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Toast (2010)
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and addiction to all things canned does not help.
Style:
period piece, sentimental, tragicomedy, sincere, touching, semi serious, indie film, culinary, art house, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
cooking, coming of age, gay interest, food, chef, cooking and food, homosexuality, lgbt, first kiss, youth, cleaning lady, high school, teenage life, homosexual, parents and children, maid, self discovery, family problems, lifestyle, gay, countryside, death in the family, gay teenager, nostalgia, gay student ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
england, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, feel good and queer cinema films with plots about friendship, youth, kiss, family relations, father son relationship, mother son relationship and coming of age mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Toast: Sixty Six (2006), Edge of Seventeen (1998), Get Real (1998), Beautiful Thing (1996), Nico and Dani (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental, indie film ...
Plot:
soccer, youth, nothing goes right, coming of age, family relations, world cup, football, family life, parents and children, husband wife relationship, child's point of view, bar mitzvah ...
Time:
60s, year 2006, 20th century
Place:
london, brighton, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
Style:
sexual, teen, independent film, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, lgbt teen, coming of age, first gay sexual experience, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, high school, happy ending, gay sex ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, usa, midwest, new york ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, teen, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, gay teenager, gay relationship, teenager, teenage life, high school, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
britain, europe, england, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Thamesmead, in south-east London, become aware of their homosexuality. While both were vaguely aware they might be gay, neither had ever acted on their impulses. Once they decide ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, sweet, touching, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbt teen, gay love, gay interest, boys love, teenage love, glbt ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan, a midwestern housewife who managed to rescue her family from debt by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies.
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
advertising, contests and competitions, optimism, underdog, adaptation, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, ambition, family problems ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Style:
lgbt cinema, sexual, stylized, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, gay, gay teenager, gay interest, gay youth, friendship, lovers, self discovery, best friend, teenage love, innocence lost, friendship between boys ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe, catalonia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay son, lgbt, gay teenager, coming of age, family problems, youth, gay love, lgbt teen, gay relationship, single mother ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009
Place:
france, europe, canada
Similarity:
23%
101K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style:
witty, visually appealing, touching, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, teenage love, teenager, school, high school, virginity, high school life, youth, teen angst, rock, social relations ...
Time:
year 2010, 80s, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
wales, england, britain
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the ...
Style:
sexual, sweet, touching, erotic, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gays and lesbians, lgbt, lgbtq, gay teenager, homosexual, coming of age, teenager, teenage love, lgbt teen, gay love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
germany, europe, bavaria, berlin germany
Similarity:
22%
133K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sweet, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbt teen, homosexuality, high school, homosexual, teenager, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay interest, gay teenager, gay relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 2000s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rob Haley (Dougray Scott), an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend and real life TV Chef Gordon Ramsay, Rob decides to spice up his life by turning a ...
Style:
culinary, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
cooking, chef, cooking and food, restaurant, food, lifestyle, fall in love, starting over, love affair, countryside, english countryside, wine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A gay man approaching a mid-life crisis is tired of being different because he is gay. He wants to be normal. Suddenly he is yanked back in time to when he was in high school. But this time, the world is gay and to be straight is considered deviant ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, lgbtq, high school, best friend, teenage life, road not taken, male homosexuality, youth, lgbt, gay couple, cheerleader ...
Place:
nebraska
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in ...
Style:
sweet, humorous, erotic, light, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay interest, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, gay youth, high school, friendship, teenage life, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbt, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay, introspection, coming of age, teenage life, self discovery, youth, parents and children, friendship, father son relationship ...
Place:
new york, usa
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20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style:
sentimental, emotional, teen, intense, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
musician's life, music, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, rock and roll, biopic, childhood, prodigy, musician, adolescence, rock ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2009 ...
Place:
england, europe, new zealand, hamburg germany, liverpool ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, romantic, intense, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
gay, gay club, gay relationship, gay slur, gay love, closeted homosexual, gays and lesbians, lgbt, happy ending, lgbtq, gay muslim, gay cruising ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
london, toronto ontario canada, united kingdom, europe, england ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their ...
Style:
witty, inspirational, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teacher, gay teenager, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt, boy, underage sex, exam, gay, youth, homoerotic friendship, gay crush ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 20th century, year 1983, 60s
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
Style:
sexual, sincere, serious, realistic, crying ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay relationship, homosexuality, gay couple, gay interest, gender, homosexual, lgbt, lgbtq, fall in love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1933, year 1952 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany, england ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, food, cooking and food, love and romance, italian food, wine, happy ending, self discovery, family relations, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
germany, italy, france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, melancholic, touching, lyrical ...
Plot:
gay teenager, road trip, gay relationship, gay, gay interest, lgbt, male nudity, family relations, lgbtq, gay club, friendship, unemployment ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
france, marseille, europe, normandy, australia ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style:
touching, homoerotic, lgbt cinema, romantic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, boys love, coming of age, lgbt child, homoeroticism ...
Time:
2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, idaho, flanders, europe, belgium
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Morocco, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gay interest, gender, gay, glbt, homosexual, childhood, father son relationship, closeted homosexual, drug addict, gay teenager, gay bar ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2000s, year 2005, y2k ...
Place:
canada, quebec, jerusalem, israel, holy land ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hippie, commune, friendship, utopia, idealism, gay, lesbian, loneliness, domestic violence, homosexual, coming of age, ideology ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-olds Miku and Elias find themselves, and each other, during a summer in the Finnish countryside.
Style:
lgbt cinema, captivating, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay interest, gay, lgbtq, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay teenager, closeted homosexual, male nudity, gay sex, gay erotica, gay lead character, party ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
finland, portland oregon, los angeles, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, first love, teenage life, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt teen, nudity, friends, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, ...
Style:
touching, sweet, sexual, cute, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, blindness, lgbt, homosexuality, coming of age, gay teenager, friendship, gay love, teenage life, lgbt teen, gay interest, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, period piece, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, wedding day, bride and groom, unrequited love, lovers reunited, under the surface, introspection, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, passion ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, biting, cynical, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lgbt, doctor, sex, marriage of convenience, marriage proposal, glbt, lgbtq, family relations, gay subtext, mother son relationship, couple relations, feminism ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
mexico, latin america, new orleans, germany, hawaii
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, opposites attract, love story, love, cooking and food, fall in love, initially antagonists, love and romance, guardian, food ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
18%
97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sad, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay father, gay interest, grief, gay relationship, relationships, father son relationship, male male relationship, love, dog, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, year 1971, year 2003 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, seattle
Similarity:
18%
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