Movies like Out in the Dark
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Out in the Dark (2012)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy, sad, sexual, realistic, bleak, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, forbidden love, gay couple, gay student, homosexuality, gay love, gay sex, love affair, family relations, male homosexuality, lgbtq, society, freedom, closeted homosexual, israeli, gay interest, israeli palestinian conflict, impossible love, gender, patriotism, lgbt, politics, lgbtqi, couples ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 21st century, contemporary, 1990s
Place:
middle east, israel, tel aviv israel, palestinian authority, asia, mediterranean sea, tel aviv
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, queer cinema, serious and sexy films with plots about gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, gay kiss, gay relationship and gays and lesbians mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Out in the Dark: Brokeback Mountain (2005), Free Fall (2013), The Bubble (2006), Weekend (2011), Yossi & Jagger (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style:
emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, closeted homosexual, first gay sexual experience, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay romance ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
wyoming, usa, canada, texas, new york ...
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83%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what ...
Style:
emotional, sexual, disturbing, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay love, coming out, homosexuality, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, gay slur, forbidden love, infidelity, love affair, male male relationship ...
Place:
germany
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80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, lgbt, friendship, lgbtq, gay soldier, forbidden love, lifestyle, society, understanding, occupation, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel, middle east, jerusalem, jordan ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sexy, meditative ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay club, gay couple, one night stand, love, gays and lesbians, male nudity, gay sex ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, canada, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolete outpost is ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, sexy, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay lead character, homosexuality, gay soldier, gay love, gay relationship, gay sex, gay slur, friendship, gay romance, lgbtq, military ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay love, gay, coming out, gays and lesbians, lgbt, love and romance, gay sex, homecoming, couples, gender, arab, gay slur ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, tunisia, france, paris france, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, coming out, lgbt, gay slur, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, love and romance, gay relationship, gay love, fall in love, couples, male homosexuality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Style:
serious, sincere, sexy, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, male homosexuality, adolescence vs adulthood, gay relationship, gay love, youth, forbidden love, gay incest, gay athlete, incest, gay sex ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, buenos aires argentina, rio de janeiro, latin america, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Young Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sexual, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, obsession, gay relationship, murder, gay sex, gay romance, betrayal, passion, redemption, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, captivating, tense, erotic ...
Plot:
gay, forbidden love, gay love, gay relationship, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, infidelity, lgbt, jewish, orthodox jew, gay bashing, gay sex ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay, racism, gays and lesbians, love affair, homosexuality, love and romance, couples, friendship, forbidden love, unlikely couple, self discovery, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach ...
Style:
touching, sexy, romantic, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, homosexual, surfing, homosexuality, coming out, coming of age, gays and lesbians, gay love, grownups, gay teenager, gay slur ...
Time:
70s
Place:
san francisco, canada, new jersey, california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A love story between a Basque farmer and a Peruvian immigrant.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, atmospheric
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay love, forbidden love, lgbt, immigrants, farmer, gay romance, self discovery, parents and children, dull life, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place:
peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay couple, dysfunctional family, child abuse, gay rape, homosexual rape, closeted gay, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
FIVE DANCES, written and directed by Alan Brown, is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer (the amazing ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay couple, gay teenager, gay sex, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, dancing, lgbt, lgbtq, dancer's life, gay interest, dancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay relationship, male homosexuality, gay interest, gay slur, male nudity, gay bashing, gay sex, lgbt, skinny dipping, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, germany, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife and wife's granma, gambler ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, male prostitution, gay love, gay relationship, gay slur, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay latino, gay sex, rent boy, gay interest, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, romantic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbt teen, gay teenager, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, love and romance, teenage love, gays and lesbians, gay interest ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
belgium, france, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, apprentice, coming out, farm, countryside, cow, couples, gender, lgbt, lgbtq, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, gay love, gay teenager, gay athlete, gay romance, gay relationship, teenage love, coming of age, fall in love, gays and lesbians, male male relationship, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Steamy Thai nights provide the backdrop for unbridled romance, crime and action as two men unexpectedly brave forbidden love. Maek, a cold assassin-for-hire, is sent to knock off Iht, a police informant, when in a twist of fate the killer is shot ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, tense, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, gays and lesbians, forbidden love, fall in love, gay love, gay brother, couples, love and romance, destiny, gay asian, aids, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bangkok thailand, asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Both original and incredibly romantic, Redwoods tells the story of an already-partnered man whose love is tested when a mysterious drifter passes through his small Northern California town.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, gay couple, gay relationship, gay sex, gays and lesbians, couples, breakup, secret, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, road not taken ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A gritty and heartbreaking portrayal of love and loss, In Bloom shows a personal and realistic tale of losing first love. During a tumultuous summer in Chicago, a serial killer terrorizes boystown while two young men experience the pain of ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, breakup, lgbt, drug dealer, looking for love, couples, life is a bitch, gender, love and romance, down on your luck, wooing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident
Style:
captivating, sentimental, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
gay, older man younger man relationship, gay sex, gay asian, love affair, male nudity, gay relationship, lgbt, lifestyle, fighting the system, social differences, couples ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, year 1988, 80s
Place:
beijing china, china, asia, america, hong kong ...
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, family relations, hopes, introspection, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, fall in love, dancer, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tel aviv israel, tel aviv, israel, middle east
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20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sexual, sad ...
Audience:
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Plot:
gay, gay love, gay relationship, drug addiction, infidelity, lgbt, phone sex, gay sex, drug addict, coming out, addiction, coping ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 2000s, year 2006, year 2000 ...
Place:
new york, usa
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
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serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, youth, lgbt, gay son, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay sex, family relations, gay student, coming of age, domineering mother ...
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france, canada, europe
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, immigration, gay relationship, gay romance, male nudity, gay lead character, syrian refugee, gay sex, homosexual ...
Place:
finland
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19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Falls: Testament of Love is a continuation of the story of RJ Smith and Chris Merrill, two Mormon missionaries that fell in love during their mission in a small town in Oregon. The boys haven't spoken in five years, but when an unexpected ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, coming out, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbt, husband wife relationship, lgbtq, destructive relationship, impossible love, family problems, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, utah, seattle, salt lake city utah
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19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Chechnya. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, strong sexual content, sexual relations, life is a bitch, prostitute, gay youth, male prostitute, hustler, disorder, immigrants, lgbtq, illegal immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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