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Via Appia (1989)
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Via Appia (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Frank, a (HIV infected) former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the morning after, he left a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror: 'Welcome to the AIDS club'. Frank and his director hire a fast talking hustler named José (Guilherme di Padua) to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have just left whenever they arrive. Via Appia is the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out...
Style: gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: aids, lgbt, gay, hiv, prostitution, male nudity, nudity, gay subtext, sex, striptease, criminal, gay sex, on the road, homosexual, bathhouse, cruise, masseur, flight attendant, male prostitution, urban legend, male prostitute, selfie, gay club, urban setting, skinny dipping ...
Place: rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, gay cinema, realistic and touching films with plots about gay, lgbt, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, lgbtq and gay subtext mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Via Appia: Longing (2003), A Touch of Fever (1993), Greek Pete (2009), Strapped (2010), Green Plaid Shirt (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Longing (2003)
Genre: Romance, Drama, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in dealing with experiences from their past but new developments make them face their inner conflicts and ...
Plot: gay, nudity, male nudity, murder, redemption, lgbt, male pubic hair, cybersex, gay interest, sex, gay sex, homosexual ...
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95%
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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91%
 5.1
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Greek Pete (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Just as doctors, lawyers and others strive to reach the top of their professions, Greek Pete (Peter Pittaros) longs to reach the pinnacle of his. The only difference is that he's a rent boy, and the recognition he seeks is a nod from the World ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtqi, lgbtq, rent boy, escort, male pubic hair, male prostitute, male nudity, gay subtext, gay interest, drug ...
Place: england, london
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69%
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Strapped (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler into a series of life-changing encounters in this drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, prostitution, apartment building, lgbt, gay sex, gays and lesbians, prostitute, loneliness, changing lives, couples, male prostitution, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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 ...
Style: independent film
Plot: gay, lgbt, aids, lgbtq, hiv, gay subtext, gay sex, death of lover, death of loved one, loss of lover, death of boyfriend, swimming pool ...
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56%
Hustler White (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry. Said to be an homage to classic Hollywood cinema.
Style: sexual, clever, controversial, experimental, cynical ...
Plot: gay, male prostitution, amputee, male prostitute, gay sex, male pubic hair, gay for pay, satire, lgbt, gays and lesbians, sex, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
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56%
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Return to Go (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: nude beach, gay, hiv, naked in public, homosexuality, gay interest, lgbt, aids, gay subtext, car crash, male homosexuality, public nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Deleted Scenes (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When 30 something Sean meets Eastern European immigrant Wolf, sparks fly. They return to Sean’s apartment and begin a high energy and hugely sexual affair. What starts as a mere chance meeting slowly evolves into something more. Wolf is easy ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbtq, lgbt, male nudity, beach, prostitute, rain, sex, cell phone, gay sex, hustler, bondage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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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52%
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 409
Nine Lives (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, hiv, gay sex, infidelity, support group, lifestyle, lgbt, social relations, couples, youth, love and romance, breakup ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
No Hard Feelings (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets ...
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay muslim, gay interest, gay love, coming of age, refugee, gay subtext, gay lead character, gay club, lgbt, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, iran
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50%
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All Yours (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A penniless Argentine male escort meets a solitary, lonely Belgian baker who wants to help him leave the world of prostitution, explores intimate gay relationship.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: gay, male prostitute, baker, male nudity, love triangle, bathhouse, bisexual, nudity, gender, self discovery, immigrant, gay hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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48%
The Last Match (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife and wife's granma, gambler ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, male prostitution, gay relationship, gay love, gay slur, lgbt, gay sex, gays and lesbians, rent boy, lgbtq, love and romance, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, havana cuba
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45%
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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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43%
A Moment in the Reeds (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, immigration, gay relationship, gay romance, gay lead character, syrian refugee, gay sex, architect, male nudity ...
Place: finland
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Berlin Drifters (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Kôichi is a Japanese man living alone in Berlin. He has no job and hardly any friends. One night Kôichi meets Ryota at a bar which is also a sex club. Ryota came to Berlin to visit a German guy whom he had "met" on a dating app. His high ...
Style: serious, captivating, sexy, erotic, queer cinema
Plot: gay erotica, erotica, one night stand, gay, voyeurism, sex club, relationship problems, relationships, social problems, sexuality, lgbt, sexual relations ...
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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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It's My Party (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, glbt, death, friendship, deaf, gay interest, male nudity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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India Blues: Eight Feelings (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: INDIA BLUES is an edgy, bold and passionate love story between two young men who are sometimes afraid to love each other.
Style: avant garde, experimental
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay subtext, sexual tension, male pubic hair, nudity, gay interest, cigarette smoking, sex scene, oral sex, gay couple ...
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40%
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Retake (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A lonely, middle-aged man hires a male prostitute to recreate a road trip from his past.
Style: sexy, road movie, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Plot: gay interest, road trip, gay, male prostitute, gay relationship, motel, gay lead character, gay couple, love, prostitution, gay sex, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, san francisco
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39%
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Good Boys (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Movie follows two young gay hustlers through interwoven stories during a night in Tel Aviv.
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, israeli, underworld, talking about love, gay father, gay parent, transgender, kinky sex, drug ...
Place: tel aviv israel, israel
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38%
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You & I (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little known area of the Uckermark in preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris, the friendship of the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, road trip, male nudity, lgbt, gay erotica, homosexual, photographer, nudity, garden, summer, homosexuality, lgbtq ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, central europe
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37%
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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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37%
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Going South (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, ...
Style: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: ocean, striptease, sex, skinny dipping, gays and lesbians, friends, obsessive quest, love affair, friendship, family problems, introspection, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 539
Leather (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Birch, a young man living in the Catskill Mountains, reunites with his childhood friend from the city, Andrew.
Style: sexy, touching, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay sex, male nudity, homosexual, childhood friend, love and romance, gay couple, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, love story, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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36%
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A Son (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 58 min.
Story: Selim, a young man adrift, is a transvestite and a prostitute who desperately longs for his father's love. Omar, his father, lives a secluded life of grief and has never recovered from the loss of his wife. Like two lonely ships, they pass ...
Plot: gay sex, gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay subtext, man dances with a man, male objectification, prostitution, gay son, widower, loss of son, death of son ...
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35%
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I Don't Kiss (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot: prostitution, male prostitute, sex work, unrequited love, young man, prostitute, sex, lgbt, male prostitution, gay, lgbtq, pimp ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Year Without Love (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.
Style: serious, sincere, rough, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, aids, sadomasochism, fetishism, dangerous attraction, life is a bitch, terminal illness, sexual relations, love and romance, writer's life, hiv, disco ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.2
 692
The Visitor (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Cibrâil, a young policeman, is living happily with his girlfriend in Berlin. He is well integrated in society despite his Turkish background. One day his girlfriend's cousin comes to stay and Cibrâil's life is turned upside down.
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, suspense, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: gay interest, gay relationship, sexual attraction, gay lead character, male nudity, gay, lgbt, cousin cousin relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male pubic hair, nudity, police officer ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
Style: independent film, realistic, sentimental, witty, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, male nudity, hiv, nudity, gay couple, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, friendship, blind character, blindness ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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