Movies Like Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon

If you liked Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon (1982), a crime and science fiction movie directed by Naosuke Kurosawa, 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
Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and horror
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task…
2
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and crime
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
3
The Void (2016)
★ 6/10Also horror and science fiction
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only…
4
Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and crime
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
5
God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and horror
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
6
Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
7
Zygote (2017)
★ 7/10Also horror and science fiction
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
8
Double Blind (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
9
Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
10
Alien³ (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more…
11
Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and horror
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.
12
Patrick (1978)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
13
Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
14
Gantz (2010)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and science fiction
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
15
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and horror
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their…
16
Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and horror
In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal…
17
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
★ 7/10Also horror and science fiction
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair…
18
Cure (1997)
★ 7.6/10Also horror and crime
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
19
Soulm8te (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also horror and science fiction
After a ruthless tech giant acquires a small robotics company, a grieving engineer is tasked with testing their new AI companion. But when he attempts to reprogram her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops…
20
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and crime
Inspector Kei Mikhail Ignatov finds himself involved with an organization named Bifrost with the possibility of freeing his wife if he betrays Unit One. Koichi Azusawa coordinates an assault on the Public Safety Bureau…