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Borstal Boy (2000)
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Borstal Boy (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East Anglia, where he is forced to live with his would-be enemies, an experience that profoundly changes his life.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, political, gloomy, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, prison, boarding school life, lgbt, homosexuality, teenage love, friendship, gay slur, youth, love and romance, life is a bitch, teenage life, rape, jail cell, society, lgbtq, politics, power relations, writers, ira, playwright, violence, teenage boy, escape attempt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place: ireland, england, europe
Keyword: irish, jewish, german, english, reading, watching a movie, salute

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay kiss, gay interest, youth and gender mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Borstal Boy: You Are Not Alone (1978), Another Country (1984), Beautiful Thing (1996), Maurice (1987), North Sea Texas (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, youth, gays and lesbians, first love, teenage life, gay teenager, student, friendship, lgbt teen, friends, couples, boarding school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
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Another Country (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, factual, psychological ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, boarding school, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, equality, youth, gay relationship, gay lead character, boys' school, homosexual love, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1983
Place: england, russia, ussr, britain, europe ...
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Maurice (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1909, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) enters Cambridge, where he befriends wealthy Clive Durham (Hugh Grant). Clive confesses he is sexually attracted to Maurice, who realizes he is a homosexual when he begins to return Clive's feelings. The two ...
Style: homoerotic, sexy, scenic, melancholic, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexuality, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, gay love, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, forbidden love, closeted homosexual, gay romance ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one, 19th century, 1910s, edwardian era ...
Place: england, nebraska, britain, europe, buenos aires argentina ...
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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
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Hidden Away (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, cute ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay love, gay teenager, gay slur, gay romance, closeted gay, teenage life, friendship between boys, outcast, deportation, gay youth, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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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
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35%
This Special Friendship (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt teen, gay teenager, friendship, teenage life, youth, boys love, boarding school, lgbt, gay love, teenage boy, school, child ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.7
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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 ⇓
35%
Eban and Charley (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 29-year-old Eban has retreated home to his parent's house in Seaside Oregon after the dissolution of his teaching job in Seattle. There he courts 15-year-old Charlie and eventually the two start a sexual relationship. As the age of consent in ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: gay, friendship, family relations, teenage life, forbidden love, couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, homecoming, youth, life is a bitch, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: oregon, seattle, washington d.c., usa, charleston south carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Priest (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an ...
Style: independent film, touching, powerful, spiritual, lgbt cinema ...
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Time: year 1994, 90s
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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 ...
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Being 17 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the ...
Style: erotic, romantic, uplifting, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 2000s, year 2016
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I Killed My Mother (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sincere ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: touching, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, thought provoking ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 94 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: serious, sincere, realistic, sexual, crying ...
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Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, england, hamburg germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, sexual ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, disturbing, stylized, realistic, sexual ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident' he stumbles into a gay bar, meets and promptly ...
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Blue Citrus Hearts (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, sincere, contemplative ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Consequence (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Thomas is the son of a prison warden. He falls for and seduces Martin, who is older and one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, They try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, reformatory, gay, lgbt, bullying, lgbtq, glbt, traumatic childhood, age difference, gay bar, father son conflict, homosexuality ...
Time: 70s
Place: germany, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Eternal Summer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: realistic, sexy, sentimental, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, gay, love triangle, school, friendship, unrequited love, gay sex, gay teenager, lgbt, high school friend, loneliness, true love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, hong kong
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