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Surrender Dorothy (1998)
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Surrender Dorothy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Trevor is a busboy who is so terrified of women that he takes in a young man addicted to heroin and then uses the drug to manipulate, coerce, and terrorize him into becoming "Dorothy", his twisted concept of the "ideal girlfriend."
Style: independent film, psychological, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: drug abuse, transgender, drug addiction, glbt, lgbtq, obsession, gender bending, manipulation, sadomasochism, fight, restaurant, transvestite, drug dealer, masturbation, mirror, sadism, psychological abuse, letter, masochism, brother brother relationship, cross dressing, injection, gay subtext, sex maniac, addiction ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, philadelphia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, queer cinema, independent film and crying films with plots about gay, kiss, lgbt, sex, gays and lesbians, couples and homosexual mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Surrender Dorothy: Stonewall (1995), Head On (1998), Skin and Bone (1996), Testosterone (2003), Leaving Metropolis (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stonewall (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Style: independent film, touching, multicultural, tense, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, transgender, homosexuality, gay couple, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, gender, gays and lesbians, death, justice, lesbian ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, philadelphia
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95%
 6.6
 5K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.0
 231
Skin and Bone (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Harry, Billy and Dean are three hustlers at different stages in their careers. All must deal with the realities of their profession. One falls in love with a client, another enters deeper into denial, and another begins to learn the ropes.
Style: independent film, contemplative, experimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, hustler, nudity, lgbtq, love, lgbtqi, lgbt, masturbation, male nudity, erotica, sex, male rape ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.3
 1K
Testosterone (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him and his editor, Louise, is hounding him. Instead of ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, breakup, lgbt, obsession, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, gender, love and romance, dark humor, siblings relations, infidelity, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Leaving Metropolis (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: David is a painter with painter's block who takes a job as a waiter to get some inspiration. He falls for hunky diner owner Matt, who falls just as hard back. But Violet, Matt's wife is a complicating factor! Toss in David's best ...
Style: sincere, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: love affair, friendship, love triangle, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship, couples, crumbling marriage, obsession, lifestyle, terminal illness, painter, lgbt ...
Place: winnipeg, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.3
 286
2by4 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Johnnie is a foreman of construction crew. On the outside he seems very "normal" and straight, but one evening we see him putting on make-up and feather boa and going for a night at the city.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, glbt, sex crime, immigrant, sexual abuse, drug abuse, gay subtext, nudity, society, gays and lesbians, gender ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, ireland, las vegas, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Velocity of Gary (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gary is in love with Valentino. So is Mary Carmen. Their life changes when Valentino is hit with a deadly disease and is slowly dying in their hands. They tear each other off to end up re-uniting upon their love for the same man.
Style: independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gay, polyamory, porn actor, lgbt, aids, love triangle, gays and lesbians, bisexual, death, sex, hustler, phone sex ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: sex, college, virginity, drug, drug abuse, youth, lesbian, suicide, virgin, gay, love triangle, party ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, italy, dublin ireland, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
Style: teen, independent film, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, homosexuality, lgbt teen, coming of age, gays and lesbians, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, gay sex, high school, happy ending ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Heaven's a Drag (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, ghost, hiv, lgbtq, lgbt, homosexual, gay bashing, male nudity, lesbian, gay slur, cross dressing ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot: bisexual man, gay, unrequited love, prostitute, transsexual, lgbt, nightlife, love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.2
 1K
Twist (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crying ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, male prostitute, life is a bitch, drug abuse, lgbt, pimp, kids in trouble, addiction, sexual relations, youth, apprentice, society ...
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Taxi to the Toilet (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Frank Ripploh tries to keep his professional and personal life separate. During the day, he is a dedicated school teacher. At night and on the weekends, he is a gay man who is always on the prowl for anonymous sex often in public places. Things may ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: gay, oral sex, gender, looking for sex, infidelity, lgbt, teacher, couple relations, gays and lesbians, drug use, gay interest, masturbation ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: europe, germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Style: talky, humorous, sexy, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, love and romance, sexual relations, lifestyle, oral sex, crumbling marriage, curses spells and rituals, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, erotica ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, san francisco, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Totally F***ed Up (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Life really sucks for a group of gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los Angeles. Their parents kicked them out, they're broke and bored, their lovers cheat on them, and they're harassed by fag-bashers. If things are going to be this way, ...
