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10 Best Movies Like Harmful Insect

If you loved Harmful Insect, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
One Million Yen Girl

One Million Yen Girl

2008★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harmful Insect for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one know...

#2
Penance

Penance

2013★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harmful Insect for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never...

#3
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harmful Insect for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harmful Insect for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#5
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harmful Insect for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#6
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Harmful Insect for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

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