Movies like Navarasa 2005

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Navarasa (2005)
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Navarasa (2005)
Original name: நவரசா
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The film revolves around the story of a young girl Shweta (P. Shwetha) taking her first steps towards adulthood. Ready for the adventure, the thirteen-year-old is upbeat, however soon discovers that every night, her uncle Gautam (Kushboo) transforms himself into a woman to lead a completely different life.
Plot: lgbt, festival, gay subtext, transsexuality, teenager, lesbian, gay, transsexual, legend, fortune telling, mother daughter relationship, interview, cooking, uncle, prejudice, coming of age, customs, masquerade, puberty, television studio, transgender, transgender woman, ceremony, shower, talking to the camera ...

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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
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Joyland (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
Style: enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot: transgender, transgender woman, lgbt, gay, suicide, family relations, transsexual, lgbtq, youth, fall in love, couples, love ...
Place: pakistan
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It Gets Better (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story: Inspired by the It Gets Better Project this documentary film follows the stories of three real-life subjects who are at unique impasses related to their identities as gay or transgender people.
Plot: lgbt, transgender, teenager, lesbian, bullying, acceptance, bisexual, gay, tolerance, homosexual, hopes
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I Want to Be a Woman (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get ...
Style: social, erotic, crying, entertaining, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, transgender woman, transgender, transsexual, erotica, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, slave, gender bending, teenager, fornication, hair salon ...
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 7.4
 15
Matted (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story: Rose Lee is just a typical high school student trying to figure things out. Her dream is to join the boy's wrestling team, but no one is making it easy for her. Along the way, she'll discover that her most difficult opponent may be herself.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, teenage girl, girl, friendship, transgender, teenage boy, teacher, school, student, small town, father daughter relationship, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Enter the Clowns (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Xiao Bo (Yu Bo) lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving.
Plot: transsexual, boys love, gay subtext, lgbt, drums, death, father son relationship, singing, male nudity, gay interest, homosexuality, incest ...
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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
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Open Up to Me (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, transsexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, transsexuality, intersex, estrangement, marital crisis, sex education, unfaithful husband, coach ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, gay subtext, man in underwear, gay sex, male nurse, love triangle, birthday, double life, infidelity ...
Place: phoenix arizona
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 5.7
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Fanfic (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two high school students form an intense connection as they navigate the challenges of discovering and expressing their truest selves.
Style: thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Audience: teen drama
Plot: relationships, teenager, grownups, problem, adolescence, self discovery, life is a bitch, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage protagonist, teenage life, relationship problems, transsexuality ...
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55%
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Melting Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, bittersweet, father son relationship, gay, transgender, hospital, israeli, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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51%
 7.2
 17K
Girl (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl, born in a boy's body, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.
Style: social, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: teens
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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
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Pretty/Handsome (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A married father of two tells his wife and teenage sons that he is transsexual.
Style: cult classic, queer cinema, tv series pilot
Plot: lgbt, transsexual, gay, older woman younger man relationship, transgender, transsexuality, trans woman, flashback, sex, party, seduction, marriage ...
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Midnight Swan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, dramatic
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Place: japan
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Ghosts (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of ...
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Place: germany, berlin germany
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Confused Feelings (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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Pretty Boy (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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 6.4
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Cowboys (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, social, queer cinema
Plot: transsexual, father son relationship, separated parents, mental illness, mental health, transsexuality, wildlife, runaway, wilderness, gay, family relations, desire for fame ...
Place: montana
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He Hated Pigeons (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
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Place: chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Mathieu Denis (Corbo) and Simon Lavoie (Le torrent) evoke Godard’s La Chinoise with this stunning fusion of fiction and documentary about a radical Quebec leftist cell seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to overthrowing the government.
Style: avant garde, serious, disturbing, realistic, political ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
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Tucked (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: TUCKED is a raw and tender drama about an aging 80 year old drag queen who forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they ...
Style: queer cinema
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" ...
Style: psychological, sexy, touching, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
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 6.7
 823
Shed My Skin (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Sebastian (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, touching, gay cinema ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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