Movies like The Kyoto Connection (1973)
The best movies like The Kyoto Connection (1973) are Exposed (1971), Cindy and Donna (1970) and Violence at Noon (1966). If The Kyoto Connection hooked you with its drama and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLady Snowblood (1973)7.5/10 from 449 votes
- NewestThe Poker House (2008)Released 2008
- In JapaneseViolence at Noon (1966)Also in Japanese
Exposed (1971)
Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cindy and Donna (1970)
Cindy and Donna are two middle-class teenaged sisters with over-sexed, alcoholic parents. The pair decide to experiment with drugs and men, but soon realize that they’re more grown up than the people who raised them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Violence at Noon (1966)
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGo Ask Alice (1973)
A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hit! (1973)
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressful workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown (1974)
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Because of the Cats (1973)
A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Pets (1973)
Naive, but brash and sultry teenage runaway Bonnie finds herself lost and adrift in America. The lovely young lass runs afoul of a colorful array of evil oddballs who all treat her like an object.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Anita, Swedish Nymphet (1973)
Anita, a young woman with a troubled childhood and a hunger for love, finds a soul mate in Erik, a kindly college student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHollywood Boulevard (1976)
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fare, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisLaura's Toys (1975)
Archaeologist Walter and his wife Laura are working at a dig on a small island off the coast of Sweden. One day Laura catches Walter having a go at it with his sexy assistant, Anna. Laura calls in her old friend--and former lesbian lover--Hanni to help get her revenge on Walter by having she and Hanni seduce Anna.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
A young woman is lured to an island paradise, where she is drawn into a dark world of pleasure, pain, and murder under the control of a sinister figure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConfessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
A wealthy couple and their adult son invite a motorcycle stuntwoman from a local circus back to their castle, thinking she is an actress from a pornographic film they've just watched.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lady in Red (1979)
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe All-American Girl (1973)
Debbie's boyfriend Bobby has left for Guatemala for three months and Debbie is expecting a boring summer. But then she hasn't considered her neighbours and their 15-year old son Johnny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Harrad Experiment (1973)
At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1966 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlood on the Sun (1945)
Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBilly Jack (1971)
A Euro-Indigenous American Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Snowblood (1973)
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Poker House (2008)
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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 · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Kyoto Connection?
The closest matches to The Kyoto Connection are Exposed (1971), Cindy and Donna (1970) and Violence at Noon (1966). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Kyoto Connection?
People who watched The Kyoto Connection most often go on to Exposed (1971), Cindy and Donna (1970) and Violence at Noon (1966).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Kyoto Connection?
Lady Snowblood (1973), rated 7.5/10 by 449 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Kyoto Connection?
The Poker House (2008) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like The Kyoto Connection?
Yes: Violence at Noon (1966), Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown (1974) and Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972).
How are movies similar to The Kyoto Connection chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Kyoto Connection, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.