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The Witnesses (2007)
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The Witnesses (2007)
Original name: Les Témoins
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, erotic, crying, clever, realistic, contemplative, detective ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, love and romance, siblings relations, hiv, gender, euthanasia, teenage boy, erection, male pubic hair, lgbt, drowning, prostitute, doctor, gay teenager, deadly virus, virus, witness, epidemic, art ...
Time: year 2007, year 1984, year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, france, europe, new york ...
Keyword: american, canadian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and crying films with plots about lgbt, gay, friendship, love and romance, kiss, lgbtq and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like The Witnesses: Being 17 (2016), Close to Leo (2002), The Man I Love (1997), Floating Skyscrapers (2013), To the Extreme (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Being 17 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the ...
Style: erotic, romantic, uplifting, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gay teenager, bullying, gay love, homosexuality, school, friendship, lgbt teen, first love, male homosexuality ...
Time: 2000s, year 2016
Place: france
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Close to Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, youth, hiv, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, lgbt, coming of age, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, family life ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, brittany
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The Man I Love (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lifeguard, gays and lesbians, gay wedding, aids, swimming pool, first gay sexual experience, love triangle, gay sex, lgbt, gay love, homosexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, spain, france
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Floating Skyscrapers (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gender, gay love, gays and lesbians, gay sex, bisexual, couple relations, gay interest, love triangle, self discovery, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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To the Extreme (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rich, bisexual Thomas makes his way through a swath of lovers of both sexes in Paris. His parents have died, and he doesn't have to work to earn a living, so his days are bacchanalia-filled affairs that run into each other in a hazy bliss. The ...
Style: psychological, emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: threesome, introspection, lgbt, child custody, lifestyle, male nudity, adoption, moral dilemma, infidelity, strong sexual content, custody, love affair ...
Time: future
Place: paris france, france, ibiza
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Summer of 85 (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. ...
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, teenager, lgbt teen, friendship, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental death, summer, gay relationship, death of friend, gay interest ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 2000s
Place: normandy, france
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Rendez-vous (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous ...
Style: erotic, sexy, art house, anthology, noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oral sex, sex scene, forbidden love, love triangle, public nudity, promiscuous woman, porn actor, sexual promiscuity, male nudity, female masturbation, erotica, making love ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
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Undertow (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Peru, Colombia, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay love, homosexuality, lgbt, gay, homosexual, gay relationship, ghost, gay latino, gay slur, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, male homosexuality ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: peru, latin america
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Violette (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
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His Brother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
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Come Undone (2000)
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: emotional, touching, meditative, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, depression, suicide attempt, male nudity, teenage life, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, youth, gay romance, dysfunctional family, love affair, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south of france, europe, frankfurt germany, brittany
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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
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Full Speed (1996)
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, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth, friendship, love triangle, racism, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: lyon, france, europe, new york, algeria ...
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I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 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, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot: bisexual man, gay, unrequited love, prostitute, transsexual, 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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Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in ...
Style: erotic, sexy, talky, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: gay, art, lgbt, painting, painter, lgbtq, transvestism, gays and lesbians, transgender, drinking, death, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, egypt, cambodia ...
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The Adventures of Felix (2000)
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, melancholic, sentimental, touching, lyrical ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, road trip, male nudity, lgbt, unemployment, friendship, youth, society, parents and children, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, marseille, europe, normandy
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Longtime Companion (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, politics, friendship, lgbtq, gay couple, courage, gay interest, love, glbt, gay slur ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1988, year 1986 ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Nathalie... (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she ...
Style: sexy, serious, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, sexual relations, lesbian, striptease, dangerous attraction, sex, husband wife relationship, one night stand, unfaithful husband, adultery, voyeur, destructive relationship ...
Time: year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Like a Brother (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Sebastien is a small town boy who moves to Paris and begins to explore the gay night life there. When a friend from back home calls to announce he's coming to Paris, Sebastien confronts some unrequited feelings
Style: homoerotic, serious, realistic, emotional, sexual ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gay interest, friendship, youth, gay straight relations, gay sex, gay relationship, gay club, erection, father son relationship, best friend, male masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A teenager discovers that mending a broken heart is no simple thing in this independent romantic drama from Mexico. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuno), a 17-year-old who has recently embraced his homosexuality, has just parted ways with his first serious ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, breakup, lost love, teenage life, unfulfilled love, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, obsession, love and romance, sex scene, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city
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A Heart of Stone (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, thought provoking, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: love, classical music, music, obsession, violin, passion, unrequited love, love story, glamour, asexual, violinist, solitude ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, paris france, europe, hungary, geneva switzerland ...
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Futuro Beach (2014)
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, sentimental, psychological, captivating, meditative ...
Plot: gay, drowning, lifeguard, gay love, gender, gay sex, male nudity, brother brother relationship, beach, swimming, oral sex, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, berlin germany, germany, portugal, northeast brazil
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Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, three brothers, transsexual, lgbt, male nudity, dysfunctional family, working class, drug dealing, going straight, teenage life, family problems, youth ...
Place: alps, paris france
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I Want Your Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten ...
Style: mumblecore, controversial, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gender, gay, gay sex, homosexual, male nudity, sex scene, gay love, gay erotica, ejaculation, lgbt, introspection, gay friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, ohio
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North Sea Texas (2011)
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, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, lgbt child, boys love, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, idaho, europe, flanders
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Beloved/Friend (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, crying
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, pregnancy, midlife crisis, friendship, terminal illness, best friend, friends, couples, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, barcelona
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The Wounded Man (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up ...
Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, nudity, gay love, gay erotica, traumatic childhood, lgbtq, family relations, obsession, male nudity, male pubic hair, gay interest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, frankfurt germany, africa
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Lan Yu (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, sincere, poignant ...
Plot: gay, older man younger man relationship, gay asian, gay sex, boys love, love affair, male prostitute, gay relationship, lgbt, fighting the system, lifestyle, social differences ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, year 1988, 80s
Place: beijing china, china, asia, hong kong, america ...
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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 ...
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