Movies like The New Twenty

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The New Twenty (2008)
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The New Twenty (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, sexy, captivating, talky, sexual
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, friendship, hiv, gay, college, best friend, young lovers, male homosexuality, friends, wall street, addiction, love and romance, singleness, sexual relations, couples, gays and lesbians, self discovery, introspection, lifestyle, city life, adolescence vs adulthood, twentysomething life, homosexual, interracial relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006, 20s
Place: new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and touching films with plots about gays and lesbians, gender, gay, lgbt, love and romance, gay interest and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The New Twenty: Groove (2000), Whirlwind (2007), Boys Life 2 (1997), Holding Trevor (2007), Poster Boy (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Groove (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Style: independent film, atmospheric, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: rave, drug dealing, lifestyle, drug, fish out of water, nightlife, bisexual, city life, dj, gay, party, drug use ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, new york, california
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100%
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Whirlwind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A hot, young and charming man with ulterior motives enters the lives of a tight-knit group of gay men in New York City and at first adds excitement and intrigue to their group, but events soon spiral out of control as he deliberately attempts to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy, serious ...
Plot: gay, gay club, gay relationship, friendship, infidelity, couples, lifestyle, homosexual, breakup, thirtysomething life, emotionless, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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29%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Holding Trevor (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay romance, gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, addiction, hiv, introspection, lifestyle, destructive relationship, couples, looking for love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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
Plot: lgbt, gay, politics, college, republican, campaign, love and romance, parents and children, sexual relations, lgbtq, election, political campaign ...
Place: north carolina, usa
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24%
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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 ⇓
24%
The Art of Being Straight (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A sexy, comedic drama about two college friends questioning their careers and sexuality in east Los Angeles.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: bisexuality, gay, lgbt, sexuality, sexual confusion, sexual orientation, unlikely couple, self discovery, looking for love, first time, exploring sexuality, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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On_Line (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: John, a computer whiz on the rebound from a disastrous break-up, starts an adult Internet site with his roommate, Moe. They are soon caught up in the erotic nature of the chat sessions they host, changing both their lives.
Style: erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, touching ...
Plot: internet, voyeurism, couples, lifestyle, couple relations, computers and web, gender, obsession, destructive relationship, college, looking for love, cyberspace ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa, new york
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23%
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X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
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23%
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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 ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, friendship, forest, halloween, gay best friend, self discovery, haunted by the past, lifestyle, introspection, hopes, camping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As Noah and Wade prepare to marry in Martha's Vineyard, the personal problems of their friends - and the unexpected arrival of rapper Baby Gat - threatens to permanently end their relationship.
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay african american, wedding, gays and lesbians, gay, friendship, marriage, best friend, self discovery, young lovers, couples, looking for love, lovers reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
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22%
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Nine Lives (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, hiv, gay sex, infidelity, support group, lifestyle, lgbt, social relations, couples, youth, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
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22%
Race You to the Bottom (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Nathan and Maggie are in the throes of a passionate affair. They're young, good-looking, and both have boyfriends. When Nathan is assigned to write a travel article on romantic hot-spots in Napa Valley, these unconventional lovers test the ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, homosexual, self discovery, love affair, love triangle, bisexual, couples, destructive relationship, young lovers, lifestyle, journalism, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
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22%
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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
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21%
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Urbania (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, psychological, talky, sexy ...
Plot: gay, urban legend, gender, murder, character study, depression, lgbt, gangster, mentor, twists and turns, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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21%
The Boys in the Band (1970)
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 ...
Style: intense, realistic, witty, powerful, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, homosexuality, homosexual, gay lead character, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay slur, lgbtqi, lgbtq, glbt, friendship ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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21%
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Nasty Baby (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, interracial couple, gay couple, friendship, illegal immigrant, couples, couple relations, best friend, gender, society, love and romance, latinx lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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21%
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Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
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20%
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Jeffrey (1995)
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 ...
Audience: date night
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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20%
Happy Endings Sleepover (2019)
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: unusual plot structure, psychological, contemplative, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: gay, gay crush, gay slur, gay interest, gay sex, homosexual, gay relationship, lgbtq, gay couple, love and romance, gay love, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, germany, denmark
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20%
Common Ground (2000)
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: realistic, semi serious, sincere, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: gay bashing, lesbian, closeted homosexual, small town, navy, lgbt, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life, couples ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 1950s, 2000s, year 1974 ...
Place: connecticut
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20%
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, art school, college, dangerous attraction, self discovery, lifestyle, youth, student life, friendship, social misfits, prostitute, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island
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20%
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Our Sons (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
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20%
Don't Tell Anyone (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, touching ...
Plot: gender, cocaine, college, coming of age, lgbt, skinny dipping, drug abuse, society, youth, racism, latinx lgbt, gay ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, peru, usa, florida
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20%
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Circuit (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: John is an ex-cop who leaves small-town life and provincial attitudes behind for a new existence in West Hollywood. As he seeks an open, accepting gay life, John is introduced to the fast-paced Circuit Party scene, featuring beautiful people and a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, male prostitution, male prostitute, drug abuse, lgbt, addiction, fish out of water, love and romance, lifestyle, gay culture, nightlife, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, illinois, california, palm springs california, usa
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20%
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Hard Pill (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to make gay men straight.
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: medical experiment, lgbt, love affair, transsexual, couple relations, midlife crisis, gender, estrangement, couples, homosexual, lgbtq, gay interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dysfunctional family drama. Absent father, alcoholic brother Tim (Jim Carrey) try to cope with life. Fox movie of the week.
Style: cult classic, realistic, semi serious, talky, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, alcoholic, gay interest, substance abuse, glbt, gender, slice of life, recovery, happy ending, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 90s
Place: yale university
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20%
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Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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On the Edge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three flatmates in Mexico City face uncertainties: LucĂ­a who has a great job as an art director for TV commercials is abusing alcohol and cocaine. She risks losing her job, going to prison for assault, and she's woefully in love with a ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sexy, sexual
Plot: addiction, eroticism, lesbian sex, gay love, lifestyle, friendship, lesbian, infidelity, drug abuse, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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