Movies like The Torture Club (2014)
The best movies like The Torture Club (2014) are Helter Skelter (2012), Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell (1977) and Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013). If The Torture Club hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Handmaiden (2016)8.2/10 from 4,590 votes
- NewestKinds of Kindness (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseHelter Skelter (2012)Also in Japanese
Helter Skelter (2012)
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell (1977)
Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some of the students, including Utae.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAudition (2000)
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSchool-Live! (2019)
Ebisuzawa Kurumi, Takeya Yuki, Wakasa Yuri, and Naoki Miki all attend the same high school. They also live on campus at the school. The girls enjoy their time at the school until students become infected by a virus and turn into zombies. The girls are surrounded by student zombies and they struggle desperately to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Chiwawa-chan (2019)
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
As the Gods Will (2014)
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Handmaiden (2016)
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMy Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer (2019)
Etsuro Kurosu faills getting into a university and becomes a hikikomori. One day, he tries to hang himself from a hook on the wall in his apartment. He fails, but his attempt leaves a hole in the wall. Through the hole wall, Etsuro Kurosu can now see Rio Miyaichi. He becomes fascinated with the girl that lives next door. Later, while peeping at her through the wall, Etsuro Kurosu sees her in the process of brutally murdering someone. He screams and is caught by her. Etsuro Kurosu confesses that he loves her and they start to date. Etsuro Kurosu feels happiness in his life, but what will happen to him? Will he be murdered by Rio Miyaichi?
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Himizu (2012)
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLitchi Hikari Club (2016)
In the bleak, smoke-choked Keiko Town, a gang of boys forms the Hikari Club to destroy the corrupt adult world. But as they build an AI to carry out their mission, they can’t stop the one thing they fear most—growing up themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Love Exposure (2008)
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTag (2015)
As the sole survivor of a horrendous and rather mysterious accident, teenage Mitsuko's day is off to a bad start. An unstoppable force of nature, a doomed field trip, and a strange case of amnesia easily coexist in a bizarre parallel universe, where a desperate Mitsuko is always on the run from something inexplicable, intangible, and utterly deadly. However, amid piles of fresh corpses, mounds of scorching bullet shells, and rivulets of fragrant adolescent blood, Mitsuko must fight to stay alive, before her already messed-up day becomes even stranger. But one question still remains: who or what is the enemy?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlying Colors (2015)
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSuicide Club (2001)
When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around the country, Detective Kuroda strives to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLiverleaf (2018)
The story follows Nozaki Haruka, a middle school student who transfers to a new school in a small town because of her father's work. Unfortunately, she becomes a victim of horrific bullying, but since the school will be closing in 2 months after graduation, no one is willing to help her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999)
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloody Chainsaw Girl (2016)
Giko Nokomura is a delinquent girl and a senior in middle school. She struggles to kill zombies who were her classmates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Back Street Girls: Gokudoruzu (2019)
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Night's Tightrope (2016)
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Forest of Love (2019)
A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Cut of the Dead (2017)
Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAntiporno (2017)
Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKakegurui: The Movie (2019)
Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrols, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost World (2001)
Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKinds of Kindness (2024)
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFamily Weekend (2013)
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisxxxHOLiC The Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)
Invited to a wealthy client's mansion, time-traveling witch Yuko and her companions arrive to find a group of collectors assembled to participate in a mysterious auction. And the mystery only deepens when the collectors go missing one by one. As more guests disappear and strange occurrences abound, Yuko and her friends realize they must solve the mystery before they vanish as well.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Torture Club?
The closest matches to The Torture Club are Helter Skelter (2012), Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell (1977) and Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Torture Club?
People who watched The Torture Club most often go on to Helter Skelter (2012), Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell (1977) and Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Torture Club?
The Handmaiden (2016), rated 8.2/10 by 4,590 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Torture Club?
Kinds of Kindness (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like The Torture Club?
Yes: Helter Skelter (2012), Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell (1977) and Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013).
How are movies similar to The Torture Club chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Torture Club, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.