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Friends Forever (1986)
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Original name: Venner for altid
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenager Kristian moves to a new neighborhood. He makes friends with two very different boys in the new school: Henrik, an independent boy, and Patrick, the leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled when he finds Patrick is gay and having an affair with the captain of a soccer team.
Style:
queer cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay straight relations, lgbt, gay, gay teenager, high school, sex scene, bullying, male nudity, high school student, teenage boy, athlete, gay friend, friendship between boys, gay student, coming of age, cougar, soccer, gay subtext, high school friends, male homosexuality, school, teacher, football player, female nudity, bully ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, denmark, copenhagen, copenhagen denmark
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, independent film, gay cinema and realistic films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay interest, gay kiss, gay subtext, male nudity and lgbtq mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Friends Forever: The Flavor of Corn (1986), Hide and Seek (1980), Leave Us Alone (1975), To Play or To Die (1990), Riley (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lorenzo, a handsome first-year professor in an isolated Italian village, falls under the spell of his most beguiling pupil, a dark-haired, starry-eyed 12-year-old named Duilio. As Lorenzo's relationship with his heartless girlfriend ...
Style:
erotic, homoerotic, independent film, crying, queer cinema ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, lgbt, gay, coming of age, gay interest, homoerotic friendship, teenage sexuality, homosexuality, youth, glbt, male homosexuality, lgbt teen ...
Place:
italy
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.
Plot:
israeli, lgbt, gay subtext, teacher student relationship, secret relationship, homosexuality, young boy, gay teacher, following someone, gay interest, teacher, gay ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1946
Place:
israel, jerusalem
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
For children it was an exciting adventure. But for adults it became a shocking revelation...
Style:
erotic, queer cinema
Audience:
teens
Plot:
first love, coming of age, male nudity, homoeroticism, bare chested male, children, boyhood, blond boy, child murder, cooking, bare breasts, cruelty ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
In this short motion picture, schoolboy Kees is intelligent, introvert and sensitive, but gets ridiculed verbally and physically at an all-boys school by mindlessly cocky class mates and even insensitive teachers, especially in gym, where his ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, gay erotica, gay teenager, gay crush, bullying, masturbation, male nudity, nudity, teenage boy, gay interest, lgbt, naked man ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.
Style:
semi autobiographical
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay athlete, male nudity, gay crush, gay sex, teenage boy, coming of age, bare chested male, lgbtq, gay interest, male pubic hair, coach ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of sight and kiss each other, but someone takes a picture of them. Soon, ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, realistic, captivating, disturbing, cute ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay love, gay bashing, gay teenager, gay youth, gay lead character, gay romance, gay relationship, homosexuality, lgbtq ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbtq, closeted homosexual, sex scene, lgbt, male pubic hair, religion, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place:
guatemala
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Switzerland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Abdellah is a young gay man navigating the sexual, racial and political climate of Morocco. Growing up in a large family in a working-class neighborhood, Abdellah is caught between a distant father, an authoritarian mother, an older brother whom he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, social ...
Plot:
coming of age, gay, lgbt, gay teenager, teenage boy, self discovery, father son relationship, gay interest, teenage life, family relations, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
south africa, morocco, geneva switzerland, switzerland
Similarity:
32%
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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:
lgbt cinema, crying, queer cinema, gay cinema
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexual, lgbt, gay interest, gay subtext, school teacher, filmmaker, cafe, redhead, muslim, high school teacher, substitute teacher ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ezequiel, a sixteen-year-old gay teenager in his sexual awakening, meets a boy of twenty-one. They quickly start a relationship and the situation unravels unexpectedly.
Style:
serious, touching, atmospheric, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay interest, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay teenager, skateboarder, gay sex, teenage boy, 13 year old, manipulation, male nudity, gay love ...
