Movies like Woodpeckers

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Woodpeckers (2017)
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Woodpeckers (2017)
Original name: Carpinteros
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
Style: romantic drama
Plot: prison, gay, lgbt, jealousy, sign language, racial slur, female nudity, sex scene, singing, death of protagonist, female masturbation, bus, male masturbation, male full rear nudity, cell phone, bald woman, prison riot, marriage, prison visit, bare chested male, main character dies, female prisoner, kiss, knife, gun ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, psychological, suspenseful and serious films with plots about lgbt, gay, female nudity, male nudity, bare chested male, sex scene and gay interest mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Woodpeckers: Luna Park (2013), Hotel Coppelia (2021), Phoenix (2006), Second Life (2009), A Good Boy (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Luna Park (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal ...
Style: erotic, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbtq, lgbt, gay sex, female pubic hair, nudity, male pubic hair, voyeurism, sex scene, female nudity, incest rape, erection ...
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95%
 6.4
 698
Hotel Coppelia (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps find love. But everything changes ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: prostitution, forced prostitution, female nudity, prostitute, lesbian relationship, sex worker, american soldier, masturbation, rape, brothel, wartime, social problems ...
Time: 60s
Place: dominican republic
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73%
 5.6
 426
Phoenix (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 classic L'Avventura, Michael Akers' "PHOENIX" is infused with symbolism and a sexy spark. Dylan Wells (Chad Edward Bartley) has a good job, a great apartment and an exciting ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, gay subtext, man in underwear, gay sex, male nurse, love triangle, birthday, double life, infidelity ...
Place: phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 4.2
 782
Second Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if ...
Plot: lgbt, drug, car crash, treachery, harassment, vineyard, black bra, fashion model, flashback, party, lesbianism, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 301
A Good Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver, who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not easy for Achim to get used to an adolescent around the house, especially since Sven hardly ...
Plot: pedophilia, gay, youth, lgbt, boyhood, parent child relationship, taxi driver, embarrassment, father son relationship, masturbation, sex scene, male nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Great Freedom (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and ...
Style: touching, talky, unusual plot structure, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: prison, gay, homosexuality, prison life, lgbt, gay cruising, prison sex, male homosexuality, lgbtq, holocaust survivor, gay teacher, masturbation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, year 1968, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place: germany, west germany, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
I'll Love You Forever... Tonight (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set in the late 1980s, this critically acclaimed indie classic from 1992 portrays a gritty side of gay life in Los Angeles. Ethan (Paul Marius), a 27-year-old photographer, believes he has no need for love or commitments, and is living his life ...
Plot: gay, lgbtq, lgbt, one night stand, friendship between men, photography, sexual attraction, traumatic past, jealousy, gay interest, sexual tension, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1980
Place: los angeles, california, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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My Hustler (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Filmed on Fire Island, this two reel, 70 minute Warhol film covers the activities of the "Dial A Hustler" service, as an older man seeks a young hustler for a companion.
Style: independent film, bizarre, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: gay hustler, gay, lgbt, dialogue, gay subtext, male prostitution, bare chested male, desire, massage, possessiveness, hustler, gay lead character ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Ciudad de Ciegos (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the ...
Plot: lgbt, erotica, female pubic hair, nudity, male pubic hair, sex scene, male nudity, female nudity, gore, female full frontal nudity, hammock, shower
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Sparrows (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, melancholic
Plot: coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, incest, boyhood, father, child, boy ...
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 775
Kuduz (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills ...
Plot: female nudity, muslim, bride and groom, adultery, hiding, outlaw, revenge motive, mountain, nudity, jealousy, drunkenness, prison ...
Place: bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.8
 1K
Genesis (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, first love, teenage sexuality, coming of age, teenage love, love, gay teenager, lgbtq, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, open relationship, lgbt, boarding school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
 2K
The Prince (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Prince, moved by jealousy and doubts about its sexuality, kills the Gipsy, his bestest friend. In jail he'll meet the Horse, a respected gangster in prison through which will discover, by force, the immense human need of love and being ...
Style: suspenseful, sexy, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gay interest, gay relationship, gay, male objectification, jail cell, prison rape, gay erotica, gay love, homosexual, criminal, murder, male full rear nudity ...
Time: year 1970, 2000s, 70s
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The King of Havana (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Dominican Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: reformatory, adolescence, poverty, murder, sex scene, sexuality, gay erotica, life is a bitch, gay, survival, rivalry, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.5
 96
Alice (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Alice has deeply buried feelings and memories for her sister Manon who is about to be married. During their childhood the two sisters were extremely close not only emotionally, but also sexually. With news of the wedding the pain of the past ...
