Movies like Yappari M ga ii wa (1987)
The best movies like Yappari M ga ii wa (1987) are Chasing Papi (2003), Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013) and Nothing Like a Dame (2018). If Yappari M ga ii wa hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedI Can't Think Straight (2008)7.5/10 from 341 votes
- NewestSpace-Time Perverted Virgin 2 (2023)Released 2023
- In JapaneseSymbol (2009)Also in Japanese
Chasing 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 thisCall Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNothing Like a Dame (2018)
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Can't Think Straight (2008)
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPetals on the Wind (2014)
This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016)
An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisSomeone Like You... (2001)
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA League of Their Own (1992)
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Perfect Ending (2012)
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCasting By (2012)
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPing Pong Playa (2008)
Streetwise swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang is a suburban guy who waxes political on all things Asian American and clings to pro basketball pipe dreams. But when misfortune strikes his family, C-dub must overcome living at home, working a dead-end job and his worldly older brother, to run his Mom's ping pong classes and defend the family's athletic dynasty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeart of a Dog (2015)
Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrossing Delancey (1988)
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like this3 Generations (2016)
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIron Jawed Angels (2004)
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Lights (2014)
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along with hundreds of paintings depicting The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glodeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Cased by the Child Slave Rebellion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove & Sex (2000)
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
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
Assault! (1976)
A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Space-Time Perverted Virgin 2 (2023)
Toshio, a virgin man with extreme agoraphobia, is given a mysterious pocket watch by a master of time manipulation pornography that rewinds time the more he turns its dragon head. He tries to succeed in his mad dash against Minami, the woman of his dreams, through endless trial and error using the watch's power, but Minami has a secret that she will never reveal to others....
Why it matches: Similar story and style
End of the Journey (1998)
Hiro travels around the country playing the ukulele on the streets. A road movie depicting his interactions with various gay people he meets on his travels.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Space-Time Perverted Virgin (2023)
Saneo is a virgin working as a cleaner at a seaside love hotel. He has a crush on the owner's only daughter, Saya, and spends his days obsessing over her every night in his favorite "time-stopping" porno...until a chance encounter leads him to a pocket watch that was used as a time-stopping item in the porno. When Saneo jokingly moves the watch, he finds Saya standing motionless in front of him, frozen in time! When his long-held fantasy becomes a reality, what is the once-in-a-lifetime decision that the loser virgin makes?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Underwater Love (2011)
35-year-old Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki, but one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned when they were 17.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Three Cheating Wives (1975)
Three married women don't know much about the outside world...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
At the Mercy of the Darkness: Ayano's Bizarre Delusions (2009)
Ayano is trapped in a loveless marriage with a guy who redefines the word jerk. She works at a company selling English learning materials and is suffering from increasingly disturbing hallucinations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Siren XX: Diabolic Lust (2009)
Fumi is by “Kagami-Ike Pond”, deep in the mountains… Her class room teacher could not fight his strong urge as he watched her body through her blouse drenched in rain…Keisuke waits for Fumi at the meeting spot to confess his love. Classmates surround Keisuke. Fumi and the teacher both went missing on that rainy day. A few years later…Keisuke had left his life in Tokyo, and attempts a handgun suicide, but is spotted by his old classmates Kohei and Tatsumi. They explain to him their plan of starting a fraudulent business of selling water from Kagami-Ike pond as “The Water of Eternity” via the internet, and tell him that he should join them. They were also classmates with Atsuko, Kohei’s girlfriend, is also delighted to know that he had returned home.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Yappari M ga ii wa?
The closest matches to Yappari M ga ii wa are Chasing Papi (2003), Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013) and Nothing Like a Dame (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Yappari M ga ii wa?
Start with Chasing Papi (2003), the closest match to Yappari M ga ii wa.
What is the highest-rated movie like Yappari M ga ii wa?
I Can't Think Straight (2008), rated 7.5/10 by 341 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Yappari M ga ii wa?
Space-Time Perverted Virgin 2 (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Yappari M ga ii wa?
Yes: Symbol (2009), Chikan densha: Oshiri o futte onedari (1988) and Assault! (1976).
How are movies similar to Yappari M ga ii wa chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Yappari M ga ii wa, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.