Movies like Beautiful Mystery

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Beautiful Mystery (1983)
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Beautiful Mystery (1983)
Original name: 巨根伝説 美しき謎
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship. “Beautiful Mystery” was the first gay “adult” film to come out of Japan. Although tame by U.S. standards, it is ground–breaking nonetheless.
Style: gay cinema
Plot: gay, nationalism, gay asian, lgbtq, gay interest, rape, military training, gay subtext, pink film, love, sex, army, military, soldier, male nudity, homosexual, workout, coup d'etat, asian, hara kiri, mentor protege relationship, homoerotic fight, male bonding, gay sex, friendship between men ...
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, gay cinema, humorous and psychological films with plots about gay, gay interest, lgbt, male nudity, gay subtext, lgbtq and homosexual mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Beautiful Mystery: Seat in Shadow (2016), Uncut (1997), Hush! (2001), How to Be a Slut in America (2017), People You May Know (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Seat in Shadow (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An ageing Glaswegian psychoanalyst finds his lust for life renewed following an encounter with the charismatic partner of a young patient.
Style: sexy, contemplative, unusual plot structure, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, fall in love, psychotherapist, love and romance, couple relations, couples, love, nude, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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95%
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Uncut (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: gay, gay subtext, gay lead character, circumcision, homosexual, gay interest, censorship
Time: 70s
Place: canada
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73%
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Hush! (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first - Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted - but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, family relations, family life, baby, pregnancy, gay, gay parent, gay relationship, gay interest, gay asian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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71%
How to Be a Slut in America (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A three-part feature by Brian Jordan Alvarez An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.
Style: unusual plot structure, romantic, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: gay, relationships, male homosexuality, lgbt, promiscuity, gay interest, threesome, gender, gay sex, menage a trois, male nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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People You May Know (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregnant from Joe, her best friend who happens to be gay.
Style: melancholic, psychological, humorous, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, male nudity, long distance relationship, gay interest, lgbtq, love and romance, gay couple, youth, gay love, young lovers, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, indiana
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57%
Boys Briefs 2 (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down (2000); Chicken ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, funny ...
Plot: gay interest, coming of age, homosexual, friends, male prostitution, love and romance, sexual relations, gays and lesbians, youth, gender, gay, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
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53%
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Gypsy Boys (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Drama of two young San Francisco couples, both deciding how to define their relationships.
Style: humorous, sincere, sentimental, sexy, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay lead character, youth, drug, gay interest, relationships, love and romance, glbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, love, drag queen ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lieve Jongens (“Sweet Boys”) explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and writer's block. Though pleasant ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay subtext, bare butt, nudity, church, fetish, gay sex, homosexual, male nudity, sexuality, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Marching in Darkness (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young recruit to the Italian army (Albanese) discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer (Barr) and must ...
Style: controversial, gay cinema
Plot: gay soldier, homosexual rape, gay, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, army, gay subtext, prostitute, male prostitute, prostitution, male pubic hair, homosexual ...
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50%
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Leather (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Birch, a young man living in the Catskill Mountains, reunites with his childhood friend from the city, Andrew.
Style: sexy, touching, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay sex, male nudity, homosexual, childhood friend, love and romance, gay couple, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, love story, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Fun Down There (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, glbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, lgbt, happiness, male masturbation, homosexual, erection, hand job, male objectification, coming of age ...
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44%
Kill the Monsters (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Three men struggle to save their relationship while traveling across country in search of a doctor they believe will make one of them well.
Style: road movie, psychological, light, sexy, entertaining ...
Plot: gay, male nudity, illness, threesome, road trip, gay subtext, gay interest, gay relationship, love and romance, lgbtq, fall in love, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Takumi-kun Series: And the Spring Breeze Whispers (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A 2nd year student is assigned a handsome new roommate at the start of the school year.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: gay, gay interest, school, lgbt, roommate, relationships, neighbor, student, university student, neighbor neighbor relationship, couple relations, male male relationship ...
