Movies like Far from Heaven

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Far from Heaven (2002)
 7.3
 49K
Far from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style: sincere, emotional, stylized, depressing, visual, psychological, tense, visually stunning, erotic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: racism, gay husband, gay, homosexuality, housewife, infidelity, crumbling marriage, friendship, couples, forbidden love, african american, prejudice, suburbs, interracial relations, relationships, small town, lgbt, divorce, homosexual, character study, autumn, hypocrisy, lgbtq, social differences, lifestyle ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2002, year 1957, 20th century
Place: connecticut, miami, usa, new england, baltimore, united states of america
Keyword: feminist film, americana, art show, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and queer cinema films with plots about gender, couples, gay, lgbt, kiss, gays and lesbians and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Far from Heaven: The Hours (2002), Revolutionary Road (2008), Little Children (2006), Mandingo (1975), The Falls: Testament of Love (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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100%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 116K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 4K
Mandingo (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
Style: realistic, sexy, serious, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: slavery, interracial relations, racism, interracial romance, slave trade, slave auction, plantation, interracial sex, slave girl, blaxploitation, gambling, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 1840s
Place: usa, america, new orleans, louisiana, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Falls: Testament of Love (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Falls: Testament of Love is a continuation of the story of RJ Smith and Chris Merrill, two Mormon missionaries that fell in love during their mission in a small town in Oregon. The boys haven't spoken in five years, but when an unexpected ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, gay interest, lgbt, husband wife relationship, gay relationship, gay sex, lgbtq, destructive relationship, impossible love, couples, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, utah, seattle, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay romance, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay interest, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2005, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: native american, interracial romance, native american white relationships, american indian, native american attack, captive woman, stockholm syndrome, indian attack, squaw, captivity, moral dilemma, held captive ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting ...
Style: touching, independent film, sexy, witty, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian relationship, gender, lgbt, lesbian love, gay, biological father, infidelity, father son relationship, adultery, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, southern california, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.4
 546
Whirlwind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A hot, young and charming man with ulterior motives enters the lives of a tight-knit group of gay men in New York City and at first adds excitement and intrigue to their group, but events soon spiral out of control as he deliberately attempts to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy, serious ...
Plot: gay, gay club, gay relationship, friendship, infidelity, couples, lifestyle, homosexual, breakup, thirtysomething life, emotionless, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
 2K
Pit Stop (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay parent, working class, gay interest, lgbt, gender, breakup, couples, family life, gay father, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 2K
Rock Haven (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start. Their mission: to spread the word of the Lord. But while roaming the beach one day, Brady meets ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, sensual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay love, gay teenager, male nudity, lgbt, teenage life, gay relationship, family relations, friendship, church, forbidden love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Nights in the Gardens of Spain (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Kawariki must become the leader of the family after his father retires in this intimate drama. A husband and father, he realizes that in order to lead with integrity, he must come out and be honest about his own life, even though it will test the ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: gay, gender, family relations, homosexuality, crumbling marriage, society, couples, lgbt, family in crisis, family problems, secret, double life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Love Is Strange (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.
Style: touching, melancholic, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gay marriage, teacher, gay couple, lgbt, relationships, love, life turned upside down, character study, wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Keep the Lights On (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, lgbt cinema, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay love, gay relationship, drug addiction, infidelity, lgbt, drug addict, phone sex, addiction, coping, lgbtq, gay sex ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, year 2006, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style: realistic, bleak, captivating, lgbt cinema, tense ...
Plot: gay, gay love, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, gay relationship, infidelity, lgbt, closeted homosexual, gay bashing, gay sex, gay student, older man younger man relationship ...
Place: israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.6
 33K
Weekend (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Style: sincere, touching, sexy, meditative, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay club, gay couple, one night stand, homosexuality, gay interest, gay romance, male nudity ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.6
 23K
Maurice (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1909, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) enters Cambridge, where he befriends wealthy Clive Durham (Hugh Grant). Clive confesses he is sexually attracted to Maurice, who realizes he is a homosexual when he begins to return Clive's feelings. The two ...
Style: homoerotic, sexy, scenic, melancholic, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexuality, homosexual, gay relationship, friendship, gay love, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, forbidden love, closeted homosexual, gay romance ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one, 19th century, 1910s, edwardian era ...
Place: england, nebraska, britain, europe, buenos aires argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 8.5
 22K
Queer as Folk (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 47 min.
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Story: Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, homosexual, gay love, friendship, homosexuality, gay lead character, lesbian, lifestyle, sexual activity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, idaho, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.3
 869
Back Soon (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Back Soon is a story of love, loss, identity and hope. It follows the relationship between aspiring actor Logan Foster and reformed drug dealer Gil Ramirez, two men who find themselves inexplicably drawn together despite their disparate backgrounds, ...
Style: sexy, realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, haunted by the past, death of wife, couples, gay relationship, drug dealing, prodigy, friendship, homosexuality, infidelity, widower ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 2K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 2K
Second Skin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Diego is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto. The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, psychological, eros ...
Plot: gay relationship, gay sex, lgbt, gay, love triangle, infidelity, gays and lesbians, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, love affair, gay husband ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
His Secret Life (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: gay, friendship, aids, gay relationship, infidelity, adultery, transsexual, marriage, depression, self discovery, relationships, gays and lesbians ...
Place: london, amsterdam, milan italy, rome italy, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 7.0
 3K
Brotherhood (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is ...
Style: serious, emotional, captivating, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, racism, couples, love affair, gays and lesbians, homosexuality, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, unlikely couple, society, radical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scandinavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Just a Question of Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay slur, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, couples, gay relationship, gay love, gender, male homosexuality, gay teenager, gay sex ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the ...
Style: touching, intense, sincere, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, aids, gay relationship, loneliness, self discovery, glbt, eccentricity, multiple storylines, lgbtq, love, friendship between men ...
Time: 80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: ohio, new york, usa, philadelphia, woodstock ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
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Jungle Fever (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, controversial ...
Audience: date night
Plot: interracial romance, architect, african american, racism, society, adultery, drug addiction, love affair, prejudice, hip hop, relationships, black ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, africa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Journey of Jared Price (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "The Journey of Jared Price" is a gay-themed coming-of-age 2000 film written, produced and directed by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black. Black won the Oscar award for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk". The Journey of ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, fall in love, self discovery, blind woman, youth, couple relations, friendship, couples, teenage life, prostitute, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, southern california, santa monica california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 2K
Save Me (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, heartfelt ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gay interest, forbidden love, friendship between men, lgbtq, self discovery, gay sex, religions or cults, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 7K
Elena Undone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, sexual, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbianism, lesbian couple, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian mother, gays and lesbians, family problems, lesbian sex, lgbtq, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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