15 Movies Like The Forest of Love
Loved The Forest of Love? 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.
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 The Forest of Love.
Door II: Tokyo Diary
Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Perfect Blue
Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
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 The Forest of Love.
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 The Forest of Love.
Dangerous Drugs of Sex
An elite salaryman drunkenly tries to die by suicide, but is saved by a mysterious stranger who holds him captive and sexually torments him.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Monster
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Ring
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Strange Darling
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Forest of Love.
Rope Hell
Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Paprika
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Battle Royale
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.
Sex Rider: Wet Highway
On the eve of her wedding and while cheating with another man, a woman gets involved into a dangerous new world of experiences.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Forest of Love.