Movies like Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0 (2016)
The best movies like Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0 (2016) are All Day and a Night (2020), Female Yakuza Tale (1973) and O.G. (2018). If Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0 hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAbove the Rim (1994)7.1/10 from 251 votes
- NewestEleanor the Great (2025)Released 2025
- In JapaneseFemale Yakuza Tale (1973)Also in Japanese
All Day and a Night (2020)
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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 thisO.G. (2018)
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBronson (2009)
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome Sunday (2018)
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Operative (2019)
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lords of Discipline (1983)
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSalomé (2013)
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Million Yen Girl (2008)
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConvict (2014)
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirl in the Box (2016)
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Family (2013)
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAbove the Rim (1994)
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 Eel (1997)
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLorelei (2020)
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 1 · Area 88 (2015)
The first erotic suspense that depicts a horrible living hell that is unlawfully present in a secret cabal that does not exist. High school teacher · Sato Yuki is sent to the secret cell / area 88 due to a certain incident. It was a slave factory like hell that destroys the human nature of a prisoner and transforms it into livestock.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Sunny (2018)
It has been 14 years since the murder of an elementary school student by a classmate. At the time, Akari was deified by the name Sunny, "the cutest murderer in criminal history". Two men, abduct Akari. Holding her captive, they upload pictures and video of her on the internet. Meanwhile, Akari makes every effort to escape from her prison.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Hermann (2020)
Every night, at eight o'clock, Hermann appears alone on stage to give a short violin concert, but his audience is not exactly that he believes it is. (Inspired by the real story of Hermann Schreiber, Vigo, Spain, 2020.)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Catch (2018)
One night, Seiji brought an unconscious stranger home. Seiji learns of an unusual desire and restrains and confines a woman. The woman's name is Eri. And the crazy life of two people began. At first Seiji was acting as a ruler, but eventually he drowned in the body of a woman, and the relationship reversed. Seiji repeats the wrongdoing like a slave according to Eri's order. In fact, it was an evil human being who was controlling Eri. The purpose is to dye the human soul into evil and take it to hell. And the horror tragedy opens...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Kinka (2021)
Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974)
A former husband with a dark obsession returns to his ex-wife’s life, ready to unleash a torrent of cruel, perverse devotion.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 2・Area 99 (2016)
The second volume of eros suspense depicting a terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell that does not officially exist. A giant women's prison built in the basement of Tokyo. There, the drug G-Men Saki, who got the information that illegal drugs are being manufactured, begins a dangerous undercover investigation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 4・Area ∞ (2016)
The 4th volume of Eros Suspense that depicts the terrible living hell that unfolds in a secret cell. Noriko, an underground idol involved in a conspiracy, is imprisoned in an isolated prison "Area ∞". It is a terrifying cell where the worst rape murderer, Yoshida 3 brothers, has been imprisoned...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Boy of The Fish (2024)
"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of resilience and a testament to the boundless imagination of childhood. Through vivid symbolism and a unique soundscape, the film explores themes of loss, hope, and the longing for freedom amidst confinement. Shot entirely on an iPhone due to restrictions in the conflict zone, the film combines raw authenticity with poetic depth to capture the emotional landscape of a young soul navigating adversity.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0?
The closest matches to Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0 are All Day and a Night (2020), Female Yakuza Tale (1973) and O.G. (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0?
Start with All Day and a Night (2020), the closest match to Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0.
What is the highest-rated movie like Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0?
Above the Rim (1994), rated 7.1/10 by 251 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0?
Eleanor the Great (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0?
Yes: Female Yakuza Tale (1973), Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) and One Million Yen Girl (2008).
How are movies similar to Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tokyo Underground Women's Prison CHAPTER 3・Area 0, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.