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Movies Like Passion's Potion

If you liked Passion's Potion (2002), a movie directed by Akiyoshi Sugiura, 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. 1Below Her Mouth

    Below Her Mouth (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

  2. 2A Thousand and One Nights

    A Thousand and One Nights (1969)

    ★ 6.7/10

    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.

  3. 3Welcome to Chechnya

    Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

    ★ 7/10

    This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a…

  4. 4Your Friends & Neighbors

    Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)

    ★ 5.8/10

    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…

  5. 5The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

    The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray…

  6. 6Heavy Traffic

    Heavy Traffic (1973)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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…

  7. 7Still the Water

    Still the Water (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10

    On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his…

  8. 8Original Sin

    Original Sin (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

  9. 9The Duke of Burgundy

    The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more…

  10. 10The Overnight

    The Overnight (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.

  11. 11Pariah

    Pariah (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

  12. 12Flower & Snake: Zero

    Flower & Snake: Zero (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    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…

  13. 13Tokyo Decadence

    Tokyo Decadence (1992)

    ★ 6/10

    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…

  14. 14Fifty Shades Freed

    Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he…

  15. 15Antiporno

    Antiporno (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    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…

  16. 16Shortbus

    Shortbus (2006)

    ★ 6.3/10

    In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics…

  17. 17Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10

    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…

  18. 18Hard to Die

    Hard to Die (1990)

    ★ 6/10

    While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…

  19. 19Newness

    Newness (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

  20. 20Femme

    Femme (2023)

    ★ 7/10

    Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his assailants in a gay sauna and quickly realizes he has the perfect…

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