Style: dark comedy, intense, aesthetic, erotic, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, orgasm, coming of age, lgbtq, gay interest, teenager, punk rock, junkie, slacker, angry ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 70s
Place: los angeles, malibu california, minneapolis minnesota, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.8
 80
Horsey (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, but soon it shows he can not be such an anchor - he's possessive, undependable and even a heroin addict.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sexual, gloomy ...
Plot: drug addiction, painter, musician, stoner, toxic relationship, bisexuality, religions or cults, friends, couples, destructive relationship, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada, morocco, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.8
 4K
Barry Munday (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
Style: semi serious, humorous, offbeat, captivating, light ...
Plot: castration, family relations, pregnancy, doctor, self discovery, meet the parents, eccentric family, disorder, couples, fatherhood, male female relationship, childbirth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Last Straight Man (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, independent film, homoerotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, closeted homosexual, gay romance, friendship, male nudity, lgbt, infidelity, male homosexuality, gay relationship, lovers reunited, friendship between men, double life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.6
 3K
The Fluffer (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Johnny Rebel is a charismatic heterosexual man who makes his living acting in gay porn. His live in girlfriend Babylon is a stripper so she understands the reality of working in the sex industry. Sean McGinnis doesnt. He is a 22-year-old kid who ...
Style: melancholic, intense, satirical, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, sex, obsession, porn industry, gender, lgbt, unrequited love, murder, unfulfilled love, actor's life, filmmaking, lgbtq ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Leather Jacket Love Story (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kyle is 18, an aspiring poet hoping to find inspiration by moving to the arty Silver Lake neighborhood of LA, and maybe love too. On day one, he finds a funky coffee shop, where he hopes to do some writing, but instead meets an older hunk.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbtq, sleaze, lgbt, nudity, homosexual, gay subtext, love affair, looking for love, twentysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Located in Madrid's Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga meets up with gigolo ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, mistaken identity, prostitution, looking for love, comedy of errors, lifestyle, friendship, infidelity, disorder, couple relations, fall in love, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 6K
Humpday (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Imagine your life is somewhat complete with a house, job, and wife but then your best friend from college comes knocking at your door at 2 AM. During a pot-induced hedonistic party, a plan is hatched between the two friends to create an Art Film of ...
Style: sexy, satirical, stylized, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: gay, friendship, sexuality, stereotypes, experimenting, unlikely partners, sexual relations, gay interest, filmmaking, dialogue, lgbt, art ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, mexico city, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Holding Trevor (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay romance, gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, addiction, hiv, introspection, lifestyle, destructive relationship, couples, looking for love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.9
 98K
Secretary (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: bdsm, sex scene, obsession, secretary, fetish, workplace romance, sexual perversion, sex in office, submissive woman, desire, sexual relations, coitus ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.8
 6K
Eating Out (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After getting dumped by his girlfriend Tiffani (Rebekah Kochan), Caleb (Scott Lunsford) commiserates with his roommate Kyle (Jim Verraros), who notes that while he has trouble getting the men he wants he could get any woman because he's gay.
Style: witty, erotic, lgbt cinema, independent film, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, phone sex, fall in love, looking for love, teenage love, best friend, couples, gay sex, lgbtqi ...
Place: tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
 721
Crutch (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.7
 2K
Satan's Brew (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, investigation, lifestyle, rise to the top, writer's life, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dark humor, prodigy, gender, media satire ...
Time: 19th century
Place: munich germany, southern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.1
 898
Slutty Summer (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Hunky writer Markus returns home to find his boyfriend of four years naked with another man. Newly single, he begins waiting tables at a swinging Chelsea hotspot where the indelible supporting cast of co-workers offers conflicting directions on the ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gay teenager, friendship, infidelity, lifestyle, youth, womanizer, opposites attract, unlikely couple, love triangle, looking for love, lgbtq ...
Place: new york, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.4
 35K
Shortbus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn social/artistic/sexual salon "Shortbus", loosely ...
Style: sexual, erotic, art house, sex comedy, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, gay, nudity, explicit sex, group sex, gays and lesbians, masturbation, male nudity, sexuality, homosexual, real sex, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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