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Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008)
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Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me (2008)
Genre: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Candid and poignant drama about the comedian Frankie Howerd and the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering manager, and gay partner, Dennis Heymer. Despite his overtly camp persona, Howerd kept his companionship with Heymer under wraps for 35 years, until his death in 1992. Yet through career disaster, social stigma, illegality, numerous infidelities and Howerd's own deep-seated issues about his homosexuality, their love endured.
Plot: gay, depression, homosexual, lsd, gay relationship, gay couple, argument, childhood sexual abuse, gay interest, closeted homosexual, promiscuity, repressed homosexual, stroke, stand up comedy, hand job, masturbation, mother son relationship, wig, gay kiss
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: oxford university

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, captivating and serious films with plots about gay, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, lgbtq and gay relationship mostly in Biography, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me: Rock Hudson (1990), The Curse of Steptoe (2008), The Happy Prince (2018), Naked Rose (2013), Against the Law (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rock Hudson (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by his ex-wife, Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.
Plot: gay, aids, hollywood, celebrity, male homosexuality, biopic, gay subtext, gay interest, homosexual, illness, actor, marriage of convenience ...
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The Curse of Steptoe (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 67 min.
Story: In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H. Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show 'Steptoe and Son'. However, the show's success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, ...
Style: sitcom
Plot: lgbt, mine, adultery, stage actor, actor, closeted homosexual, homosexual, television studio, gay couple, in the closet
Time: 60s
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The Happy Prince (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: THE HAPPY PRINCE tells the story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. This great man of letters, once one of the most famous authors in England, is now a superstar on the skids. As Oscar lies on his death bed, the past comes flooding back to him, ...
Style: suspenseful, touching, melancholic, sad, depressing ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay relationship, gay couple, gay youth, gay friend, gay romance, victorian england, writers, downfall, homosexual, gay father ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 2000s
Place: paris france, london, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 25
Naked Rose (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charged with homosexuality and imprisoned in the Schirmeck concentration camp. He survived this terrifying experience of torture and humiliation, and ...
Style: semi documentary, queer cinema
Plot: gay, holocaust, nazism, biopic, gay slur, art, homosexual, crucifix, gay interest, world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Against the Law (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly – during the time homosexuality was a crime – turned Queen's evidence against him in one of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, tense, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, male homosexuality, gay relationship, prison, gay slur, lgbtqi, love and romance, gay couple, homosexuality ...
Time: year 1952, 1950s
Place: europe
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Enfant Terrible (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story: When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, captivating, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gays and lesbians, film producer, gay club, gay couple, male nudity, actor, gay lead character, society, gay love, fall in love ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 60s
Place: munich germany
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Breaking the Code (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mathematics, world war two, gay, lgbt, computer, programmer, mathematician, scientist, computer program, world war, code breaking, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set against a backdrop of early 60's London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar - the biggest selling record of it's time - ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: gay, recording studio, paranoia, suicide, musician's life, prodigy, experimental music, homosexual, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, lifestyle, music industry ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Holding the Man (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge ...
Style: touching, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay student, gay couple, aids, gay romance, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay love, gay son, homosexual history ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: austria, australia, indiana, italy, melbourne ...
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An Englishman in New York (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, gays and lesbians, englishman abroad, lifestyle, showbiz, narcissism, friendship, society, aging, performer's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa
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56%
Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, sexual, crying ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1931, year 1933 ...
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Stan (2006)
Genre: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Stanley Laurel's last visit to Oliver Hardy, as originally told in Neil Brand's radio play.
Style: entertaining
Plot: biopic, office, friendship, teamwork, husband wife relationship, man with glasses, flashback, film producer, memories, laurel and hardy, stroke, film set ...
Time: 1920s, year 1957
Place: santa monica california, malibu california
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Gods and Monsters (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style: enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: homosexuality, life & death, gay interest, gay, friendship, filmmaking, homosexual, biopic, depression, loneliness, adaptation, gardener ...
Time: year 1998, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, pacific ocean
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Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014)
Genre: Biography
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 134 min.
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Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 102 min.
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46%
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, sad, emotional, depressing ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 80 min.
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Time: 1950s
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45%
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Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Margot (2009)
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Duration: 85 min.
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Duration: 115 min.
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Time: 90s, 2000s, 2010s
Place: new york, southern usa, arkansas
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Rustin (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Style: political, gay cinema
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40%
Concert at the End of Summer (1980)
Genre: Biography
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, ...
Plot: composer, biopic, husband wife relationship, musician, european history, czech history
Time: 19th century
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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)
Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
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Tom of Finland (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
Duration: 117 min.
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