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Beloved/Friend (1999)
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Original name: Amic/Amat
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" by Ramon Llull. Feeling near death as a result of illness, he discovers that the ideal person is a young and intelligent student he is in love with and who is dedicated to male prostitution.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
gay, lgbt, male prostitute, lgbtq, friendship, pregnancy, midlife crisis, terminal illness, friends, love and romance, life is a bitch, best friends, sexual relations, couples, gays and lesbians, infidelity, aging, gender, unfulfillment, love, sex, survival, lesbian, fight, food ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, barcelona, barcelona spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and queer cinema films with plots about couples, gay, kiss, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gender and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Beloved/Friend: I Dreamt Under the Water (2008), His Brother (2003), The Witnesses (2007), Lan Yu (2001), Full Speed (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having ...
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Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
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gay, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, homosexual, suffering, terminal illness, gay interest ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A teenager discovers that mending a broken heart is no simple thing in this independent romantic drama from Mexico. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuno), a 17-year-old who has recently embraced his homosexuality, has just parted ways with his first serious ...
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serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sexy ...
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gay, lgbt, breakup, lost love, unfulfilled love, teenage life, losing-it hero, obsession, love and romance, life is a bitch, sex scene, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, mexico city
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73%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
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serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
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gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, siblings relations, love and romance, gender, teenage boy, lgbt ...
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year 1984, year 1985, 80s
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paris france, munich germany, marseille, france, europe ...
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70%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident
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captivating, sentimental, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
gay, older man younger man relationship, gay sex, gay asian, love affair, male nudity, gay relationship, lgbt, lifestyle, fighting the system, social differences, couples ...
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Place:
beijing china, china, asia, america, hong kong ...
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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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gay teenager, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, coming out, betrayal, youth, racism, love triangle, friendship, homosexuality ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
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sincere, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
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teens, pre-teens
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paris france, france, europe, brittany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, sincere, semi serious
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, coming out, lgbt, closeted homosexual, love triangle, friendship, gay slur, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, couples, looking for love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, england, london, brighton
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57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
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Time:
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Place:
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52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Diego is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto. The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but ...
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serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay love, lgbt, gay, gay sex, love triangle, infidelity, gays and lesbians, family problems, crumbling marriage, couples, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
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girls' night
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Time:
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49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
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psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in ...
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
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Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Reportedly the first film to come out of East Germany to deal openly with gay issues. Philipp, a closeted teacher is dating a female collegue to keep up appearances. One night, by 'accident' he stumbles into a gay bar, meets and promptly ...
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sexy, psychological, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
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gay, coming out, gay cruising, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, love triangle, gay teenager, lgbtq, sexuality, teacher, gay interest, erotica ...
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80s
Place:
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43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tel Aviv, Summer 1989. Boaz, a beautiful and alluring linguistics student, receives anonymous, male written love letters, that undermine his sexual identity and interfere on his peaceful life with his beloved girlfriend.
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sincere, serious, touching, erotic, homoerotic ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire? After more than 50 years without seeing each other, two 70 years old women dare crossing the line
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serious, touching, realistic, romantic, sincere ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Place:
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