Place:
argentina, south america
Similarity:
31%
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 interest, gay teenager, teenage boy, gay, lgbt, coming of age, friendship between boys, best friend, lgbtq, friendship, lgbt teen, 16 year old ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sincere, touching, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, judaism, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay sex, gay couple, gay romance, male nudity, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style:
lgbt cinema, realistic, captivating, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, lgbt, gay, gay father, friendship, best friend, first gay sexual experience, gay interest, father son relationship, underage drinking, lgbtq, bisexual ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
Style:
lgbt cinema, touching, disturbing, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, father son relationship, gay teenager, gay couple, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, rural setting, lgbt, gay lead character, male male relationship, conversion therapy ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
While facing criminal charges, Pedro must grapple with his sister's sudden decision to move away and leave him behind. Alone in the darkness of his bedroom, he dances covered in neon paint, while thousands of strangers watch him via webcam.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, melancholic, absurd, dramatic ...
Plot:
gay, male pubic hair, gay teenager, male masturbation, homosexual, gay interest, lgbt, bullying, gay sex, teenager, life turned upside down, escapades ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The lives of five unrelated people — a husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter — are turned upside-down with irreversible consequences.
Plot:
husband wife relationship, multiple storylines, gay teenager, secret, deportation, gay, teenage boy, pregnancy, funeral, doctor, sex scene, teacher student relationship ...
Place:
denmark, afghanistan
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Héctor travels from Hermosillo to Mexico City in the hopes of posing naked for photography collective Feral. His friend Carlos choses not to go with him. Héctor, determined to experiment with his desire without limits, promises himself to always ...
Style:
captivating, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbt, naked man, desire, gay erotica, sex scene, erotica, gay sex, erection, gay straight relations, male nudity ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.
Style:
lgbt cinema, homoerotic, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, gay interest, homosexual, accidental death, gay teenager, jealousy, gay crush, gay erotica, unrequited love, gay son, homoeroticism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Riki and Luca are two young men in search of the meaning of their life; they find their answers in the powerful love they feel for each other. A run against the time keeps their destiny on the edge of the abyss. Riki and Luca are often bullied by a ...
Plot:
gay sex, male pubic hair, gay interest, gay, gay relationship, male nudity, gay couple, love, gay slur, lgbt, gay subtext, family relations ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, rent boy, gay, male prostitution, gay teenager, male objectification, lgbt teen, youth, male homosexuality, gay relationship, male prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, czech republic, prague
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay student, coming of age, fall in love, gays and lesbians, lgbt, teenage love, self discovery, gay interest, social misfits, lgbt teen ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
26%
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.
Style:
lgbt cinema, suspense, rough, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, gay anal sex, gay club, teenager, suicide attempt, lgbtq, parents and children, loneliness ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, first love, teenage life, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt teen, nudity, friends, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, romantic, psychological
Plot:
gay interest, gay teenager, gay relationship, gay, gay arab, teenage boy, gay love, fall in love, juvenile detention, gay couple, homosexuality, love and romance ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Fresh out of the Israeli army, gay 19-year-old Imri moves to Tel-Aviv, but he's got a bad case of "yellow fever" and dreams of relocating to Japan. When he's not searching for porn, Imri hangs with his friend, works a low-paying ...
Style:
independent film, yaoi, queer cinema
Plot:
homosexual, teenage boy, gay sex, cinema, gay club, nudity, male pubic hair, lgbtq, glbt, lgbt, migration, gay subtext ...
Place:
tokyo, japan, tel aviv israel, israel, middle east ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, male pubic hair, male nudity, bisexual, gay couple, homosexual, naked man, friendship, love, youth, family relations ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Lorenzo, Blue and Antonio have a lot in common: they are sixteen, attending the same class in the same school in a small town in the northeast, each have a family that loves them. And all three, though for different reasons, have come to be isolated ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, touching, sweet ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay lead character, gay, gay relationship, gay student, brother brother relationship, friendship, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay son, father son relationship, love triangle ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
24%
542
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, contemplative, tense, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay lead character, gay friend, gay love, homosexual rape, abuse, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt, gay relationship, male rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds ...
Style:
sensual, melancholic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, gay interest, gay sex, lgbt, social realism, identity, coming of age, sexual awakening, working class, slice of life, young adult ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove they are not in love.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, emotional, psychological, sexual ...
Plot:
sex scene, gay, male pubic hair, nudity, gay erotica, gender, masturbation, self discovery, breakup, introspection, couples, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, usa, new york, europe, paris france
Similarity:
23%
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