Movies like Hidden Pleasures

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Hidden Pleasures (1977)
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Hidden Pleasures (1977)
Original name: Los placeres ocultos
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The plot follows a middle-aged, closeted homosexual banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man.
Style: social, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, closeted homosexual, male prostitute, gay subtext, cheating wife, motorcycle, female nudity, age difference, male nudity, menage a trois, banker, gigolo, gay slur, gay interest, cheating boyfriend, gay crush, homoeroticism, female pubic hair, nudity, sex for money, older man younger man relationship, nude, bathtub, pubic hair ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, gay cinema, serious and realistic films with plots about gay, lgbt, gay interest, male nudity, gay subtext, nudity and male pubic hair mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hidden Pleasures: Cal (2013), José (2018), Fixing Frank (2002), The Deputy and the Congressman (1978), Pals (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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95%
 6.7
 851
José (2018)
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: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay relationship, lgbt, sex scene, religion, male pubic hair, gay sex, lgbtq, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place: guatemala
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94%
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Fixing Frank (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, glbt, male nudity, closeted homosexual, conversion therapy, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Deputy and the Congressman (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Madrid, Roberto Orbea is a member of the Spanish communist party. He is married to Carmen, and he has been elected as Deputy in the first democratic elections in Spain. But his enemies, the fascist, know his double life. Roberto likes boys, and they ...
Style: sensual, social, political, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, politics, gays and lesbians, unfaithfulness, triad, seductive, eroticism, hustler, one night stand, politician, hospital ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain, madrid, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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 6.5
 689
Pals (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The plot follows the misadventures of two young friends who are forced into street hustling and ever-expanding life of crime when one impregnates the sister of the other and they need to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: friendship between men, male pubic hair, juvenile delinquent, gays and lesbians, friendship, nudity, stoner, lgbt, hot guys, gay, abortion, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 3.4
 151
Praxis (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay erotica, tattoo, loneliness, dream, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, skinny dipping, gay subtext ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Man in Her Life (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Selya is disappointed with Bobby who only wants sex but no real relationship nor marriage. So she leaves and decides to marry the gay Ramon who, she is convinced, is definitely different.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, filipina, cheating wife, nudity, gay interest, female nudity, teacher, sex, homosexual, gay
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.8
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Overdose (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bilbao. The commander of the Guardia Civil, Evaristo Torrecuadrada discovers that his son Paco of 17 years old is a heroin addict. His hope was to see him in the Military Academy. Paco, by differences with his father, runs away from home with a ...
Style: hood, social, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: friendship, overdose, gangster, ghetto, juvenile delinquent, gang, spy, gays and lesbians, gay, prostitute, nudity, heroin addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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A Man Called Autumn Flower (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".
Style: social
Plot: lgbt, gay, anarchist, gays and lesbians, gay interest, closeted homosexual, resistance, female impersonator, anarchism, homosexual, dictator, young
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: gay, father son relationship, erotica, gay interest, gay crush, lgbt, gay subtext, male pubic hair, nudity, male nudity, sexuality, gay erotica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Drifting (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Robi is a young Israeli who lives his grandparents and works at their store. He dreams of finding true love and becoming a movie director, both of which seem increasingly difficult. His film career stalls, until he can get financial backing and his ...
Plot: israeli, gay, grandmother, closeted homosexual, lgbt, filmmaker, male nudity, homosexual, gay bar, homosexuality, gay sex, gay subtext ...
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Peter von Kant (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share ...
Style: stylized, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay crush, gay interest, male nudity, older man younger man relationship, lgbt, lost soul, bare chested male, man dances with a man, actor, actress, dinner ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.0
 1K
Label Me (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match ...
