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Alive and Kicking (1996)
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Alive and Kicking (1996)
Original name: Indian Summer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, fairy tale ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, aids, bittersweet, lgbt, dancing, death, hospital, hiv, dance, glbt, lgbtq, friendship, pregnancy, sex, gay subtext, teenage love, plague, friends, alcohol abuse, love and romance, singleness, fall in love, couples, gays and lesbians, love affair ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: greece, london, athens greece

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and queer cinema films with plots about gay, love and romance, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, homosexual and friendship mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Alive and Kicking: Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997), Different for Girls (1996), It's My Party (1996), Heaven's a Drag (1994), Antarctica (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
Style: independent film, realistic, sentimental, witty, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, male nudity, hiv, nudity, gay couple, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, friendship, blind character, blindness ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new york state, usa
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Different for Girls (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she's ...
Style: sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: transsexual, gay, transgender, lgbt, glbt, lgbtq, bittersweet, friendship, gender, bullying, happy ending, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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It's My Party (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, glbt, death, friendship, deaf, gay interest, male nudity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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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 ⇓
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Antarctica (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: tel aviv israel, israel, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Style: sentimental, touching, teen, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, coming of age, teenage life, high school, gender, gay slur, gay teenager, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, youth, gays and lesbians, gay relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
Style: humorous, witty, sexual, touching, independent film ...
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Plot: gay, aids, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, hiv, celibacy, homosexuality, love, happy ending, lgbtqi, gay interest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Long-Term Relationship (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
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Shake It All About (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
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Place: denmark
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: erotic, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, political, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay relationship, aids, gay interest, lgbtq, road trip, gay slur, self discovery, couples, human nature, love affair, repression ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1984, year 1977, year 1973
Place: los angeles, usa, california, mexico
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
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Audience: date night, girls' night
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Country: Israel
Duration: 117 min.
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Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, controversial ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: romantic, sexy, sentimental, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
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Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: london, idaho, europe, tower bridge london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
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Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
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Audience: girls' night, date night
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, psychological ...
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Duration: 67 min.
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The Velocity of Gary (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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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
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Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Cuba, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Havana, Cuba, 1979. Flamboyantly gay artist Diego (Jorge Perugorría) attempts to seduce the straight and strait-laced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to become friends with Diego so he can monitor the ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, homoerotic, social ...
Plot: gay, communism, love, lgbtq, glbt, redemption, politics, friendship, social commentary, artist, gender, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 70s, year 1993, 90s, year 1979
Place: cuba, latin america, caribbean, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of friends search for fun, love and ultimately themselves in West Hollywood. This movie is an entertaining, and sometimes cynical look into the lives of six gay men trying to come to terms with what being gay and single (or gay and ...
Style: witty, semi serious, romantic comedy, clever, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay slur, gay relationship, lgbtq, love and romance, looking for love, infidelity, glbt, baseball, group of friends, gay interest ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: california, usa, idaho, los angeles
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34%
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Everyone (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The perfect gay couple are having a wedding in their backyard and they've invited the family and all their emotional baggage.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
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Place: canada
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Forgive and Forget (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, unrequited love, best friend, lgbt, closeted homosexual, love triangle, friendship, gay slur, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, buddies, looking for love ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lawless Heart (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner
Style: melancholic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: adultery, gay, infidelity, eccentricity, relationships, love and romance, love affair, sex, multiple storylines, couple relations, sex in car, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: europe, england, prague, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Longtime Companion (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, politics, friendship, lgbtq, gay couple, courage, gay interest, love, glbt, gay slur ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1988, year 1986 ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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