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Death in Venice (1971)
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Original name: Morte a Venezia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, scenic, art house, serious, homoerotic, colorful, neorealism, psychological, cute ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
obsession, boy, fall in love, hotel, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, love and romance, art, forbidden love, unrequited love, teenage boy, pedophilia, plague, self discovery, unfulfillment, male homosexuality, lifestyle, lgbt, tragedy, elevator, beach resort, gay romance, composer, male objectification, musician ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, venice, europe, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, serious, queer cinema and realistic films with plots about love and romance, gay, lgbtq, kiss, lgbt, male nudity and obsession mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Death in Venice: The Wings of the Dove (1997), I Dreamt Under the Water (2008), Call Me by Your Name (2017), A Room with a View (1985), Romeo and Juliet (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, greed, betrayal, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, power relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
male nudity, gay, unrequited love, gay anal sex, prostitute, lgbt, nightlife, love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style:
touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, summer, gay love, love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, homosexuality, first love, gay interest, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 2010s, 2000s, year 2017
Place:
italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style:
touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, costume drama, sweet, colorful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, fall in love, family feud, love story, unfulfillment, parents and children, true love, love, medieval ...
Time:
1900s, year 1968, medieval times, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, new york, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style:
sexy, touching, sincere, emotional, visually appealing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, depression, homosexuality, loneliness, gays and lesbians, lgbt, broken heart, lgbtq, homosexual, grief, death, glbt ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, cuba, usa, london ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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:
erotic, sexy, homoerotic, scenic, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, lgbt, gay love, gay romance, forbidden love, homosexual, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, male nudity, friendship ...
Time:
1900s, ancient times, edwardian era, 1910s, 19th century ...
Place:
england, britain, nebraska, europe, france ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style:
cult classic, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexual, life & death, gay, filmmaking, friendship, biopic, gay lead character, gardener, depression ...
Time:
year 1998, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s
Place:
pacific ocean, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As influential Italian artist Caravaggio dies in exile in 1610, he recalls his short life, from his childhood to his initial artistic failures to his later triumphs as he catches the eye of a sympathetic cardinal to his destructive relationship with ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized, factual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
painter, gay interest, art, male nudity, biopic, sexual relations, lifestyle, homoerotic fight, love triangle, older man younger man relationship, art history, rise and fall ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning ...
Style:
homoerotic, emotional, touching, erotic, meditative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, depression, gay interest, suicide attempt, lgbtq, gay teenager, male nudity, teenage life, gay romance, homoeroticism, erection, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
south of france, europe, frankfurt germany, brittany, france ...
Similarity:
21%
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
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
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, girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay romance, gay relationship, homosexual, forbidden love, love story, gays and lesbians, lgbt, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, gay love ...
Time:
80s, year 1963, 60s, year 2005, 20th century ...
Place:
wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, america ...
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually appealing, independent film, visual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay asian, love, gay relationship, heartache, loneliness, tango, glbt, amor, lgbtqi, melancholy ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place:
buenos aires argentina, hong kong, china, latin america, asia ...
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dancer, dancing, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, couples, friendship, rivalry, gay romance, obsession, audition, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, ethiopia, eastern europe, asia ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style:
homoerotic, lgbt cinema, realistic, sad, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay interest, male homosexuality, homosexual, coming of age, friendship, skinny dipping, masturbation, homoerotic friendship, gay teenager, betrayal, small town ...
Time:
60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
france, algeria, africa, europe, south of france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
Style:
realistic, sexual, lgbt cinema, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, lifeguard, drowning, gender, brother brother relationship, beach, swimming, lgbt, male nudity, oral sex, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, brazil, germany, portugal, northeast brazil
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style:
homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Style:
erotic, cult classic, costume drama, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era, turn of the century, 1870s
Place:
paris france, europe, africa, france, holland ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
duchess, prostitute, love and romance, erotica, french president, lesbian lover, high society, nobility, valet, promiscuity, female nudity, brothel ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
Style:
black and white, art house, philosophical, visual, neorealism ...
Plot:
stock broker, loneliness, sports car, minimalism, passion, art, love, great ending, existentialism, love story, unrequited love, crazy love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, los angeles, usa ...
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia
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:
sexual, lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
gay, arab, gay love, gay interest, love and romance, couples, gays and lesbians, lgbt, homecoming, gay slur, happy ending, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tunisia, africa, south africa, france, paris france ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, period piece, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, world war two, male nudity, nobility, couples, gay, longing, catholic, religion, menage a trois, oxford, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Luke and Jonah, two high school sweethearts, spend their final days together over the course of a long, quiet summer in the rural American South, contemplating their uncertain future and the uncertain future of America.
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, touching, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay relationship, gay lead character, lgbtq, teenage boy, small town, coming of age, gay couple, homosexual, young lovers, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two boys and how they deal with the discovery of love.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, melancholic, sexy ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, male homosexuality, gay relationship, teenage boy, hugging, homosexuality, homosexual, gay teenager, lgbtq, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, women, sapphic, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, age difference, older woman younger woman relationship ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1952, 2010s, year 2015 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, idaho, indiana ...
Similarity:
18%
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:
sexual, touching, sincere, erotic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, aids, making love, glbt, loneliness, self discovery, male male relationship, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
ohio, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay club, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, unrequited love, gay slur, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lyon, france, europe, algeria, new york ...
Similarity:
18%
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:
sexy, lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, gender, gay relationship, male homosexuality, gay teenager, gay love, couples, gay sex, gay romance ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
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, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, aids, transsexual, male homosexuality, gay relationship, adultery, marriage, relationships, love affair, glbt, gays and lesbians ...
Place:
rome italy, amsterdam, london, milan italy, istanbul turkey ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Style:
tense, bleak, enigmatic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, gay romance, homosexuality, gay interest, gay best friend, painter, best friend, male male relationship, gay lead character ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, beirut lebanon, lebanon
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