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Movies Like A War Widow

If you liked A War Widow (2000), a movie directed by Satoshi Shimomoto, 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. 1Imprint

    Imprint (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An 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.

  2. 2Tokyo Decadence

    Tokyo Decadence (1992)

    ★ 6/10

    A 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…

  3. 3In the Realm of the Senses

    In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

  4. 4Restless

    Restless (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

  5. 5Petals on the Wind

    Petals on the Wind (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

  6. 6Curve

    Curve (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.

  7. 7Starman

    Starman (1984)

    ★ 6.9/10

    When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

  8. 8Flower & Snake: Zero

    Flower & Snake: Zero (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon…

  9. 9A Woman

    A Woman (1915)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for…

  10. 10Audition

    Audition (2000)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Seven 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…

  11. 11Go, Go Second Time Virgin

    Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.

  12. 12Original Sin

    Original Sin (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

  13. 13Sex and Fury

    Sex and Fury (1973)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke…

  14. 14A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

    A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with…

  15. 15Star of David: Beauty Hunting

    Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)

    ★ 6.2/10

    The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.

  16. 16The Twilight Samurai

    The Twilight Samurai (2002)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects…

  17. 17The Secret Life of Bees

    The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…

  18. 18The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  19. 19Ritual

    Ritual (2000)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

  20. 20The Chaplin Revue

    The Chaplin Revue (1959)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting…

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