Movies like The Outsiders 1986

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The Outsiders (1986)
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The Outsiders (1986)
Original name: 孽子
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on the book written by author Pai Hsien-yung and first published in 1983 in Taiwan. A-Qing, a young student is discovered during sex by a night watchman, young A-Qing is beaten and expelled from home by his violent abusive father. In a public park in Taipei he is found by Yang (a middle-aged photographer), who introduces him to three other teenage boys--all abandoned by their families because they were gay. They form a kind of surrogate family. When A-Qing meets Wang Kei-Lung, he falls madly in love.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay subtext, sex, prison, dancing, thief, fight, prostitute, money, police officer, police, violence, friendship, gay teenager, party, death, model, murder, photographer, birthday, singer, bird, fire, dream, taxi ...
Place: new york, china, manhattan new york city, taiwan, taipei

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Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
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Time: 90s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, baghdad iraq
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
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Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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Full Speed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
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Fag Hag (1992)
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style: weeping, crying
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: realistic, stylized, serious, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Next Year in Jerusalem (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Love's Lone Flower (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: captivating, romantic
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Forbidden Relations (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.
Style: crying
Plot: incest, forbidden love, incestuous sex, love affair, family affairs, taboo, pregnant by incest, brother sister incest, river, abortion, post office, death of husband ...
Place: hungary, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The River (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, hopes, introspection, gays and lesbians ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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