Plot: lesbian, half sister half sister incest, lgbtq, girl, lgbt, lesbian incest, sister sister incest, lesbian sex, female pubic hair, female orgasm, female nudity, female masturbation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 8.2
 37
Bd. Voltaire (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A circle of friends is getting together for a fun night out in Paris. It is Friday, the 13th of November, 2015.
Style: black and white
Plot: lgbt, gay, bare chested male, tragedy, real estate agent, dinner party, smoking, friend, jealousy, gay interest, islamic terrorism, in love ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Taste of Apple Seeds (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style: family saga, period drama
Plot: food, lgbt, death, seducing, strong female lead, secret love, skinny dipping, sex scene, jealousy, female nudity, strong female character, seduction
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Body Electric (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lgbtq, gay, lgbt, lgbtqi, male pubic hair, erection, gay interest, gay sex, male nudity, gay subtext, nudity, male objectification ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 6.7
 851
José (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min.
Story: José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay relationship, lgbt, sex scene, religion, male pubic hair, gay sex, lgbtq, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place: guatemala
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
 468
Jesus (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Colombia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 18-year-old Jesús lives with his stern, somewhat unaffectionate father in Santiago, Chile. When not doing drugs, having casual sex or simply slouching in front of the TV, Jesús and his friends perform in a K-pop boyband. But his routine is thrown ...
Style: sexy, homoerotic, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, father son relationship, homoeroticism, gay slur, teenage boy, police, dance, coma, punched in the face, drunk, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
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42%
 6.6
 191
Return to Go (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: nude beach, gay, hiv, naked in public, homosexuality, gay interest, lgbt, aids, gay subtext, car crash, male homosexuality, public nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fighting for My Daughter (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Plot: drug, bare chested male, physical abuse, drinking, mother daughter relationship, jail, sex, prison, male female relationship, nightclub, fight, prostitution ...
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41%
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Shiner (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Raising the subtext of "Fight Club" into text, "Shiner" depicts a pair of amateur boxers gratified by punching each others' lights out. Theirs is among a trio of twisted love stories in the narrative feature by 29-year-old ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, stalker, fight, homoeroticism, gay slur, glbt, lgbtq, lgbt, fighter, oral sex, gay interest, gay sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 5.6
 253
Looping (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three intertwining stories about women, who end up in a psychiatric clinic...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, prison, woman, female nudity, female protagonist, skinny dipping, bulimia, death of mother, sister sister relationship, alcoholic mother, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Life (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, female nudity, bare butt, bare chested male, male pubic hair, male nudity, jail, prison sex, aids, male objectification, hiv, prison life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.6
 176
Crossway (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 53 min.
Story: A very interesting thriller about the coming of age of a troubled young man searching his place in this world. Teenage boy Jonathan (Fabien de Marchi) is having a hard time living with his father and stepmother. On a whim, he steals some money and ...
Style: homoerotic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, teenage boy, friendship between boys, lgbt, catholic priest, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, kidnapping, male pubic hair, bare chested male, male nudity, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.8
 299
The Zone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about ...
Style: mumblecore, sexy, psychological, melancholic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: threesome, female nudity, sex with a stranger, lesbian, gay, relationships, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, jealousy, couples, mysterious stranger, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Love You, I Don't (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A waitress with boyish looks and the gay driver of a garbage truck fall in love.
Style: sexual, lgbt cinema, stylized, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: bare chested male, employer employee relationship, waitress, male nudity, homosexual, truck driver, truck, erotica, woman peeing, heterosexuality, sexual content, fetish ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 1K
Sublime (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When 16-year-old Manu realises that he has fallen in love with his bandmate Felipe, turbulent emotions start brewing beneath the surface. How do you avoid losing a friendship once its very foundation has shifted?
Style: art house
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay teenager, lgbtq, coming of age, friendship, teenage boy, latinx lgbt, boys love, teenage crush, teenager ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 85
Giraffes (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Colombia, Panama
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lía and Manuel live illegally in a closed house. Tania, trying to regain her rights over the space that her uncle left her, intends to evict them. But the couple is not ready to leave and Tania decides to retrench on the top floor of the house. The ...
Plot: female nudity, woman peeing, love triangle, bare chested male, male nudity, shower, smoking after sex, guitar playing
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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