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Consenting Adults (2007)
129
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, thought provoking, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
father son relationship, homosexual history, homosexuality, british history, lgbt, gay, biopic, gay son, closeted gay, family conflict, moral dilemma, hypocrisy, empathy, restraint, entrapment, male homosexuality, police officer, sex scene, gay sex, university, suicide, family relations, baby, radio, rain ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
oxford university, england
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
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Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1955, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, london
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70%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style:
serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, boys' school, gays and lesbians, gender, gay lead character, youth, homosexuality, boarding school, homosexual, homosexual love, lgbtq ...
Time:
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Place:
england, moscow russia, ussr, russia, britain ...
Similarity:
67%
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:
sexy, tense, psychological, suspenseful, romantic ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay, gay sex, gay couple, gay lead character, lovers, homosexuality, prison, gay slur ...
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211
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
Selim, a young man adrift, is a transvestite and a prostitute who desperately longs for his father's love. Omar, his father, lives a secluded life of grief and has never recovered from the loss of his wife. Like two lonely ships, they pass ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay subtext, man dances with a man, dead mother, closeted homosexual, widower, orgasm, death of son, prostitution ...
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52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
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917
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, touching, melancholic, romantic, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay, one night stand, sex scene, homosexuality, gay interest, male homosexuality, lovers, gay relationship, gay lead character, male nudity, naked in public, young lovers ...
Time:
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Place:
europe
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44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
homoerotic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay interest, gay relationship, gay, gay romance, homosexuality, homoeroticism, closeted homosexual, gay anal sex, gay soldier, gay sex, military training, homosexual ...
Place:
austria
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42%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, sexual, emotional ...
Audience:
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Place:
usa, ethiopia, san francisco, california, portland oregon
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38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
gay, poet, lgbt, homosexuality, male nudity, violence, melancholy, homosexual, writer's life, homoeroticism, teenage boy, gay teenager ...
Time:
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37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, sincere, serious, realistic, crying ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay relationship, homosexuality, gay couple, gay interest, gender, homosexual, lgbt, lgbtq, fall in love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
1930s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1933, year 1952 ...
Place:
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36%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay student, aids, gay romance, lgbt, gay relationship, gay son, gay teenager, gay love, homosexual history ...
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2000s, 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1978 ...
Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
gay, gay love, closeted homosexual, homosexuality, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay relationship, homosexual, gay erotica, gay interest, gay romance, male male relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, homoerotic, sexual, sexy, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, male male relationship, gay slur, forbidden love, infidelity, gay straight relations, love affair ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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Country: Poland
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Story:
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Duration: 87 min.
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, dramatic, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay teenager, gay relationship, gay lead character, gay slur, gay interest, gay, lgbt teen, boys love, gay son, gay affair, gay couple ...
Time:
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Place:
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28%
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