Movies like Eyes Wide Open
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Eyes Wide Open (2009)
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Original name: עיניים פקוחות
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in Jerusalem's Orthodox community is respected by friends and family. However, when he hires handsome runaway student Ezri to assist with his business, sexual tensions bristle and the pair cautiously embark on a love affair. Meanwhile, a neighbouring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of her own choosing, even though she's been promised by her father to another. As forbidden truths come to the fore, these lovers are forced to either confront or relent in the face of a centuries-old religious community, with startling results.
Style:
bleak, realistic, erotic, captivating, tense, lgbt cinema, independent film, powerful, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, married man, gay sex, gay student, gay bashing, judaism, homosexuality, jewish family, infatuation, bare chested male, gay husband, lgbtq, warning, gay relationship, religion, arranged marriage, synagogue, wasp, secret relationship, gay parent, rejection ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
israel, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, persia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, lgbt cinema and gay cinema films with plots about gay, gay kiss, lgbt, lgbtq, gay relationship, gay interest and gay subtext mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Eyes Wide Open: Free Fall (2013), The Blonde One (2019), Burning Blue (2013), Mulligans (2008), Shelter (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what ...
Style:
emotional, homoerotic, sexual, sexy, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, male male relationship, gay slur, forbidden love, infidelity, gay straight relations, love affair ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
germany
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90%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Womanising Juan must quickly find a flatmate after his brother moves out. In moves Gabriel (the blonde of the title), Juan's stoic and very handsome co-worker, who is recently widowed and struggling to support his young daughter. What starts ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, bleak, surprise ending, suspense ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay relationship, homosexual, gay erotica, gay interest, gay romance, male male relationship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which ...
Style:
emotional, lgbt cinema, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, forbidden love, lgbtq, gay teenager, couple relations, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, lgbt, fighter pilot, love affair, life turned upside down ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Like the American classic, The Graduate - secrecy, betrayal, and a painful coming of age face a family in Mulligans, by first time feature film director Chip Hale.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sexual, disturbing ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, husband wife relationship, gender, gay friend, sexual attraction, best friend, sexual repression, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, family relations, gay slur ...
Place:
canada
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach ...
Style:
touching, sexy, sweet, romantic drama, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
gay, surfing, homosexuality, gay relationship, homosexual, gay romance, gay slur, lgbtqi, gay love, gays and lesbians, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
2000s, 70s
Place:
california, idaho, southern california, new jersey, san francisco ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay relationship, gay, lgbt, forbidden love, gender, gay sex, gay interest, sex, friendship between men, sexual attraction, self discovery ...
Time:
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Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Diego is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto. The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but ...
Style:
serious, realistic, eros, erotic, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay love, closeted homosexual, male male relationship, gay latino, lgbt, gay sex, unfaithful husband, gays and lesbians, infidelity, love triangle, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This is a film about the sexual awakening of Peter to feelings of homosexual desire.
Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
gender, gay, closeted homosexual, infidelity, murder, investigation, love affair, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, fall in love, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style:
sincere, emotional, visually stunning, stylized, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, homosexuality, infidelity, gay husband, racism, lgbtq, crumbling marriage, housewife, closeted homosexual, forbidden love, gay, divorce ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2000s, year 1958, year 2002 ...
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa, miami, baltimore ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love. In Swiss German.
Style:
lgbt cinema, sentimental, captivating, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay relationship, forbidden love, gay romance, gay athlete, gay interest, homoeroticism, male homosexuality, gay sex, lgbtq, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, switzerland, central europe
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Style:
sincere, serious, sexy, lgbt cinema, homoerotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina, latin america, russia ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young man involved in a love affair that will change his life forever, whilst his lover wrestles his demons on a journey that will force him to come to terms with his sexuality, leaving lives destroyed in the wake.
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, infidelity, brother sister relationship, gay sex, hiv, marriage, sexuality, lgbtqi, lgbtq, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
liverpool
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.
Style:
emotional, homoerotic, sincere, serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, forbidden love, gay relationship, gay couple, gay love, gay student, gay sex, israeli, male homosexuality, love affair, gay romance ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, palestinian authority, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search for the wife and son of his dead lover.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, psychological, tense, social ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay relationship, closeted gay, love, lgbt, bisexual man, gay romance, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Falls: Testament of Love is a continuation of the story of RJ Smith and Chris Merrill, two Mormon missionaries that fell in love during their mission in a small town in Oregon. The boys haven't spoken in five years, but when an unexpected ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, gay sex, lgbt, mormon, impossible love, young lovers, secret relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, utah, seattle, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Carla and Bruno believe they have answers for everything until Rai appears in their lives, an attractive and mysterious young who lives outside the rules. In this story about love and friendship, boundaries dissolve by the rhythm of funky and break ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, polyamory, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, bisexual, bisexual man, sex scene, gays and lesbians, love triangle, homosexual, sexual attraction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolete outpost is ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, homoerotic, realistic, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay soldier, israeli, gay lead character, gay love, glbt, gay slur, gay romance, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, lebanon, palestine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, sensual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
gay, first gay sexual experience, gay teenager, forbidden love, gay relationship, lgbt, gay love, male nudity, teenage life, male pubic hair, repressed homosexual, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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:
touching, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, immigration, homosexuality, gay relationship, syrian refugee, gay romance, gay lead character, gay sex, architect, forbidden love ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, cute ...
Plot:
gay slur, gay love, gay, gay relationship, gay bashing, male homosexuality, skinny dipping, homosexuality, male nudity, lgbt, father son relationship, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, eastern europe, hungary
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, love affair, racism, couples, love and romance, neo nazi, homosexuality, neo nazism, male bonding, friendship, unlikely couple, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, denmark
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, talky, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay relationship, gay romance, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay couple, gay student, male male relationship, lgbt, gay sex, gay love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, akron ohio, ohio, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Style:
lgbt cinema, romantic, captivating, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay love, gay couple, gay asian, gay relationship, homosexual, lgbt, gay interest, gay lead character, first love, gay romance ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 2000s, 2020s
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei, ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Peru, Colombia, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Style:
sincere, emotional, lgbt cinema, serious, touching ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay love, gay, lgbt, gay relationship, homosexual, closeted homosexual, gay latino, ghost, lgbtq, gay slur, male homosexuality ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bruno is an architect who has a perfect life: A nice family and a good job. Anyway, Bruno has a deep sense of unease. He decides to leave his wife to be alone and have time to find him self. A business man offers him to build an iconic landmark in ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay, gay crush, gay club, gay interest, lgbtq, male nudity, masturbation, gay sex, bisexuality, husband wife relationship, gay father, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of sight and kiss each other, but someone takes a picture of them. Soon, ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, realistic, captivating, disturbing, cute ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay love, gay bashing, gay teenager, gay youth, gay lead character, gay romance, gay relationship, homosexuality, lgbtq ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style:
emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay romance, gay relationship, homosexual, forbidden love, love story, gays and lesbians, lgbt, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, gay love ...
Time:
80s, year 1963, 60s, year 2005, 20th century ...
Place:
wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems ...
Style:
sexual, lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
gay, arab, gay love, gay interest, love and romance, couples, gays and lesbians, lgbt, homecoming, gay slur, happy ending, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tunisia, africa, south africa, france, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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