Movies like Burning
If you like "Burning" you are looking for suspense, art house and exciting movies about / with class differences, metaphor, suspicion, arson, asian, anger and aspiring writer themes of Drama, Mystery and Thriller genre shot in South Korea or Japan.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Burning (2018)
85K
Original name: 버닝
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, 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 Jongsu an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. And one day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby...
Style:
suspense, art house, exciting, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, mysterious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
class differences, metaphor, suspicion, arson, asian, anger, aspiring writer, childhood friend, rural setting, stalking, tragic love, bare breasts, childhood memory, fire, trial, slow burn, male nudity, parasite, disappearance, love triangle, lawyer, missing person, male masturbation, dancing, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, india
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Burning
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, psychological thriller and suspenseful films with plots about obsession, twists and turns, storytelling, flashback, murder, husband wife relationship and investigation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Burning: Parasite (2019), Oldboy (2003), Memories of Murder (2003), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Game (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
Similarity:
89%
709K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, incest, violence, psychopath, captivity, older man younger woman relationship, hypnosis, mind game, plot twist, psychological torture, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k ...
Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, realistic, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police, murder mystery, rape, police investigation, twists and turns, unsolved crime, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, suspicion, investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, year 1986, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Style:
suspense, clever, touching, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, rape, murder, murder mystery, murderer, lawyer, writers, justice, passion, investigator, homicide ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, y2k, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
latin america, argentina, south america, harvard university, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
evidence, lawyer, lie, uncover truth, infidelity, suspect, death, murder suspect, interrogation, strong female character, moral dilemma, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, barcelona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style:
suspense, psychological, sexy, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
disfigurement, dream, surrealism, love triangle, paranoia, nightmare, love, car accident, psychiatrist, erotic scene, memory loss, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, south america, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
Similarity:
100%
236K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
67%
220K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the ...
Style:
sad, period piece, semi autobiographical, independent film, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
korean american, husband wife relationship, farmer, food, friendship, grandmother grandson relationship, farm, pain, heart condition, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, future
Place:
arkansas, east asia, oklahoma city, nebraska
Similarity:
100%
90K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, clever, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, nightmare, guilt, childhood, haunted by the past, hidden camera, dysfunctional family, videotaping, found footage, psychology, voyeurism, lie ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, germany, iraq ...
Similarity:
50%
120K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, disappearance, infidelity, missing person, couples, social isolation, jealousy, police detective, musician, missing woman, plot twist, surveillance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, south america, spain
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
art, art critic, museum, female nudity, forgery, painting, villa, male nudity, painter, murder, art collector, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
future, year 1968, year 1955
Place:
italy, minnesota, new york, milan italy
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
Similarity:
32%
1.4M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
32%
Movie in collections
50K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, psychology, twists and turns, school, youth, underground bunker, male nudity, danger, bunker, survival, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Style:
serious, realistic, enigmatic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, husband wife relationship, dual identity, revenge, guilt, suspicion, being followed, publisher, breakup, assassination plot, marital problem ...
Place:
amsterdam, stockholm sweden, berlin germany
Similarity:
31%
184K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
Style:
psychological thriller, twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, twists and turns, secrets, bullying, gift, bully, husband wife relationship, plot twist, stalker, home invasion, pregnancy, stalking ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016
Place:
los angeles, chicago, california
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
revenge, secret relationship, unhappy wife, male nudity, murder, family in crisis, mental illness, family relations, birthday, unfaithful wife, family problems, dishonesty ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style:
disturbing, breathtaking, art house, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punishment, children, sexual abuse, cruelty, physical appearance, suicide, child abuse, death, small town, authoritarianism, transgression, priest ...
Time:
year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, pre world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
germany, northern germany, europe, italy
Similarity:
31%
Movie in collections
920K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Hae-Joon, a seasoned detective, investigates the suspicious death of a man on a mountaintop. Soon, he begins to suspect Seo-rae, the deceased's wife, while being unsettled by his attraction to her.
Style:
detective, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, asian, mountain climbing, murder suspect, private investigation, mountain, police investigation, crime investigation, sleuth, uncover truth, crime solving, relationships ...
Place:
south korea, busan
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, twists and turns, legal, court, murder, surveillance, danger, women, murder mystery, trial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A man receives a mysterious e-mail 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.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot:
murder, corpse, twists and turns, disappearance, investigation, frame up, serial killer, loss of wife, surveillance, grief, paranoia, whodunit ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
31%
Related movie lists
