Movies like An Early Frost
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An Early Frost (1985)
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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
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, coming out, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, family relations, gay relationship, last will and testament, grandmother grandson relationship, hiv, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, terminal illness, family in crisis, gender, workplace, hopes, unfulfillment, workplace situations, love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois, united states of america, united states
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about family relations, gays and lesbians, gay, unfulfillment, terminal illness, lgbt and gender mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like An Early Frost: Philadelphia (1993), Our Sons (1991), In the Gloaming (1997), Who Will Love My Children? (1983), Pedro (2008). 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, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, lawyer, courtroom drama, gay, lgbt, hiv, court, lawsuit, judiciary, homosexual, prejudice, courtroom ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
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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, touching ...
Plot:
gay, aids, estrangement, hospital, family relations, parents and children, friendship, family problems, small town, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time:
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Place:
arkansas, usa, san diego california, california
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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:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, childhood, lgbtq, bereavement, bittersweet, resentment, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
new york state
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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, disease, youth, family relations, affection, sacrifice, father daughter relationship, little boy, self sacrifice, mother daughter relationship, death, last will and testament ...
Place:
iowa
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100%
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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:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, non-linear ...
Plot:
gay, aids, hiv, rising to stardom, ambition, human spirit, fighting the system, tv show, terminal illness, life is a bitch, society, hopes ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
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Movies like Philadelphia
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:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
lgbt, aids, loss of lover, gay interest, mourning, parents and children, love affair, family in crisis, breakup, terminal illness, midlife crisis, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family, haunted by the past, lgbt, gay interest, brother brother relationship, death of father, aids ...
Time:
90s
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39%
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, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, medical, aids, lgbtq, lgbt, hospital, terminal illness, pregnancy, family relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, misfit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tennessee, usa, india
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38%
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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:
transsexual, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, gender, bittersweet, gay, father son relationship, hospital, lgbt, lesbian, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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36%
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, family problems, estrangement, elderly, gender, love and romance, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, miami, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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:
captivating, gloomy, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, youth, family relations, terminal illness, family problems, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, hopes, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, family in crisis ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
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34%
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, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new jersey
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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:
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Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
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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:
talky, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, queer cinema
Plot:
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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.
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psychological, disturbing, unusual plot structure, tense, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay, aids, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, christmas, hiv, family relations, mother son relationship, gay slur, stand up comedian, childhood friend, gay interest ...
Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, gloomy, emotional
Plot:
aids, love, crumbling marriage, gender, ego clash, couple relations, babies and infants, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians, human spirit, hopes ...
Time:
90s
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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 ...
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realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, self discovery, parents and children, family problems, family relations, redemption, social differences, coming out, estrangement, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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serious, psychological, touching, sincere, realistic
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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 ...
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realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min.
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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:
serious, touching, thought provoking, realistic, depressing ...
Plot:
aids, lgbt, gay, gay slur, hiv, fall in love, terminal illness, acceptance, family disapproval, belief, social differences, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, sweden, eastern europe
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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