Movies like Marching in Darkness

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Marching in Darkness (1995)
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Marching in Darkness (1995)
Original name: Marciando nel buio
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young recruit to the Italian army (Albanese) discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer (Barr) and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.
Style: controversial, gay cinema
Plot: gay soldier, homosexual rape, gay, army, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay subtext, rape, prostitute, prostitution, hospital, male nudity, suicide, homosexual, sadist, cruise, assault, confession, sergeant, court martial, male prostitute, italian army, gay interest, gay for pay, italian soldier ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gay cinema, queer cinema, psychological and realistic films with plots about gay interest, gay, male nudity, lgbt, gay subtext, lgbtq and male pubic hair mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Marching in Darkness: Marilyn (2018), Love in the Time of Civil War (2014), Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987), Label Me (2019), Cal (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Marilyn (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment ...
Style: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay friend, gay love, homosexual rape, gay interest, gay lead character, male protagonist, gay teenager, lgbt, gay relationship, homosexual, oral sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style: realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot: gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drug addict, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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100%
Soldati - 365 all'alba (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was ...
Plot: italian army, military, italian soldier, illness, shooting, helicopter, realism, army lieutenant, commander, army, lieutenant, soldier ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
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100%
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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
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33%
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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated.
Style: political
Plot: gay, u.s. air force, lgbt, lgbtq, homosexuality, courtroom drama, equality, gay subtext, military, gay soldier, sergeant, closeted homosexual ...
Time: year 1975
Place: virginia, langley virginia
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30%
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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29%
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Burlesque King (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Harry leaves Olongapo, the former site of American bases, with his best friend James. They end up in Manila where they soon find work as macho dancers in a gay bar run by Mama Odette. Harry has a troubled past -- his American father used to pimp him ...
Style: erotic
Plot: lgbt, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gay interest, gay club, male stripper, female nudity, male pubic hair, dancer, gay for pay, male nudity, gay bar ...
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
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28%
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Beefcake (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thom Fitzgerald's (The Hanging Garden) provocative blending of fiction and documentary, tells the story of Bob Mizer, the pioneering founder of the Athletic Model Guild, a company which produced still photographs and short films extolling the ...
Style: factual, stylized, controversial, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, male prostitute, gay, homosexuality, lgbt, prostitution, muscleman, physical appearance, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, media, against the rules ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: nova scotia, venice beach california, san francisco, california
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28%
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Old Narcissus (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 74-year-old Yamazaki, having been handsome as a young gay man, grows narcissistic of his beauty and is unable to bear his own aging. One night, Yamazaki meets a young and beautiful man named Leo. Having loved only himself during his long tumultuous ...
Style: psychological, captivating, sexual, serious
Plot: sex worker, gay sex, gay, gay interest, homosexual, conflict, male nudity, prostitution, prostitute, male prostitute, gay couple, homosexuality ...
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27%
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Sauvage (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here... longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
Style: rough, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male nudity, male prostitute, violence, gay hustler, male pubic hair, sex work, hustler, gay interest, gay sex, homeless, erection ...
Time: 2000s, future
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27%
End of the Century (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Style: unusual plot structure, sexy, sentimental, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay erotica, gay lead character, male nudity, gay love, lovers, gays and lesbians, homosexual, tourist, cruise ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: madrid, barcelona
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26%
The Wind in the Evening (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nightfall. Marco, a politician, is murdered while he is going home. Also Luca, a gay man, is going home, where his partner Paolo is waiting. But he is on the killer's way, and he is shot. Paolo dashes to the hospital but the doctor doesn't ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, one night stand, gay subtext, murder, nudity, loss of friend, gay relationship, gay interest, mourning, father son relationship, male nudity ...
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25%
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Lonesome (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two young men make a connection neither of them expects or knows how to navigate. Casey, a young man from the countryside running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in the big smoke of Sydney. When he meets Tib, a young city lad, ...
Style: art house, gay cinema
Plot: gay, gay sex, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay anal sex, lgbt, lgbtq, gay love, man dances with a man, gay relationship, older man younger man relationship, gay hustler ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
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25%
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Praxis (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay erotica, tattoo, loneliness, dream, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, skinny dipping, gay subtext ...
