Movies like Holiday Heart
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Holiday Heart (2000)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbtq, female impersonator, gay father, mother daughter relationship, drug addiction, fatherhood, christmas, gay parent, lgbt, family relations, relationships, life, male female relationship, african american, transvestite, black cast, gay african american, black history, police officer, drug dealer, christianity, loss, homosexual, gay lead character, black women ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, captivating, psychological and sexy films with plots about lgbtq, gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay lead character, family relations and homosexual mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Holiday Heart: Raising Heroes (1996), Viva (2015), Noah's Arc (2004), An Unusual Affair (2002), Beyond Love (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay parent, lgbtq, gay adoption, lgbt, adoption, gay father, gay couple, gay lead character, homosexual, gay interest, gay relationship
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Cuba
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jesús, a young hairdresser, works at a Havana nightclub for drag performers, and dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesús finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when Angel, his estranged father, abruptly ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, serious, touching, queer cinema
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female impersonator, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, gay son, gay slur, boxer, lung cancer, transvestite ...
Place:
havana cuba
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today's issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend's children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
gay african american, gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, friendship between men, dating, male nudity, hiv, gay bar, bisexual, gay parent ...
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74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jochen Wenzel, a young teacher, married with two kids, one day surprisingly falls in love with a young male colleague, Tom Leuthner and they begin an unusual affair (= "Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre"). While Ina, Jochen's wife, ...
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay lead character, love triangle, fall in love, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, infidelity, gay father, homosexual, adultery, bisexual ...
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64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An Italian lesbian couple wants a child. A gay couple tries to help them. Four friends, hundreds of problems. One solution.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lesbian, gays and lesbians, lgbt, love affair, love story, lesbian couple, parenthood, lesbian relationship, family relations, couple relations, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style:
serious, art house, lgbt cinema, inspirational, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, drug dealer, african american, gay, forgiveness, coming of age, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach, revenge, absent father ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida, atlanta georgia, miami
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay lead character, homosexuality, retirement home, homosexual, old man, coming out, bachelor, closeted homosexual ...
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49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A four-part anthology film dealing with homosexuality from the young to the old. Crush, detailing the budding friendship of a 12-year old girl and a 16-year old boy, who bond over their favorite TV program and musical tastes. The Mountain King, ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, homoerotic, psychological, queer cinema ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay teenager, drug use, homosexual sex, coming out, homosexual, gay couple, gay lead character, couple relations, gay love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream?
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gay, gay interest, broken family, sick mother, reconciliation, mother daughter relationship, gay sex, family relations, gay lead character, lgbtq, dead mother, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, sexy, talky ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, social misfits, best friends, misfit, society, love and romance, social relations, lgbtq, gay bashing, gay erotica, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Mark commits to falling back in love with Jonah, he is forced to look at himself with unprecedented courage and honesty.
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, tense, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, relationship problems, relationships, lgbtq, drugs, love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style:
touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt teen, african american, coming out, lesbian teen, teenage sexuality, lgbtq, introspection, lesbianism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, africa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake’s preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake’s gender expansive behavior to help him stand ...
Style:
captivating, fairy tale, queer cinema
Audience:
preschoolers
Plot:
gay, gender issues, desire for fame, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, lgbtq, gender, social issues, mother son relationship, lgbt, transsexual ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, montana, scotland, switzerland
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay subtext, fall in love, gay sex, gay african american, gay father, male nudity, lgbtq, gay kiss
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45%
813
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
TUCKED is a raw and tender drama about an aging 80 year old drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they ...
Style:
feel good, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, transsexual, lgbt, female impersonator, desire for fame, love, slice of life, friendship, loss, mortality, cancer ...
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45%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man tricks his homophobic father into a camping trip with his secret boyfriend.
Style:
captivating, romantic, entertaining, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt, father son relationship, gay interest, parents and children, gay son, father and son, lgbtq, love interest, love and romance, relationships, romantic friendship ...
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
family relations, gay parent, gay father, father daughter relationship, lgbtq, financial problem, parents and children, family problems, gay, money problems, father and daughter, new job ...
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, father son relationship, desire for fame, family problems, gay love, lgbtq, teenage life, family relations, gay youth, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
three sisters, family relations, sister sister relationship, relationships, coping, sister, male female relationship, dream, life, sisters, anton chekhov, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
Style:
light, atmospheric, entertaining, inspirational, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, transsexual, female impersonator, desire for fame, dance school, socialite, success, showgirl, aids, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, India, Sri Lanka
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, aesthetic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt, name calling, civil war, gay teenager, family relations, star crossed lovers, ethnic slur, relationship problems, relationships, lgbtq, aunt ...
Place:
sri lanka
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay bar, transsexual, christmas, homosexuality, homosexual, christmas eve, closeted homosexual, gay stereotype, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When young art student Ray moves in with his estranged businessman father after years of separation, the two tentatively begin to reconcile their many differences -- including Ray's revelation that he's gay, which his father struggles to ...
Style:
psychological, touching, suspenseful, sincere, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, single father, father son estrangement, homosexuality, homosexual, gay love, gay couple, gay teenager, male homosexuality, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds ...
Style:
queer cinema, cult film
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, male nudity, closeted homosexual, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of New York lawyer Hugo who heads to Milwaukee with his best friend Madelyn to spend the holidays with his mom Kate, who is also in charge of the local Christmas celebrations. Ever the matchmaker, Kate arranges for Hugo to run into ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, melancholic, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, christmas, gay relationship, gay lead character, coming out, best friend, gay couple, gay romance, lgbtq, gay interest, son, holiday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
2 Sisters are forced to get along when their parents get mixed up in the Civil War, and leave them in charge.
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
sibling rivalry, civil war, sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, wartime, sister, relationships, life, jewish, telegram, horse and carriage
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
autism, lgbt, asperger's syndrome, female protagonist, relationships, relationship problems, love affair, sexual desire, forbidden love, family relations, family problems, brother sister relationship ...
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35%
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, sexy, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, homosexual, homosexuality, gay lead character, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay slur, lgbtq, friendship, gender, birthday party ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, london, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, meditative ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, underage drinking, gay love, lgbtq, teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl, gay slur, sexual orientation, lgbt, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Leading double lives and seeking redemption, a transgender man, a drag queen and a corrupt lawyer collide in this urban purgatory.
Style:
neo noir, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, crooked lawyer, homelessness, dancing, sex addict, female impersonator, oral sex, transsexual, lgbtq, drag, redemption, homeless ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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