Movies like Going South

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Going South (2009)
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Going South (2009)
Original name: Plein sud
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.
Style: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, tense, queer cinema
Plot: ocean, striptease, sex, skinny dipping, gays and lesbians, friendship, friends, love affair, obsessive quest, love and romance, intrigue, family problems, introspection, on the road, dysfunctional family, gender, haunted by the past, bittersweet, dishonesty, hopes, lgbt, gay, fire, public nudity, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and touching films with plots about gays and lesbians, gay, lgbt, gender, love and romance, male nudity and gay interest mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Going South: From Beginning to End (2009), Amphetamine (2010), Lost in Paradise (2011), Like a Brother (2005), Close to Leo (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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From Beginning to End (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, lgbt cinema, psychological ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, gay love, gay relationship, male homosexuality, forbidden love, gay incest, family problems, parents and children, gay brother ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina, latin america, russia ...
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Amphetamine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in ...
Style: realistic, homoerotic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, lgbt, gender, love affair, haunted by the past, tragic love, addiction, self discovery, male pubic hair, couples, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, indiana, asia
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Lost in Paradise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Khoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, gays and lesbians, love affair, prostitute, gay relationship, gender, gay sex, gay hustler, mentally challenged, pimp, naivete ...
Time: 21st century
Place: saigon, asia, vietnam
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100%
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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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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Wild Side (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A transsexual who survives prostituting herself in Paris, returns – with her two male lovers in town – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Style: serious, sentimental, contemplative, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, transsexual, polyamory, gay, lgbt, transgender, friendship, lifestyle, love triangle, love and romance, society, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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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
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Antarctica (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, dancer, family relations, introspection, hopes, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tel aviv israel, israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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34%
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The Last Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At Christmas time, 19 year old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: gender, love triangle, teenage life, youth, jealousy, lovers reunited, social misfits, love and romance, couples, family relations, family gatherings, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Born in 68 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Paris, 1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students and they love each other. The May student uprisings radically change their lives. Overtaken by communal utopia, they leave the city with a few friends to set up ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: gay, utopia, family relations, rebelliousness, friendship, lovers, society, against the rules, hopes, fighting the system, idealism, rebellion ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france
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34%
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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33%
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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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We Were One Man (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should be enemies begin to bond in ways neither thought possible.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, world war two, lgbtq, gay soldier, lgbt teen, male pubic hair, gay relationship, gay subtext, couples, friends, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s
Place: france, europe
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Grande école (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - ...
Style: sexy, psychological, serious, sincere, erotic ...
Plot: gay, swinger, gay love, love triangle, lgbt, lifestyle, teenage life, seduction, college life, male nudity, friendship, youth ...
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The Man of My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged in director Zabou Breitman's intimate drama.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, romantic, sexy ...
Plot: gay, love triangle, moral dilemma, crumbling marriage, couples, midlife crisis, love and romance, unfulfillment, gender, family problems, family relations, summer vacation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france
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32%
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Strapped (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler into a series of life-changing encounters in this drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, prostitution, apartment building, lgbt, gay sex, gays and lesbians, prostitute, loneliness, changing lives, couples, male prostitution, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
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Open (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two transwomen in a pandrogynous relationship in which they ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gender, transsexual, lgbt, intersex, self discovery, love affair, introspection, couples, society, gender bending, gay, transgender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
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Ciao (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two men meet and fall in love under the least joyous of circumstances in this low-key drama from writer and director Yen Tan.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, romantic, sensual ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, couples, gender, gay interest, friendship, gay relationship, lgbtq, friends, love and romance, computers and web ...
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Romeos (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, transgender, lgbt, gay couple, secret, friendship, sexual attraction, self discovery, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Beyond the Walls (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Paulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a double-bass player originally from Albania. It's love at first sight. Confronted by Anka, Paulo finds himself out on the street. Despite Ilir's misgivings, Paulo moves in with him. One day, when Paulo ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sexual, serious ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay sex, gender, musician, gay couple, homosexual, sadomasochism, prison, gays and lesbians, love affair, gay slur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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Regarding Billy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After Billy's parents are killed he moves home to care for his little brother Johnny, who is mentally challenged. Together the two struggle through the loss of their parents. Meanwhile, Billy's best friend from childhood, Dean, has moved ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gender, gay soldier, family relations, best friend, friendship, disability, couples, family problems, love and romance, youth, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Redwoods (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Both original and incredibly romantic, Redwoods tells the story of an already-partnered man whose love is tested when a mysterious drifter passes through his small Northern California town.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, couples, gay couple, gay relationship, gay sex, gays and lesbians, breakup, gay interest, secret, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, northern california
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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 ⇓
31%
 5.4
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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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30%
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The Seminarian (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Seminarian is a story about Ryan, a closeted gay student in his final semester of seminary studies. Despite his school's hostile stance towards homosexuality, Ryan has two gay classmates - Gerald and Anthony - in whom he secretly confides. ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative, sentimental ...
Plot: lgbt, love and romance, religions or cults, couples, society, fall in love, school, parents and children, unfulfillment, gender, self discovery, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
It's My Party (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, glbt, death, friendship, deaf, gay interest, male nudity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Saturn in Opposition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, ...
Style: sincere, talky, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot: gay, friendship, gays and lesbians, couple relations, lgbt, infidelity, family problems, introspection, terminal illness, dealing with death, dinner party, bereavement ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Different for Girls (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she's ...
Style: sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: transsexual, gay, transgender, lgbt, glbt, lgbtq, bittersweet, friendship, gender, bullying, happy ending, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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