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43%
More Scenes from a Gay Marriage (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Leigh has made a film about how Darren and Joe met and fell in love. Due to its exaggerated nature, personal complications ensue.
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, male protagonist, homosexual, gay couple, group of friends, gay interest, best friend, gay relationship, sexual content ...
Place: tennessee, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Some Boys Do (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Nothing is left to the imagination in this sexy gay tale about love and the meaning of life.
Plot: gay, love, striptease, nudity, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, dildo, gay kiss, testicles
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41%
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Lazy Eye (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Passions re-ignite and secrets revealed when a graphic designer reconnects with the great, lost love of his life for a weekend tryst at a house in the desert near Joshua Tree.
Style: lgbt cinema, humorous, sincere, light, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay couple, infidelity, gay subtext, unrequited love, lgbtq, lgbt, gay lead character, friendship, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, mojave desert
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Love Reinvented (1996)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by ...
Plot: gay, lgbtq, aids, gay subtext, hiv, female homosexuality, lgbt, male prostitute, homosexual, omnibus, campaign, male nudity ...
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39%
Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, homosexual, american football, lgbt, drag queen, disco, lgbtq, audition, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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38%
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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
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37%
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Label Me (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match ...
Style: touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, sex work, gay love, male nudity, love, homosexual, hustler, gay for pay, lgbtq, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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36%
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The Adopters (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martín, a TV host of 42, has the urgent need of becoming a father. Leonardo, an agronomist of 45 and Martín’s partner for the past ten years, has doubts since he himself was adopted by his parents.
Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: gay, adoption, lgbt, tv host, gay interest, male objectification, gay couple, love and romance, nude, homosexual, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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36%
Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The latest installment in this series of gay short films.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, love affair, self discovery, looking for love, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, looking for sex, gay relationship, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
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34%
7 Kinds Οf Wrath (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Petros is an archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbtq, migration, gay interest, gay subtext, arab, gay lead character, islam, male nudity, nudity, gay muslim
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34%
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Mascarpone (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Antonio is a 30 yo family man, whose life finds an unexpected twist when he's suddenly dumped by his husband, whom he depends both psychologically and economically: he needs to find a new place to stay, a job and a new purpose in life. Antonio ...
Style: psychological, talky, romantic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay couple, gay interest, gay love, gay marriage, gays and lesbians, breakup, homoeroticism, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in ...
Style: period piece, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbtq, lgbt, nude photography, gay sex, bare chested male, male pubic hair, filmmaker, male nudity, lesbian, gay crush, gay interest ...
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33%
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Velociraptor (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During the end of the world, two best friends walk around their city, talking about their sex lives, and one of them reveals they are still a virgin.
Style: sexy, suspenseful, humorous, talky
Plot: gay, gay crush, gay interest, friendship, nudity, male nudity, gay sex, gay couple, friendship between men, sexuality, best friend, lgbtq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
At the End of the Day (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A conservative professor at a Christian college finds himself in a gay support group to stop their launch of an LGBT homeless youth shelter in their small town.
Style: social, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtqi, lesbian, prejudice, bible, love, gay subtext, practical joke, gay youth, car wash ...
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33%
A Touch of Fever (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and her two female friends. Everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in love with Tatsuro.
Style: gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: male prostitution, lgbt, glbt, gay, gay asian, coming of age, gay subtext, gigolo, prostitution, runaway, male prostitute, university student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 3K
Taekwondo (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Fernando is on holiday with his closest male friends in a beautiful country house in a suburb of Buenos Aries. On their own without their girlfriends in a “men only” environment, the hunky young studs bask in the hot sun, play in the pool, smoke ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, sweet, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay interest, gay, homoeroticism, male bonding, gay relationship, male nudity, closeted gay, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbtq, male homosexuality, friendship ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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So auf Erden (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For Johannes and Lydia Klare, their faith in God comes first. Together they lead a small community in Stuttgart, successfully. People listen to them, they are becoming more and more close to them. There are even plans to make the donor-funded ...
Style: gay cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, bare butt, bare chested male, father son relationship, male nudity, male bonding, fraud, older man younger man relationship, bisexuality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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