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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Original name: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows the local homophobic rednecks that appearing different doesn't mean they don't have humanity in common.
Style: road movie, entertaining, cult classic, light, sweet, melancholic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: gay, transvestism, gender bending, drag queen, small town, friendship, cross dressing, road trip, on the road, lgbt, transgender, culture clash, gender, glbt, gay slur, lgbtq, transformation, lgbtqi, domestic violence, redneck, cross country trip, showbiz, ambition, contests and competitions, cross country ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, new york, london, australia, california
Keyword: latin, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and queer cinema films with plots about gay, friendship, lgbt, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gender and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar: Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Kinky Boots (2005), The Iron Ladies (2000), The Birdcage (1996), Hurricane Bianca (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
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100%
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
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, feel good, melancholic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gay, road trip, desert, on the road, transgender, drag queen, gay slur, transvestism, gender bending, homosexuality, bus ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: australia, sydney australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Kinky Boots (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only ...
Style: touching, humorous, inspirational, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: transvestism, drag queen, cabaret, fashion, small town, family business, gay slur, gender bending, fashion show, transvestite, gay, working class ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: milan italy, england, europe, london, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Iron Ladies (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The two main characters, Mon and Jung, play two gay transvestites, who had been constantly overlooked by volleyball coaches because of their appearance. However, when a local team changes coaches, the new coach holds tryouts for a new team. When Mon ...
Style: humorous, touching, light, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: transvestite, gay, transsexual, underdog, lgbt, volleyball, transvestism, transgender, gender bending, against the odds, injustice, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Birdcage (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: gay, cross dressing, senator, gender, drag queen, gay parent, gay couple, farce, lgbtq, wedding, gay slur, nightclub ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami, usa, miami beach, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hurricane Bianca (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Hurricane Bianca is a revenge comedy about a New York teacher who moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
Style: lgbt cinema, humorous, thought provoking, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, teacher, drag queen, revenge, high school, gay slur, lgbtq, school, education, discrimination, drag ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, indiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hansel Schmidt, is a young East German boy, born and raised during the Cold War in communist East Berlin. In his 20s, he meets Luther Robinson, an older American soldier, who falls in love with Hansel and the two decide to marry, which will allow ...
Style: emotional, cult classic, enigmatic, lyrical, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gender, gay, transvestism, transgender, drag queen, berlin wall, self discovery, singer, rock and roll, musician's life, musician ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Uncle Frank (2020)
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: sincere, suspenseful, serious, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay muslim, funeral, gay relationship, uncle niece relationship, road trip, lgbtq, father son relationship, gay lead character, college professor ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, year 1973, 70s
Place: south carolina, hawaii, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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4th Man Out (2015)
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, light, touching, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, friendship, happy ending, friendship between men, dating, gay son, relationships, lgbtq, glbt, prejudice, loneliness, gay interest ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, ...
Style: feel good, road movie, humorous, touching, clever ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, introspection, road trip, research, on the road, movie star, job interview, mentor, friends, stranger, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
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, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drag queen, gay, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, gay interest, gays and lesbians, transgender, gay bashing, gay bar, lgbtq, glbt ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, honest, happy ending, sexpot, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 11K
G.B.F. (2013)
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: humorous, light, sweet, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, lgbt teen, gay lead character, high school, gays and lesbians, gay interest, friendship, teenager, teenage life, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
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Jeffrey (1995)
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: humorous, witty, sexual, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, aids, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, hiv, celibacy, homosexuality, love, happy ending, lgbtqi, gay interest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.3
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Big Eden (2000)
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, touching, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, friendship, small town, self discovery, native american, gay couple, gay love, happy ending, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, new york, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Geography Club (2013)
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, semi serious, touching, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, gay teenager, gay, closeted homosexual, sexual orientation, lesbian, gay relationship, friendship, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, gay interest, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
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Camp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style: talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Kill the Monsters (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Three men struggle to save their relationship while traveling across country in search of a doctor they believe will make one of them well.
Style: road movie, psychological, light, sexy, entertaining ...
Plot: gay, male nudity, illness, threesome, road trip, gay subtext, gay interest, gay relationship, love and romance, lgbtq, fall in love, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Manuela and Manuel (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, hidden identity, wedding, transvestism, human nature, disorder, couples, gender bending, best friend, love, mistaken identity, gay man straight woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.4
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Tootsie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego -- Dorothy Michaels -- in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Style: feel good, light, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: cross dressing, man dressed as a woman, actor, gender bending, love, love and romance, actress, transvestite, relationships, double life, love triangle, gender ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Boys Briefs 2 (2002)
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: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, funny ...
Plot: gay interest, coming of age, homosexual, friends, male prostitution, love and romance, sexual relations, gays and lesbians, youth, gender, gay, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Love, Simon (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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, teenager, homosexual, gay lead character, gay teenager, gay relationship, love, gay interest ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style: feel good, sexual, surreal, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, sapphic, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lesbian relationship, cheerleader, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Hollywood, je t'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Recently broken up and barely enduring a dreary winter, gay Parisian Jérôme Beaunez impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. While there he meets some colorful locals and pursues a dormant desire to become a movie star - but ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, prostitute, transvestism, lifestyle, lgbt, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Object of My Affection (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, friendship, pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, love, gender, lgbt, women, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, love triangle, glbt ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Edge of Seventeen (1998)
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: teen, independent film, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, homosexuality, lgbt teen, coming of age, gays and lesbians, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, gay sex, high school, happy ending ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980's and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. Chance Marquis is the new kid at an American high school in Belgium and is a somewhat awkward teenager who is the target of the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, teen, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay teenager, high school, lgbt, gay, gays and lesbians, bully, friendship, gay interest, lgbtq, misfit, coming of age, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 80s
Place: antwerp, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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