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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
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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 would-be actress Jean Ross, who sings tunelessly in a seedy cabaret club. They and others he meets get put into his stories. After a fling with sexy rent boy Caspar he falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt. With Fascism rapidly rising Christopher returns to London with Heinz but is unable to prevent his return to Germany when his visa expires. Years later Christopher, now a successful writer, returns to Berlin for a final meeting with Heinz, now married with children.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema, pre war
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, lgbt, self discovery, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lifestyle, writers, homosexual, sadomasochism, fall in love, strong sexual content, society, nightlife, political unrest, state affairs, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay couple, fascism, gay interest, gay love, world war two, immigration, poet ...
Time: 1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1976, year 1933, year 1952, year 1931 ...
Place: germany, europe, england, los angeles, berlin germany, hamburg germany
Keyword: german, american, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, male nudity, gender and gay kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Christopher and His Kind: Wilde (1997), Violette (2013), Getting Go, the Go Doc Project (2013), Lost in Paradise (2011), Clapham Junction (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wilde (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style: homoerotic, costume drama, touching, period piece, witty ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay, writers, homosexual, hypocrisy, biopic, lgbt, male homosexuality, scandal, gay lead character, glbt, poetry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1997, edwardian era
Place: ireland, britain, england, europe
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Violette (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
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Getting Go, the Go Doc Project (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Too shy to make a proper introduction, a recent college grad devises to shoot a documentary about the NYC nightlife scene in order to meet the go-go guy he’s cyber-obsessed with.
Style: realistic, sexual, psychological, captivating, rough ...
Plot: gay, male nudity, nightlife, obsession, gender, gay sex, filmmaking, gay interest, gay relationship, lgbtq, gay love, go go dancer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Lost in Paradise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Khoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, gays and lesbians, love affair, prostitute, gay relationship, gender, gay sex, gay hustler, mentally challenged, pimp, naivete ...
Time: 21st century
Place: saigon, asia, vietnam
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Clapham Junction (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, melancholic, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, first gay sexual experience, gay cruising, gay slur, infidelity, male nudity, masturbation, lifestyle, life is a bitch, society, seduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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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 ...
Style: independent film, witty, dark comedy, black comedy, period piece ...
Plot: gay, writers, gay cruising, lgbt, murder, biopic, male nudity, glbt, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art ...
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Place: england, europe, britain, brighton, australia ...
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Another Country (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, rough, factual, psychological ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, boarding school, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, equality, youth, gay relationship, gay lead character, boys' school, homosexual love, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1983
Place: england, russia, ussr, britain, europe ...
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Weekend (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Style: sincere, touching, sexy, meditative, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
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Futuro Beach (2014)
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Duration: 106 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, meditative ...
Plot: gay, drowning, lifeguard, gay love, gender, gay sex, male nudity, brother brother relationship, beach, swimming, oral sex, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
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Maurice (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1909, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) enters Cambridge, where he befriends wealthy Clive Durham (Hugh Grant). Clive confesses he is sexually attracted to Maurice, who realizes he is a homosexual when he begins to return Clive's feelings. The two ...
Style: homoerotic, sexy, scenic, melancholic, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 1900s, pre world war one, 19th century, 1910s, edwardian era ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of ...
Style: homoerotic, serious, realistic, compassionate, romantic ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, post world war two, year 1991
Place: los angeles, san francisco, new york, berlin germany, finland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gender, lgbt, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, church, lgbtq, preacher, introspection, society, lgbtqi, faith ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
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Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
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The Circle (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: zurich switzerland, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada, France
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sexual, serious ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay sex, gender, musician, gay couple, homosexual, sadomasochism, prison, gays and lesbians, love affair, gay slur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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The Normal Heart (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: sad, touching, emotional, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: aids, gay, gays and lesbians, gay slur, homosexuality, terminal illness, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual, life is a bitch, friendship, gay love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1982, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, usa, ethiopia, manhattan new york city, yale university ...
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style: cult classic, controversial, heartbreaking, art film, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: art, artist, painter, biopic, lgbt, older man younger man relationship, subculture, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, lgbtq, erotica ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 70s
Place: paris france, east end london, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, sincere, poignant ...
Plot: gay, older man younger man relationship, gay asian, gay sex, boys love, love affair, male prostitute, gay relationship, lgbt, fighting the system, lifestyle, social differences ...
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Place: beijing china, china, asia, hong kong, america ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: bleak, captivating, serious, intellectual, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, writers, gay, obsession, youth, friendship, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place: usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, chicago ...
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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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34%
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Howl (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, thought provoking, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: poet, gay, poetry, courtroom drama, writers, beat generation, literature, biopic, freedom, lgbt, art, artist ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place: kansas, bronx new york city, colorado, arkansas, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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A Moment in the Reeds (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, immigration, gay relationship, gay romance, gay lead character, syrian refugee, gay sex, architect, male nudity ...
Place: finland
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, suicide, life is a bitch, homosexual, gay relationship, gay love, male homosexuality, gay slur, gay rights ...
Time: 2000s, year 1984, year 1979, 21st century
Place: usa, ethiopia, san francisco, california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Saint Laurent (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Style: captivating, stylized, serious, realistic, eros ...
Plot: fashion, gay, fashion designer, nudity, male nudity, rise to the top, interview, couple relations, lgbt, model, scandal, fashion industry ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
North Sea Texas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, lgbt child, boys love, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, idaho, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was to place these marginal characters, who are subject to societal prejudices ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: gay, transvestism, friendship, lgbt, self discovery, couples, lifestyle, introspection, social misfits, society, discrimination, social differences ...
Time: 90s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Coming Out (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident' he stumbles into a gay bar, meets and promptly ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: gay, gay cruising, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, love triangle, gay teenager, lgbtq, teacher, sexuality, gay interest, erotica, passion ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, east berlin, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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