Movies like The Books of John

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The Books of John (2007)
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The Books of John (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: "The Books Of John" is a movie that follows the lives of three different people, Frank McLean, Will and Caryn. Frank finds himself alone after losing his longtime partner suddenly and without warning. Months later he finds that his partner had been keeping secret diaries. With the information in the diaries, Frank delves into his lover's past in an attempt to get to know more about the man that he never really knew. Will is a party boy who is a friend of Frank and Frank's late lover John.
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, love, sex, lesbian, female nudity, gay sex, lesbian sex, male nudity, bible, family relations, homosexual, bathhouse, bare breasts, lesbianism, oral sex, father son relationship, marriage, lesbian interest, gay interest, gay son, gay bar, gay african american, gay rights, nudity, nude ...

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Most similar movies to The Books of John

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, erotic, psychological and touching films with plots about lgbt, female nudity, gay, male nudity, lesbian, love and lesbian sex mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Books of John: The Zone (2011), Die Konkurrentin (1997), That Tender Touch (1969), Noah's Arc (2004), Giselle (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Zone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about ...
Style: mumblecore, sexy, psychological, melancholic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: threesome, female nudity, sex with a stranger, lesbian, gay, relationships, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, jealousy, couples, mysterious stranger, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
Die Konkurrentin (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well ...
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, lgbtq, lgbt, career woman, lesbian relationship, troubled marriage, family relations, lgbtqi, lesbianism, lesbian interest, female nudity ...
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28%
That Tender Touch (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Terri (Sue Bernard) marries and moves to the suburbs, her lesbian lover, Marsha (Bee Tompkins), doesn't take kindly to Terri's desire for a "normal" life. Determined to win her love back, Marsha worms her way into the ...
Style: sexual
Plot: lesbian, erotica, lgbt, old woman, trauma, seduction, marriage, jealousy, lesbian sex, suicide, lesbianism, love ...
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27%
 7.9
 463
Noah's Arc (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today's issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend's children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay african american, gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay subtext, friend, hiv, male nudity, dating, friendship between men, gay parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 4.7
 249
Giselle (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper. She and ...
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, girl, rape, pedophilia, cuckolded husband, neglected wife, love, mishap, bare butt, nudity, female pubic hair ...
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25%
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Minyan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, erotic, gay cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay love, judaism, gay romance, gay sex, homosexual, gay interest, gay couple, gay relationship, male nudity, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.2
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Surrender (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A wild journey through the dark S&M underworld. Salene, a struggling Hollywood writer with a haunting past gets drawn into the world of S&M as she is researching a novel about a dominatrix. Georgia Brown, a native hometown friend arrives for ...
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: dominatrix, lesbian, threesome, fetish, domination, lesbian interest, smoking, sex, female nudity, lesbian sex, woman, cocaine ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
23%
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 5.1
 229
The Ring Thing (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Sarah accidentally proposes to her girlfriend in Provincetown, the mixup turns their loving relationship into a minefield of marital exploration.
Style: psychological, sentimental, sexy, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, marriage proposal, marriage, lesbian sex, love and romance, lgbtq, young lovers, youth, lesbian interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Chinese Chocolate (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. They quickly learn that the paths of heart are rocky as the men in their lives reveal dark, unsettling secrets which ...
Style: independent film
Plot: lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian, foreigner, gay subtext, nudity, immigrant, lesbianism, female nudity, marriage, lesbian sex, sex ...
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22%
 4.2
 889
Raven's Touch (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Blaming herself for a tragic accident, Raven Michaels secludes herself at a remote family cabin. She wanders the woods on the verge of a breakdown, seeking peace in isolation. In a last ditch attempt to save her family, Kate Royce takes her two ...
Style: psychological, captivating, deep, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, love and romance, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, female nudity, jealousy, lgbt, forest, single mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
I Carry You with Me (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New ...
Style: touching, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay interest, gay love, immigrant, lgbtq, migration, teacher, restaurant, gay couple, lgbt, fall in love ...
Time: year 1994, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.5
 96
The Bitches (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes ...
Style: erotic
Plot: erotica, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbianism, male nudity, sex, bondage, castle, sister, female pubic hair, bare breasts, lesbian kiss ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.2
