Movies like Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief (1980)
The best movies like Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief (1980) are Dinner in America (2022), Tokyo Decadence (1992) and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). If Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDinner in America (2022)7.8/10 from 254 votes
- NewestFriend Couples Exchange Review (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseTokyo Decadence (1992)Also in Japanese
Dinner in America (2022)
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTokyo Decadence (1992)
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 sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPorno (2019)
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevenge Porn: PAIN OF LOVE (2019)
Rei is a college student in the midst of finding a job. She confesses her love to Mikio, a senior whom she admires. Mikio soon demands that she perform perverted acts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Tramp (1915)
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisValley Girl (1983)
Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHot Girls Wanted (2015)
A first-ever look at the realities of the professional “amateur” porn world and the steady stream of 18-to-19-year old girls entering into it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAntiporno (2017)
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 constantly questions the rationale of sex and the notion of liberty in modern Japanese society.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Railrodder (1965)
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisD.E.B.S. (2005)
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChasing Papi (2003)
Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored socialite Patricia -- spiral out of control, he suffers a mental breakdown. His doctor recommends that he choose just one girlfriend -- but can he choose in time before they discover his deception?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Thousand and One Nights (1969)
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBanana Split (2018)
After a messy breakup with her high school boyfriend, April strikes up an unexpected platonic friendship with his new girlfriend, Clara.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlower & Snake: Zero (2014)
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarely Legal (2003)
Teenager Deacon works at a video shop, and his buddies, Fred and Matt, sell the bootleg porno films he acquires. Deacon gets fired, but the pals have the bright idea of filming their own Internet porn flick in order to make money and become more popular at school. Hijinks ensue as they cast and create their movie, but porn industry player Vic Ramalot grows jealous of their burgeoning success and tries to put a stop to the project.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Burlesque on Carmen (1915)
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Pie 2 (2001)
After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations and yes, a trip to band camp, they discover that times change and people change, but in the end, it's all about sticking together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeavy Traffic (1973)
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeductress's Ruptured Hole (2023)
Scene 1. A couple who used to have sex every chance they got gradually becomes tired, and after thinking about it, the husband talks to his friend. The friend suggested sending his wife to his home. The man gradually stimulates his friend's wife, and his accumulated desire explodes. Scene 2. A newbie reporter took the risk of visiting a perverted man's house to catch a scoop. In the end, she gives her body in exchange for an interview.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Love Affair Between a Male Friend and a Married Woman (2023)
An erotic film about a junior boyfriend.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
My Sister's Friend 2 (2017)
Sang-woo's daily life changes 180 degrees ever since his sister's friend Jeong-hee comes to live in their house. Everytime he sees her walking around the house with wet hair and wearing just a big T-shirt, he gets erotic thoughts. He dreams of having sex with her just once until one day, he does. However, since then, Jeong-hee can't forget the night with Sang-woo and how much better he was than her fiance and starts coming back to his room...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Married Woman Boutique: Women Indulging in Scandalous Love Affair (2002)
Kimie steps into a boutique each day to support her household in place of her husband, who is unable to work due to heart disease—while her own spirit aches with longing. She surrenders willingly to the irresistible pull of Tsukuda, the dashing apparel‐maker’s salesman whose whispered promises slip between her legs like silk. Kenji, burning to reclaim his former glory, watches his world unravel when he discovers the affair that simmered beneath Kimie’s restraint. And as the truth of Kimie’s glowing secret—her pregnancy—dawns on him, his reproaches choke in his throat, meeting instead a startling, fervent embrace from the woman he thought he knew…
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Undressing Housekeeper (2023)
Mi-na works as a housekeeper at Seung-mo's house. Mi-na is being sexually abused by Seung-mo every time. She can't tell the truth to her boyfriend, Hyeon-goo, and is getting tired of Hyeon-goo, who only lives unemployed for her later years as an excuse for her job.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Swapping: 2-to-1 (2023)
Se-hee is doing home training. Ji-eun, her roommate, introduces her to her boyfriend's best friend, Kang-hyeon, as her home trainer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
I'm Daddy's Woman (2023)
Before remarriage, four people's family cohabitation began to build friendship and trust in order to become a true family!! Bo-ri, who only had a mother in her family, now has a stepdad and a step-brother!! However, Bo-ri only complains about her stepdad and her step-brother. Although her body is an adult, her immature little daughter keeps looking like a woman!
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Deviant Wife (2021)
Jeong-jin who happened to visit a female junior's house, falls in love at first sight with Hee-seong's mother, Mi-joo.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Friend Couples Exchange Review (2024)
Seon-woo and Eun-gyeol, two old friends who grew up together since their snoring days, live together with their wives even after marriage. As time goes by, the two begin to lose interest in their relationships with their wives, Ga-hee and Jeong-eun, and decide to try swapping. After swapping, Seon-woo and Eun-gyeol's friendship begins to crack, and they start to covet each other's wives at will. In the end, Ga-hee and Jeong-eun leave their husbands.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief?
The closest matches to Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief are Dinner in America (2022), Tokyo Decadence (1992) and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief?
Start with Dinner in America (2022), the closest match to Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief.
What is the highest-rated movie like Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief?
Dinner in America (2022), rated 7.8/10 by 254 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief?
Friend Couples Exchange Review (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief?
Yes: Tokyo Decadence (1992), Revenge Porn: PAIN OF LOVE (2019) and Antiporno (2017).
How are movies similar to Encyclopedia of Sex: Pink Shell Thief chosen?
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