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Any Day Now (2012)
7K
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:
sincere, sad, uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, educational, tear jerker, powerful, serious ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay adoption, gay parent, gay, gay couple, closeted homosexual, lgbtq, homosexuality, couples, lgbt, gay slur, gay lead character, male male relationship, down syndrome, gay father, foster child, male homosexuality, district attorney, disability, gay rights, american football, first gay sexual experience, gay club, custody, parent child relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, year 2012, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, realistic and gay cinema films with plots about gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay kiss, gay lead character and gay subtext mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Any Day Now: Philadelphia (1993), Ideal Home (2018), I Am Sam (2001), Beach Rats (2017), The Green (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
272K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Style:
sincere, captivating, entertaining, lgbt cinema, dramatic ...
Plot:
gay, gay adoption, gay love, gay couple, gay interest, gay parent, boy, gay relationship, lgbt, lifestyle, male male relationship, father son relationship ...
Place:
santa fe new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
Similarity:
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161K
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 ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sad, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
lawyer, mentally challenged, father daughter relationship, single father, child custody, social services, custody, custody battle, disability, parents and children, foster child, love ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Style:
sexy, erotic, lgbt cinema, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay interest, lgbtq, gay, gay love, teenager, homosexuality, closeted homosexual, gay sex, male homosexuality, exploring sexuality, lgbt teen, male nudity ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Michael Gavin and his partner Daniel trade the rat race of New York City for the idyllic charm of the Connecticut shoreline, with hopes of a simpler life and time for Michael to finish his first novel. All that changes when one of Michael's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, lgbt cinema, touching ...
Plot:
gay teacher, gay, gay relationship, male male relationship, gay couple, lgbt, false accusation, gay slur, life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, society ...
Time:
year 1998, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 1970's ...
Style:
anthology, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, small town, gay bashing, male rape, gay athlete, couple relations, love and romance, high school student, lesbianism, lesbian, navy, lgbt ...
Time:
70s, 50s, year 1974, year 1954, 1950s ...
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 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 ...
Style:
intense, realistic, witty, powerful, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtqi, homosexual, homosexuality, lgbtq, gay slur, gay lead character, lgbt, gay relationship, birthday party, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, london, san francisco
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Style:
heartbreaking, serious, realistic, compassionate, powerful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay interest, lgbtq, gay, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, mental health, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, gay cowboy, friendship, gay couple ...
Time:
year 1968, 2020s, 60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
23%
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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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, queer cinema
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, gay adoption, gay parent, youth, drug addiction, adoption, drug addict, child trafficking, family relations, overdose, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
21%
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:
serious, psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, sea turtle, mother's day, birth mother ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sincere, touching, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, judaism, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay sex, gay couple, gay romance, male nudity, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
20%
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.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, gay, culture clash, religion, teenage pregnancy, gay latino, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, glendale california, spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style:
sincere, sexy, touching, lgbt cinema, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay couple, child abuse, gay relationship, gender, gays and lesbians, couples, dysfunctional family, lgbt teen, gay student, homosexual rape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
Style:
lgbt cinema, touching, disturbing, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, father son relationship, gay teenager, gay couple, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, rural setting, lgbt, gay lead character, male male relationship, conversion therapy ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their eight year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.
Style:
serious, social, captivating, dramatic
Plot:
gay couple, gay father, couples, gay parent, gay interest, gay, father son relationship, custody, custody battle, son, interracial relations, family relations ...
Similarity:
19%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him ...
Style:
talky, romantic, emotional, touching, crying ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay subtext, gay interest, gay couple, gay, father son relationship, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, swimmer, wedding, gay lead character, closeted gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, turkey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
American CIA Field Operative, Johnnie Allen, is assigned to Denmark for his first mission. An American spy highly placed in the Kremlin is to be spirited out of Russia, and it is Johnnie's job to get him safely to Antwerp where the agent will ...
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
gay, gay crush, gay relationship, gay couple, gay sex, gay slur, lgbtq, gay interest, homosexual, gay lead character, nude, male homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, germany, denmark
Similarity:
19%
185K
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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, sad, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
gay, politics, homosexuality, murder, homosexual, protest, gays and lesbians, male homosexuality, glbt, discrimination, gender, lgbtqi ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1973 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, new york, north america, idaho ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
homosexuality, gay marriage, lgbtq, gay, gay interest, lgbt, teacher, gay couple, relationships, wedding, couple relations, male male relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, social, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay relationship, gay sex, gay interest, male nudity, gay, gay lead character, gay love, gay couple, bare chested male, lovers, couples, love affair ...
Similarity:
19%
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:
sentimental, realistic, touching, political, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, gay, homosexuality, aids, closeted homosexual, gay slur, road trip, human nature, lgbtq, repressed homosexual, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1984, year 1977, year 1973
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, mexico
Similarity:
18%
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, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay teacher, lgbt, gay bar, homosexuality, disco, gay interest, gay stereotype, gay lead character, gay slur, school teacher, glbt ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, tumor, photograph, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, gay cruising, gay brother, group sex ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a gay couple's impending wedding hits a snag, the grooms must rely on their friends and family to see them through.
Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, touching ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay marriage, gay relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, childhood friend, marriage, homosexual, dishonesty, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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:
road movie, homoerotic, art house, erotic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, male prostitute, friendship, homosexual, coming of age, unrequited love, male prostitution, male friendship, lgbt, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, oregon, italy, rome italy ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collection of six gay-themed short films about relationships and the pain of love, including: REQUITED (directed by Sal Bardo), BOYS LIKE YOU (directed by Daniel Armando), WE ONCE WERE TIDE (directed by Jason Bradbury), REVOLUTION (directed by ...
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, romantic, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay lead character, gay interest, homosexual, gay relationship, love and romance, gay couple, love affair, fall in love, couple relations, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, sex work, gay lead character, homosexuality, gay couple, gay sex, gay relationship, gay love, male male relationship, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
350K
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.
Style:
sexy, inspirational, lgbt cinema, visually stunning, art house ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
forgiveness, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, lgbt, african american, homosexuality, gay, gay interest, dysfunctional family, drug addict, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place:
florida, atlanta georgia, indiana, idaho, miami
Similarity:
18%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jack an 18-year old hustler and his boyfriend Tom are an item, close and very much in love. Otherwise, Jack is impulsive and explosive with few redeeming qualities. Ken, a married man who hasn't come out of the closet, takes Jack from NYC to ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay relationship, gay lead character, male escort, gay, gay teenager, gay rape, gay interest, lovers, young lovers, prostitution, escort ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, miami
Similarity:
18%
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