Movies like The Lustful (1994)
The best movies like The Lustful (1994) are Tokyo Decadence (1992), Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979) and Imprint (2006). If The Lustful hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Lustful
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDrawing Closer (2024)8.4/10 from 240 votes
- NewestObsession (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
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 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 thisJosee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 thisGo, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Transgressor (1974)
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI've Always Liked You (2016)
Love is blooming at Sakuragaoka High School. Natsuki Enomoto has finally mustered the courage to confess to her childhood friend, Yuu Setoguchi. However, in the final moments of her confession, an embarrassed Natsuki passes it off as a "practice confession." Oblivious to her true feelings and struggling with his own, Yuu promises to support Natsuki in her quest for love. While Natsuki deals with her failed confession, fellow classmate Koyuki Ayase struggles with his own feelings for Natsuki. Despite his timidness, he is determined to win over her heart. This movie follows Natsuki as she dreams of one day ending her practices and genuinely confessing to Yuu. Meanwhile, close friends also find themselves entangled in their own webs of unrequited love and unspoken affections.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSex and Fury (1973)
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNot Easily Broken (2009)
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntentions of Murder (1964)
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDrawing Closer (2024)
With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisJosee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)
A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and begins to feel enamoured with her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSymbol (2009)
A Japanese man in polka-dot pajamas wakes up in a room with no doors. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Mexican wrestler prepares for his most challenging match ever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMind Game (2004)
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTamako Love Story (2014)
Devoted to her family’s rice-cake–making business and the high school baton club, Tamako is a little slow when it comes to love. She’s oblivious to her childhood friend Mochizo’s affections, even though all their friends know. With graduation closing in and Mochizo leaving for Tokyo, will Tamako realise her feelings and tell him in time?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDinner in America (2022)
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Happy Marriage (2023)
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisObsession (2026)
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisYôen: Niku shibari (1987)
A woman accidentally kills her husband during S&M play.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)
Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Erotic Ghost Story: Female Ghost in Heat (1995)
Yuichi and Akie Kanzaki have decided to follow in their father's footsteps and open a hospital. They are excited to start their new life together, but on the night they move in, a beautiful female ghost appears and violently rapes Yuichi and sucks the life out of him while Akie is tied up. After that, the ghost appears day and night. One day, Akie hears a terrible story. What is the purpose of the ghost?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Groper Train: Caught Red-handed (1994)
Miki and Ai enjoyed chatting and drinking beer together by themselves from time to time. One day, Ai confessed that she had been with a man. The man was Masahiko, who had chased away a molester (Toru) on a crowded train. However, Toru and Masahiko were in on it. In the end, Miki and Ai chose lesbian pleasure over men. Koji, who lived next door to the apartment, was bothered by her moaning. On the train, he met Sayuri, a student from his days as a tutor, and his desire was stimulated. Emi, who used to live with Toru..
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Fûfu kôkan zenya: Watashi no tsuma to anata no okusan (2004)
Shinsuke, a pink film director, is no longer able to have sex with his wife Shigure, and instead he has an affair with Kanae, a married woman living in the same apartment complex, to vent his desire. When Kanae sends photos of their outdoor play to a magazine, Atsuo, Kanae's husband, sees the photos and asks Shinsuke for swapping...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Red Nagajuban: Married Woman Unresting Bed (2002)
Sachiya is a bedridden man. The only thing he loves to do is to watch a beautiful married woman Tazuko with his telescope. Tazuko loses her husband in war, and Sachiya witnesses her crime.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Joshidai nama kugi-shi Miyuki (2008)
Just before graduating from university, Miyuki decides to work at a pachinko parlor to repay the kindness of the owner who has looked after her and to carry on the legacy of her father, a legendary nail maker.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Maruhi tôsatsu: Shirôto anaba saguri (1995)
Tomatsu, a section manager at the city hall. He had a secret that he didn't want anyone to know: the hobby of voyeurism. He knows that it is a criminal act that he should not do, and he has struggled to stop peeping and filming. On the contrary, he is still worried that he cannot get married because of this sexual habit, but even if he tries to cut up the tape and forget about it, he finds out that it has started again. Also, he was found out that he had set up a camera and was in trouble, so he decided to quit at that time, but it didn't last long. One day….
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Chikan ryôin chikatetsu (1975)
Two men meet by chance and vow to give up everything and devote themselves to the molester business.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Lustful?
The closest matches to The Lustful are Tokyo Decadence (1992), Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979) and Imprint (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Lustful?
Start with Tokyo Decadence (1992), the closest match to The Lustful.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Lustful?
Drawing Closer (2024), rated 8.4/10 by 240 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Lustful?
Obsession (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like The Lustful?
Yes: Tokyo Decadence (1992), Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979) and Imprint (2006).
How are movies similar to The Lustful chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Lustful, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.