Movies like Torso (2009)
The best movies like Torso (2009) are Tokyo Decadence (1992), Shame (2011) and Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013). If Torso hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedEat Drink Man Woman (1994)7.6/10 from 432 votes
- NewestMexicali (2026)Released 2026
- In JapaneseTokyo Decadence (1992)Also in Japanese
Tokyo Decadence (1992)
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShame (2011)
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale Yakuza Tale (1973)
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPimp (2018)
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelladonna of Sadness (1973)
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMammal (2016)
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGummo (1997)
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
Tomoe Enjou is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Shiki Ryougi. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days later, there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen... and when the victims are found, they're alive and unharmed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSuburbia (1984)
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJawbone (2017)
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrash (1996)
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrother (2000)
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)
In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain (2008)
July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is Asagami Fujino; a girl who was the boys' plaything until recently, who Shiki believes to be "one of her kind".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAddicted (2014)
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMexicali (2026)
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAuto Focus (2002)
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHanging Up (2000)
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOL Hunter: Onna Nakase no Yubi (1986)
An office lady who works at a department store, is having an affair with her boss, but she feels empty inside. One day, while she was on her way home, she heard the sound of footsteps and felt the eyes of a stalker on her. She rushed home, but contrary to her feelings of anxiety and fear, she felt a strange joy. The next day, she went out in a bold outfit to attract her stalker.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemeking (1998)
When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Seduction of the White Angel (1972)
A young woman is troubled by vivid sexual dreams triggered by her experiences as a trainee nurse.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Married Women Who Want to Do It (2003)
Annoyed by her husband's boorish sexual behavior, newlywed Aya joins her female friend Kei in an extra-marital fling. She records the experience on her cell phone camera to show her husband the advantages of a more romantic love-making technique. Kei later introduces the couple to a sex counselor.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Shinsô no reijô: Reipu-gurui (1996)
Yuka, a female college student, is obsessed with delusions of herself being raped and is unable to go to university. She cannot escape the feeling of intimidation that the men around her are attacking her. Her mother, Kikumi, sends her Yuka to her psychoanalyst, Kurahata. Based on what Yuka says, Kurahata deduces that the biggest cause of Yuka's mental imbalance is likely to be her conflict with her mother, Kikumi. Kikumi is flashy and stands out no matter where she is, and apparently she has taken Yuka's first love, Kunisaka, a masculine schoolteacher, as her mistress...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Mourning Wife's Secret Technique: Koshibano (1996)
Tomorrow is her husband's 77th day. Ayako strips naked in front of her urn containing her husband, and she suddenly makes a decision to put on her mourning clothes. Ayako's late husband, Jiro, was jealous, sadistic, and insidiously bullied her. Even in the bedroom at night, Jiro becomes abnormally excited by being jealous of her friend Katsura and blaming Ayako for her unrealistic delusions. From Katsura, who came to pray on the 77th, she heard about her husband, which Ayako did not know. "He was the only person she could call her best friend..." Ayako recalled that day's affair with her husband. It was sex that could be called painful...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Sticky Wife, Begging Wife II: While being Watched by her Husband (1997)
Editor Kurumada is in charge of the popular author Hara. When he receives a call from the capricious Hara and goes to retrieve the manuscript, Hara hugs his wife, Mariko, in his study as if to show off to Kurumada. Even though Kurumada suppressed her rising anger, Mariko's foolishness still stuck in her mind. Afterwards, Kurumada is invited to Mariko's home and begins a relationship with her. The incident was videotaped by Hara. Hara claims that he has the right to embrace Kurumada's wife, Yumi... The second work in the series depicting the sexual behavior of a married woman who indulges in swapping.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Torso?
The closest matches to Torso are Tokyo Decadence (1992), Shame (2011) and Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Torso?
Start with Tokyo Decadence (1992), the closest match to Torso.
What is the highest-rated movie like Torso?
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), rated 7.6/10 by 432 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Torso?
Mexicali (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Torso?
Yes: Tokyo Decadence (1992), Female Yakuza Tale (1973) and Belladonna of Sadness (1973).
How are movies similar to Torso chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Torso, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.