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Beach Rats (2017)
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Beach Rats (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, disturbing, erotic, exciting, sexy, lgbt cinema, social, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, teenager, gay love, older man younger man relationship, lgbt teen, gay sex, gay erotica, dating, exploring sexuality, lgbt, lgbtq, coming of age, male homosexuality, friendship, gay interest, beach, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, nudity, male pubic hair, lgbtqi, male nudity, promise, money, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york, atlantic ocean
Keyword: vulgarity, russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, gay cinema, realistic and lgbt cinema films with plots about lgbtq, gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtqi, gay kiss and gay subtext mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Beach Rats: Consequences (2018), Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012), Hidden Kisses (2016), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Naked As We Came (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Consequences (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: male nudity, closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, troubled youth, bare chested male, gay interest, lgbtq, homophobic slur, bisexual, bisexual man, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s
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Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various stages ...
Style: homoerotic, erotic, anthology, touching, captivating ...
Plot: homoeroticism, gay, gay crush, male nudity, erotica, lgbt, male pubic hair, cousin cousin relationship, gay erotica, sex, gay teenager, gay interest ...
Place: argentina
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100%
Hidden Kisses (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of sight and kiss each other, but someone takes a picture of them. Soon, ...
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, captivating, disturbing, existential ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay love, gay bashing, gay lead character, gay romance, homosexuality, gay teenager, closeted homosexual, male male relationship, gay son, gay slur ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style: disturbing, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Naked As We Came (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream?
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: gay, gay interest, broken family, sick mother, reconciliation, gay sex, family relations, gay lead character, lgbtq, death of mother, dead mother, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
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Esteros (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.
Style: light, captivating, sincere, cute, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay lead character, friendship, male homosexuality, closeted gay, friendship between boys, gay love, homoeroticism, puberty, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, memories ...
Time: 2000s
Place: argentina
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100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Style: surreal, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay teenager, gay, coming of age, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, friendship, teenage love, lgbt teen, boy, tiger, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Shank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with ...
Style: realistic, serious, erotic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay teenager, gay bashing, gay erotica, lgbt, gay slur, coming of age, gang, gay sex, lgbtq, closeted homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, summer, love, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, first love, homosexuality, gay couple, gay teenager ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
Place: italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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100%
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King Cobra (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on a stranger than fiction true story, King Cobra is a deliciously dark, twisted plunge into the behind-the-scenes world of the pornography industry. A young Sean Paul Lockhart (using the stage name 'Brent Corrigan') is a ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, lgbt cinema, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, porn industry, gay lead character, gay interest, gay sex, sodomy, gay teenager, lgbt, 17 year old, rent boy, lgbtq, bare chested male ...
Time: 2000s, year 2016, year 2006
Place: indiana
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100%
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Minyan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, erotic, gay cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay love, judaism, gay romance, gay sex, homosexual, gay interest, gay couple, gay relationship, male nudity, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
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Tiger Orange (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay interest, gay relationship, gay brother, death of father, gay slur, outdoor sex, gay sex, lgbtq, caught in the act ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Boys in the Band (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Style: realistic, heartbreaking, serious, compassionate, powerful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, gay crush, gay cruising, lgbtq, male objectification, mental health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1968
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Giant Little Ones (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style: captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, freeze frame ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, best friend, friendship, gay father, father son relationship, underage drinking, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, bisexual, teenage protagonist, sexual orientation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Latter Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) and Christian Markelli (Wes Ramsey) are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, controversial, sexy ...
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, sex, first gay sexual experience, depression, gay interest, gay love, gay teenager, relationships, one night stand, couples ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, utah, idaho, usa, salt lake city utah ...
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30%
End of the Century (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Style: unusual plot structure, sexy, sentimental, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay erotica, gay lead character, male nudity, gay love, lovers, gays and lesbians, homosexual, tourist, cruise ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: madrid, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
We the Animals (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style: captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, indie film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: boy, lgbt, gay, coming of age, family relations, gay porn, father son relationship, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, theft, birthday, marriage ...
Place: new york state, philadelphia, spain, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Teenage Kicks (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.
Style: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay interest, coming of age, homosexual, gay youth, bisexual, accidental death, gay teenager, unrequited love, gay crush, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
29%
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 7.4
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Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.2
 8K
Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.4
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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 ⇓
29%
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Making Love (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gay husband, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, extramarital affair, gay bar, infidelity, gender, homosexuality, love triangle, gays and lesbians, bookstore ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 851
José (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min.
Story: José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay relationship, lgbt, sex scene, religion, male pubic hair, gay sex, lgbtq, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place: guatemala
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29%
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Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs ...
Style: independent film, erotic, controversial, disturbing, social ...
Plot: male prostitution, gay, lgbt, hot guys, lesbian, erotica, hustler, virus, basement, passion, lgbtq, youth ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa
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28%
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