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Reinventing Marvin (2017)
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Original name: Marvin ou la belle éducation
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young gay man determined to reinvent his life leaves everything behind on his quest for self-realization.
Style:
non-linear, psychological, tense, captivating, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, contemplative, art house, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay interest, gay love, gay lead character, gay, gay son, gay relationship, male nudity, gay couple, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay club, gay youth, sex scene, gay brother, nudity, gay teenager, gay sex, homosexuality, swimming pool, gay bar, garbage collector, gay seduction, theater, male rape, bare chested male ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, psychological, gay cinema and touching films with plots about gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay lead character, gay subtext, gay kiss and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Reinventing Marvin: I Am Jonas (2018), 120 Beats Per Minute (2017), A Brother (2018), Nobody's Watching (2017), Teenage Kicks (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Jonas was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan. In addition to guiding him in his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend. Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories still haunt ...
Style:
melancholic, suspense, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay relationship, male homosexuality, gay interest, gay club, gay teenager, lgbt, missing person, homosexuality, lgbtqi, gay youth ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, art house, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, aids, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay relationship, hospital, gay pride, gay couple, sex scene, protest ...
Time:
90s, year 2017, year 1992, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, indiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
15-year-old Tom (Simon Royer) is going to spend another calm summer with his parents and younger sister at their summer house. But by fate, another family comes to spend some time with them, with their 17-year-old son Félix (Marin Lafitte). In the ...
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lgbt cinema, sexy, unusual plot structure, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, first gay sexual experience, gay relationship, gay teenager, lgbtq, homoerotic friendship, friendship between boys, love, gay love, gay friend ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nico is a young Argentine actor fighting to build a career in the US, without assistance, or connections, never too far from heart-breaking failure, but often blinded by the mirage of immediate success.
Style:
sexy, soap opera, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay latino, gay lead character, gay friend, gay club, male nudity, lgbt, lgbtq, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
buenos aires argentina, new york, argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.
Style:
lgbt cinema, homoerotic, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, gay interest, homosexual, accidental death, gay teenager, jealousy, gay crush, gay erotica, unrequited love, gay son, homoeroticism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
Style:
lgbt cinema, touching, disturbing, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, father son relationship, gay teenager, gay couple, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, rural setting, lgbt, gay lead character, male male relationship, conversion therapy ...
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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%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sexy, captivating, aesthetic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbt, teenage protagonist, lgbt teen, teenager, gay relationship, teenage boy, gay interest, death, accidental death, gay teenager, beach resort ...
Time:
year 1985, 2000s, 80s
Place:
normandy, france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for film. As his family comes together to celebrate the holiday, the combined forces of the suffocating Chilean heat, free-flowing drinks, and repressed desire ...
Style:
homoerotic, sexy, erotic, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay interest, sex scene, teenager, gay brother, sexual attraction, male full rear nudity, naked man, teenage boy, male nudity, gay sex ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
chile
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, coming of age, gay love, gay relationship, road trip, menage a trois, gay youth, ghost, threesome, masturbation, gay sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, talky, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay relationship, gay romance, gay teenager, lgbtq, gay couple, gay student, male male relationship, lgbt, gay sex, gay love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, akron ohio, ohio, florida
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Talented swimmer, motivated apprentice, cool buddy: Beyto is in the midst of life. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. His parents only see one way out: They lure him ...
Style:
talky, romantic, emotional, touching, crying ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay subtext, gay interest, gay couple, gay, father son relationship, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, swimmer, wedding, gay lead character, closeted gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Prince, moved by jealousy and doubts about its sexuality, kills the Gipsy, his bestest friend. In jail he'll meet the Horse, a respected gangster in prison through which will discover, by force, the immense human need of love and being ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay relationship, homosexual, gay love, male objectification, naked man, male full rear nudity, erection, gay, homosexual sex, sodomy, jail cell ...
Time:
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Place:
chile
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
texas, dallas texas
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
'LOVE' starts with two people, but 'FAMILY' is more than just the two.
Style:
psychological, romantic, contemplative, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
austria
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
madrid, barcelona, spain
Similarity:
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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:
captivating, entertaining, social, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay relationship, gay sex, gay interest, male nudity, gay, gay lead character, gay love, gay couple, bare chested male, lovers, couples, love affair ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
erotic, disturbing, sincere, touching, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, judaism, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay sex, gay couple, gay romance, male nudity, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%

Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, tumor, photograph, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, gay cruising, gay brother, group sex ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Colombia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
homoerotic, sexy, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, homoeroticism, father son relationship, sex scene, coma, gay slur, teenage boy, punched in the face, bare breasts, police, father son conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
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:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
homoerotic, lgbt cinema, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, gay relationship, outdoor sex, male nudity, gay sex, death of father, gay slur, gay brother, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Théo and Hugo meet in a club and form an immediate bond. Once the desire and elation of this first moment has passed, the two young men, now sober, wander through the empty streets of nocturnal Paris, having to confront the love they sense ...
Style:
sexy, erotic drama, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay lead character, lgbt, gay club, gay couple, gay love, gay relationship, male male relationship, lgbtq, gay, hospital, gay sex ...
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Temmuz is an openly gay sculptor living at a flat with his dog in Istanbul. He lives a bohemian lifestyle and has a happy go lucky, carefree, eccentric (such as believing in good luck charms) character, frequently distracting him from his work as a ...
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay couple, gay, gay lead character, young lovers, lovers, gay straight relations, father son relationship, sculptor, depression, friendship, gay slur ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
100%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jack an 18-year old hustler and his boyfriend Tom are an item, close and very much in love. Otherwise, Jack is impulsive and explosive with few redeeming qualities. Ken, a married man who hasn't come out of the closet, takes Jack from NYC to ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay relationship, gay lead character, male escort, gay, gay teenager, gay rape, gay interest, lovers, young lovers, prostitution, escort ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, miami
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Ibrahim falls in love with Alexander, a blond, blue eyed German criminal and show wrestler who is straight - an impossible friendship that surpasses the both of them.
Style:
sexy, touching, humorous, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay, gay friend, gay slur, gay son, friendship, love, reconciliation, gay relationship, gay interest, gay romance, lgbt, gay lead character ...
Time:
2000s, year 2014
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge ...
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay student, aids, gay romance, lgbt, gay relationship, gay son, gay teenager, gay love, homosexual history ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1978 ...
Place:
austria, australia, indiana, italy, sydney australia ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, romantic, psychological
Plot:
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