Movies like Torch Song Trilogy
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Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
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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, sentimental, touching, humorous, talky, sad, thinking, cult classic, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
drag queen, gay, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, gay interest, gays and lesbians, transgender, gay bashing, gay bar, lgbtq, gay slur, glbt, christmas, male homosexuality, love and romance, bittersweet, lgbtqi, hate crime, transvestism, true love, friendship, marriage, mad love, paranoia ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, san francisco
Keyword:
jewish
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, queer cinema, realistic and semi serious films with plots about gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexual, gays and lesbians and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Torch Song Trilogy: Beautiful Thing (1996), Big Eden (2000), Lady Peacock (2014), The Object of My Affection (1998), Different for Girls (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Place:
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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 ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Let the drag-off begin! When Conner first meets Devin, he feels an instant attraction to him. However, soon Conner's nemesis, the Puerto Rican drag queen Adora wants Devin all to herself. Conner soon realizes the only way to compete with a drag ...
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gender, gay, contests and competitions, rivalry, jealousy, gay lead character, transgender, lgbtq, transvestite, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
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100%
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:
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gay, friendship, pregnancy, gay man straight woman relationship, love, gender, lgbt, women, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, love triangle, glbt ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
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Plot:
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, humorous, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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teens, chick flick, teen drama
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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 ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two guys who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom find their friendship tested when one of them comes out of the closet.
Style:
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Audience:
teens, chick flick
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gay, virginity, homosexuality, friendship, gay interest, gay best friend, gays and lesbians, best friend, looking for sex, profanity, dating, social relations ...
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usa
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) and Christian Markelli (Wes Ramsey) are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. ...
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Story:
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27%
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Story:
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