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Movies Like The Pleasure

If you liked The Pleasure (1985), a drama movie directed by Joe D'Amato, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Auto Focus

    Auto Focus (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters…

  2. 2Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

    Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    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.

  3. 3Trafficked

    Trafficked (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to…

  4. 4Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  5. 5Caligula

    Caligula (1979)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

  6. 6Shame

    Shame (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up…

  7. 7Don't Be Bad

    Don't Be Bad (2015)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties…

  8. 8Crash

    Crash (1996)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.

  9. 9Cleveland Abduction

    Cleveland Abduction (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

  10. 10Crimes of Passion

    Crimes of Passion (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…

  11. 11Rise of the Footsoldier 3

    Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.

  12. 12Luckiest Girl Alive

    Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

  13. 13Midnight Express

    Midnight Express (1978)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made…

  14. 14Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  15. 15Mysterious Skin

    Mysterious Skin (2005)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

  16. 16The Chronology of Water

    The Chronology of Water (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.

  17. 17The Catholic School

    The Catholic School (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the…

  18. 18Gummo

    Gummo (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

  19. 19Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  20. 20Straw Dogs

    Straw Dogs (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.

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