Village Story
1963 · Romance
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944 · Drama
Teesri Kasam
1966 · Romance
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