Movies and TvShows featuring "slow-burn" theme.
The stubborn, adorable Lin Xi approaches the crafty top student Ji Jun Xing on purpose. Throughout their "opportunistic" friendship, feelings bloom between the two as they are always there for each other. Not only do they make friends, but they also make their own dreams and goals come true in the end.
A woman's life comes to a halt at a crossroad, leaving her filled with thoughts of revenge. However, as she begins to empathize with her intended target, she realizes that love and forgiveness are more powerful than revenge. This melodrama explores themes of love, forgiveness, empathy, and the tragedies that come with them.
Wang Xiang meets a person he fears in Hualin. A mystery involving a lost father, deceased lover, and old friend spans 20 years. Characters search for truth across time and space. When the mystery is solved, fate remains.
Ree Dolly, a 17-year-old girl in the Ozark Mountains, must find her drug-dealing father to save her family from losing their home. Despite warnings and threats, Ree persists in her search, facing brutal beatings and danger. With the help of her uncle, Teardrop, Ree uncovers the truth about her father's disappearance and sacrifices her own safety to prove his death. In the end, Ree and her family are able to keep their home and receive a mysterious cash boon. However, Ree now knows the identity of her father's killer.
A surgeon suddenly returns to eighteen years ago and meets his classmate Han Fei, and helps her put down her guard and untie the knot in her heart.
A college professor with a troubled past becomes the prime suspect after a high school cheerleader goes missing. As the evidence mounts and the police investigation intensifies, he must navigate the complex web of suspicion, deceit, and his own guilty conscience to unravel the truth.
The Cry of the Owl follows Robert, an airplane designer who moves to a small town in Pennsylvania after a painful divorce. He becomes obsessed with his beautiful neighbor Jenny and starts spying on her. When Jenny's ex-boyfriend mysteriously disappears, Robert becomes a prime suspect, thrusting him into a world of deceit and danger. As he navigates through a web of secrets and betrayal, Robert's mental stability begins to unravel, leading to a shocking climax.
In the 1990s, a series of murders rocks a run-down industrial city in north-eastern China. Dalei Zhang, winner of a Silver Bear in 2021, adapts the award-winning novel “Moses on the Plain” by Xuetao Shuang with precision and poetry.
When a young hunter gets caught in a deadly blizzard up north, a stranger finds him and brings him to safety. When they return to the strangers deer camp, the hunter meets the strangers family. As the night goes on, there seems to be more to these men than meets the eye.
In a small town plagued by nightmares, a ghost seeks revenge and punishes its victims. The town's residents must confront their guilt and fear as they are haunted by a vengeful spirit. Marianne: The Ghost Inside is a suspenseful horror movie filled with folklore and Norse mythology.
The Nature of Nicholas is a coming-of-age drama set in Canada in the 1950s. The film follows the journey of Nicholas, a 12-year-old boy who becomes obsessed with a mysterious girl and finds himself facing supernatural elements. As he navigates through his relationships with friends and family, Nicholas discovers the true nature of his existence and comes to terms with his own identity.
When Yoon-Ju, a talented art student, meets Ji-Soo, a reserved and mysterious bartender, their lives change forever as they navigate their feelings for each other and societal expectations.
A woman going through a crisis acts indifferently to her boyfriend, who tries his best to care for her.
A woman challenges her husband on his decision to have a female friend stay over.
In a final attempt to save their failing relationship, a married couple seeks refuge on an island in Upstate New York. However, their plan takes a dark turn when the husband starts experiencing a regression in his emotional, mental, and physical state.
A 17-year-old girl becomes the target of a psychopath who stalks and terrorizes her through anonymous telephone calls.
Liz is a struggling actor living in Brooklyn. When she learns that her famous, reclusive, singer-songwriter uncle committed suicide and that she and her brother are the primary beneficiaries in his will, she decides to leave the city and move into his house in upstate New York. Once there, she explores her uncle's history and the ghosts, real and metaphorical, that may have been haunting him.
In 'Masking Threshold,' a physics professor in Florida begins to experience tinnitus, leading him down a path of insanity and questioning the nature of reality. As his mind unravels, he becomes obsessed with an avant-garde art installation that seems to hold the answers. This slow-burn thriller explores themes of identity, perception, and the fine line between genius and madness.
Gouranga, a young man in 1960s rural Bengal, embarks on a journey where he encounters not only the local myths about a supernatural presence, but also his own demons which were buried in his past. The film was in the list of TOP 10 Recommended Movies of NFDC Film Bazaar 2023. It also won the Film Bazaar Recommends Award in the Viewing Room Category.
A young couple spends their day under a willow tree deciding whether or not to carve their names in it.