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It's My Party (1996)
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It's My Party (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, independent film, philosophical, depressing, sincere, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, death, glbt, friendship, deaf, male nudity, gay interest, quarantine, euthanasia, lgbtq, angry, lgbtqi, advocate, family relations, homosexual, gay lead character, ex boyfriend, friends, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, queer cinema and serious films with plots about gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay interest, gender and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like It's My Party: Longtime Companion (1989), The Man I Love (1997), Parting Glances (1986), Close to Leo (2002), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Longtime Companion (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, politics, friendship, lgbtq, gay couple, courage, gay interest, love, glbt, gay slur ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1988, year 1986 ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Man I Love (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lifeguard, gays and lesbians, gay wedding, aids, swimming pool, first gay sexual experience, love triangle, gay sex, lgbt, gay love, homosexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, spain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Parting Glances (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.
Style: independent film, sad, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, hiv, lgbtq, gay interest, gays and lesbians, paranoia, infection, hopeless romantic, glbt, advocate ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Close to Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, youth, hiv, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, lgbt, coming of age, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, family life ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
Style: independent film, realistic, sentimental, witty, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, male nudity, hiv, nudity, gay couple, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, friendship, blind character, blindness ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new york state, usa
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29%
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Big Eden (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood ...
Style: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, friendship, small town, self discovery, native american, gay couple, gay love, happy ending, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, new york, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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After Louie (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor's guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what ...
Style: romantic, melancholic, psychological, sexy, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay couple, gay relationship, relationships, gay interest, male nudity, love affair, love, lgbtq, activism, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Ciao (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two men meet and fall in love under the least joyous of circumstances in this low-key drama from writer and director Yen Tan.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, romantic, sensual ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, couples, gender, gay interest, friendship, gay relationship, lgbtq, friends, love and romance, computers and web ...
Place: italy, austin texas, europe, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
In the Gloaming (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, terminal illness, hiv, bereavement, lgbtq, childhood, cancer, dying, gay son ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.9
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Pedro (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, hiv, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, life is a bitch, society, hopes, terminal illness, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1994
Place: cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Year Without Love (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.
Style: serious, sincere, rough, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, aids, sadomasochism, fetishism, dangerous attraction, life is a bitch, terminal illness, sexual relations, love and romance, writer's life, hiv, disco ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Alive and Kicking (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, aids, bittersweet, lgbt, death, dancing, dance, hospital, hiv, glbt, lgbtq, pregnancy ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: greece, athens greece, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Redwoods (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Both original and incredibly romantic, Redwoods tells the story of an already-partnered man whose love is tested when a mysterious drifter passes through his small Northern California town.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, couples, gay couple, gay relationship, gay sex, gays and lesbians, breakup, gay interest, secret, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Our Sons (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.8
 377
Angora Ranch (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Justin is an ad executive whose father sends him on his first solo run to a place in Texas. While driving to his appointment Justin swerves to avoid a rabbit in the road and his car gets stuck in a ditch that just happens to be in front of the home ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: gay, farm, family relations, love affair, father son relationship, ranch, self discovery, parents and children, unlikely couple, jazz, gay relationship, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Trip (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, political, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, aids, gay interest, lgbtq, road trip, gay slur, self discovery, couples, human nature, love affair, repression ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1984, year 1977, year 1973
Place: los angeles, usa, california, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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An Early Frost (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, quarantine, hiv positive, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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
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22%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.5
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Buddies (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Buddies is a 1985 American drama film. It is the first film to deal with the AIDS pandemic, preceding the television movie An Early Frost (also released in 1985). Directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr., who would die of complications from AIDS two years ...
Style: independent film, social, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: lgbt, aids, gay, gay interest, male masturbation, homosexual, friendship, hospital, love, masturbation, friendship between men, hiv ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 1985
Place: new york, washington d.c., manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Spinnin' (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Garate and Omar are young, gay and in love, and want to have a child. After failed attempts with their female pals, they befriend Raquel, a pregnant woman whose partner has died of aids. Sound conventional? Spinnin' is anything but.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: aids, family relations, pregnancy, couples, custody, gender, optimism, friends, parents and children, gay, wanting a baby, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Nine Lives (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, hiv, gay sex, infidelity, support group, lifestyle, lgbt, social relations, couples, youth, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
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Jeffrey (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
Style: humorous, witty, sexual, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, aids, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, hiv, celibacy, homosexuality, love, happy ending, lgbtqi, gay interest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
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His Brother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
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The Houseboy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Distraught after he overhears his two 30-something lovers talking about finding a new "toy" to replace him, young Ricky looks for love through a series of random sexual encounters while house-sitting for the couple over the Christmas ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, sensual ...
Plot: gay interest, lgbt, gay, love triangle, couples, love affair, gender, lifestyle, city life, student, christmas, friendship ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Finding North (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In madcap road movie Finding North, Rhonda (Wendy Makkena, Sister Act), a big-haired bankteller from Brooklyn, encounters Travis (John Benjamin Hickey, Love! Valour! Compassion!), naked, suicidal and about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Mistaking ...
Style: touching, independent film, humorous, sentimental, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, aids, homosexuality, lgbt, death, loneliness, heterosexuality, lgbtq, glbt, bank, on the road, bereavement ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Beautiful Something (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
Style: sexy, light, melancholic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, gay sex, gay subtext, love, lgbtq, couples, youth, love and romance, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Seminarian (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Seminarian is a story about Ryan, a closeted gay student in his final semester of seminary studies. Despite his school's hostile stance towards homosexuality, Ryan has two gay classmates - Gerald and Anthony - in whom he secretly confides. ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative, sentimental ...
Plot: lgbt, love and romance, religions or cults, couples, society, fall in love, school, parents and children, unfulfillment, gender, self discovery, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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