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Movies that feel like Burning (2018)

If you loved Burning, the closest films we have are Mirage (2018), Rojo (2018) and Lost Highway (1997). All three share Burning's twisty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Criterion Channel and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

πŸ… 95% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lee Chang-dongtwistycontemplativetensedreamlikeromantic
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Mirage
2018 Β· dir. Oriol Paulo
β˜… 7.4thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

The same mix in both: twists, then stillness

The difference: Not nearly as romantic as Burning

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

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Rojo
2018 Β· dir. BenjamΓ­n Naishtat
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.3drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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Lost Highway
1997 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.6drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

The same two preoccupations: jealousy, and dreams

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgΓ€ngers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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Everybody Knows
2018 Β· dir. Asghar Farhadi
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Burning does

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

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Tell No One
2006 Β· dir. Guillaume Canet
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Common ground: sadness

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 Β· dir. Severin Fiala
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are working the same pair: fire, countryside

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Emerald Green
2016 Β· dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
β˜… 5.8fantasy Β· action Β· mystery

Drama built on dream logic, twice over

Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.

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Searching
2018 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Twisty mystery in both cases

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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Winter's Bone
2010 Β· dir. Debra Granik
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: suspicion

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

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Decision to Leave
2022 Β· dir. Park Chan-wook
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· mystery Β· romance

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 Β· dir. Tomas Alfredson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Contemplative drama in both cases

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery

Romantic mystery, and it commits to that

The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.

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