Movies like Neverland 2003

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Neverland (2003)
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Neverland (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. In this version, Peter (Rick Sparks) is a juvenile delinquent, Tinkerbell (Kari... Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN.
Style: serious, offbeat, bleak
Plot: amusement park, life is a bitch, escapades, danger, youth, peter pan, gay, lgbt, fantasy world, glbt, gay subtext, pirate, prostitute, kidnapping, addiction, misfit, gender bending, gays and lesbians, rivalry, society, social misfits, imaginary, gender, innocence lost, uninhibited rivalry ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, queer cinema and bleak films with plots about society, life is a bitch, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay interest, gay and gender mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Action genres. Some movies like Neverland: Pink Narcissus (1971), Love in the Time of Civil War (2014), FAQs (2005), Stories of Our Lives (2014), The Toy Soldiers (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pink Narcissus (1971)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.
Style: independent film, surreal, cult classic, aesthetic, psychedelic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay interest, male pubic hair, homosexuality, male nudity, narcissism, gay, matador, lgbt, sex, erotica, sex slave, biker ...
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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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72%
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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
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68%
Stories of Our Lives (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, social misfits, society, discrimination, misfit, gay, blaxploitation, black lgbt, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kenya, africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Toy Soldiers (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, addiction, custody, society, bittersweet, homosexual ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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65%
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On the Downlow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden.
Style: serious, touching, emotional, rough, realistic ...
Plot: lgbt, confession, catholic priest, gay, injustice, forbidden love, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, life is a bitch, gang, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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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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58%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Sea Is Behind (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: social misfits, performer's life, transvestism, gays and lesbians, family relations, misfit, family in crisis, society, bittersweet, gender, lgbt
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco
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Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: youth, murder, hate crime, life is a bitch, social decay, society, gay slur, gay, real life, violent content, injustice, gender ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: wyoming, wisconsin
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51%
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Rollercoaster (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In pursuit of fantasy, five teenagers hop the fence of a now defunct amusement park. While apparently a mindless diversion, for two of them the park is the setting for a more fatal bid at escape.
Style: offbeat, independent film, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, canuxploitation, glbt, lgbt, amusement park, gay slur, gay subtext, gay youth, human nature, juvenile delinquency, gays and lesbians, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
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51%
Between Something & Nothing (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING is based on filmmaker Todd Verow’s experiences at Rhode Island School of Design. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town JOE and townie mastermind JENNIFER quickly join ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, art school, college, dangerous attraction, self discovery, lifestyle, youth, student life, friendship, social misfits, prostitute, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island
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49%
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Streeters (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, gang, social decay, society, youth, drug dealing, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, police corruption, social misfits, down on your luck ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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48%
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Spiderwebhouse (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Jonas’ mother leaves to “fight her demons”, he steps up as head of the household, becoming the unofficial guardian to his younger siblings. With food and money running out, the children retreat into a world of their own where, ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: youth, child in peril, child as adult, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, isolation, family in crisis, family problems, life turned upside down, family relations, danger, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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48%
If Nothing Else Works Out (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, rough, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, injustice, life is a bitch, danger, drug abuse, social decay, society, drug dealing, prostitute, unemployment, lgbt, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Brother to Brother (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Style: serious, thought provoking, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot: black lgbt, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, love and romance, estrangement ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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46%
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Cremaster 3 (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story: CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, stylized, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, curses spells and rituals, apprentice, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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42%
 6.1
 1K
Bo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sad ...
Plot: prostitute, teenage prostitution, downfall, destructive relationship, escort, lifestyle, teenage life, woman in danger, society, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: antwerp, belgium, europe
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40%
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Stryker (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rivalry, life is a bitch, danger, youth, coming of age, society, urban ghetto life, nudity, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: winnipeg, canada
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40%
The Other Family (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, queer cinema
Plot: gay, youth, gay adoption, drug addiction, adoption, family relations, overdose, drug addict, child trafficking, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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40%
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, manga ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, rivalry, heroes, danger, good versus evil, terrorism, battles, haunted by the past, escapades, apocalypse, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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39%
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The Garden (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, society, gender, injustice, christ allegory, humiliation, torture, passion, religion, art, surrealism ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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Day One (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense
Plot: survival, apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, chaos, society, dystopian future, worldwide chaos, chosen one, life is a bitch, group of strangers, danger, escapades ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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38%
20 Years After (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!
Style: apocalyptic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, life is a bitch, pregnancy, danger, society, escapades, chaos, dystopian future, babies and infants, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, 21st century
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38%
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A re-imagining of the classic Japanese comedy "Yaji and Kita's Travel Journey", this is the story of two samurai in Edo period Japan who are in love. One is married, the other is a drug addict. They decide to go on a trip to Ise ...
Style: surreal, not serious, humorous, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: love affair, samurai, heroes, life is a bitch, love and romance, escapades, danger, drug abuse, heroic mission, addiction, disorder, martial arts ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Marvelous Visit (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, offbeat, touching, serious
Plot: angel, gay interest, gay subtext, bittersweet, homecoming, fish out of water, supernatural romance, down on your luck, village life, miraculous event, social relations, disorder ...
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Not Today (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Caden Welles is living life as large as any 20-year-old could dream … until his eyes are opened to a world few Americans know still exists: a thriving human-trafficking trade. Spurred by a true purpose, an unlikely new friendship, and the prayers ...
Style: disturbing, uplifting, thought provoking, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: youth, hopes, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, human spirit, injustice, family problems, escapades, danger, prostitute, society, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
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A Perfect Son (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family, haunted by the past, aids, lgbt, gay interest, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time: 90s
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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 ⇓
34%
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