Movies like Tom of Finland

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Tom of Finland (2017)
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Tom of Finland (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Style: homoerotic, romantic, serious, realistic, compassionate, social, surreal, novela, queer cinema, banned
Plot: gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual history, gay soldier, homosexuality, lgbtq, gay slur, naked man, lgbtqi, murder, husband wife relationship, 30 year old, nurse, obituary, emigrant, jail cell, corpse, romanticism, pursuit, smoking, aids, love, painter, gay love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two, year 1991
Place: new york, los angeles, san francisco, berlin germany, finland, helsinki finland, germany ...
Keyword: alias, jewish, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, serious, realistic and touching films with plots about lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, lgbtqi, biopic and bare chested male mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Tom of Finland: Christopher and His Kind (2011), Boy Erased (2018), The Normal Heart (2014), The Happy Prince (2018), Saint Laurent (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1931 budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. Whilst working as an English teacher his housemates include bewigged old queen Gerald Hamilton and ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, sexual, crying ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, lgbt, self discovery, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lifestyle, writers, homosexual, sadomasochism, fall in love, society ...
Time: 1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1931, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany, england, hamburg germany ...
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Boy Erased (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, religion, lgbtq, conversion therapy, gay teenager, gay interest, father son relationship, homosexual, coming of age, church, lgbt teen ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 2010s
Place: new york, southern usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Normal Heart (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the ...
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: aids, gay, gays and lesbians, gay slur, homosexuality, terminal illness, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual, life is a bitch, friendship, gay love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1982, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, usa, ethiopia, manhattan new york city, yale university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Happy Prince (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: THE HAPPY PRINCE tells the story of the last days of Oscar Wilde. This great man of letters, once one of the most famous authors in England, is now a superstar on the skids. As Oscar lies on his death bed, the past comes flooding back to him, ...
Style: suspenseful, touching, melancholic, sad, depressing ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay relationship, gay couple, gay youth, gay friend, gay romance, victorian england, writers, downfall, homosexual, gay father ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 2000s
Place: paris france, london, naples italy
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100%
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Saint Laurent (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Style: captivating, stylized, serious, realistic, eros ...
Plot: fashion, gay, fashion designer, nudity, male nudity, rise to the top, interview, couple relations, lgbt, model, scandal, fashion industry ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wilde (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style: homoerotic, costume drama, touching, period piece, witty ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay, writers, homosexual, hypocrisy, biopic, lgbt, male homosexuality, scandal, gay lead character, glbt, poetry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1997, edwardian era
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style: independent film, witty, dark comedy, black comedy, period piece ...
Plot: gay, writers, gay cruising, lgbt, murder, biopic, male nudity, glbt, playwright, homosexuality, lgbtq, art ...
Time: 60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1964 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, brighton, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Milk (2008)
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, political, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: gay, politics, homosexuality, protest, homosexual, murder, gays and lesbians, discrimination, male homosexuality, politician, biopic, gender ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1973 ...
Place: san francisco, california, new york, america, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Am Michael (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gender, lgbt, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, church, lgbtq, preacher, introspection, society, lgbtqi, faith ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, year 1998, year 2002, year 2000 ...
Place: indiana, usa, san francisco, wyoming, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.6
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Sal (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: gay, lifestyle, introspection, ambition, actor's life, artists and showbiz, hopes, friendship, murder, celebrity, biopic, beat generation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
An Englishman in New York (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, gays and lesbians, englishman abroad, lifestyle, showbiz, narcissism, friendship, society, aging, performer's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images ...
Style: enigmatic, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: homosexuality, life & death, gay interest, gay, friendship, filmmaking, homosexual, biopic, depression, loneliness, adaptation, gardener ...
Time: year 1998, 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Dance of the 41 (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.
Style: tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, sweet ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay, gay slur, gay relationship, orgy, homosexual history, homosexual, female nudity, gay sex, gay affair, male nudity, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, homosexuality, suicide, life is a bitch, homosexual, gay relationship, gay love, male homosexuality, gay slur, gay rights ...
Time: 2000s, year 1984, year 1979, 21st century
Place: usa, ethiopia, san francisco, california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Valentino (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, stylized, offbeat ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hollywood, homosexual subtext, gay, filmmaking, tango, dancing, showbiz, biopic, movie star, sensuality, world war one, affair ...
Time: 1920s, victorian era, year 1919, 1910s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Before Night Falls (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, lyrical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, aids, homosexual, writers, poet, childhood, artist, gays and lesbians, gay latino, idealism, writer's life, freedom ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 80s, 70s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba, caribbean, new york ...
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25%
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Pedro (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, hiv, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, life is a bitch, society, hopes, terminal illness, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1994
Place: cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
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24%
Holding the Man (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge ...
Style: touching, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay student, gay couple, aids, gay romance, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay love, gay son, homosexual history ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: austria, australia, indiana, italy, melbourne ...
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Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: atmospheric, serious, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
Place: spain, andalusia, europe, italy, paris france ...
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The Danish Girl (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
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Time: 1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
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24%
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Joe Bell (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.
Style: melancholic, touching, talky, psychological, thought provoking ...
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Mapplethorpe (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
Style: costume drama, queer cinema
Plot: gay, aids, gay interest, artist, photographer, obscenity, hiv, bdsm, photograph, art, controversy, racism ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Tove (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb ...
Style: psychological, tense, melancholic, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, writers, lgbt, lesbian relationship, artist, lesbian love, unrequited love, lesbian couple, love affair, love, female artist ...
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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 ...
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Burning Blue (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which ...
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs like "Killer Queen", "Bohemian ...
Style: inspirational, touching, rough, informative, historical drama ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: musician, lgbt, music, gay, aids, singer, rock band, rock music, musician's life, friendship between men, fame, rock concert ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s, future, 70s ...
Place: england, atlanta georgia, los angeles, edinburgh scotland, munich germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Against the Law (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly – during the time homosexuality was a crime – turned Queen's evidence against him in one of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, tense, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, male homosexuality, gay relationship, prison, gay slur, lgbtqi, love and romance, gay couple, homosexuality ...
Time: year 1952, 1950s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
120 Beats Per Minute (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of ...
Style: art house, thought provoking, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, gay relationship, ejaculation, hospital, gay sex, lgbtq, gay pride, protest ...
Time: 90s, year 2017, 2000s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.1
 51K
Kinsey (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into ...
Style: sexual, controversial, talky, erotic, factual ...
Plot: gay, sexuality, professor, lgbt, scientist, male nudity, homosexual, psychology, research, nudity, gay interest, homosexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2004 ...
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The White Crow (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ballet, cold war, dancer, dancing, gay, politics, desertion, kgb, painting, biopic, nudity, lgbt ...
Time: 50s, year 2019, year 1961, 1950s, year 1938
Place: paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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