Movies Like Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets is a 1971 drama film from Shūji Terayama with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Woman in the Dunes and The Holy Mountain.

Drama

Woman in the Dunes

1964

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

8.2

MagicScore

The Holy Mountain

1973

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

7.5

MagicScore

Pistol Opera

2001

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

6.0

MagicScore

Satantango

1994

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

8.1

MagicScore

Dogville

2003

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

7.8

MagicScore

Uncut Gems

2019

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

7.2

MagicScore

The Dance of Reality

2013

'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

7.1

MagicScore

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

2003

On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn".

6.7

MagicScore

A Home at the End of the World

2004

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

The Green Elephant

1999

Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.

5.9

MagicScore

#11

Julia

1999

Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos.

3.5

MagicScore

#12

Belladonna of Sadness

1973

An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Enter the Void

2010

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

7.3

MagicScore

#14

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

1970

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Runaway

2010

A man falls in love with a half-woman/half-phoenix who fell to Earth from the sky.

7.6

MagicScore

#16

The Naked Island

1960

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

8.0

MagicScore

#17

The Face of Another

1966

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

7.8

MagicScore

#18

Velvet Buzzsaw

2019

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

5.4

MagicScore

#19

The Pornographers

1966

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.

7.2

MagicScore

#20

Assassination

1964

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

7.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets?

The top films similar to Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets by MovieMagicScore are Woman in the Dunes (8.2), The Holy Mountain (7.5), Pistol Opera (6.0). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets worth watching?

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 58 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets?

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971) is a drama film directed by Shūji Terayama, starring Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi.

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About movies like Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

This ranked list pairs Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971), a drama film from Shūji Terayama, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Hideaki Sasaki take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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