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Boys Love (2006)
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Original name: BOYS LOVE
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Magazine editor Taishin Mamiya interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi. Despite Noeru's bad attitude, his painting of an ocean intrigues Mamiya and leads to a dinner, during which Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. Soon Mamiya sees Noeru with another man, and he is shocked to discover at that moment that his interest in Noeru goes beyond article research—he truly wants to know more about him.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic, queer cinema
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay interest, gay, gays and lesbians, forbidden love, love triangle, boys love, youth, promiscuity, love and romance, gay teenager, jealousy, teenage love, love affair, fall in love, interview, artists and showbiz, sexual assault, relationships, love story, journalist, in love, couple relations, male nudity, occupation, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, asia
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Most similar movies to Boys Love
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, queer cinema, sexy and realistic films with plots about lgbt, gay, love and romance, gay interest, gays and lesbians, lgbtq and youth mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Boys Love: Schoolboy Crush (2007), Method (2017), Athlete (2019), No Regret (2006), July Rhapsody (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Aoi, a young teacher with striking good looks, has just learned that his newest student Sora is the alluring teen prostitute he once hired. Here the nightmare begins. As the walls of the prestigious academy become a percolating hotbed of sexual ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, boys love, lgbt, high school, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, transsexual, student life, couples, power relations, teenage life, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A seasoned actor and a pop star are cast as leads in a gay romantic play. As the actor teaches the pop star method acting, the line between fiction and reality is blurred and they become drawn to each other.
Style:
sexy, romantic, erotic, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, boys love, gay interest, gay couple, lgbtq, male male relationship, gays and lesbians, age difference, gay lead character, homosexual, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
244
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kōhei is a former competitive swimmer who lives an ordinary life with his wife and high school daughter. One day, his wife suddenly asks him for a divorce. He then has a fateful encounter in Tokyo’s gay district, Shinjuku Ni-chōme, with a ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, unusual plot structure, romantic, touching ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay relationship, lovers, gay, gay asian, lgbtq, gay couple, gay lead character, lgbt, love and romance, couples, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sumin is an orphan trying to balance work in a factory with study at an art college and an evening job. One night, a rich young businessman makes an advance on him during one of his driving jobs. They meet again the next day: it is during a round of ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, boys love, lgbtq, gay asian, gay interest, gay love, male prostitute, gay teenager, forbidden love, gay hustler, gay son, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, seoul, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, infidelity, couples, breakup, tragic love, love and romance, family problems, teachers and students, midlife crisis, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Takumi and Gii are now a couple, but Takumi is still uncomfortable with showing affection. Not only that, but Takumi grows jealous when Gii starts paying attention to a good-looking first year student. Is Gii's love really that fickle?
Style:
affectionate, touching, sincere, captivating
Plot:
gay, gay romance, homosexuality, terminal illness, gay relationship, school, jealousy, tragedy, gay interest, character study, life philosophy, introspection ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
Style:
captivating, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
gay husband, gay, hopes, closeted homosexual, gay club, male nudity, infidelity, love triangle, tragic romance, couples, escapades, dishonesty ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
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579
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed to make gay men straight.
Style:
sexy, realistic, contemplative, psychological, sexual ...
Plot:
medical experiment, lgbt, gender, love affair, couple relations, midlife crisis, estrangement, couples, gender bending, homosexual, lgbtq, gay interest ...
Similarity:
100%
119
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Drama following a young boxer Tomokazu and his relationship with his best friend Yoshiko and sister Misao as while he's training for an important match. His sister and friend have always been there for him, supporting him, but Tomokazu is about ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, romantic
Plot:
gay, love triangle, secret love, lgbt teen, brother sister relationship, romantic triangle, relationships, boxer, in love, athlete's life, love interest, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Carter, a troubled teen stays with a friend of his dads and starts flirting with her son Danny. After the weekend school returns, however Carter a school jock tells Danny he does not want to be seen with him at school. Their relationship grows ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay sex, gay interest, gay lead character, lgbt teen, gay student, lgbt, closeted homosexual, drug use, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, gender, gay interest, gay lead character, male nudity, looking for love, couples, love and romance, city life, rent boy, male pubic hair, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Lorenzo, Blue and Antonio have a lot in common: they are sixteen, attending the same class in the same school in a small town in the northeast, each have a family that loves them. And all three, though for different reasons, have come to be isolated ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, touching, sweet ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay lead character, gay, gay relationship, gay student, brother brother relationship, friendship, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay son, father son relationship, love triangle ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
567
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, melancholic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, lgbtq, gay couple, gay relationship, gay lead character, homosexual, breakup, carpenter, love and romance, confined ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts. Haru is a college student ignored by her boyfriend yet believes she is ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, looking for love, friendship, self discovery, couples, love and romance, gender, friends, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
St. Sebastian College is only open to male, homosexual students. The same goes for the faculty who fought passionately to create this gay utopia free from hatred and discrimination. But beneath the seemingly perfect façade, a quagmire of jealousy, ...
