Movies like To Die Like a Man

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To Die Like a Man (2009)
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To Die Like a Man (2009)
Original name: Morrer Como Um Homem
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A transvestite tries to erase any past history of herself as a male. Struggling with a young male lover and a problematic son.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, sincere, serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized, gloomy, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gender bending, lgbt, social misfits, moral dilemma, couple relations, misfit, couples, transvestism, death, transsexual, transvestite, transgender, women, forest, feminist, chaos, love story, lgbtq, male nudity, transgender woman, gays and lesbians, showbiz, society, countryside, gender ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century, contemporary
Place: portugal, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and emotional films with plots about lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay, male nudity and gay interest mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like To Die Like a Man: Quick Change (2013), The Sea Is Behind (2014), Madame Satã (2002), Two Drifters (2005), Lisbon Story (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Quick Change (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dorina is a transsexual woman. She’s got herself a flourishing career, albeit in an illegal cosmetic surgery business. She is a mother figure to Hero, her eight year old nephew, and a devoted wife to Uno. Between her job and her family, Dorina ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: lgbt, transsexual, against the rules, moral dilemma, couples, transvestism, couple relations, life is a bitch, rebellion, physical appearance, gays and lesbians, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, the philippines
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The Sea Is Behind (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: social misfits, performer's life, transvestism, gays and lesbians, family relations, misfit, family in crisis, society, bittersweet, gender, lgbt
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco
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Madame Satã (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos ...
Style: serious, rough, emotional, lgbt cinema, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, nightclub, transvestism, performer's life, gender bending, rise and fall, social misfits, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, society, female warrior ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: brazil, china, arabia, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Two Drifters (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete (Ana Cristina De Oliveira) descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of Rui's (Nuno Gil) late lover, Pedro (João Carreira). As grief-stricken Rui mourns ...
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, stylized ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love and romance, breakup, male nudity, obsession, insanity, gay relationship, couples, solace, gender, car accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Lisbon Story (1994)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lisbon Story is Wim Wender’s homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterous postcard of a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, showbiz, amusement park, couple relations, musician, road trip, filmmaker, art, on the road, rock ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Sex My Life (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Tells the story of seven Iranian transgender individuals living in Tehran who live pieces of their own lives on the screen.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: gender, hidden identity, social misfits, discrimination, disorder, religions or cults, transvestism, family relations, couple relations, dishonesty, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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FAQs (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. In this case Destiny is a black, 6 foot, high heel wearing, gun toting, drag queen with an attitude and a soft place in her heart for ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, talky, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, social misfits, best friend, social relations, love and romance, misfit, society, lgbtq, gay bashing, gay erotica, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Open (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two transwomen in a pandrogynous relationship in which they ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gender, transsexual, lgbt, intersex, self discovery, love affair, introspection, couples, society, gender bending, gay, transgender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Something Must Break (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Sebastian meets Andreas for the first time, he knows they belong together. While Sebastian defies gender norms — flouting convention in his androgynous fluidity — straight-identifying Andreas becomes unable to accept his attraction to ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, avant garde ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gender, transsexual, transgender, gay, male nudity, skinny dipping, lgbt, male pubic hair, gay cruising, gays and lesbians, gay interest, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
A Woman's Way (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story: George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, incest, gender, prostitute, starting over, love and romance, hopes, greek, jail, gay, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: love affair, couple relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, family relations, family business, gay, suicide, lgbt, sociology, dancer, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hansel Schmidt, is a young East German boy, born and raised during the Cold War in communist East Berlin. In his 20s, he meets Luther Robinson, an older American soldier, who falls in love with Hansel and the two decide to marry, which will allow ...
Style: emotional, cult classic, enigmatic, lyrical, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gender, gay, transvestism, transgender, drag queen, berlin wall, self discovery, singer, rock and roll, musician's life, musician ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style: disturbing, art house, philosophical, depressing, controversial ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, gender, transgender, suicide, loser, gay, sex, identity, psychopath, social outcast, prostitution ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: frankfurt germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Stories of Our Lives (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, social misfits, society, discrimination, misfit, gay, blaxploitation, black lgbt, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kenya, africa, south africa
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51%
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Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, transgender, gender bending, family drama, depression, sexuality, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Fucking Different (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fifteen queer crossovers: lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: gender, couple relations, social misfits, gays and lesbians, misfit, sexual relations, looking for sex, love and romance, looking for love, gender bending, society, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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50%
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Sworn Virgin (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Style: touching, atmospheric, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, hidden identity, disorder, introspection, hopes, sexuality, gender, transsexual, woman, feminism, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania, italy, europe
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47%
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself ...
Style: surreal, stylized, erotic, lgbt cinema, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: homosexuality, male nudity, gay, music, homosexual, rock and roll, rock, homoeroticism, lgbtq, journalism, lgbt, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, 19th century, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: seattle, britain, england, europe, dublin ireland ...
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47%
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Fögi Is a Bastard (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A 15 year old boy (Beni) falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only willing to follow him where ever Fögi wants to. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into the hell of drug addiction.
Style: sexual, realistic, serious, gloomy, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: male prostitution, gay, gay teenager, gay erotica, obsession, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, drug addiction, gay interest, destructive relationship, lgbtqi ...
Time: 90s
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The Hours and Times (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, talky, sincere ...
Plot: the beatles, lgbtq, gay couple, friendship, gay subtext, unfulfilled love, twentysomething life, alcohol abuse, celebrity culture, couples, friends, human nature ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
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46%
You Will Be Mine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sexy, tense ...
Plot: lesbian, dangerous attraction, lesbian relationship, gender, lgbt, youth, love and romance, lifestyle, musician's life, dishonesty, student life, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
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45%
Hell Without Limits (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's ...
Style: art house, serious, realistic, offbeat, emotional ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gender, lgbtq, transsexual, transvestite, literary, amor, prostitution, prostitute, small town, gay subtext ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, mexico
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42%
Between Love & Goodbye (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A modern gay drama about falling in and out of love, and the rocky road in between.
Style: realistic, serious, sexy, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, prostitute, lgbt, love and romance, manipulation, fall in love, human nature, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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42%
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Tattoo (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Brazil, 1978. The military dictatorship that resulted from a coup in 1964 begins to stumble. In a cabaret-like theater located on the periphery between two cities in the northeast of Brazil, a group of artists challenges power and conventional ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay interest, male nudity, gay, lgbt, soldier, self discovery, love and romance, society, performer's life, rebelliousness, gender ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
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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41%
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Man at Bath (2010)
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, captivating ...
Plot: gay, gay erotica, sex scene, male pubic hair, nudity, self discovery, breakup, introspection, gender, couples, family problems, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, usa, new york, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Hard Pill (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to make gay men straight.
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: medical experiment, lgbt, love affair, transsexual, couple relations, midlife crisis, gender, estrangement, couples, homosexual, lgbtq, gay interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
American Translation (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A sexually ambiguous Frenchman tours his native countryside with his naive American lover in pursuit of the ultimate thrill. From the moment they meet, brooding Chris (Pierre Perrier) and the beautiful Aurore (Lizzie Brocherè) fall instantly and ...
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot: threesome, serial killer, young lovers, gay, love affair, murder, destructive relationship, couples, couple relations, love and romance, female nudity, erection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sister Smile (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: nun, convent, ambition, musician's life, follow your dream, showbiz, mother superior, society, against the rules, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
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38%
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Dry Cleaning (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: gay sex, gay, mature woman, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, affair, misfit, freak, couples, ladykiller, province ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, europe, switzerland, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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