Movies like 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition (1985)
The best movies like 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition (1985) are Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), Tokyo Decadence (1992) and Preaching to the Perverted (1997). If 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

Quick picks
- Highest ratedsex, lies, and videotape (1989)7.0/10 from 1,103 votes
- NewestThe Pleasure in Pain (2022)Released 2022
- In JapaneseTokyo Decadence (1992)Also in Japanese
Nymphomaniac: 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPreaching to the Perverted (1997)
A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Realm of the Senses (1976)
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Little Death (2014)
A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStar of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2 (2013)
A strange virus turns 90% of the world population into Lust eating Zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males were found to be uninfected. These men team up with the Zombies to go after the flesh and blood of surviving young women to fill their lust. The women survivors must fight to survive in an apocalyptic Japan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon Jon (2013)
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHellraiser (1987)
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like this964 Pinocchio (1991)
While wandering around Japan, defective sex cyborg Pinocchio encounters Kyoko, another amnesiac burdened with a terrible secret tied to her amnesia. Together, they strive to rebuild their lives in a world where memory has become obsolete.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlower & Snake: Zero (2014)
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thissex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisImprint (2006)
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex and Death 101 (2007)
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale who targets men guilty of sex crime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRape Zombie: Lust of the Dead (2012)
After a nuclear attack in Tokyo, the female population is attacked by infected males who have become sex-crazed zombies, hungry for human flesh. Officeworker Momoko and nurse Nozomi seek shelter in a Shinto Shrine, where they meet housewife Kanae and school girl Tamae. With no choices left to them, the group of girls decides to take a stand and arm themselves with assault rifles and explosives to fight off hordes of horny zombies. What is the secret to killing the zombies for good?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPorno (2019)
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAngel Guts: Red Classroom (1979)
A porn magazine editor stumbles upon an amateur gang rape film and, struck by the girl's acting, decides to find her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Fetish (2010)
When the son of an alleged killer inherits a "blue movie" that may be the key to solving a 50 year old murder, he finds himself drawn into a forbidden world of sexual obsession. But the closer he gets to the heart of the mystery, the more the past threatens to reach out into the present and reveal terrifying truths that lead him to the brink of madness.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Ex Dominatrix: A True Story (2017)
It tells the true-life story of Ira, who was the ultimate mistress and one of Europe's most extreme and popular Dominatrix. She was artistic, perverted, sadistic, and a fetish icon. Until one fateful session changed everything. Discover her secret extraordinary true story from bondage to beyond.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Pleasure in Pain (2022)
A short film that follows key figures of the London kink scene on an exploration into BDSM and the notorious fetish event Klub Verboten. The film touches upon themes of psychology, trauma, LGBTQ+ rights and black representation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Nure hada irezumi o shibaru (1982)
In the year of Japan's defeat, Kenji returned from the battlefield with nothing but his body. He then reunited with Kosada, who controlled the black market, and was taken care of by him. Kenji had a girlfriend named Misuzu, who he had even promised to marry before going to war, but her whereabouts were unknown. Kosada told Misuzu that Kenji had been killed in the war, and Misuzu was raped, tattooed all over her back, and forced to perform in a pervert show.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Walk All Over Me (2007)
Alberta, a mousy young woman with the survival skills of a snail, loses cash that isn't hers, so she runs from her small town to Seattle where her old babysitter, Celene, lives - a dominatrix with a classy apartment and a life plan. She lets Alberta stay. Alberta gets a job as a checker at a supermarket and becomes fascinated with Celene's work.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisVanilla (2017)
Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
This Girl's Life (2004)
The porn star Moon spends her time working, nursing her widowed father that has Parkinson disease and with her friends Jessie and Martine. Her boss Aronson gives a new contract to Moon to be signed. Moon has a blind date with Jessie's friend Kip and they feel a great attraction for each other. When Jessie asks Moon to test the fidelity of her boy-friend, Moon decides to offer the service to other customers. But when she meets the dangerous Terry, she reevaluates her life and her relationship with Skip.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Abnormal Female (1969)
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Cornered! (2009)
During their nightly poker game a group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own convenience store by a masked killer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlayBoy (and the Gang of Cherry) (2017)
The gay mafia Gang of Cherry is residing at a construction site somewhere in Thailand. One of its most notorious members is Mac aka PlayBoy, a gay male prostitute with an addiction for sm sex. Bipolar Cherry is the gang’s leader. The situation escalates when a shipment of drugs disappears.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition?
The closest matches to 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition are Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), Tokyo Decadence (1992) and Preaching to the Perverted (1997). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition?
Start with Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), the closest match to 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition.
What is the highest-rated movie like 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition?
sex, lies, and videotape (1989), rated 7.0/10 by 1,103 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition?
The Pleasure in Pain (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition?
Yes: Tokyo Decadence (1992), In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979).
How are movies similar to 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside 24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.





