Style:
talky, romantic, touching, emotional, psychological
Plot:
gay subtext, gay interest, male nudity, gay club, gay lead character, gay sex, high school, love affair, love, friends, love interest, gay youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Chile
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Santiago, gay single father, has reached a tipping point in his life. Reeling from a bitter breakup, he is facing the impending departure of his daughter Laila, with whom he shares a close yet emotionally charged relationship. As the fear of being ...
Style:
emotional, touching, psychological, talky, romantic ...
Plot:
gay father, homosexuality, gay interest, gay, lgbt, gay lead character, gay sex, gay orgy, male nudity, gay parent, gay subtext, self destructing ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Brazil, 1978. The military dictatorship that resulted from a coup in 1964 begins to stumble. In a cabaret-like theater located on the periphery between two cities in the northeast of Brazil, a group of artists challenges power and conventional ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay interest, lgbt, gay, repressed homosexual, soldier, self discovery, love and romance, society, performer's life, rebelliousness, gender ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot:
black lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, artists and showbiz, estrangement ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Three teenage boys who were once close friends grow apart when they reach high school: Yong-ju lives hiding his true gender identity, Gi-woong becomes the leader of the school gang, and Gi-taek an obsessive manga fan. Tired of the constant malicious ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay asian, gay, boys love, gay interest, lgbtq, manipulation, teenage life, friendship, youth, dishonesty, betrayal, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of Trinidad and Tobago’s mystical Carnival, a gifted and struggling young man becomes the object of intrigue for an older, well-meaning businessman until their worlds collide.
Style:
sexy, touching, sentimental, unusual plot structure, melancholic ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay sex, gay lead character, gay african american, gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay interest, gay couple, lovers, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Randy tries very hard to be a good person. Since his father left, Randy takes care of his emotionally disturbed mother, and he's the kind of friend all of his classmates can depend on. As strong as he seems on the outside, ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, melancholic, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot:
gay interest, lgbt, gay lead character, gay relationship, lovers, gay romance, gay couple, closeted gay, young lovers, gay african american, gay, baptist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, contemplative, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, sex work, gay lead character, homosexuality, gay couple, gay sex, gay relationship, gay love, male male relationship, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style:
independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt teen, lgbt, coming of age, male homosexuality, gay interest, lgbtq, youth, gay subtext, best friend, gender, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa, canada, italy, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay student, coming of age, fall in love, gays and lesbians, lgbt, teenage love, self discovery, gay interest, social misfits, lgbt teen ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two men meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, lgbt cinema, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, homosexual, gay love, lgbtq, lovers, gay lead character, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, flashback, gay erotica ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
madrid, barcelona, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Sugihara Kohei, a college student who has distanced himself from others unconsciously because he is hard of hearing and it keeps causing one misunderstanding after another. One day his classmate Taiichi stumbles into him and notices his delicious ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay asian, gay couple, boys love, university, gay lead character, young lovers, deaf, homosexuality, love and romance, deafness ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove they are not in love.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, emotional, psychological, sexual ...
Plot:
sex scene, gay, male pubic hair, nudity, gay erotica, gender, masturbation, self discovery, breakup, introspection, couples, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, usa, new york, europe, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Romeo and Juliet has never been more provocative than in this contemporary all-boy staging. Writer/director Alan Brown transfers the setting from fair Verona to a high school military campus where a small group of boys from rival schools act out the ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, lgbtq, gay love, gym, boys love, gays and lesbians, gender, gay interest, true love, gay romance, gay student ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Following the death of his father and a chance meeting with an abusive romance novelist, a masseur working in a gay massage parlor struggles to make sense of his unfulfilling relationships while simultaneously assisting his mother in preparing his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
masseur, gay, sexual relations, male prostitute, gay sex, death of father, dysfunctional family, family problems, self discovery, family life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Place:
the philippines, asia
Similarity:
100%
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