15 Movies Like Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Loved Tetsuo: The Iron Man? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
#1

Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie

Six delinquents are tasked with cleaning a train as part of a community service program. But when the train suddenly takes off, chaos ensues.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Door
#2

Door

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Dollhouse
#3

Dollhouse

After losing their child, a mother finds solace in a life-sized ancient doll she finds on the market. When a new daughter enters the family's life, strange things begin to happen and no matter how hard the family tries to get rid of it, the doll always finds its way back.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Nun in Rope Hell
#4

Nun in Rope Hell

A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Exit 8
#5

Exit 8

A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment
#6

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment

Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Lucky Sky Diamond
#7

Lucky Sky Diamond

At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Flower and Snake 3: Punishment
#8

Flower and Snake 3: Punishment

When successful business man refuses to save the business of his former partner he has his wife and her student kidnapped. The former partner plans to take his revenge by forcing both women into sexual slavery by training them as SM porn stars.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Ghost in the Shell
#9

Ghost in the Shell

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
#10

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Nosferatu
#11

Nosferatu

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Akira
#12

Akira

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Midori
#13

Midori

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
#14

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

Iroha's life gets knocked off its orbit when Kaguya, a carefree runaway from the Moon, moves in and convinces her to perform in a virtual world together.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Village of Doom
#15

Village of Doom

Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Tetsuo: The Iron Man.