Movies like Eros + Massacre: 20 to watch next
If you loved Eros + Massacre (1969) — a drama, romance and history film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Eros + Massacre most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like japan, fire and politics. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Mayerling 1968★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales, later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera. Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Floating Clouds 1955★ 7.7
Shares: Drama, Romance
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Haru 1996★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Romance
A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its members through back and forth e-mails.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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In the Realm of the Senses 1976★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ocean Waves 1993★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Romance
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
Stream in India on Netflix
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Radiance 2017★ 6.5
Shares: Romance, Drama
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Original Sin 2001★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
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.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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One Wonderful Sunday 1947★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.
Stream in India on Plex
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Désirée 1954★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Romance Doll 2020★ 7.1
Shares: Romance, Drama
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dolls 2002★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Romance
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Double Suicide 1969★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
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 obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Memoirs of a Geisha 2005★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Duke of Burgundy 2015★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Pillow Book 1995★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
Nagiko has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Magic of Ordinary Days 2005★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Romance
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Wind Rises 2013★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, History, Romance
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Equals 2015★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Stream in India on Bloodstream
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Not Easily Broken 2009★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hello World 2019★ 7.3
Shares: Romance, Drama
A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now