Movies like Loggerheads

If you like "Loggerheads" you are looking for psychological, sentimental and touching movies about / with gay, lgbt, self discovery, parents and children, family life, society and haunted by the past themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Loggerheads (2005)
 7.2
 2K
Loggerheads (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, self discovery, parents and children, family life, society, haunted by the past, couple relations, gay relationship, birth mother, hiv positive, sea turtle, gays and lesbians, gay interest, hiv, multiple storylines, motel, glbt, lgbtq, minister, mother's day, aids, family relations, gay slur, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1999, year 2001 ...
Place: north carolina, appalachia, usa

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Loggerheads

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, queer cinema, realistic and serious films with plots about gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gay interest, homosexual and love and romance mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Loggerheads: Our Sons (1991), Pedro (2008), Do You Take This Man (2016), In the Gloaming (1997), Behind the Red Door (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 6.8
 752
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 ⇓
95%
 6.9
 540
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 ⇓
76%
Do You Take This Man (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a gay couple's impending wedding hits a snag, the grooms must rely on their friends and family to see them through.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay interest, childhood friend, marriage, lgbtq, homosexual, dishonesty, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 ⇓
58%
Movie in collections
Behind the Red Door (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: family relations, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, siblings relations, family life, haunted by the past, terminal illness, parents and children, homosexual, photographer, secret ...
Place: newfoundland, boston, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
55%
 7.2
 2K
1985 (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.0
 2K
La Mission (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, gays and lesbians, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, family problems, redemption, social differences, gay son, estrangement, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Movie in collections
Driving Not Knowing (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An estranged poet attempts to rekindle a complex relationship with a strung-out musician during a weekend in rural nowhere; their toxic past, however, won't be so easily forgotten.
Style: touching, unusual plot structure, sexy, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: gay, love, poetry, love and romance, gay couple, couples, family relations, fall in love, gay love, friendship, lovers, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
I Carry You with Me (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New ...
Style: touching, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay interest, gay love, immigrant, lgbtq, migration, teacher, restaurant, gay couple, lgbt, fall in love ...
Time: year 1994, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.4
 7K
Any Day Now (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal ...
Style: thought provoking, sad, sincere, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, adoption, gay adoption, lgbt, gay couple, down syndrome, homosexual, gay slur, gay parent, district attorney, disability ...
Time: 70s, year 2012, year 1979, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Happy Endings Sleepover (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: American CIA Field Operative, Johnnie Allen, is assigned to Denmark for his first mission. An American spy highly placed in the Kremlin is to be spirited out of Russia, and it is Johnnie's job to get him safely to Antwerp where the agent will ...
Style: unusual plot structure, psychological, contemplative, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: gay, gay crush, gay slur, gay interest, gay sex, homosexual, gay relationship, lgbtq, gay couple, love and romance, gay love, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, germany, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.1
 3K
Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, transgender, gender bending, family drama, depression, sexuality, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Time to Leave (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, serious, talky ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, tumor, homosexuality, breast feeding, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, lgbtq, gay interest, family relations, father son relationship, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
 3K
Urbania (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, psychological, talky, sexy ...
Plot: gay, urban legend, gender, murder, character study, depression, lgbt, gangster, mentor, twists and turns, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 399
The Last Year (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, couples, gender, incest, gays and lesbians, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenage love, love affair, friends, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.8
 172
Nowhere (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Nowhere" is a drama about Adrian and Sebastian, a Colombia couple living together in New York City. When Sebastian is faced with immigration complications, Adrian must learn to overcome his fear of rejection from his family back in ...
Style: romantic, psychological, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay love, immigration, gay couple, fall in love, chase, escapades, gay relationship, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.7
 362
My Own Country (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After obtaining his medical degree from Madras Medical College, Dr. Abraham Verghese decides to re-locate to Johnson City, Tennessee. He eventually gets married to Rajani, who is an accomplished dancer, and has a boy, Steven. Since Abraham ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere, touching ...
Plot: aids, medical, gay, lgbtq, hiv, lgbt, hospital, terminal illness, pregnancy, family relations, gay subtext, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
Place: tennessee, usa, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Movie in collections
A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 3K
Nasty Baby (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, interracial couple, gay couple, friendship, illegal immigrant, couples, couple relations, best friend, gender, society, love and romance, latinx lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 583
Jack (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, family life, teenage love, parents and children, self discovery, couples, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Wise Kids (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, best friend, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, teenage life, lgbt, youth, society, direction and purpose, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, glbt, death, friendship, deaf, gay interest, male nudity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
motel movies
1233
glbt movies
813
lgbtq movies
3145
 6.5
 4K
Bad Night (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
Style: black and white, indie film, sexual, thinking, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, immigrant, gay interest, gay sex, opposites attract, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, homosexuality, hustler, glbt ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Clayton & Claudia (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Claudia Noon is a struggling booker for a local talent agency in Dallas. While working hard to find her actors work, an old crush from her high school years, Kent Bergman, shows-up at the agency looking for representation. It is obvious that Kent ...
Style: romantic, unusual plot structure, melancholic, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, love and romance, gay relationship, gay couple, lgbt, gay love, homosexual, love affair, couple relations, gay lead character, gay interest, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.6
 489
Boys Life 2 (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, best friend, high school life, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 2K
Save Me (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, heartfelt ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gay interest, forbidden love, friendship between men, lgbtq, self discovery, gay sex, religions or cults, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.7
 93
Trade (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Trade tells the story of two men, one a streetwise hustler, the other a straight-laced lawyer, who meet and form a relationship that brings to light who they really are. Inspired by the book "Boulevard Girls" by David Kaye.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love, sex scene, lgbtq, gay couple, youth, lovers, gay relationship, gay interest, gays and lesbians, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.4
 565
Hard Pill (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to make gay men straight.
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: medical experiment, lgbt, love affair, transsexual, couple relations, midlife crisis, gender, estrangement, couples, homosexual, lgbtq, gay interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie