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Some of My Best Friends Are (1971)
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Some of My Best Friends Are (1971)
Original name: Some of My Best Friends Are...
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, crying, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay bar, transgender, christmas, transsexual, homosexual, homosexuality, christmas eve, closeted homosexual, gay stereotype, drag queen, gay subtext, friends, gender bending, singleness, best friend, couples, gays and lesbians, gender, transvestism, lesbian, dancing, fight, prostitute ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, touching and gay cinema films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay interest, lgbtq, homosexual, gays and lesbians and gender mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Some of My Best Friends Are: The Boys in the Band (1970), The Boys in the Band (2020), Boulevard (2014), Common Ground (2000), Poster Boy (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Boys in the Band (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate ...
Style: intense, realistic, witty, powerful, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, homosexuality, homosexual, gay lead character, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay slur, lgbtqi, lgbtq, glbt, friendship ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Boys in the Band (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Style: realistic, heartbreaking, serious, compassionate, powerful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, gay crush, gay cruising, lgbtq, male objectification, mental health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1968
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Boulevard (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nolan Mack, a soft-spoken bank employee, undoubtedly loves his wife Joy, though their cavernous empty house only underscores how disconnected they’ve always been from each other. Nolan finds himself drifting from his familiar present-day life in ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, independent film, touching ...
Plot: gay, closeted homosexual, older man younger man relationship, male prostitute, bare chested male, unrequited love, lgbt, secret life, self discovery, life turned upside down, friendship, self loathing ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Common Ground (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 1970's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: gay bashing, lesbian, closeted homosexual, small town, navy, lgbt, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life, couples ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 1950s, 2000s, year 1974 ...
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Poster Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintance (Noseworthy), the closeted son (Newton) of a conservative U.S. Senator (Lerner) puts a shocking spin on his dad's re-election campaign.
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, politics, college, republican, campaign, love and romance, parents and children, sexual relations, lgbtq, election, political campaign ...
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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FAQs (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. In this case Destiny is a black, 6 foot, high heel wearing, gun toting, drag queen with an attitude and a soft place in her heart for ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, talky, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, social misfits, best friend, social relations, love and romance, misfit, society, lgbtq, gay bashing, gay erotica, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Nighthawks (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A gay man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. A respectable geography teacher by day; by night, hanging out in London's gay bars, looking for a long-term relationship, but usually encountering only ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teacher, disco, lgbtq, school teacher, lgbtqi, glbt, school, gay bar, homosexuality, gay lead character ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Hell Without Limits (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's ...
Style: art house, serious, realistic, offbeat, emotional ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gender, lgbtq, transsexual, transvestite, literary, amor, prostitution, prostitute, small town, gay subtext ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
51%
 6.5
 1K
Minyan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, erotic, gay cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay love, judaism, gay romance, gay sex, homosexual, gay interest, gay couple, gay relationship, male nudity, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.7
 3K
Nasty Baby (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, interracial couple, gay couple, friendship, illegal immigrant, couples, couple relations, best friend, gender, society, love and romance, latinx lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.6
 489
Boys Life 2 (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, best friend, high school life, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.8
 7K
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 ⇓
45%
 6.9
 3K
Making Love (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gay husband, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, extramarital affair, gay bar, infidelity, gender, homosexuality, love triangle, gays and lesbians, bookstore ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.2
 518
The New Twenty (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, friendship, hiv, gay, college, best friend, young lovers, male homosexuality, friends, wall street, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Fruit Machine (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, coming of age, murder, best friend, nightclub, youth, friendship, gay lead character, on the run, obsession, lgbt ...
Time: 80s
Place: brighton, europe, england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.0
 1K
Label Me (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match ...
Style: touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, sex work, gay love, male nudity, love, homosexual, hustler, gay for pay, lgbtq, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Children of God (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Johnny (Johnny Ferro) is an art student in Nassau whose technique is perfect, but he’s creatively blocked. His teacher sends him off to the rural island of Eleuthera where he meets Romeo (Stephen Tyrone Williams), a hot musician. They begin a ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, couples, art, religion, gender, gays and lesbians, society, youth, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Any Day Now (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal ...
Style: thought provoking, sad, sincere, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, adoption, gay adoption, lgbt, gay couple, down syndrome, homosexual, gay slur, gay parent, district attorney, disability ...
Time: 70s, year 2012, year 1979, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 2K
1985 (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.0
 650
Hooked (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack an 18-year old hustler and his boyfriend Tom are an item, close and very much in love. Otherwise, Jack is impulsive and explosive with few redeeming qualities. Ken, a married man who hasn't come out of the closet, takes Jack from NYC to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, psychological, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot: male escort, gay teenager, gay interest, closeted homosexual, hustler, gay, prostitution, escort, lgbtq, gay lead character, prostitute, gay bar ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.7
 122
Raising Heroes (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Josh and Paul want to adopt Nickie, the child of Paul's recently deceased friend Susan. Susan's mother opposes gays' adopting, and Monday is the final court date. On Friday, Josh stops by a market for milk and glimpses a Mob hit. ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay parent, lgbtq, gay adoption, gay subtext, lgbt, couples, gay couple, homosexual, gay lead character, gay father, adoption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, homosexual, american football, lgbt, drag queen, disco, lgbtq, audition, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style: anthology, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, sexuality, male nudity, gay interest, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, campus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When David, an ex-monk still in his twenties meets Mark, he falls hard; soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their definition of "commitment" begin to push them apart. Mark ...
Style: eros, controversial, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay relationship, lgbtq, lgbtqi, orgy, glbt, gay erotica, cruise, breakup, male pubic hair, gay subtext ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Handsome Harry (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: friendship between men, gay, friendship, haunted by the past, hopes, last wish, dishonesty, betrayal, introspection, redemption, machismo, forgiveness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
 3K
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 ...
Place: italy, austin texas, europe, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, detective, weeping ...
Plot: gay slur, lgbt, death penalty, gay bashing, gay lead character, gay, gays and lesbians, murder, hate crime, courtroom drama, social decay, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1998, 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.0
 595
Bar Girls (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The life and loves of gay women hanging out at a local tavern are examined in this slice of life film.
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, nudity, bare breasts, couples, love triangle, looking for love, nightlife, love affair, self discovery ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.1
 2K
Stonewall (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Style: independent film, touching, multicultural, tense, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, transgender, homosexuality, gay couple, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, gender, gays and lesbians, death, justice, lesbian ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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