Movies like The Forest of Love: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Forest of Love (2019) — a crime and thriller film directed by Sion Sono — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Forest of Love most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like smoking, supernatural and trauma. 12 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Antichrist 2009★ 6.6
Shares: Thriller
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Stream in India on MUBI
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Blood Punch 2014★ 6.5
Shares: Thriller
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?
Stream in India on Plex, Filmzie
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Kill List 2011★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Natural Born Killers 1994★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Final 2010★ 6.0
Shares: Thriller
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Strange Darling 2024★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, VI movies and tv, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Last House on the Left 2009★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Thriller
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Infernal Machine 2022★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Killer Inside Me 2010★ 5.8
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Cheat 2023★ 7.1
Shares: Thriller
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Castle Freak 1996★ 6.1
Shares: Thriller
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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The Devil's Rejects 2005★ 6.7
Shares: Crime
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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Luckiest Girl Alive 2022★ 6.5
Shares: Thriller
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Desperate Living 1977★ 6.3
Shares: Crime
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Snowtown 2011★ 6.3
Shares: Crime
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Killers 2014★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Candyman 1992★ 6.7
Shares: Thriller
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Believers 1987★ 5.9
Shares: Thriller
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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Swallow 2020★ 6.6
Shares: Thriller
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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The Domestics 2018★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel