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Hide and Seek (1980)
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Original name: מחבואים
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twelve year-old Uri reports his teacher Balaban as a suspected spy when he observes him meeting with a young arab man. Only later does he discover that Balaban's interest in the young arab is romantic rather than political.
Plot:
israeli, lgbt, gay subtext, gay, school, teacher, student, boy, arab, homosexuality, teacher student relationship, arab israeli conflict, tutor, gay teacher, autobiography, secret relationship, gay interest, grandfather grandson relationship, closeted homosexual, intolerance, holocaust survivor, following someone, political activist, young boy, 12 year old ...
Time:
year 1946, post world war two
Place:
jerusalem, israel
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, touching and serious films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay subtext, gay interest, israeli, male nudity and homosexual mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hide and Seek: Confused Feelings (1981), Amazing Grace (1992), An Unusual Affair (2002), A Matter of Trust (2022), The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, emotional, intense, art house ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, homosexuality, unrequited love, midlife crisis, teacher student relationship, bittersweet, literary, forbidden love, tragic romance, obsession, love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, aids, israeli, sexuality, family drama, lgbt, humanism, identity, illness, empathy, gay, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jochen Wenzel, a young teacher, married with two kids, one day surprisingly falls in love with a young male colleague, Tom Leuthner and they begin an unusual affair (= "Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre"). While Ina, Jochen's wife, ...
Style:
sincere, touching, suspense, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay lead character, gay husband, love triangle, husband wife relationship, gay father, fall in love, extramarital affair, infidelity, adultery, bisexual ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The lives of five unrelated people — a husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter — are turned upside-down with irreversible consequences.
Plot:
husband wife relationship, multiple storylines, gay teenager, secret, deportation, gay, teenage boy, pregnancy, funeral, doctor, sex scene, teacher student relationship ...
Place:
denmark, afghanistan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
These three semi-autobiographical short films by Terence Davies follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in "Children", then as a hollow-eyed middle-aged man in "Madonna and Child", and finally as a ...
Style:
anthology, queer cinema
Plot:
memory, catholic school, death, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, young boy, corporal punishment, family relations, gay cruising, dying mother, grownups ...
Place:
liverpool, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
Style:
gay cinema
Plot:
lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay subtext, bare chested male, half brother half brother relationship, orgasm, homosexual, death of mother, arab, factory worker, gay ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
israeli, twins, family relations, eating disorder, dealing with death, single parent, nanny, family problems, couples, siblings relations, death in the family, family gatherings ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The plot follows a middle-aged, closeted homosexual banker from a wealthy family, who falls in love with a much younger heterosexual man.
Style:
social, independent film, gay cinema
Plot:
gay, male nudity, closeted homosexual, male prostitute, lgbt, gay interest, gay crush, gay seduction, female pubic hair, gay subtext, gay slur, banker ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bryan meets a man called Bill in a bar. They go back to Bryan's home and have unprotected sex. Later, they wake up and talk. Bryan discovers that Bill's real name is Brian, and that he is bisexual. They spend hours talking, covering topics ...
Style:
minimal cast, independent film
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay sex, lgbt, unprotected sex, gay subtext, loneliness, insecurity, sex talk, gay slur, gay lead character, homosexuality ...
Time:
future
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, touching
Plot:
village, boy, teacher, young boy, grandfather grandson relationship, fishing village, child protagonist, individualism, female nudity, teacher student relationship, life lesson, isolated community ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Pinto’s sophomore feature patiently investigates the everyday life and psychosexual vacillations of Laura (Laura Morante), a woman caught in a web of verboten romance and incestuous desire. Pinto elliptically and delicately portrays the small ...
Style:
gay cinema
Plot:
lgbt, gay subtext, soccer, cycling, bare chested male, voice over narration, bare butt, family relations, basement, inner voice, beekeeper, playing football ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Slow-burning and smart, French director Rémi Lange's The Road to Love is a romantic tale of self-discovery that also offers a fascinating historical take on homosexuality in northern Africa. French-Algerian sociology student Karim is having ...
