Movies like Children of God

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Children of God (2010)
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Children of God (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Johnny (Johnny Ferro) is an art student in Nassau whose technique is perfect, but he’s creatively blocked. His teacher sends him off to the rural island of Eleuthera where he meets Romeo (Stephen Tyrone Williams), a hot musician. They begin a clumsy dance of attraction and romance. Romeo has a fiancé and is identified as straight, but he’s been known to play with the boys on the side secretly. The Bahamas are bound by religious traditions that discourage homosexuality and end up forcing gay men into the closet. Lena is a pastor’s wife. Her husband demonizes homosexuality to further his career, yet he’s on the DL as well. When Lena discovers that her husband has infected her with VD, he accuses her of infidelities. These characters are all bound together in this intense drama of love, family and secrets.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, lgbt cinema, gloomy, crying, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, couples, religion, art, gender, gays and lesbians, society, youth, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, lgbtq, homosexual, gay bashing, sexually transmitted disease, anti gay, gay rights, abusive husband, painter, african, gay interest, lgbtqi, amor, boys love, musician ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: bahamas, caribbean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, queer cinema, serious and touching films with plots about gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gender, gay interest and youth mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Children of God: Shank (2009), The Garden (1990), Cal (2013), Bad Night (1986), Nighthawks (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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The Garden (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, society, gender, injustice, christ allegory, humiliation, torture, passion, religion, art, surrealism ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Bad Night (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
Style: black and white, indie film, sexual, thinking, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, immigrant, gay interest, gay sex, opposites attract, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, homosexuality, hustler, glbt ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
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100%
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Nighthawks (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A gay man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. A respectable geography teacher by day; by night, hanging out in London's gay bars, looking for a long-term relationship, but usually encountering only ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teacher, disco, lgbtq, school teacher, lgbtqi, glbt, school, gay bar, homosexuality, gay lead character ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
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, female nudity, bisexual man, lgbt, doctor, gay husband, love triangle, art, open relationship, artist, sex, love story ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
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The Last Year (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, couples, gender, incest, gays and lesbians, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenage love, love affair, friends, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, suicide, life is a bitch, homosexual, gay relationship, gay love, male homosexuality, gay slur, gay rights ...
Time: 2000s, year 1984, year 1979, 21st century
Place: usa, ethiopia, san francisco, california, portland oregon
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Sebastian (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, touching, gay cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, boys love, glbt, lgbtqi, coming of age, gay subtext, fall in love, best friend, couples, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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The String (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, gay love, arab, gays and lesbians, lgbt, couples, love and romance, gender, homecoming, gay interest, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tunisia, africa, south africa, france, paris france ...
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Tattoo (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Brazil, 1978. The military dictatorship that resulted from a coup in 1964 begins to stumble. In a cabaret-like theater located on the periphery between two cities in the northeast of Brazil, a group of artists challenges power and conventional ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay interest, male nudity, gay, lgbt, soldier, self discovery, love and romance, society, performer's life, rebelliousness, gender ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
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29%
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Boys Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magazine editor Taishin Mamiya interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi. Despite Noeru's bad attitude, his painting of an ocean intrigues Mamiya and leads to a dinner, during which Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. Soon Mamiya sees Noeru with ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, boys love, youth, gay interest, jealousy, promiscuity, love affair, teenage love, fall in love, forbidden love, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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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
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Brother to Brother (2004)
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, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, love and romance, estrangement ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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FAQs (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. In this case Destiny is a black, 6 foot, high heel wearing, gun toting, drag queen with an attitude and a soft place in her heart for ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, talky, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, social misfits, best friend, social relations, love and romance, misfit, society, lgbtq, gay bashing, gay erotica, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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On the Downlow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden.
Style: serious, touching, emotional, rough, realistic ...
Plot: lgbt, confession, catholic priest, gay, injustice, forbidden love, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, life is a bitch, gang, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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The Wise Kids (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, best friend, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, teenage life, lgbt, youth, society, direction and purpose, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa, charleston south carolina
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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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Free Fall (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what ...
Style: emotional, sexual, atmospheric, disturbing, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay interest, gays and lesbians, forbidden love, gay slur, male male relationship, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: 2000s
Place: germany
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Stories of Our Lives (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, social misfits, society, discrimination, misfit, gay, blaxploitation, black lgbt, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kenya, africa, south africa
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Beauty (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tells the story of François van Heerden, a mid-40s, white, Afrikaans-speaking family man living in Bloemfontein, who has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, afrikaans, gays and lesbians, lgbt, self discovery, life turned upside down, family life, disorder, parents and children, homosexuality, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, ethiopia, cape town south africa
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The Other Family (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, queer cinema
Plot: gay, youth, gay adoption, drug addiction, adoption, family relations, overdose, drug addict, child trafficking, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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28%
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The Stranger in Us (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gender, looking for love, couples, love and romance, city life, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, gay lead character, abusive boyfriend, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, detective, weeping ...
Plot: gay slur, lgbt, death penalty, gay bashing, gay lead character, gay, gays and lesbians, murder, hate crime, courtroom drama, social decay, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1998, 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
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28%
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Boys Life 2 (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, best friend, high school life, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
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28%
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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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28%
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Man at Bath (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove they are not in love.
Style: contemplative, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gay, gay erotica, sex scene, male pubic hair, nudity, self discovery, breakup, introspection, gender, couples, family problems, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, usa, new york, paris france, europe
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Spring Fever (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, gay, couples, escapades, hopes, dishonesty, gay husband, disorder, love and romance, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: china
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28%
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La león (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvesting reeds. What sets him apart from the rest of his village is that he is gay. There are no other gay men in his world, his only means of expression is ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay slur, murder, gay lead character, life is a bitch, couples, love and romance, disagreement, isolation, homosexual, immigration, island ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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28%
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