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Beloved/Friend (1999)
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Beloved/Friend (1999)
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, crying
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, friendship, pregnancy, midlife crisis, best friend, terminal illness, friends, love and romance, life is a bitch, sexual relations, couples, gays and lesbians, infidelity, aging, gender, unfulfillment, love, sex, survival, lesbian, fight, food, motorcycle ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, barcelona, barcelona spain
Keyword: reading, bruise

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and touching films with plots about gender, couples, gays and lesbians, kiss, gay, lgbt and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Beloved/Friend: Late August, Early September (1998), I Dreamt Under the Water (2008), His Brother (2003), The Witnesses (2007), Full Speed (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
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I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
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 ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot: bisexual man, gay, unrequited love, prostitute, transsexual, lgbt, nightlife, love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: paris france, france
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His Brother (2003)
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, ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
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A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky (2003)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, breakup, lost love, teenage life, unfulfilled love, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, obsession, love and romance, sex scene, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city
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The Witnesses (2007)
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.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, love and romance, siblings relations, hiv, gender, erection ...
Time: year 2007, year 1984, year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, france ...
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Full Speed (1996)
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 ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
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Time: 90s
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Forgive and Forget (2000)
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, sincere, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, unrequited love, best friend, lgbt, closeted homosexual, love triangle, friendship, gay slur, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, buddies, looking for love ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, brighton
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Close to Leo (2002)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, youth, hiv, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, lgbt, coming of age, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, family life ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, brittany
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Second Skin (1999)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, psychological, eros ...
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Time: 90s
Place: spain
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
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Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Longtime Companion (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, politics, friendship, lgbtq, gay couple, courage, gay interest, love, glbt, gay slur ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1988, year 1986 ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Before I Forget (2007)
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.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: biting, semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous ...
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Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
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Style: sincere, talky, realistic, serious, clever ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
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Duration: 118 min.
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Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
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Intentions (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, independent film
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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For 80 Days (2010)
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
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: elderly lovers, gender, gays and lesbians, lesbian, friendship, hospital, lgbt, elderly, best friend, unfulfillment, introspection, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, spain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Little Lili (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, clever, touching, erotic ...
Plot: filmmaking, older man younger woman relationship, actor's life, love triangle, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, obsession, unfulfilled love, infidelity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, brittany
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: sincere, touching, serious, suspense, lgbt cinema ...
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Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: israel, tel aviv israel, middle east, asia
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Floating Skyscrapers (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gender, gay love, gays and lesbians, gay sex, bisexual, couple relations, gay interest, love triangle, self discovery, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Blackmail Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and ...
Style: realistic, serious, crying, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: mother in law son in law relationship, gay husband, older woman younger man relationship, gay, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, family problems, dark humor, breakup, parents and children, manipulation, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: athens greece, greece
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19%
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