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Longing Nights (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Aitana, Pierrick, Rita and Jorge are all in their twenties and all look for ways to make their nights in the city of Madrid a little less lonely. Aitana is a sweet girl trapped in a men’s body; Pierrick is a cute French gay; Rita doesn't ...
Style: sexy, touching, melancholic, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, love, gays and lesbians, gay interest, prostitute, male nudity, prostitution, lesbian, drug, gay couple, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 2K
Tiger Orange (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay interest, gay relationship, gay brother, death of father, gay slur, outdoor sex, gay sex, lgbtq, caught in the act ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
God Made Man (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Leading double lives and seeking redemption, a transgender man, a drag queen and a corrupt lawyer collide in this urban purgatory.
Style: neo noir, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, homelessness, crooked lawyer, drag queen, transgender, oral sex, sex addict, transsexual, lgbtq, dance, blackmail, gay ...
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21%
 5.4
 33
Candid Sex (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two sexy females host a TV talk show where viewers call in and share their erotic adventures.
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: talk show, nudity, female pubic hair, sexploitation, lesbian, mirror, oral sex, lesbianism, bare breasts, sex, sex scene, sex talk ...
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21%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Don Juan (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has ...
Style: manga
Plot: lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbian, priest, seduction, reincarnation, erection, gay, bare breasts, lesbianism, playing footsie, suicide ...
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Love in the Mirror (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, patron, sex, female nudity, male nudity, theatrical troupe, competitor, theater, affair, actress, playwright ...
Time: 17th century
Place: paris france
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21%
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 276
Roxanna (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
Story: Uninhibited swinger Roxanna can't control her raging libido, sinking her into despair, insanity, and loneliness.
Style: sensual, sexy, erotic, grindhouse, sexploitation film
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, oral sex, sex, bare breasts, fondling, female nudity, lesbian, lesbianism, fetish, sexual desire, girl, exploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 183
Loser (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 23 year old Jame Dean Ray is a small time drug dealer bent on self destruction. The product of a broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs with of course and occasional robbery.
Style: independent film
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, murder, female nudity, drug dealer, lesbian kiss, topless, female female kiss
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 166
Ranchlands (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: The story of a spiritually scarred man whose life changes forever when he must return to his estranged family to help care for a brother who is suffering from brain cancer. With the help of a spiritually enlightened caregiver, he faces the demons of ...
Style: rough, suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual sex, family secret, cancer, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay interest, gay slur, brother brother relationship, couple relations, illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Language of Love 2000 (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Kärlekens språk is a 2004 Swedish sex educational film directed by Anders Lennberg. “Language of Love” is ​​a show for night owls, which gives details of sex, problems with impotence, venereal diseases, etc, with detailed demonstrations. ...
Style: semi documentary, erotic, educational
Plot: sex education, sex, lesbian sex, gay, ejaculation, nudity, male pubic hair, homosexual, unsimulated sex, explicit sex, lgbtqi, sex scene ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Scandal: Body of Love (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Young handsome millionaire marries former prostitute. During lovemaking happy husband dies after drinking before this heart pills. Wife accused of murder, but the lawyer ably proves that she is not to blame, and the case is closed. But everything is ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, sexploitation film
Plot: trial, seduction, sensuality, dying during sex, sexploitation, murder, secret, lesbian sex, nudity, sex, male full rear nudity, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Mattachine Family (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
Style: dramatic, entertaining, social, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay relationship, male nudity, gay interest, love affair, couple relations, relationships, gay love, gay lead character, couples, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 194
Once More (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A man sick of his life, decides to leave his wife and find his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. The film covers a decade of his life, each scene taking place roughly during his daughter's birthday.
Style: erotic, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, male nudity, homosexual, closeted homosexual, gay, gay club, love, freedom, gay father, aids, gay parent ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
19%
Do You Take This Man (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a gay couple's impending wedding hits a snag, the grooms must rely on their friends and family to see them through.
Style: psychological, touching, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay interest, childhood friend, marriage, lgbtq, homosexual, dishonesty, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 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 ⇓
19%
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