Movies like Any Day Now
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Any Day Now (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, uplifting, sentimental, touching, sad, serious, emotional, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay adoption, adoption, lgbt, gay parent, district attorney, fighting the system, courtroom drama, lgbtq, rivalry, parents and children, couples, legal, society, social problems, custody, legislation, civil rights, american football, first gay sexual experience, gay couple, acceptance, abandoned, homosexual ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, queer cinema, touching and serious films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay interest, homosexual, lgbtq, gay slur and gay kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Any Day Now: Ideal Home (2018), Philadelphia (1993), I Am Sam (2001), Milk (2008), The Other Family (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
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Audience:
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lawyer, mentally challenged, father daughter relationship, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, justice ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who became an outspoken agent for change, seeking equal rights and opportunities for all. His great love for the city and its people brought him backing from young and ...
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thought provoking, political, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
gay, politics, homosexual, murder, gays and lesbians, homosexuality, protest, discrimination, male homosexuality, politician, gender, homosexual history ...
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70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1977, year 1976 ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Jean Paul and Chema have been together ten years. They have successful careers, a comfortable home and many friends. But that's all turned turned upside down when close friend Ivana rescues Hendrix from his broken home and asks them to care for ...
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serious, realistic, sincere, touching, queer cinema
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
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Plot:
gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, gay interest, birth mother, hiv positive, sea turtle ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2000 ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
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Place:
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34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, compassionate, heartbreaking, realistic, queer cinema
Audience:
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Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, friendship, lgbtq, homosexuality, mental health, male objectification, social problems, society, moral dilemma, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, year 1968
Place:
new york
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34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Josh and Paul want to adopt Nickie, the child of Paul's recently deceased friend Susan. Susan's mother opposes gays' adopting, and Monday is the final court date. On Friday, Josh stops by a market for milk and glimpses a Mob hit. ...
Style:
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Plot:
gay, gay parent, lgbtq, gay adoption, lgbt, adoption, gay father, gay couple, gay lead character, homosexual, gay interest, gay relationship
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34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
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sexy, talky, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
gay, aids, estrangement, hospital, family relations, parents and children, friendship, family problems, small town, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time:
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33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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Plot:
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32%
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Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
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Duration: 91 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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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 ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, ...
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