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Movies that feel likeBurning (2018)

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.

If you loved Burning, the closest films we have are Mirage (2018), Decision to Leave (2022) and Blow-Up (1966). All three share Burning's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Rojo (2018).

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Mirage
2018 · dir. Oriol Paulo
★ 7.4thriller · drama · mysteryNetflix

The same mix in both: twists, then stillness

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Burning does

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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Decision to Leave
2022 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 94%★ 7.2thriller · mystery · romance

Tense and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Burning does

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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Blow-Up
1966 · dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
🍅 87%★ 7.4drama · mystery · thriller

Dreamlike mystery in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Common ground in both: jealousy and cat

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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Everybody Knows
2018 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 78%★ 6.9crime · mystery · thriller

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

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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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%★ 6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Emerald Green
2016 · dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
★ 5.9fantasy · action · mystery

Mystery 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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Young and Innocent
1937 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%★ 6.8thriller · romance · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: countryside

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
★ 7.3thriller · mystery

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

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Lost Highway
1997 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 70%★ 7.6drama · thriller · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: dreams

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

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Exam
2009 · dir. Stuart Hazeldine
🍅 61%★ 6.7thriller · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: suspicion

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%★ 8.1mystery · thriller

Drama with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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