Style: touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, sex work, gay love, male nudity, love, homosexual, hustler, gay for pay, lgbtq, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 4.3
 278
Wild Awakening (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Toni and Emma are brother and sister who owns a stable farm. Ramon and his son, Aaron works for them. Toni is openly gay and loves to party, Emma has a crush on Aaron who is a closeted gay who is afraid that his father might find out, but his father ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, male nudity, gay sex, lgbt, murder, couples, gay interest, male objectification, farm, sex scene, police, voyeurism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 902
Body Electric (2017)
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: queer cinema
Plot: lgbtq, gay, lgbt, lgbtqi, male pubic hair, erection, gay interest, gay sex, male nudity, gay subtext, nudity, male objectification ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Anjos da Noite (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
Plot: lgbt, prostitution, drag queen, love, nudity, male nudity, female nudity, male objectification, menage a trois, gay interest, film within a film, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Minister’s Wife (1981)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, ...
Style: detective, gay cinema
Plot: impotent husband, terrorism, infidelity, corruption, investigation, assassination, aristocrat, money, politics, injection, gigolo, male full rear nudity ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 5.2
 22
Manderley (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This is the story of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural.
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, lgbt, parents, bare chested male, nudity, male nudity, gay stereotype, party, rain, painting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
To an Unknown God (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ageing man comes to terms with his mortality and his sexual orientation. The film was groundbreaking in its frank and mature examination of homosexuality.
Style: social, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: lgbt, gay, spanish civil war, male homosexuality, couples, gays and lesbians, elderly, introspection, unfulfillment, gender, aging, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 898
Lonesome (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two young men make a connection neither of them expects or knows how to navigate. Casey, a young man from the countryside running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in the big smoke of Sydney. When he meets Tib, a young city lad, ...
Style: art house, gay cinema
Plot: gay, gay sex, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay anal sex, lgbt, lgbtq, gay love, man dances with a man, gay relationship, older man younger man relationship, gay hustler ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Bareback ou La guerre des sens (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay subtext, lgbt, nudity, male nudity, nude beach, skinny dipping, male objectification, gay interest, film within a film
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
100 Days Before the Command (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring. '100 Days Before the Command' is Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the ...
Plot: soviet army, coming of age, teenage boy, male nudity, gay, lgbt, military, nudity, military service, very little dialogue, female nudity, surrealism ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Destiny (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Guinea, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Though gay-themed stories about "coming out" and accepting one's sexuality are not uncommon in Western countries, such tales are still rare in many conservative African nations. Considered a ground-breaking film in its native Guinea, ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, black lgbt, gay teenager, black, african, gay interest, homosexual, interracial sex, female nudity, gay slur, male homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, south africa, west africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Miracle Child (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a sunny district of Naples where everyone knows each other, Mario and Lino, two inseparable friends, live day by day in the monotony of neighborhood life until their fraternal friendship is put to the test.
Style: gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay erotica, gay friend, gay crush, friendship between men, milf, gay slur, gay subtext, lgbt, male homosexuality, bisexuality ...
Place: naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.7
 525
Pretty Boy (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Nick is a handsome 13-year-old runaway whose search for a family leads him into the arms of male prostitution. While Nick's sexual exploits with strange men keep his pockets lined with cash, the experience does nothing to preserve his waning ...
Plot: male prostitution, lgbt, gay, glbt, teenager, accidental killing, aids, homosexual, runaway, prostitution, gay subtext, male full rear nudity ...
Place: copenhagen
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84%
 3.3
 194
Luna Park (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal ...
Style: erotic, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbtq, lgbt, gay sex, female pubic hair, nudity, male pubic hair, voyeurism, sex scene, female nudity, incest rape, erection ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.0
 164
Montreal Main (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, gay, bonding, gay interest, gay subtext, male homosexuality, lgbt, closeted homosexual, photographer, masturbation, mutual masturbation
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Life and Death (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
Plot: lgbt, married, wife, gay slur, sexuality, controversy, infidelity, male nudity, female nudity, violence, adultery, doctor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Night of the Wolf (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A mythical journey of the customs of homosexuality.
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, light, art house ...
Plot: gay interest, lgbt, homosexual, gay, gay lead character, erotica, homoeroticism, couples, couple relations, love, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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