Movies like Flower Lust and the Impotent (1973)
The best movies like Flower Lust and the Impotent (1973) are Trust (2021), Symbol (2009) and Much Ado About Nothing (2013). If Flower Lust and the Impotent hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAmerican Beauty (1999)8.0/10 from 13,548 votes
- Newest72 HOURS (2026)Released 2026
- In JapaneseSymbol (2009)Also in Japanese
Trust (2021)
Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSymbol (2009)
A Japanese man in polka-dot pajamas wakes up in a room with no doors. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Mexican wrestler prepares for his most challenging match ever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMuch Ado About Nothing (2013)
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGo, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZerophilia (2005)
Luke, a young man insecure about his masculinity, discovers he's a Zerophiliac, with the ability to change sex at will. Join Luke as he journeys into the extraordinary world of Zerophilia where so many crazy questions arise, only one question matters: "Whom do you love?"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Beauty (1999)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBlack Box (2020)
After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWildflower (2023)
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisYour Friends & Neighbors (1998)
Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mary begins an affair with Jerry, a smug theater professor and husband of her friend, Terri, who is also a writer. Adding to the adulterous mix are Cary, a callous doctor, and Cheri, an art-gallery assistant.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisMelinda and Melinda (2004)
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlfie (2004)
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like this72 HOURS (2026)
To save his career, a 40-year-old ad exec joins a crew of twentysomethings for a wild Miami bachelor party after they mistakenly add him to a group chat.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRicky Gervais: Mortality (2025)
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBachelor Party (1984)
On the eve of his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, unassuming nice guy Rick is dragged out for a night of debauchery by his friends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFitting In (2024)
A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilk Stockings (1957)
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarry On Regardless (1961)
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChikan densha: Oshiri o futte onedari (1988)
A section chief is unable to get it up with his wife, and even worse, is dying. He then learns BDSM, soon joined by a male and female employee (who is a "true masochist").
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Monzetsu OL: Ijô na Zengi (1991)
Miharu, who dreams of marrying a wonderful prince like Cinderella, stays in Kirita's room. Kirita has just become a celebrity. Meanwhile, Miharu's junior colleague Tama-chan is enjoying SM play with the pervert Tashiro. Miharu develops feelings for Kirita, but Kirita has no ability to hold a woman. One day, she begins a physical relationship with Puff's manager, Shou. After 5pm at QL, Miharu, looking for Tama-sama, can't help but smile at the new man who approaches her today!
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Danchizuma: Furin Marumie (1991)
A woman has recently married an adult toy manufacturer. He researches new vibrators in the product development department. She hopes that if she marries such a man, she will be able to use the vibrator as much as she likes and have fun every night, but her husband never uses a vibrator on her. She is extremely dissatisfied with this. Meanwhile, her husband's boss, the section chief, is currently developing an anal vibrator, and in the name of experimenting with it, he only uses the anal vibrator on his wife. Her boss's wife wants him to use a normal vibrator, but she is dissatisfied that he only uses it on her anus. As the wives were talking about this, the new wife expressed her interest in anal vibrators, so they decided to swap husbands and have fun with the one in the front and the one in the back. They immediately decided to swap wives...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Zoom Up: Seiko's Thigh (1982)
Toshihiro, a photography school dropout, is obsessed with secretly photographing the lovely Seiko. He is in love with her and hopes to lose his virginity to her someday but is unaware that Seiko is attracted to him as well. After spying on her with one of her professors, Toshihiro becomes jealous and swears to forget about Seiko. As they both struggle with their sexual urges, a series of misadventures bring them closer together.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SM Seminar: Queen of Uniforms (1981)
BDSM-themed pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Lots of Peeping: Hot Underpanties of a Lover (1994)
There was a man, a novelist, who had unavoidably turned his hand to sensual novels for a living, but now made a living out of it. One morning while jogging, he picks up a lighter and cigarettes dropped by a bookstore owner, and decides to deliver them to the store. When there is no answer to the doorbell, he goes to the back of the store and looks in the slightly open window to find the owner tying up a female clerk and engaging in SM play.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Zeni-mesu: Tane uma: Bakashi ai (1976)
Pink film distributed by Toei.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Mushûsei: Marudashi jokôsei (TBA)
Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Japanese Night Crawl Festival (1977)
Pink film distributed by Toei.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Flower Lust and the Impotent?
The closest matches to Flower Lust and the Impotent are Trust (2021), Symbol (2009) and Much Ado About Nothing (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Flower Lust and the Impotent?
Start with Trust (2021), the closest match to Flower Lust and the Impotent.
What is the highest-rated movie like Flower Lust and the Impotent?
American Beauty (1999), rated 8.0/10 by 13,548 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Flower Lust and the Impotent?
72 HOURS (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Flower Lust and the Impotent?
Yes: Symbol (2009), Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) and Chikan densha: Oshiri o futte onedari (1988).
How are movies similar to Flower Lust and the Impotent chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Flower Lust and the Impotent, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.