Not someone burning, strictly speaking, but being burnt, to venture
into the field of semi-trash cinema: the villain (Gary Busey) in
Lethal Weapon (part 1), in order to prove his faith and allegiance to
the bad cause and to intimidate a customer, exposes his forearm for
an extended moment directly to the flame of a lighter.
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> The main character of Scorsese's Mean Streets puts his hand into
> fire a number of times as a religious act he acknowledges as just a
> trick; never swee burning flesh though. If non-literal versions
> would help you there's the night of fire sequence in Rossellini's
> Pascal. The burning of the haunt of the monster is a common way of
> ending horror films, though the actual fire-to-flesh is often just
> implied. The Black Cat and Suspiria come immediately to mind.
>
> A likely place to look for spontaneous combustion would be in
> adaptations of The Pickwick Papers.
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