Movies like The Sum of Us
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The Sum of Us (1994)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff unsuccessfully searches for love, with the unwanted guidance of his father.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, lgbt cinema, feel good, independent film, cult classic, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, father son relationship, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, single father, gay son, widower, looking for love, love and romance, gay slur, stroke, redemption, family relations, acceptance, bittersweet, hospital, homosexual, childhood memory, gay parent, gay bar, gay pride ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Most similar movies to The Sum of Us
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, humorous, realistic and touching films with plots about gay, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, gays and lesbians and homosexual mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Sum of Us: Beautiful Thing (1996), Bear Cub (2004), Big Eden (2000), Love & Human Remains (1993), Jeffrey (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtq, custody battle, gay parent, lgbt, gay bear, youth, gay sex, uncle nephew relationship, male nudity, gay adoption ...
Place:
spain, asia, india
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood ...
Style:
romantic, romantic comedy, touching, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, gay interest, friendship, homosexuality, gay couple, lgbt, gay love, gay romance, self discovery, small town, gay crush ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, new york, indiana, usa, new jersey ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dreary urban landscape of an anonymous Canadian city. Dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and ...
Style:
sexual, clever, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
gay, lesbian, homosexual, serial killer, lesbianism, lgbt, bdsm, sex, lgbtq, making love, dark humor, young lovers ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
Style:
sexy, sexual, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, aids, gay interest, glbt, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbtq, hiv, lgbt, gay friend, gay couple, celibacy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style:
independent film, talky, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay interest, lgbtq, homosexual, drag queen, lgbt, gay, gay bar, gay bashing, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, true love, glbt ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1971, year 1980
Place:
new york, usa, new york state, brooklyn new york city, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents ...
Style:
emotional, humorous, touching, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, wedding, lgbtq, glbt, marriage of convenience, marriage, immigrant, gay couple, love triangle, sexuality, food, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, taiwan, manhattan new york city, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
Style:
lgbt cinema, sincere, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
gay, dysfunctional family, christmas, gay couple, family secret, father son relationship, gay slur, family dinner, lgbtq, mother son relationship, christmas eve, gay father ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two drag-queens and a transsexual contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, lgbt cinema, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, transsexual, road trip, drag queen, gay slur, lgbtq, desert, gender bending, gay interest, transvestism, bus, gay father ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place:
australia, sydney australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The latest installment in this series of gay short films.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, looking for sex, love affair, gay interest, self discovery, looking for love, love and romance, couples, bittersweet, gay relationship, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregnant from Joe, her best friend who happens to be gay.
Style:
sexy, romantic, unusual plot structure, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay interest, male nudity, gay, lgbt, gay lead character, gay relationship, gay couple, lovers, young lovers, lgbtq, love and romance, long distance relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
Style:
witty, sexual, semi serious, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay, closeted homosexual, gay interest, sexual orientation, gay relationship, lesbian, gay lead character, gay athlete, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
idaho, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell ...
Style:
sexy, touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, gay son, gay friend, happy ending, father son relationship, lifestyle, family secret, family disapproval, parents and children, love affair, family life, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, political, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, gay, homosexuality, aids, closeted homosexual, gay slur, road trip, human nature, lgbtq, repressed homosexual, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1984, year 1977, year 1973
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, mexico
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young gay man finds how to love himself and accept love from another, despite the disapproval of his father.
Style:
sexy, captivating, sincere, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
gay couple, gay relationship, gay, gay interest, gay lead character, gay marriage, lgbtq, gay love, young lovers, lovers, homosexual, gay romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parents’ wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend. Last time he saw his family, he came out of the closet. Since then, their relationship became tense. ...
Style:
psychological, entertaining, contemplative, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, closeted homosexual, homosexual, gay couple, gay relationship, gay lead character, escapades, love and romance, friends, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Adam is your average working-class guy living in small-town America. He's an auto mechanic who spends his free time with his tight-knit band of bros, Chris, Nick and Ortu, with whom he does everything—poker, video games, shooting hoops, ...
Style:
talky, realistic, touching, romantic, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay straight relations, gay interest, gay son, gay bar, friendship, happy ending, relationships, gay friend, glbt, dating ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This is a fast-paced comedy about a 40-year-old gay man who finds himself dating two equally lovable men - a secure 50-year-old who came out later in life, and an adventurous 30-year-old who wasn't looking for a relationship. What he ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, couples, lgbt, male nudity, gays and lesbians, gay love, older man younger man relationship, love and romance, boyfriend, lgbtqi, gender, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
608
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Birch, a young man living in the Catskill Mountains, reunites with his childhood friend from the city, Andrew.
Style:
sexy, humorous, melancholic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay sex, homosexual, male nudity, gay couple, youth, gay lead character, young lovers, childhood friend, gay interest, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
15K
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:
31%
567
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, melancholic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, lgbtq, gay couple, gay relationship, gay lead character, homosexual, breakup, carpenter, love and romance, confined ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Style:
sexy, psychological, sentimental, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay relationship, gay, gay lead character, gay love, loneliness, unrequited love, gay couple, friendship, desperation, breakup, self loathing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southern california, california, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down (2000); Chicken ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
male prostitution, gay interest, homosexual, coming of age, friends, gender, youth, sexual relations, gays and lesbians, love and romance, gay, gay club ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tired of the unsatisfying singles scene, Glenn (Matthew Montgomery) answers a personal ad and meets Adam (Windham Beacham), a handsome Southern man seeking a long-term relationship. The two hit it off immediately, but their initial attraction is ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay interest, gay sex, friendship, homosexual, gay marriage, gay wedding, male pubic hair, lgbt, gender bending, dog ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Frank is a famous New York University professor in 1973 who left his small South Carolina town behind him and remained in little contact with his family, especially given his style of life and his relationship with his ten-year partner, the free ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sincere, dark comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, male homosexuality, gay interest, uncle niece relationship, college professor, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, father son relationship, funeral, gay muslim ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s, 70s
Place:
south carolina, hawaii, new york, southern usa
Similarity:
30%
12K
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:
30%
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
Similarity:
30%
815
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first - Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted - but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako, a troubled woman with a history ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay relationship, gay parent, lifestyle, love and romance, gay, family relations, couples, family life, baby, pregnancy, gay asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won’t go through life alone and miserable, she sets out to find him the perfect husband!
Style:
realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay relationship, gay couple, lgbtqi, couples, lgbt, gay interest, couple relations, love and romance, homosexuality, gay son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
birmingham alabama, southern usa, alabama
Similarity:
30%
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