Movies like Ben & Sam

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Ben & Sam (2010)
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Ben & Sam (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A college heartthrob meets a college newbie - a challenge, a tension, a discovery, and a love that will change everything between them.
Plot: gay interest, lgbt, college, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, male homosexuality, love, gay, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay slur, gay lead character, college student, male objectification, dressing room, gay protagonist, locker room
Place: the philippines

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, psychological and melancholic films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay interest, gay subtext, gay lead character, love and homosexual mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Ben & Sam: The Man in Her Life (1997), Label Me (2019), Twice a Man (1963), Salut Victor (1989), Destiny (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Man in Her Life (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Selya is disappointed with Bobby who only wants sex but no real relationship nor marriage. So she leaves and decides to marry the gay Ramon who, she is convinced, is definitely different.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, filipina, cheating wife, nudity, gay interest, female nudity, teacher, sex, homosexual, gay
Place: the philippines
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95%
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Label Me (2019)
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: touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, sex work, gay love, male nudity, love, homosexual, hustler, gay for pay, lgbtq, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Twice a Man (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
Style: experimental, avant garde, deviant, independent film
Plot: crazy love, gay subtext, male homosexuality, lgbt, greek mythology, incest, suicide, woman, family relations, gay interest, homosexual, gay ...
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73%
 7.4
 78
Salut Victor (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, friendship, friendship between men, retirement home, gay relationship, bachelor, homosexuality, closeted homosexual, gay lead character ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Boys On Film 11: We Are Animals (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Boys On Film showcases short works from around the world that challenge genre, initiate discussion and explore issues of sexuality in beautiful ways. Volume 11: We Are Animals contains eight complete films: Dominic Haxton's "We Are ...
Style: unusual plot structure, sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sexy ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, gay slur, lgbt teen, gay couple, gay relationship, homosexual, lovers, couple relations, gay lead character, closeted gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.3
 194
Destiny (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Guinea, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Though gay-themed stories about "coming out" and accepting one's sexuality are not uncommon in Western countries, such tales are still rare in many conservative African nations. Considered a ground-breaking film in its native Guinea, ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, black lgbt, gay teenager, black, african, gay interest, homosexual, interracial sex, female nudity, gay slur, male homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, south africa, west africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Confused Feelings (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, homosexual, school, love, gay subtext, intergenerational friendship, gay interest
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; ...
Style: touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative, light ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, gay youth, love and romance, gay couple, fall in love, gays and lesbians, couple relations, love affair, lovers, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Boys On Film 17: Love Is the Drug (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Explore hidden desires on a sleepover, fall in love with the handyman and be seduced by a stranger on the beach as you discover why Love Is the Drug. Boys On Film 17 includes nine complete films: Nicholas Colia's "Alex And The ...
Style: touching, contemplative, melancholic, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, physical disability, coming of age, love, gay slur, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, gay lead character, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Through a Boy's Eyes (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 76 min.
Story: When a boy becomes a young man, the way he sees the world can change not just his perceptions of those around him, but how others see him. As burgeoning desires come to the surface, there is the choice of either embracing and acting upon them, or ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, friendship, sexual identity, family relations, gay subtext, gay interest, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, love, gay love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Pantasya (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A digital feature has five episodes that all deal with wild gay fantasies involving men in uniform. It starts with "Biyahe," about a jilted taxi driver and his jealous passenger who find comfort in each other's lovesick arms. The ...
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: gay sex, lgbt, gay, sexual relations, relationships, love affair, gay lead character, sex, male male relationship, sexploitation, gay love, sexual desire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Boys On Film X (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Boys On Film presents the tenth volume in the world's most successful short film series. All boundaries will be broken as Boys On Film X promises to take it further than ever before, showcasing eight of the most sexy, unique and brilliant new ...
Style: melancholic, touching, tense, romantic, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, love and romance, gay lead character, love affair, love, homosexual, gay relationship, lovers, gay couple, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.2
 166
Ranchlands (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: The story of a spiritually scarred man whose life changes forever when he must return to his estranged family to help care for a brother who is suffering from brain cancer. With the help of a spiritually enlightened caregiver, he faces the demons of ...
