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Kinky Boots (2005)
 7.1
 21K
Kinky Boots (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing. While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer, Lola. Her complaints about the inadequate footwear for her work combined with one of Charles' ex-employees, Lauren, leads to a suggestion to change the product to create a desperate chance to save the business: make men's fetish footwear. Lola is convinced to be their footwear designer and the transition begins. Now this disparate lot must struggle at this unorthodox idea while dealing both the prejudice of the staff, Lola's discomfort in the small town and the selfish manipulation of Charles' greedy fiancée who cannot see the greater good in Charles' dream.
Style: touching, humorous, inspirational, motivational, feel good, sweet, satirical, cult classic, laugh out loud, offbeat ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: transvestism, drag queen, cabaret, fashion, small town, family business, gay slur, gender bending, fashion show, transvestite, gay, working class, gay interest, shoemaker, transgender, fish out of water, unlikely partners, cross dressing, gay bashing, gender roles, gender bender, lgbtq, society, bankruptcy, factory ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century, contemporary
Place: milan italy, england, europe, italy, london
Keyword: partners, red, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, queer cinema and semi serious films with plots about gay, lgbtq, lgbt, gender, homosexual, friendship and gays and lesbians mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Kinky Boots: The Full Monty (1997), Calendar Girls (2003), Pride (2014), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Billy Elliot (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Full Monty (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working class, unemployment, stripper, striptease, male stripper, gay, friendship, lgbtq, dance, loser, father, small town ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: northern england, england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 28K
Calendar Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: charity, small town, female nudity, women, leukemia, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, family drama ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style: road movie, feel good, melancholic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gay, road trip, desert, on the road, transgender, drag queen, gay slur, transvestism, gender bending, homosexuality, bus ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: gay, transvestism, gender bending, drag queen, small town, friendship, cross dressing, road trip, on the road, lgbt, transgender, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.8
 61K
Pride (2014)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise ...
Style: touching, political, witty, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, working class, protest, culture clash, homosexuality, friendship, prejudice, gay relationship, mining town, lesbian, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1985, 20th century, year 1984, year 2014, 80s ...
Place: england, wales, united kingdom, britain, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hansel Schmidt, is a young East German boy, born and raised during the Cold War in communist East Berlin. In his 20s, he meets Luther Robinson, an older American soldier, who falls in love with Hansel and the two decide to marry, which will allow ...
Style: emotional, cult classic, enigmatic, lyrical, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gender, gay, transvestism, transgender, drag queen, berlin wall, self discovery, singer, rock and roll, musician's life, musician ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 142K
Billy Elliot (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, friendship, childhood, gay, audition, poverty, follow your dream, boxing ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s ...
Place: england, northern england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 3K
Stage Mother (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A conservative church-choir director moves to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son drag club.
Style: captivating, entertaining, funny, humorous, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female impersonator, gay son, club, lgbt, church, death of son, gay, cabaret, family relations, lifestyle, mother son relationship, nightclub ...
Time: 2020s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Iron Ladies (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The two main characters, Mon and Jung, play two gay transvestites, who had been constantly overlooked by volleyball coaches because of their appearance. However, when a local team changes coaches, the new coach holds tryouts for a new team. When Mon ...
Style: humorous, touching, light, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: transvestite, gay, transsexual, underdog, lgbt, volleyball, transvestism, transgender, gender bending, against the odds, injustice, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style: independent film, talky, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drag queen, gay, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, gay interest, gays and lesbians, transgender, gay bashing, gay bar, lgbtq, glbt ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Camp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style: talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Birds of a Feather (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her ...
Style: funny, cult classic, sex comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male to female cross dressing, transvestite, father son relationship, farce, drag queen, lgbtq, transvestism, gay parent, visitor, comedy of manners, gay couple ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, provence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Manuela and Manuel (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, hidden identity, wedding, transvestism, human nature, disorder, couples, gender bending, best friend, love, mistaken identity, gay man straight woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Cowboys & Angels (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargained for when he moves into an apartment with a gay fashion student and finds himself on the catwalk. The film sets out to explore the difficulties for young people in keeping ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, crying ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, fashion, roommate, friends, youth, odd couple, culture clash, gay sex, lgbtq, unlikely criminals, society ...
Place: ireland, europe, new york, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Style: period piece, controversial, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, biopic, subculture, revolt, publisher, lgbtqi, world war two, gay slur, gay subtext, bittersweet ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Hollywood, je t'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Recently broken up and barely enduring a dreary winter, gay Parisian Jérôme Beaunez impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. While there he meets some colorful locals and pursues a dormant desire to become a movie star - but ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, prostitute, transvestism, lifestyle, lgbt, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 1K
Outrageous! (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, he little ...
Style: thinking, independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, drag queen, gay, transsexual, lgbtq, roommate, hairdresser, female impersonator, glbt, disco, transvestite, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Victor Victoria (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Style: witty, humorous, clever, stylized, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, cross dressing, nightclub, gender bending, music, gender disguise, farce, dancing, woman dressed as man, jazz, transgender, lgbtq ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1934
Place: paris france, france, europe, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 7.3
 5K
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 ⇓
32%
 7.2
 9K
Trick (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The misadventures of two young gay men, trying to find a place to be alone, one night in Manhattan. Gabriel, an aspiring writer of Broadway musicals, meets Mark, a muscled stripper, who picks him up on the subway. They spend the night trying to find ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, sexy, feel good, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay romance, gays and lesbians, gay hustler, gay love, gay lead character, lgbtq, happy ending, homosexuality, glbt, one night stand ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.8
 7K
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 ⇓
31%
 5.8
 3K
Adam & Steve (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
Style: feel good, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: gay, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lgbt, gay relationship, family relations, one night stand, nothing goes right, disorder, gay wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: year 1987, year 2004, 80s
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Touch of Pink (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.
Style: feel good, entertaining, romantic, intense, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, family relations, society, parents and children, gay club, gay love, lifestyle, happy ending ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, toronto ontario canada, united kingdom, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Different for Girls (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she's ...
Style: sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: transsexual, gay, transgender, lgbt, glbt, lgbtq, bittersweet, friendship, gender, bullying, happy ending, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Cemetery Junction (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When ...
Style: witty, inspirational, stylized, funny, humorous ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, friends, old love, love, relationships, profanity, society, love and romance, social differences, factory ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Heaven's a Drag (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, ghost, hiv, lgbtq, lgbt, homosexual, gay bashing, male nudity, lesbian, gay slur, cross dressing ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.2
 100K
The Birdcage (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: gay, cross dressing, senator, gender, drag queen, gay parent, gay couple, farce, lgbtq, wedding, gay slur, nightclub ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami, usa, miami beach, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Geography Club (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
Style: witty, semi serious, touching, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, gay teenager, gay, closeted homosexual, sexual orientation, lesbian, gay relationship, friendship, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, gay interest, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 11K
4th Man Out (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Adam is your average working-class guy living in small-town America. He's an auto mechanic who spends his free time with his tight-knit band of bros, Chris, Nick and Ortu, with whom he does everything—poker, video games, shooting hoops, ...
Style: talky, light, touching, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, friendship, happy ending, friendship between men, dating, gay son, relationships, lgbtq, glbt, prejudice, loneliness, gay interest ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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