Movies like Antiporno (2017)
The best movies like Antiporno (2017) are Red Post on Escher Street (2020), Lowlife Love (2016) and Talking Head (1992). If Antiporno hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLove Exposure (2008)7.9/10 from 556 votes
- NewestRed Post on Escher Street (2020)Released 2020
- In JapaneseRed Post on Escher Street (2020)Also in Japanese
Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
Drafted to shoot a new film, Tadashi Kobayashi, a director with festival marketability, is strong-armed by the studio into hiring two famous actresses as leads. The cast of self-unaware weirdos that constitute the budding players become increasingly overwhelmed and emboldened until they stage their own micro-revolution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Lowlife Love (2016)
Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Talking Head (1992)
After the director of a film in production dissappears, his replacement has to deal with the cast and crew being mysteriously killed off one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Love Exposure (2008)
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrange Circus (2005)
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWet Woman in the Wind (2016)
Dissipated Tokyo playwright, Kosuke has retreated to the countryside after deciding that he's done with women, but the indefatigable cat-in-heat Shiori has other ideas, clinging to Kosuke like his shadow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGuilty of Romance (2011)
While police investigate a woman found dead in a derelict love hotel, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To escape the loveless monotony, she follows her desires and becomes a nude model. Soon, she meets a mentor and begins selling her body to strangers, while at home, she hides behind the façade of the doting wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Snake of June (2003)
Rinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mundane life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRitual (2000)
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lowlife (2017)
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMirrored Mind (2005)
An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Zigeunerweisen (1980)
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Stray Girls (2010)
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Happy Hour (2015)
Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one's marriage forces each of them to ask one of life's biggest questions: "Am I who I want to be?"
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDawn of the Felines (2017)
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Anarchy in Japansuke (1999)
A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Helter Skelter (2012)
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell (1977)
Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some of the students, including Utae.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Forest of Love (2019)
A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNoriko's Dinner Table (2005)
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPerfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (2002)
Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The story centers on Ai, a teen pop idol transitioning to a recording career, whose life unravels amid fixation from a obsessive convenience store clerk, leading to themes of distorted self-perception, narcissistic delusions, and violent events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Blind Beast (1969)
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConfessions (2010)
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Torture Club (2014)
The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. There, she finds out that upper-class student Aoi, her secret idol, is in the club, and decides to join, but…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisViolated Angels (1967)
Based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966, a young man who broke into a nurses’ home in Chicago, mutilating and killing several of the inmates, Wakamatsu’s film is a precise, sad delineation of a particular aspect of masculine sexual consciousness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Fist (1995)
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Antiporno?
The closest matches to Antiporno are Red Post on Escher Street (2020), Lowlife Love (2016) and Talking Head (1992). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Antiporno?
People who watched Antiporno most often go on to Red Post on Escher Street (2020), Lowlife Love (2016) and Talking Head (1992).
What is the highest-rated movie like Antiporno?
Love Exposure (2008), rated 7.9/10 by 556 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Antiporno?
Red Post on Escher Street (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Antiporno?
Yes: Red Post on Escher Street (2020), Lowlife Love (2016) and Talking Head (1992).
How are movies similar to Antiporno chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Antiporno, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.