Movies Like Female Teacher in Rope Hell
If you liked Female Teacher in Rope Hell (1981), a drama and horror movie directed by Shōgorō Nishimura, 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.
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Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorThe life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
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Imprint (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also horrorAn American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
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The Transgressor (1974)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and horror18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns…
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Audition (2000)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and dramaSeven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of…
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
★ 6/10Also dramaA 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…
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A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and horrorAldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
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Blackwater Lane (2024)
★ 6/10Also drama and horrorAn American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…
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Flowers in the Attic (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAfter the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
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Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)
★ 6/10Also horrorLegend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000…
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…
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Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and horrorAn elite salaryman drunkenly tries to die by suicide, but is saved by a mysterious stranger who holds him captive and sexually torments him.
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Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA porn magazine editor stumbles upon an amateur gang rape film and, struck by the girl's acting, decides to find her.
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The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
★ 6/10Also dramaA troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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Dismissed (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorA straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
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Midori (1992)
★ 6/10Also drama and horrorAfter 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…
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Saint Catherine (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorAn orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
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Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaOcho 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…
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The Eel (1997)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA 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.
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Play Dead (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorA woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.