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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
Style:
romantic drama, historical drama, wistful, period drama
Plot:
class differences, gay, divorce, gay interest, money problems, aristocrat, horse race, father daughter relationship, scandal, con man, lgbt, aristocracy, financial crisis, sister sister relationship, playwright, inheritance, theater, mother daughter relationship, con men, butler, pregnant woman, casual sex, screenwriter, snob, gossip ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
london, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the ...
Style:
costume drama, family saga, sincere, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
estate, aristocracy, intrigue, servant, butler, country estate, closeted homosexual, domestic servant, country house, class differences, aristocrat, british royal family ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The residents of Downton Abbey go on a new adventure that takes them to a Spanish villa.
Style:
sincere, family saga, period piece, saga, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
aristocracy, abbey, country house, earl, royalty, king, high society, domestic servant, countess, aristocrat, mother daughter relationship, inheritance ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england, britain, french riviera, london, south of france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, servant, country estate, butler, family life, aristocrat ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, hawaii, europe, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, lies, surprises and more are explored in this rich selection of gay short films from Israel.
The 6 short films are: Three (2018); A Trip to the Desert (2016); Rubber Dolphin (2018); Stav (2018); After His Death (2017); Leave of Absence ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, thought provoking, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay interest, homosexuality, male male relationship, homosexual, affair, friendship, forbidden love, threesome, fall in love ...
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
The film offers a dramatized look at the lives of two women who married into the Windsor family in the late 20th century: Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
Style:
emotional, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
royalty, princess, duchess, family drama, british monarchy, biopic, scandal, glamour, tabloid journalism, family conflict, celebrity, fashion ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
london, buckingham palace, britain, house of windsor
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
high society, social climbing, lovers, aristocrat, destiny, monarchy, female protagonist, rise to the top, couple relations, rich and poor, society, life turned upside down ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 1820s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, germany ...
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".
Style:
historical drama, art house, social, period drama, tragic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lgbt, gay, dual identity, transvestism, double life, dictatorship, self discovery, sexual identity, repression, identity crisis, political oppression, cabaret ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot:
black lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, artists and showbiz, estrangement ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, africa
Similarity:
30%
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22K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, depression, father daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, divorce, mother daughter relationship, suicide, attempted rape, three sisters, psychology, character study ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
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30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, enigmatic, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot:
shakespeare, poetry, tudors, poet, countess, writers, literary, puzzle, research, secret, theater, young man ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift...
Style:
sexy, psychological, psychosexual thriller, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
manipulation, servant, master and servant, decadence, class differences, dysfunctional relationship, alcoholism, master servant relationship, classism, gay subtext, lgbt, sexual repression ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
england, london, america, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Chile
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Santiago, gay single father, has reached a tipping point in his life. Reeling from a bitter breakup, he is facing the impending departure of his daughter Laila, with whom he shares a close yet emotionally charged relationship. As the fear of being ...
Style:
emotional, touching, psychological, talky, romantic ...
Plot:
gay father, homosexuality, gay interest, gay, lgbt, gay lead character, gay sex, gay orgy, male nudity, gay parent, gay subtext, self destructing ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
bittersweet, literary, suicidal thoughts, infidelity, grandson, aging, grandfather, family relations, social relations, couples, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
90s, 1900s, 20th century, 18th century, 70s
Place:
spain, europe, tokyo, latin america, paris france
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, tokyo
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the story of the Mitford sisters, six sisters who refused to play by the rules and whose often-scandalous lives made headlines around the world. Set in the 1930s, it is a tale of betrayal, scandal, heartache and even imprisonment.
Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, costume drama, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
scandal, biopic, sisters, betrayal, politics, sibling rivalry, controversy, english countryside, aristocracy, imprisonment, gossip, fascism ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
britain, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
realistic, historical drama, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot:
butler, high society, master and servant, marriage, family values, housewife, rich and poor, family life, lifestyle, millionaire, abbey, class differences ...
Time:
1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
england, wales, europe, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A four-part anthology film dealing with homosexuality from the young to the old. Crush, detailing the budding friendship of a 12-year old girl and a 16-year old boy, who bond over their favorite TV program and musical tastes. The Mountain King, ...
Style:
homoerotic, disturbing, psychological, captivating, anthology ...
Plot:
gay interest, homosexual sex, lgbt, gay, gay lead character, homoerotic friendship, gay teenager, gay couple, male male relationship, gay crush, male homosexuality, homosexual ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story:
England 1905, a letter from Tzar Nicholas to Lord Bartlett recounts the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Saint Petersburg and becomes the catalyst for a woman’s courageous rebellion against her oppressive husband.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tense, poignant ...
Plot:
repression, female empowerment, marital abuse, aristocracy, class conflict, private vs public, manor, dialogue, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, family secret, oppression ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, queer cinema
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lgbt, love triangle, marriage, sexuality, female protagonist, infidelity, betrayal, heartbreak, sexual frustration, character study, gender roles, empathy ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, melancholic, sexy, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he and a family that doesn't get him at all. So when a night of partying leads to a new family of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
25%
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their eight year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Plot:
father son relationship, gay, gay parent, teenage boy, homosexual, gay interest, family relations, gay subtext, gay slur, male homosexuality, lgbt, divorced father ...
Place:
san francisco
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514
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, love affair, society, life is a bitch, gay interest, male pubic hair, bare chested male, male nudity, lgbtq, coming of age, age difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
lgbt cinema, suspense, rough, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, gay anal sex, gay club, teenager, suicide attempt, lgbtq, parents and children, loneliness ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, touching ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay marriage, gay relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, childhood friend, marriage, homosexual, dishonesty, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man ...
Style:
sexy, controversial, mind blowing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gay, bisexual man, female nudity, gay husband, doctor, lgbt, sex, glbt, open relationship, love triangle, art, bisexual ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, stylized, sexual, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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