Movies like Burning Days (2022)
The best movies like Burning Days (2022) are The Salesman (2016), Beauty and the Dogs (2017) and Katalin Varga (2009). If Burning Days hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Hunt (2012)8.1/10 from 5,078 votes
- NewestThe Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)Released 2024
The Salesman (2016)
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeauty and the Dogs (2017)
When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKatalin Varga (2009)
In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hunt (2012)
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like this4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Father, the Devil (2023)
An African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest, whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Leviathan (2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSiege (Asedio) (2023)
During an eviction procedure in a troubled area of Madrid, police officer Dani makes a shocking discovery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAv: The Hunt (2021)
Police officer Sedat raids a derelict apartment squatted by a young couple. The man is killed, the young woman, Ayşe, escapes. When her friends and relatives offer no help, Ayşe is forced to steal cash and a car from her father and flee town like an outlaw. The chase goes deeper into the wild. Along with three men he has recruited, Sedat is pursuing her, out to kill in the name of honour. Taking off from the suburbs of Anatolia, Av: The Hunt continues reaching breath-taking natural landscapes, and recounts how a young woman is pulled into spiral of violence while trying to escape the patriarchal society she lives in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Charmer (2018)
A young Iranian man is desperately trying to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time runs out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him. The film deals with themes of race, class, and the struggle for a better life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Frenzy (2015)
With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, working for the city rounding up stray dogs and shutting himself in his home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFire Will Come (2019)
When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beasts (2022)
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Good Teacher (2024)
Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Square (2017)
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Guilty (2018)
Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAutobiography (2023)
A young man is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Pamfir (2022)
When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Separation (2011)
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBatch '81 (1982)
Sid Lucero, a 21-year old pre-Med student, is an aspiring neophyte of the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over a six-month initiation period, he and six other neophytes are subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in and outside the fraternity house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Graduation (2016)
After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFree Country (2020)
Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Father Who Moves Mountains (2021)
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTraffic Department (2013)
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCape Fear (1991)
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisButterfly on a Wheel (2007)
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive Corners (1987)
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Burning Days?
The closest matches to Burning Days are The Salesman (2016), Beauty and the Dogs (2017) and Katalin Varga (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Burning Days?
People who watched Burning Days most often go on to The Salesman (2016), Beauty and the Dogs (2017) and Katalin Varga (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like Burning Days?
The Hunt (2012), rated 8.1/10 by 5,078 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Burning Days?
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Burning Days chosen?
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