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I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
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I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
Original name: J'ai rêvé sous l'eau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.
Style: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, freeze frame, queer cinema, hot
Plot: bisexual man, gay, unrequited love, prostitute, transsexual, lgbt, love triangle, self discovery, nightlife, lifestyle, obsession, youth, addiction, life is a bitch, fall in love, sexual relations, couples, looking for love, drug abuse, destructive relationship, male nudity, ejaculation, lgbtq, sex club, group sex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, 1990s
Place: paris france, france
Keyword: a.i.

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and sexual films with plots about gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gender, gay interest, male nudity and love and romance mostly in Romance, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like I Dreamt Under the Water: Our Paradise (2011), Partners (2009), Death in Venice (1971), Head On (1998), Floating Skyscrapers (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Our Paradise (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay hustler, male prostitute, male pubic hair, male prostitution, gay relationship, swimming pool, lgbt, lifestyle, criminal heroes, on the run, lovers on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france, lyon
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Partners (2009)
Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends Karine and Herve unravel a love story between Vincent, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, twisted ...
Plot: gay interest, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, partner, law enforcement, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, male prostitute, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: lyon, europe, france
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100%
Death in Venice (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style: sentimental, art house, scenic, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: obsession, fall in love, boy, gays and lesbians, hotel, unrequited love, love and romance, art, teenage boy, pedophilia, self discovery, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1971, victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: italy, venice, europe
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100%
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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29%
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Floating Skyscrapers (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gender, gay love, gays and lesbians, gay sex, bisexual, couple relations, gay interest, love triangle, self discovery, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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29%
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Full Speed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth, friendship, love triangle, racism, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: lyon, france, europe, new york, algeria ...
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29%
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Circuit (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: John is an ex-cop who leaves small-town life and provincial attitudes behind for a new existence in West Hollywood. As he seeks an open, accepting gay life, John is introduced to the fast-paced Circuit Party scene, featuring beautiful people and a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, male prostitution, male prostitute, drug abuse, lgbt, addiction, fish out of water, love and romance, lifestyle, gay culture, nightlife, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, illinois, california, palm springs california, usa
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28%
A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A teenager discovers that mending a broken heart is no simple thing in this independent romantic drama from Mexico. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuno), a 17-year-old who has recently embraced his homosexuality, has just parted ways with his first serious ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, breakup, lost love, teenage life, unfulfilled love, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, obsession, love and romance, sex scene, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city
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28%
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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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28%
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Romance (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, bdsm, sexuality, female masturbation, explicit sex, love, adultery, male nudity, nymphomania, female nudity, masturbation, sexual promiscuity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: europe
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27%
The Witnesses (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, love and romance, siblings relations, hiv, gender, erection ...
Time: year 2007, year 1984, year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, france ...
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27%
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Come Undone (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning ...
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, depression, suicide attempt, male nudity, teenage life, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, youth, gay romance, dysfunctional family, love affair, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south of france, europe, frankfurt germany, brittany
⇓ 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 ...
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Beloved/Friend (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, crying
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, pregnancy, midlife crisis, friendship, terminal illness, best friend, friends, couples, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, barcelona
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27%
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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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Wild Side (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A transsexual who survives prostituting herself in Paris, returns – with her two male lovers in town – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Style: serious, sentimental, contemplative, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, transsexual, polyamory, gay, lgbt, transgender, friendship, lifestyle, love triangle, love and romance, society, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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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
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Futuro Beach (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, meditative ...
Plot: gay, drowning, lifeguard, gay love, gender, gay sex, male nudity, brother brother relationship, beach, swimming, oral sex, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, berlin germany, germany, portugal, northeast brazil
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The Sex of the Angels (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Carla and Bruno believe they have answers for everything until Rai appears in their lives, an attractive and mysterious young who lives outside the rules. In this story about love and friendship, boundaries dissolve by the rhythm of funky and break ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: polyamory, gay, gay relationship, bisexual man, gays and lesbians, first gay sexual experience, bisexuality, bisexual, love triangle, homosexual, sexual attraction, gay sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain
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Fögi Is a Bastard (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A 15 year old boy (Beni) falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only willing to follow him where ever Fögi wants to. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into the hell of drug addiction.
Style: sexual, realistic, serious, gloomy, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: male prostitution, gay, gay teenager, gay erotica, obsession, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, drug addiction, gay interest, destructive relationship, lgbtqi ...
Time: 90s
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22%
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To the Extreme (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rich, bisexual Thomas makes his way through a swath of lovers of both sexes in Paris. His parents have died, and he doesn't have to work to earn a living, so his days are bacchanalia-filled affairs that run into each other in a hazy bliss. The ...
Style: psychological, emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: threesome, introspection, lgbt, child custody, lifestyle, male nudity, adoption, moral dilemma, infidelity, strong sexual content, custody, love affair ...
Time: future
Place: paris france, france, ibiza
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Confusion of Genders (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that he can 'have it all'.
Style: sexy, witty, humorous, erotic, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for sex, obsession, gender, destructive relationship, lgbt, love triangle, dangerous attraction, womanizer, looking for love, couples, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
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22%
Between Love & Goodbye (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A modern gay drama about falling in and out of love, and the rocky road in between.
Style: realistic, serious, sexy, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, prostitute, lgbt, love and romance, manipulation, fall in love, human nature, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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22%
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Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, three brothers, transsexual, lgbt, male nudity, dysfunctional family, working class, drug dealing, going straight, teenage life, family problems, youth ...
Place: alps, paris france
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22%
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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 ⇓
22%
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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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Before I Forget (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, self discovery, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, lgbt, estrangement, transsexual, aging, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Snails in the Rain (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, suspense, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, homoeroticism, gays and lesbians, gay crush, self discovery, gay interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, lgbtq, couples, library ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: israel, tel aviv israel, middle east, asia
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21%
Grande école (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - ...
Style: sexy, psychological, serious, sincere, erotic ...
Plot: gay, swinger, gay love, love triangle, lgbt, lifestyle, teenage life, seduction, college life, male nudity, friendship, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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