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Tan Lines (2005)
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Tan Lines (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Cute teen Midget Hollow wanders through life riding big waves and partying with surfer boys. When Midget's best friend's gay brother Cass arrives on the scene, the two quickly dive head first into a clandestine sea of sexual awakening.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, offbeat, realistic, sexual, homoerotic, sexy, queer cinema
Audience: teens
Plot: gay relationship, homosexuality, coming of age, gay, gay interest, lgbt, brother, sexual awakening, teenage love, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, youth, young lovers, lifestyle, buddies, surfing, looking for sex, ocean, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, glbt, heterosexuality, lgbtqi, surf ...
Time: contemporary
Place: australia, new south wales
Keyword: ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, queer cinema, touching and serious films with plots about gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, youth, love and romance and gay interest mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Tan Lines: Monster Pies (2013), Rock Haven (2007), Dream Boy (2008), The Way He Looks (2014), Boys (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Monster Pies (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gay relationship, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, gender, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, teenage love, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
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Rock Haven (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start. Their mission: to spread the word of the Lord. But while roaming the beach one day, Brady meets ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, sensual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay love, gay teenager, male nudity, lgbt, teenage life, gay relationship, family relations, friendship, church, forbidden love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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100%
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Dream Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, child abuse, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay couple, dysfunctional family, gay rape, gender, homosexual rape, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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100%
The Way He Looks (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, ...
Style: touching, cute, sweet, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, blindness, lgbt, homosexuality, coming of age, school, gay teenager, friendship, gay love, teenage life, homosexual, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Boys (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, lgbt cinema, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gay love, gay romance, gay athlete, gay relationship, fall in love, coming of age, lgbt teen, teenage love, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Get Real (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Style: sentimental, touching, teen, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, coming of age, teenage life, high school, gender, gay slur, gay teenager, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, youth, gays and lesbians, gay relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beautiful Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Thamesmead, in south-east London, become aware of their homosexuality. While both were vaguely aware they might be gay, neither had ever acted on their impulses. Once they decide ...
Style: touching, sweet, romantic, lgbt cinema, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, homosexuality, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt, lgbt teen, homosexual, gay love, teenage love, friendship, teenager, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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100%
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Mixed Kebab (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ibrahim chooses to fall for young and handsome Kevin over marrying his cute but expensive cousin Elif while kid brother Furkan converts to Islamic fundamentalism.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay relationship, gay, gay couple, closeted homosexual, muslim, tradition, family relations, culture clash, interracial relations, self discovery, opposites attract, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: antwerp, europe, turkey, belgium
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100%
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Sugar (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Cliff has just turned 18 and his little sister has a gift for him: booze, a joint, a subway token and the command to have sex. Heading out on the town, Cliff finds friendship -- and more -- in the person of a young hustler named Butch. But ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay teenager, gay, innocence lost, lgbt, friendship, self discovery, lifestyle, fall in love, teenage life, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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100%
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Newcastle (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor's failure to become surfing's Next Big Thing. Even when he's in his natural habitat of magnificent surf breaks, his blue-collar future is brought home by the coal ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, light, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, gay interest, friendship, family relations, youth, brother brother relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, lifestyle, rivalry, masturbation, gay son, teenage love ...
Time: future
Place: australia
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100%
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the ...
Style: touching, intense, sincere, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, aids, gay relationship, loneliness, self discovery, glbt, eccentricity, multiple storylines, lgbtq, love, friendship between men ...
Time: 80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: ohio, new york, usa, philadelphia, woodstock ...
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100%
Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
Style: teen, independent film, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, homosexuality, lgbt teen, coming of age, gays and lesbians, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, gay sex, high school, happy ending ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
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100%
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Shelter (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach ...
Style: touching, sexy, sweet, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, surfing, homosexuality, gay relationship, homosexual, gay romance, gay love, gays and lesbians, gay teenager, gay slur, grownups, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 2000s
Place: idaho, california, southern california
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33%
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Vacationland (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Filmmaker Todd Verow revisits his own youth for his latest work. The film's main character is Joe, who, like the director, grew up in Bangor in Maine. Joe, an 18 year old high school senior who longs to move away from poor white trash roots and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: gay crush, gay teenager, gay, lgbt teen, family relations, friendship, lgbt, gay relationship, lifestyle, teenage life, self discovery, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine
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Nico and Dani (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Style: stylized, realistic, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, coming of age, friendship between boys, gay teenager, friendship, self discovery, best friend, teenage love, innocence lost, lgbt, summer vacation, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, catalonia
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Harry + Max (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two brothers, 23 and 16, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other.
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, incest, gender, family relations, siblings relations, lgbt, teenage life, sexual relations, gay relationship, gay incest, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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100%
Like a Brother (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Sebastien is a small town boy who moves to Paris and begins to explore the gay night life there. When a friend from back home calls to announce he's coming to Paris, Sebastien confronts some unrequited feelings
Style: homoerotic, serious, realistic, emotional, sexual ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gay interest, friendship, youth, gay straight relations, gay sex, gay relationship, gay club, erection, father son relationship, best friend, male masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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From Beginning to End (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, lgbt cinema, psychological ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, gay love, gay relationship, male homosexuality, forbidden love, gay incest, family problems, parents and children, gay brother ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina, latin america, russia ...
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Sodom (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 20-year-old Will is on his stag-do when, handcuffed to a lamppost, he is rescued by Michael. The attraction between the two men is immediate. But back at Michael's apartment, Will is sent into a tailspin of shame and confusion.
Style: touching, sexy, melancholic, contemplative, sentimental ...
Plot: male homosexuality, gay, homosexuality, one night stand, sex scene, gay interest, gay lead character, gay relationship, naked in public, gay love, male objectification, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Love of Siam (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gays and lesbians, gay love, lgbt, missing person, gay, gay interest, loss of child, musician, lgbtq, friendship, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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100%
The Journey of Jared Price (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "The Journey of Jared Price" is a gay-themed coming-of-age 2000 film written, produced and directed by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black. Black won the Oscar award for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk". The Journey of ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, fall in love, self discovery, blind woman, youth, couple relations, friendship, couples, teenage life, prostitute, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, southern california, santa monica california, los angeles
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Watercolors (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Carter, a troubled teen stays with a friend of his dads and starts flirting with her son Danny. After the weekend school returns, however Carter a school jock tells Danny he does not want to be seen with him at school. Their relationship grows ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, art house ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gay sex, lgbt, love and romance, lgbtq, lgbt teen, lifestyle, gay interest, sexuality, drug use, opposites attract ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Blue Crush 2 (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jefferys Bay.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, sentimental, teen
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: surfing, beach, surfer, friendship, hopes, rivalry, misfit, lifestyle, ambition, contests and competitions, youth, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills, south africa, africa
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Boys Life 3 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger's Just One Time was a festival favorite recently expanded into a feature film that turns the tables on a groom-to-be and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, youth, friendship, self discovery, teenage life, couples, sexual relations, closeted homosexual, relationships, gay love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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22%
Blue Citrus Hearts (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A first love could quite possibly be the last for Sam, a Memphis teenager coming to terms with the romantic feelings he harbors for his best friend, Julian. Will the love he feels for this boy guide him through his struggles with his abusive father, ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, teenage love, coming of age, high school, teenage life, best friend, society, lifestyle, buddies, youth, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: memphis, tennessee
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22%
North Sea Texas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, lgbt child, boys love, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, idaho, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Holding Trevor (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay romance, gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, addiction, hiv, introspection, lifestyle, destructive relationship, couples, looking for love ...
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Wrecked (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on ...
Style: serious, touching, art house, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: gay, group sex, lgbt, love triangle, impossible love, gay teenager, youth, love and romance, male pubic hair, teenage boy, unfulfillment, gay sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Antarctica (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, dancer, family relations, introspection, hopes, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tel aviv israel, israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Race You to the Bottom (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Nathan and Maggie are in the throes of a passionate affair. They're young, good-looking, and both have boyfriends. When Nathan is assigned to write a travel article on romantic hot-spots in Napa Valley, these unconventional lovers test the ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, homosexual, self discovery, love affair, love triangle, bisexual, couples, destructive relationship, young lovers, lifestyle, journalism, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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