Movies like Between Something & Nothing

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Between Something & Nothing (2008)
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Between Something & Nothing (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING is based on filmmaker Todd Verow’s experiences at Rhode Island School of Design. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art school, sexy small-town JOE and townie mastermind JENNIFER quickly join forces. They are determined to succeed on a campus over-populated with jaded mega-rich kids awash in trust funds, abortions and drugs galore.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
Plot: gay, art school, college, self discovery, dangerous attraction, friendship, youth, student life, lifestyle, prostitute, social misfits, lgbt, lgbtq, student, prostitution, hustler, male pubic hair, friends, misfit, gays and lesbians, sexual content, gender, college life, performer's life, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: rhode island

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, queer cinema, serious and sexual films with plots about gay, lgbt, gender, gay interest, gays and lesbians, lgbtq and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Between Something & Nothing: Vacationland (2006), FAQs (2005), Darker Than Midnight (2014), The Last Year (2002), Boys Life 2 (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Vacationland (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Filmmaker Todd Verow revisits his own youth for his latest work. The film's main character is Joe, who, like the director, grew up in Bangor in Maine. Joe, an 18 year old high school senior who longs to move away from poor white trash roots and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: gay crush, gay teenager, gay, lgbt teen, family relations, friendship, lgbt, gay relationship, lifestyle, teenage life, self discovery, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine
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FAQs (2005)
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: realistic, serious, touching, talky, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, social misfits, best friend, social relations, love and romance, misfit, society, lgbtq, gay bashing, gay erotica, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.4
 399
The Last Year (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, couples, gender, incest, gays and lesbians, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenage love, love affair, friends, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Boys Life 2 (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, best friend, high school life, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
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39%
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Man at Bath (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove they are not in love.
Style: contemplative, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gay, gay erotica, sex scene, male pubic hair, nudity, self discovery, breakup, introspection, gender, couples, family problems, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, usa, new york, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Stranger in Us (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gender, looking for love, couples, love and romance, city life, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, gay lead character, abusive boyfriend, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Brother to Brother (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Style: serious, thought provoking, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot: black lgbt, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, love and romance, estrangement ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Sex Movie (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Four friends spend an evening together after time apart. Differences in sex and sexuality reveal deep-rooted conflicts and long-hidden longings.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, under the surface, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, sexual relations, private vs public, gay, sexuality, friends, sex, sexual fantasy ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style: realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot: gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drug addict, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Schoolboy Crush (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Aoi, a young teacher with striking good looks, has just learned that his newest student Sora is the alluring teen prostitute he once hired. Here the nightmare begins. As the walls of the prestigious academy become a percolating hotbed of sexual ...
Style: psychological, realistic, sexy, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: gay, boys love, high school, transsexual, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, student life, lgbt, couples, power relations, school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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30%
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Sebastian (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, touching, gay cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, boys love, glbt, lgbtqi, coming of age, gay subtext, fall in love, best friend, couples, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 557
The Lost Coast (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Director/screenwriter Gabriel Fleming (One Thousand Years) explores the subtleties of loneliness, friendship, and sexuality with this tale of two high school friends who are forced to face their unspoken sexual history while wandering the streets of ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Aleksandr's Price (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The life of an illegal Russian boy who, after losing his family, is pushed into becoming an escort - ultimately trying to come to terms with who he thinks he is.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
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28%
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Frisk (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A first person narrative of a gay serial killer explores violence, sexuality, and imagination.
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Plot: gay, lgbt, serial killer, lgbtq, fetish, gay erotica, lgbtqi, bondage, male nudity, male prostitution, nudity, male pubic hair ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Hooks to the Left (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow's experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male ...
Style: experimental, suspense, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: gay, male prostitute, sexual content, sex worker, prostitute, eroticism, male prostitution, lgbtq, lgbt, gay interest, hustler, gay sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style: anthology, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, sexuality, male nudity, gay interest, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, campus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Atomic Age (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
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Style: serious, sincere, realistic, melancholic, exciting ...
Plot: gay, friendship, teenage life, friends, buddies, lifestyle, on the road, city life, lgbt, teenager, coming of age, feminist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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27%
Phantom Images (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
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Time: 21st century
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26%
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Nighthawks (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A gay man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. A respectable geography teacher by day; by night, hanging out in London's gay bars, looking for a long-term relationship, but usually encountering only ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sexual ...
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Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe
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26%
Stories of Our Lives (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, social misfits, society, discrimination, misfit, gay, blaxploitation, black lgbt, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kenya, africa, south africa
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25%
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, queer cinema
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25%
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Harrad Summer (1974)
Genre: Drama
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25%
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Genre: Drama
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Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, queer cinema
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24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Unspoken Passion (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sikil tells the story of two men and a woman who are involved in a bizarre love triangle. These three friends grew up in a small town south of Manila. Enzo is a young closet gay prostitute who's obsessed with his childhood friend who happens to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, love triangle, best friend, childhood friend, life is a bitch, prostitute, love and romance, dangerous attraction, couples, haunted by the past, sexual relations, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.9
 557
The Masseur (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Following the death of his father and a chance meeting with an abusive romance novelist, a masseur working in a gay massage parlor struggles to make sense of his unfulfilling relationships while simultaneously assisting his mother in preparing his ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot: gay, masseur, male prostitute, sexual relations, prostitute, dysfunctional family, death of father, family problems, self discovery, family life, parents and children, massage parlor ...
Place: the philippines, asia
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24%
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Poster Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintance (Noseworthy), the closeted son (Newton) of a conservative U.S. Senator (Lerner) puts a shocking spin on his dad's re-election campaign.
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, queer cinema
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Place: north carolina, usa
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23%
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Strapped (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler into a series of life-changing encounters in this drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like ...
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Plot: gay, prostitution, apartment building, lgbt, gay sex, gays and lesbians, prostitute, loneliness, changing lives, couples, male prostitution, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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