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10 Best Movies Like Ritual to Call Summer

If you loved Ritual to Call Summer, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Antiporno

Antiporno

2017★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ritual to Call Summer for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Kyôko, a traumatized young Japanese girl, finds herself struggling with her self-confidence in her adult life. Growing up in a family without her mother and her sister, she constan...

#2
Sex and Fury

Sex and Fury

1973★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ritual to Call Summer for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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, s...

#3
Tokyo Decadence

Tokyo Decadence

1992★ 6.0

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

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 s...

#4
Luckiest Girl Alive

Luckiest Girl Alive

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ritual to Call Summer for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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....

#5
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#6
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

1973★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ritual to Call Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, ...

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