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An Early Frost (1985)
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and family. He, and the people around him, must face up to the inevitablity of his death and the disease that's killing him. "An Early Frost" was many people's first look at an AIDS victim as a human being instead of a statistic.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, tear jerker, queer cinema, tearjerker
Plot:
aids, closeted homosexual, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, gay, last will and testament, gay son, grandmother grandson relationship, quarantine, bondage, hiv positive, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, terminal illness, family in crisis, gender, workplace, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois, united states, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, terminal illness, lgbt, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch, unfulfillment and gay mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like An Early Frost: Philadelphia (1993), It's My Party (1996), Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992), Fathers and Sons (2005), 1985 (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, aids, lgbt, glbt, friendship, hiv, terminal illness, suicide, gay interest, death, deaf, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
california
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dysfunctional family drama. Absent father, alcoholic brother Tim (Jim Carrey) try to cope with life. Fox movie of the week.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, semi serious, talky, gloomy ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, lgbt, gay, gay son, lgbtq, gay interest, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, suicide attempt, homosexuality, gay brother, recovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
yale university
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, gender, love and romance, elderly, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
100%
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3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, gay, gay interest, closeted homosexual, christmas, homosexuality, hiv, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, stand up comedian, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
100%
841
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, homosexual ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates ...
Style:
sad, independent film, lgbt cinema, eros, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, gay couple, hiv, politics, glbt, friendship, loss of lover, courage ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1983, year 1985 ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min.
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Story:
When Rasmus gets of the train at the Central Station in Stockholm in September 1982 he leaves the little city of Koppom behind, to never go back. Young and beautiful he throws himself out in the gay Stockholm. Benjamin is a Jehova'’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, depressing, retro ...
Plot:
aids, lgbt, gay, hiv, fall in love, terminal illness, society, lgbtq, gay slur, life is a bitch, love and romance, social differences ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Style:
touching, disturbing, uplifting, political, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, epidemic, gay, lgbtq, medical, hiv, deadly virus, doctor, politics, investigation, glbt, human spirit ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, year 1980 ...
Place:
san francisco, africa, usa, new york, copenhagen ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, terminal illness, family relations, hiv, gay brother, gay son, bereavement, cancer, dying, childhood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Style:
depressing
Plot:
adoption, cancer, child care, foster child, disease, youth, little boy, death, sacrifice, self sacrifice, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
100%
558
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, aids, hiv, gay relationship, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, terminal illness, idealism, hopes, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After obtaining his medical degree from Madras Medical College, Dr. Abraham Verghese decides to re-locate to Johnson City, Tennessee. He eventually gets married to Rajani, who is an accomplished dancer, and has a boy, Steven. Since Abraham ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, medical, hiv, gay, small town, terminal illness, hospital, lgbtq, dedication, husband wife relationship, gay interest, physician ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
tennessee, usa, india
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, sick child, death of child, little boy, youth, hiv positive, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, haunted by the past, death in the family, aids, lgbt, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
gay interest, skinny dipping, loss of lover, aids, mourning, lgbt, glbt, family problems, couples, family relations, estrangement, family in crisis ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, couples, terminal illness, gays and lesbians, gender, human nature, life is a bitch, aids, euthanasia, loss of lover, hiv ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
new york, nova scotia, usa, canada
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
And Then There Was One - The tragic and true story of a family dealing with AIDS is re-told in this heart-wrenching drama. Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris star as Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television writing couple. After struggling ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, touching
Plot:
aids, hiv, intruder, hiv positive, love, melancholy, babies and infants, crumbling marriage, gender, couple relations, ego clash, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, sea turtle, mother's day, birth mother ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
Similarity:
23%
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:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, tumor, photograph, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, gay cruising, gay brother, group sex ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
teaching, school, teachers and students, mentally challenged, human spirit, dedicated educator, hopes, psychiatry, youth, medical, american football, adoption ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, year 1959
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, realistic, tragic
Plot:
aids, terminal illness, reconciliation, family drama, illness, gay, mother daughter relationship, grandmother, family conflict, lgbtq, gay lead character, grief ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
gender, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, transgender, father son relationship, gay, hospital, lgbt, lesbian, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Drama by Biju Viswanath, Marathon was adapted from Harteis's memoir of the same name. Explores the relation ship between two poets Richard Harteis and William Meredith former US poet laureate and winner of every major American award for poetry ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, contests and competitions, gender, artists and showbiz, writer's life, lifestyle, hopes, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, tragic love, love, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
aids, hollywood, father son relationship, family relations, terminal illness, infidelity, showbiz, family problems, artists and showbiz, dealing with death, family in crisis, family life ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, drug abuse, drug addict, going straight, lifestyle, friendship, addiction, life is a bitch, society, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide. But though Gavin's pain has been laid to rest, the grief felt by everyone there has only begun, and Walking on Water compassionately ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
infidelity, terminal illness, lgbt, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, tragic love, death in the family, love and romance, introspection, youth, addiction ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
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, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gay, sick mother, broken family, reconciliation, dead mother, cancer, death of mother, gay lead character, gay sex, brother sister relationship, gay interest, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
RECONCILIATION is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, estrangement, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, gay son, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, family problems, redemption, social differences, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
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