15 Movies Like Dogs Don't Wear Pants

Loved Dogs Don't Wear Pants? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Addicted
#1

Addicted

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
#2

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

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's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Eyes Wide Shut
#3

Eyes Wide Shut

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
#4

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Some Velvet Morning
#5

Some Velvet Morning

Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Crash
#6

Crash

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

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Shame
#7

Shame

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 bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

No Thank You
#8

No Thank You

Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Trafficked
#9

Trafficked

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 reclaim their freedom.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Requiem for a Dream
#10

Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
#11

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Pimp
#12

Pimp

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 girlfriend Nikki.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Enter the Void
#13

Enter the Void

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Luckiest Girl Alive
#14

Luckiest Girl Alive

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.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.

Cleveland Abduction
#15

Cleveland Abduction

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

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dogs Don't Wear Pants.