
10 Best Movies Like The Trial
If you loved The Trial, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Grandmother
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trial for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother....

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trial for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychose...

Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trial for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan....

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trial for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives...

Love & Pop
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trial for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into thi...

The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trial for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman....