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3 Generations (2015)
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3 Generations (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
Style: sincere, captivating, emotional, disturbing, sexy, teen, lgbt cinema, neurotic, queer cinema
Plot: transgender, lesbian, lgbt, single mother, grandmother granddaughter relationship, teenager, lgbtq, transsexual, gay, lgbtqi, gender, starting over, strong female character, transvestite, woman, resistance, filling station, grandmother grandson relationship, drinking, mother daughter relationship, dancing, school, strong female lead, fight, train ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, realistic and sincere films with plots about lgbt, gay, lgbtq, family relations, coming of age, teenager and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like 3 Generations: Girl (2018), 52 Tuesdays (2013), A Kid Like Jake (2018), Circumstance (2011), Beach Rats (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Girl (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl, born in a boy's body, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.
Style: social, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ballerina, transsexual, transgender, trans woman, dancing, transsexuality, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, ballet school, teenager, first sexual experience ...
Time: 2010s, 90s
Place: antwerp, belgium
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lgbt teen, lgbtq, teenager, teenage sexuality, religion, lesbian teen, lesbian love, conversion therapy, female sexuality, sex education ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, year 1993
Place: indiana
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52 Tuesdays (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, rough ...
Plot: teenage girl, gender, coming of age, transsexual, lgbt, family relations, disorder, youth, parents and children, transgender, lgbtq, realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, san francisco, antarctica
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70%
A Kid Like Jake (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake’s preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake’s gender expansive behavior to help him stand ...
Style: captivating, deep, fairy tale, independent film, queer cinema
Audience: preschool
Plot: gay, crossdresser, gender issues, desire for fame, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, transgender, lgbtq, gender, social issues, lgbt ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, montana, scotland, switzerland
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Circumstance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession
Style: touching, emotional, atmospheric, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, first lesbian experience, teenage girl, lgbt, closeted lesbian, iranian, family relations, teenage life, lesbian love, rebellion, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, tehran iran, persia, indiana ...
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Beach Rats (2017)
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: realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, teenager, older man younger man relationship, gay love, lgbt teen, gay sex, gay erotica, dating, exploring sexuality, lgbt, lgbtq, coming of age ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york, atlantic ocean
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54%
My Life in Pink (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.
Style: controversial, touching, psychological, social, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: transsexual, gender, coming of age, transgender, cross dressing, gay, children, glbt, women, lgbtq, psychologist, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: france, belgium, paris france, europe
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Gun Hill Road (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, lgbt, gay, transsexual, homecoming, going straight, starting over, family problems, estrangement, redemption, dysfunctional family, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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52%
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Matted (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story: Rose Lee is just a typical high school student trying to figure things out. Her dream is to join the boy's wrestling team, but no one is making it easy for her. Along the way, she'll discover that her most difficult opponent may be herself.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, teenage girl, girl, friendship, transgender, teenage boy, teacher, school, student, small town, father daughter relationship, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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An Early Frost (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, quarantine, hiv positive, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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51%
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Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
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51%
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Jack (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, family life, teenage love, parents and children, self discovery, couples, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, transgender, gender bending, family drama, depression, sexuality, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Denmark, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Style: serious, sincere, stylized, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: political protest, teenage girl, cuban missile crisis, cold war, coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, teenage life, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1962
Place: cuba, england, europe, london
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Princess Cyd (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, touching, sincere, social ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, coming of age, bisexual girl, teenage girl, lgbtq, first lesbian experience, novelist, dating, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, sapphic, lesbian couple ...
Time: year 1968, year 1992, 1850s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place: illinois, south carolina, chicago
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Driveways (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can't relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with grouchy old Del from next door.
Plot: death of sister, boyhood, transformation, boy, gay, teenager, single mother, widower, birthday party, young boy, summer, neighbor ...
Time: year 2008
Place: new york state
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Don't Call Me Son (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his ...
Style: melancholic, depressing, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gender, 17 year old, transvestism, gay, teenage boy, lgbtq, family relations, lgbt, parents and children, teenager, music band, bisexual ...
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Tomboy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, indiana, paris france, europe
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Cowboys (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, social, queer cinema
Plot: transsexual, father son relationship, separated parents, mental illness, mental health, transsexuality, wildlife, runaway, wilderness, gay, family relations, desire for fame ...
Place: montana
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Alaska Is a Drag (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, an aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned to fight back, which catches the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, brother sister relationship, lgbtq, life is a bitch, wrestler, fight, social problems, fistfight, drag racing, african, lesbian ...
Place: alaska
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Echo Park LA (2006)
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
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, religion, virginity, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, glendale california
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49%
Pretty/Handsome (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A married father of two tells his wife and teenage sons that he is transsexual.
Style: cult classic, queer cinema, tv series pilot
Plot: lgbt, transsexual, gay, older woman younger man relationship, transgender, transsexuality, trans woman, flashback, sex, party, seduction, marriage ...
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Julie Johnson (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of ...
Style: sincere, realistic, clever, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, self discovery, friendship, follow your dream, forbidden love, lifestyle, lgbt, human nature, love and romance, feminism, couples, parents and children ...
Place: new jersey, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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48%
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Joyland (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
Style: enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot: transgender, transgender woman, lgbt, gay, suicide, family relations, transsexual, lgbtq, youth, fall in love, couples, love ...
Place: pakistan
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Just Charlie (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's ...
Style: sincere, psychological, disturbing, emotional, crying ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, transvestism, transsexual, trans woman, transgender, discrimination, gang violence, lgbtq, father son relationship, depression, secret, acceptance ...
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Bad Night (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
Style: black and white, indie film, sexual, thinking, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, immigrant, gay interest, gay sex, opposites attract, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, homosexuality, hustler, glbt ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
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Skate Kitchen (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, aesthetic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skateboard, skateboarder, teenage girl, feminist, mother daughter relationship, sisterhood, society, social media, female friendship, coming of age, rebellious youth, party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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48%
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" ...
Style: psychological, sexy, touching, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, lgbt teen, gay, gay teenager, masturbation, lgbtq, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, friendship, self mutilation, puberty, adultery ...
Place: chicago
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Wildlife (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style: melancholic, suspenseful, indie film, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: unemployment, coming of age, teenage boy, infidelity, parents and children, cheerleader, fired from the job, marital separation, family relations, family drama, father son relationship, unemployed ...
Time: 60s, 90s, year 1960
Place: montana, sarajevo, idaho, portland oregon, washington state
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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