Movies Like Violence at Noon

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Pleasures of the Flesh

1965·1h 31m·★ 6.8·Nagisa Ōshima

2 shared crewBoth star Kei Satō & Rokkō TouraDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Sing a Song of Sex

1967·1h 43m·★ 6.5·Nagisa Ōshima

2 shared crewDir. Nagisa ŌshimaDP: Akira Takada

Death by Hanging

1968·1h 58m·★ 7.5·Nagisa Ōshima

4 shared cast incl. Kei Satō & Rokkō TouraDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Night and Fog in Japan

1960·1h 43m·★ 6.8·Nagisa Ōshima

3 shared cast incl. Kei Satō & Rokkō TouraDir. Nagisa Ōshima

The Catch

1961·1h 45m·★ 6.8·Nagisa Ōshima

3 shared cast incl. Akiko Koyama & Teruko KishiDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1967·1h 39m·★ 6.7·Nagisa Ōshima

4 shared cast incl. Kei Satō & Hideo KanzeDir. Nagisa Ōshima

The Ceremony

1971·2h 3m·★ 7.2·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Hōsei Komatsu & Rokkō TouraDir. Nagisa Ōshima

The Sun's Burial

1960·1h 28m·★ 6.9·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Kei Satō & Rokkō TouraDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Three Resurrected Drunkards

1968·1h 20m·★ 6.4·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Kei Satō & Hōsei KomatsuDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

1969·1h 36m·★ 6.1·Nagisa Ōshima

Both star Kei Satō & Rokkō TouraDir. Nagisa Ōshima

Apocalypse Now

1979·2h 27m·★ 8.4·Francis Ford Coppola

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Andrei Rublev

1966·3h 3m·★ 8.0·Andrei Tarkovsky

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Aparajito

1956·1h 50m·★ 8.2·Satyajit Ray

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Rosemary's Baby

1968·2h 18m·★ 8.0·Roman Polanski

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957·2h 42m·★ 8.1·David Lean

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Talk to Her

2002·1h 52m·★ 7.9·Pedro Almodóvar

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Lolita

1962·2h 34m·★ 7.5·Stanley Kubrick

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1966·1h 33m·★ 7.6·Jiří Menzel

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Dangerous Liaisons

1988·1h 59m·★ 7.5·Stephen Frears

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Mifune

1999·1h 38m·★ 7.1·Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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How Good Is Violence at Noon?

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