Style:
captivating, sociological, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
Plot:
islam, male nudity, muslim, male pubic hair, lgbt, gay muslim, closeted gay, gay, arab, sexual tension, homosexuality, heterosexuality ...
Place:
paris france, morocco, amsterdam, north africa, marseille
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated.
Style:
period piece, emotional, inspirational, heroic, political ...
Plot:
u.s. air force, lgbt, gay, gay slur, gay rights, identity, activism, civil rights, social justice, courage, legal battle, social change ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
virginia, langley virginia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Namibia
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, two lives intersect: George, a middle-class insurance broker living in central town, Windhoek, and Simeon, a kapana seller who lives in Katutura, ...
Style:
romantic, talky, touching, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, gay relationship, closeted gay, closeted homosexual, gay slur, gay subtext, male homosexuality, secret, discrimination, gay lead character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, namibia, south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish ...
Style:
black comedy, black and white, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
israeli, islam, arab culture, satire, immigrant, family relations, society, fighting the system, rebellion, family life, large family, refugee camp ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Style:
sentimental, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
matchmaking, looking for love, love and romance, teenage life, best friend, apprentice, male female relationship, adaptation, holocaust, judaism, summer, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.
Style:
semi autobiographical, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, older woman younger man relationship, israeli, young romance, youth, coming of age, teenage boy, british soldier, labor strike, loss of virginity, age difference, world war two ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
palestine, africa, middle east, israel
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, rebellion, british military, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, 1940s, year 1977
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he's a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".
Style:
historical drama, art house, social, period drama, tragic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lgbt, gay, dual identity, transvestism, double life, dictatorship, self discovery, sexual identity, repression, identity crisis, political oppression, cabaret ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A female American Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by an Israeli court. It's a tough case because of strong political background. Meanwhile she finds out she's pregnant and thinks about abortion.
Style:
political, independent film, political drama
Plot:
abortion, conspiracy, lawyer, resistance, israeli, chaos, judaism, prison, deportation, cover up, prosecutor, investigation ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
israel, middle east, jordan, south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, disorder, society, introspection, occupation, adolescence vs adulthood, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A few Palestinian guerilla's break into an Israeli camp in the occupied territories. They kill a few Israeli soldiers before they are killed, apart from one who dies in the camp after being captured alive. The Israeli military dispatch an ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
israeli, moral dilemma, army investigation, soldier, military, power relations, basic training, military base, military life, machismo, macho man, friend ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A father with a dangerous secret searching for his daughter.
Style:
emotional, realistic, political, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
secrets, redemption, guilt, loss, grief, identity, occupation, honor, betrayal, revenge, claustrophobia, israeli army ...
Time:
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Place:
palestine, israel, middle east, jerusalem
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti ...
Style:
tension, emotional, realistic, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, father son conflict, village life, parenting, fatherhood, bittersweet, stubbornness, family honor, patriarchy, identity crisis, rebellion ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is ...
Style:
intellectual, political
Plot:
coming of age, boy, polish history, teacher, school, boarding house, tyranny, rebel, religion, male nudity, father son relationship, police ...
Time:
pre world war one
Place:
poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenager Kristian moves to a new neighborhood. He makes friends with two very different boys in the new school: Henrik, an independent boy, and Patrick, the leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled when he finds Patrick is gay and having an ...
Style:
queer cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay straight relations, lgbt, gay, gay teenager, high school, friendship between boys, high school student, gay friend, male nudity, teenage boy, gay student, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
Style:
road movie, meditative, poetic, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, loss, mourning, grief, love, journey, solitude, self discovery, memory, landscape, pilgrimage, character study ...
Place:
chile, patagonia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, John has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.
Style:
romantic drama, art house, period piece
Plot:
love triangle, heartbreak, betrayal, seduction, female protagonist, bittersweet, prostitution, abandonment, passion, manipulation, loss, desperation ...
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100%
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