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Walking a Tightrope (1991)
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Walking a Tightrope (1991)
Original name: Les Équilibristes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men. From time to time, he induces an attractive female admirer to arrange for him to be introduced to nice, talented young men who happen to be sufficiently handsome to interest him. At other times, the endless effort to woo these men (who are most often heterosexual) grows wearying, and he goes to the train station to pick up soldiers looking for some easy money and a night's lodging. In this film, the writer has grown enamored with a young circus laborer who wants to move up in the world, literally, by becoming a tightrope walker. Marcel cadges an introduction, and for a time sponsors the young man's training. However, when the boy suffers an accident which renders him unfit for his chosen vocation, Marcel loses interest in him and takes up with another young man.
Style: tragic ending
Plot: lgbt, chaos, gay subtext, gay, writers, soldier, circus, arab, homosexual, accident, tightrope walker, fame, worker, train station, older man younger man relationship, protege, fate, earth, destiny, railway station, tightrope
Place: france, paris france
Keyword: german, french

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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
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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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Men in the Nude (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A gay affair between an aging middle-aged writer, and a young streetwise hustler.
Style: disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gay husband, gay, lgbt, gay subtext, gay love, homosexual, blackmail, husband wife relationship, writers, youth, male nudity, male male relationship ...
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Sorry Angel (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A university student and an older, HIV-positive writer strike up a romance in 1993.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay relationship, lgbt, older man younger man relationship, gay cruising, gay father, gay sex, lgbtq, love, male nudity, introspection ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: paris france
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Beautiful Something (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
Style: sexy, light, melancholic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, gay sex, gay subtext, love, lgbtq, couples, youth, love and romance, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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A Touch of Fever (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin, and her two female friends. Everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in love with Tatsuro.
Style: gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: male prostitution, lgbt, glbt, gay, gay asian, coming of age, gay subtext, gigolo, prostitution, runaway, male prostitute, university student ...
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Why Not! (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new ...
Style: sex comedy
Plot: threesome, lgbt, menage a trois, gay subtext, bisexuality, police, nudity, polyamory, male nudity, female nudity, marriage, bisexual ...
Place: france
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True Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Seven short stories about growing up gay in America and searching for true love.
Style: anthology, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, glbt, gay subtext, gay interest, blackmail, one night stand, closeted homosexual, coming of age, teenage boy, father son relationship, infidelity ...
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Before I Forget (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, self discovery, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, lgbt, estrangement, transsexual, aging, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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After Louie (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor's guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what ...
Style: romantic, melancholic, psychological, sexy, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay couple, gay relationship, relationships, gay interest, male nudity, love affair, love, lgbtq, activism, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Just a Question of Love (2000)
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, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay slur, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, couples, gay relationship, gay love, gender, male homosexuality, gay teenager, gay sex ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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We Were One Man (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should be enemies begin to bond in ways neither thought possible.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, world war two, lgbtq, gay soldier, lgbt teen, male pubic hair, gay relationship, gay subtext, couples, friends, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 1943, 1940s
Place: france, europe
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The Blue Caftan (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to ...
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: gay, homosexuality, husband wife relationship, tailor, gay interest, gay cruising, bathhouse, gay romance, gay love, apprentice, bare chested male, lgbt ...
Place: middle east
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Bad Boy Street (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two men embark on an unconventional romance in Todd Verow's sexy Parisian-set drama. Claude finds a young man passed out in the street and, taking pity on him, decides to take him to his apartment to safely sleep. Awakening the next morning, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: closeted gay, gay, gay relationship, older man younger man relationship, couples, lgbt, true love, gays and lesbians, unlikely couple, haunted by the past, love and romance, destructive relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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While Paris Was Sleeping (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Théo and Hugo meet in a club and form an immediate bond. Once the desire and elation of this first moment has passed, the two young men, now sober, wander through the empty streets of nocturnal Paris, having to confront the love they sense ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, touching, thought provoking, erotic drama ...
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Heartbeat (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
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Audience: date night
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Place: france, paris france
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Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sexual, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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Egoist (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After losing his mother at the age of 14, Kosuke spent his depressed adolescence hiding his gay identity in a rural town. Now working as a fashion magazine editor, he spends his free time with his close friends. One day, he meets Ryuta, a personal ...
Style: sincere, captivating, dramatic, serious, semi autobiographical
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Give Me Your Hand (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Quentin and Antoine are 18-year-old twins. Without their father knowing it, they set out on a voyage to Spain, where their mother's funeral is to ake place. The two brothers barely knew their mother. Their hitchhiking journey is full of ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, road movie ...
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Parallel Sons (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Time: 90s
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Supernova (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important ...
Style: road movie, heartbreaking, touching, tear jerker, depressing ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 2020s, 21st century
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No Touching at All (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Shima is an extremely shy young man who just started a new job. On his first day, he shares an elevator with a brash, hungover man named Togawa, who he soon learns is actually his boss. Over time, Shima becomes preoccupied with the Togawa as he ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama, romantic
Plot: gay, lgbt, employer employee relationship, gay asian, love affair, male male relationship, gay couple, gay lead character, lgbtq, homoerotic friendship, couple relations, boss and employee ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two college students fall in love one year before graduation and have bright futures ahead until one of them develops schizophrenia.
Style: romantic, psychological, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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Place: california
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Green Plaid Shirt (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: the lives of two ordinary men who find love together only to lose it. In an era of easy sex and open relationships they have only two rules: dont fall in love with others and no jealousy. Still rules are made to be broken. Eventually a single act of ...
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More Than Friendship (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mia, Lukas and Jonas always where like one heart and soul since their earliest childhood. Until three years ago when everything changed. Friendship became love that is well beyond all conventions. A Part of the society feels provoked by such kind of ...
Style: suspense, tense, lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy ...
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Do Not Disturb (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay sex film, together?
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, light, sexy ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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The Best Way to Walk (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep ...
Style: lgbt cinema, crying, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: summer camp, gay, outdoor sex, gay interest, humiliation, swimming pool, assault, lgbt, female nudity, bullying, youth, racism ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, writers, murder, revenge, jealousy, love, accident, miscarriage, japanese woman, japanese new wave, rowing
Place: japan
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The String (2009)
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: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, gay love, arab, gays and lesbians, lgbt, couples, love and romance, gender, homecoming, gay interest, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
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