Style: rough, suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual sex, family secret, cancer, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay interest, gay slur, brother brother relationship, couple relations, illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Montreal Main (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, gay, bonding, gay interest, gay subtext, male homosexuality, lgbt, closeted homosexual, photographer, masturbation, mutual masturbation
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
In Between Seasons (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When her son gets critically injured in a car accident, a mother discovers that there's more to his relationship with his friend than she had thought.
Style: touching, psychological, melancholic, contemplative, unusual plot structure
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay lead character, family relations, lgbtq, mother son relationship, love, gay son, youth, secret, accident, love and romance, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 200
Burlesque King (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Harry leaves Olongapo, the former site of American bases, with his best friend James. They end up in Manila where they soon find work as macho dancers in a gay bar run by Mama Odette. Harry has a troubled past -- his American father used to pimp him ...
Style: erotic
Plot: lgbt, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gay interest, gay club, male stripper, female nudity, male pubic hair, dancer, gay for pay, male nudity, gay bar ...
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Mattachine Family (2023)
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: dramatic, entertaining, social, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay relationship, male nudity, gay interest, love affair, couple relations, relationships, gay love, gay lead character, couples, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
44%
 6.8
 190
Open Bodies (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, gay subtext, teenager, coming of age, arab, bisexuality, male nudity, wig
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Hidden Kisses (2016)
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, existential ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay love, gay bashing, gay lead character, gay romance, homosexuality, gay teenager, closeted homosexual, male male relationship, gay son, gay slur ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Boylets (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story: School friends who pass the time stealing copper electric wires and steel, betting cash in online computer games and doing sexual services to gay patrons. Krys’ best friend Joef is the leader of the pack and he is turning eighteen and is leaving ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, gay, male nudity, gay interest, male male relationship, gay lead character, relationships, gays and lesbians, thief, drag racing, laptop, theater ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ⇓
40%
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Beyto (2020)
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: emotional, romantic, touching, talky, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay couple, swimmer, father son relationship, gay subtext, immigrant, gay interest, muslim, wedding, closeted homosexual, gay muslim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Paths (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but ...
Style: melancholic, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, gay couple, gay, lgbtq, carpenter, breakup, gay relationship, love and romance, love, homosexual, love affair ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Serbia, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves ...
Style: psychological, sincere, suspenseful, touching, captivating
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gay slur, male homosexuality, soldier, love, social status, research, gay relationship, homosexual, hustler, romani people ...
Place: romania, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Winter Kept Us Warm (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Its the 1960s at the University of Toronto. Doug is a well-liked senior with an equally popular girlfriend. Peter is a shy freshman, and new to the big city. Peter and Doug become best friends and soon start going to concerts, drinking, and playing ...
Style: independent film
Plot: college student, college life, gay interest, lgbt, university, gay subtext, homoerotic friendship, sauna, love, snow, friendship, cigarette smoking ...
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
An Unusual Affair (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jochen Wenzel, a young teacher, married with two kids, one day surprisingly falls in love with a young male colleague, Tom Leuthner and they begin an unusual affair (= "Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre"). While Ina, Jochen's wife, ...
Style: suspense, sincere, touching, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay lead character, love triangle, fall in love, extramarital affair, infidelity, husband wife relationship, adultery, gay father, homosexual, bisexual ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Bareback ou La guerre des sens (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay subtext, lgbt, nudity, male nudity, nude beach, skinny dipping, male objectification, gay interest, film within a film
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Boys to Men (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A four-part anthology film dealing with homosexuality from the young to the old. Crush, detailing the budding friendship of a 12-year old girl and a 16-year old boy, who bond over their favorite TV program and musical tastes. The Mountain King, ...
Style: homoerotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, homosexual sex, drug use, gay erotica, homosexual, gay teenager, gay lead character, gay couple, gay friend, gay crush ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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