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25%
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Pretty Boy (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Nick is a handsome 13-year-old runaway whose search for a family leads him into the arms of male prostitution. While Nick's sexual exploits with strange men keep his pockets lined with cash, the experience does nothing to preserve his waning ...
Plot: male prostitution, lgbt, gay, glbt, teenager, accidental killing, aids, homosexual, runaway, prostitution, gay subtext, male full rear nudity ...
Place: copenhagen
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25%
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
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24%
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In this tragic romance set in Ferrara, Italy in 1938, and at a nearby seaside resort, a wealthy Jewish boy is thwarted in marrying the girl he loves when Mussolini's race laws (enacted to cement the regime's growing alliance with Germany) ...
Style: lgbt cinema, freeze frame, gay cinema
Plot: gay, world war two, lgbt, gay interest, fascism, holocaust, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, judaism, glbt, fascist, homosexual ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: italy
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24%
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Duffer (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Duffer' (1971) is a rarely seen cult British movie that has languished in the vaults of the British Film Institute for the best part of forty years until they decided to release it on DVD/BluRay for the first time last month. It's a ...
Plot: gay interest, male nudity, abuse, gay, male pubic hair, obsession, kidnapping, gay subtext, pubic hair
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24%
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Cover boy: L'ultima rivoluzione (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio ...
Plot: gay, immigration, male nudity, gays and lesbians, lgbt, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, male prostitution, revolution, friendship, travel, poverty ...
Place: eastern europe
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23%
7 Kinds Οf Wrath (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Petros is an archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbtq, migration, gay interest, gay subtext, arab, gay lead character, islam, male nudity, nudity, gay muslim
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23%
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Longing Nights (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Aitana, Pierrick, Rita and Jorge are all in their twenties and all look for ways to make their nights in the city of Madrid a little less lonely. Aitana is a sweet girl trapped in a men’s body; Pierrick is a cute French gay; Rita doesn't ...
Style: sexy, touching, melancholic, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, love, gays and lesbians, gay interest, prostitute, male nudity, prostitution, lesbian, drug, gay couple, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, madrid
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23%
Hooks to the Left (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow's experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male ...
Style: experimental, suspense, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: gay, male prostitute, sexual content, sex worker, prostitute, eroticism, male prostitution, lgbtq, lgbt, gay interest, hustler, gay sex ...
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22%
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Body Electric (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lgbtq, gay, lgbt, lgbtqi, male pubic hair, erection, gay interest, gay sex, male nudity, gay subtext, nudity, male objectification ...
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22%
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Postcards from America (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by the autobiographical writings of David Wojnarowicz, "Postcards From America" chronicles the abuse the artist suffered as a child at the hands of his father and his subsequent running away to New York to become a street hustler.
Style: semi autobiographical, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: lgbt, writers, painter, gay subtext, city, sadomasochism, drag queen, childhood friend, prostitution, art collector, kennedy assassination, domestic violence ...
Place: new york
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21%
Boys on the Outside (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl ...
Plot: traumatic childhood, skinhead, gays and lesbians, social injustice, angry, street kid, gay subtext, juvenile delinquent, drug dealing, rape, unemployed, male pubic hair ...
Place: italy, palermo italy
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21%
Hidden Pleasures (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The plot follows a middle-aged, closeted homosexual banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man.
Style: social, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, closeted homosexual, male prostitute, gay subtext, male nudity, female nudity, motorcycle, banker, homoeroticism, gay crush, menage a trois ...
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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
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21%
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Moneyboys (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Belgium, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Fei works illegally as a hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, Fei ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, gay cinema, interesting
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay hustler, gay relationship, gay romance, gay sex, lgbtq, gay asian, family relations, family problems, love affair ...
Place: taipei
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21%
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Open Bodies (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, gay subtext, teenager, coming of age, arab, bisexuality, male nudity, wig
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20%
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Mandragora (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: gay, rent boy, lgbt teen, male prostitution, gay teenager, lgbt, male prostitute, male objectification, male masturbation, gay interest, prostitution, runaway ...
Time: 90s
Place: czech republic, europe, prague
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