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Movies Like 1789: The Lovers of the Bastille (Shinjin Kouen)

If you liked 1789: The Lovers of the Bastille (Shinjin Kouen) (2015), a movie directed by Tani Takaya, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Double Suicide

    Double Suicide (1969)

    ★ 7/10

    Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man…

  2. 2Scaramouche

    Scaramouche (1952)

    ★ 7/10

    In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

  3. 3Inuyashiki

    Inuyashiki (2018)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

  4. 4Love & Pop

    Love & Pop (1998)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an…

  5. 5High Strung

    High Strung (2016)

    ★ 7/10

    When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common…

  6. 6Shin Ultraman

    Shin Ultraman (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10

    The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a…

  7. 7The Last 10 Years

    The Last 10 Years (2022)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a…

  8. 8Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  9. 9Hollywood Dirt

    Hollywood Dirt (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Hollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how they made their fortunes. Summer Jenkins, who was the town pariah…

  10. 10It Feels So Good

    It Feels So Good (2019)

    ★ 6.6/10

    When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko…

  11. 11Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    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…

  12. 12Step Up 3D

    Step Up 3D (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip-hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will…

  13. 13High Strung Free Dance

    High Strung Free Dance (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s…

  14. 14The Convert

    The Convert (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.

  15. 15Sanjuro

    Sanjuro (1962)

    ★ 7.9/10

    In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its…

  16. 16An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

  17. 17Spriggan

    Spriggan (1998)

    ★ 6.1/10

    An elite superhuman agent must stop a foreign military unit from seizing control of an ancient artifact that holds the key to ultimate power.

  18. 18Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

    ★ 7.2/10

    After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of…

  19. 19Shadow Master

    Shadow Master (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10

    After being slain by a group of criminals, a man is reborn with animal-like superpowers and makes it his mission to right the wrongs of his city.

  20. 20The Greatest Show on Earth

    The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

    ★ 6.4/10

    To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous…

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