Movies like Mario

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Mario (2018)
 7.4
 5K
Mario (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Two young gay soccer players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love. In Swiss German.
Style: lgbt cinema, sentimental, captivating, touching, psychological, romantic, art house, ambiguous ending, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay relationship, male homosexuality, gay athlete, forbidden love, gay romance, gay sex, soccer, homoeroticism, homosexual, sport, closeted homosexual, first gay sexual experience, masturbation, gay lead character, lgbtq, first love, gay love, fall in love, closeted gay, athlete and trainer, sport team, father son relationship ...
Place: germany, switzerland, hamburg germany, central europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, erotic and gay cinema films with plots about lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay, gay kiss, gay love and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Sport genres. Some movies like Mario: Free Fall (2013), Hidden Kisses (2016), Call Me by Your Name (2017), Being 17 (2016), Maurice (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.5
 21K
Free Fall (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what ...
Style: emotional, sexual, disturbing, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay love, coming out, homosexuality, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, gay slur, forbidden love, infidelity, love affair, male male relationship ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hidden Kisses (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of sight and kiss each other, but someone takes a picture of them. Soon, ...
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming out, gay love, homosexuality, gay lead character, gay bashing, gay teenager, bullying, closeted homosexual, gay romance, gay son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, disturbing, sincere, lgbt cinema, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, summer, love, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, coming out, gay teenager, homosexuality, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: italy, europe, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 7K
Being 17 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the ...
Style: erotic, sentimental, disturbing, romantic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay teenager, bullying, homosexuality, gay love, first love, school, lgbt teen, friendship, male homosexuality ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.7
 21K
Maurice (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1909, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) enters Cambridge, where he befriends wealthy Clive Durham (Hugh Grant). Clive confesses he is sexually attracted to Maurice, who realizes he is a homosexual when he begins to return Clive's feelings. The two ...
Style: sexy, scenic, melancholic, romantic, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, gay relationship, friendship, forbidden love, first gay sexual experience, gay love, closeted homosexual, gay lead character, society ...
Time: pre world war one, 19th century, 20th century, 1910s, 70s ...
Place: england, london, europe, argentina, buenos aires argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
God's Own Country (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
Style: homoerotic, lgbt cinema, erotic, sexy, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, sheep, gay relationship, gay couple, gay interest, migrant worker, gay romance, gay lead character, homosexual, male male relationship ...
Place: yorkshire, northern england, britain, romania, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.5
 4K
The Pass (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two young professional soccer players share a hotel room the night before their first big game. Out of nowhere, one kisses the other. The impact of this 'pass' reverberates through the next ten years of their lives - a decade of fame and ...
Style: lgbt cinema, touching, sentimental, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay love, gay slur, naked man, male nudity, gay lead character, gay athlete, football, homosexuality, soccer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 23K
Shelter (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach ...
Style: touching, sexy, romantic, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: gay, gay relationship, homosexual, surfing, homosexuality, coming out, coming of age, gays and lesbians, gay love, grownups, gay teenager, gay slur ...
Time: 70s
Place: san francisco, canada, new jersey, california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.7
 995
Like a Brother (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Sebastien is a small town boy who moves to Paris and begins to explore the gay night life there. When a friend from back home calls to announce he's coming to Paris, Sebastien confronts some unrequited feelings
Style: homoerotic, serious, realistic, emotional, sexual ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: gay, gay interest, friendship, gay sex, gay straight relations, gay relationship, father son relationship, gay erotica, friendship between men, erection, gay club, male masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, closeted homosexual, first gay sexual experience, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay romance ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: wyoming, usa, canada, texas, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
And Then We Danced (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, dancing, lgbt, dancer, gay slur, obsession, rivalry, gay interest, audition, friendship, gay romance, first gay sexual experience ...
Place: georgia, georgia (former ussr), tbilisi, caucasus, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 2K
1:54 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tim is a bit of a loner. At school he gravitates towards another shy boy and they become friends. But the verbal and physical bullying by a gang of kids, as well as an aggressive use of social media, unsettle Tim’s new mate and he backs away from ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay athlete, gay, high school sports, gay teenager, runner, suicidal thoughts, bullying, lgbt, gay slur, high school, gay bashing, gay relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Moment in the Reeds (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, homosexuality, immigration, gay relationship, gay romance, male nudity, gay lead character, syrian refugee, gay sex, homosexual ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.0
 6K
I Am Jonas (2018)
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, touching, sincere, art house, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay interest, male homosexuality, gay teenager, teenage boy, gay club, lgbt, gay youth, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Match (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife and wife's granma, gambler ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, male prostitution, gay love, gay relationship, gay slur, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay latino, gay sex, rent boy, gay interest, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 15K
Boys (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: gay, gay love, gay teenager, gay athlete, gay romance, gay relationship, teenage love, coming of age, fall in love, gays and lesbians, male male relationship, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Blonde One (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Womanising Juan must quickly find a flatmate after his brother moves out. In moves Gabriel (the blonde of the title), Juan's stoic and very handsome co-worker, who is recently widowed and struggling to support his young daughter. What starts ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, erotic, surprise ending, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay love, male homosexuality, closeted homosexual, homosexual, gay relationship, gay erotica, homosexuality, lgbt, homoeroticism, male male relationship, gay father ...
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Center of My World (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his ...
Style: captivating, realistic, rough, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay teenager, coming of age, friendship, rejection, gay erotica, gay interest, gay lead character, gay sex, bisexuality, gay relationship ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 710
Sodom (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 20-year-old Will is on his stag-do when, handcuffed to a lamppost, he is rescued by Michael. The attraction between the two men is immediate. But back at Michael's apartment, Will is sent into a tailspin of shame and confusion.
Style: sexy, touching, melancholic, romantic, sentimental ...
Plot: male homosexuality, gay, one night stand, homosexuality, sex scene, male nudity, gay interest, naked in public, gay relationship, gay love, male objectification, closeted homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 6K
Those People (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Style: tense, bleak, enigmatic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, gay love, gay relationship, gay romance, painter, gay friend, male male relationship, gay best friend, gay lead character, pianist, gay interest, homosexuality ...
Place: manhattan new york city, lebanon, beirut lebanon, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Two love stories, sixty years apart, charting the challenges and huge change to gay lives with Michael and Thomas from WW2 to Adam and Steve to the present day.
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, gay couple, love, lgbtq, world war two, gay sex, generation, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: post world war two, 50s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 6K
Heartstone (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, depressing, epic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot: gay, coming of age, lgbt, teenage boy, gay teenager, gay interest, lgbt teen, friendship between boys, unrequited love, first love, boy, nature ...
Place: iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolete outpost is ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sincere, sexy, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay lead character, homosexuality, gay soldier, gay love, gay relationship, gay sex, gay slur, friendship, gay romance, lgbtq, military ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 5K
Come Undone (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning ...
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, depression, suicide attempt, male nudity, beach, teenage life, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, youth, dysfunctional family, love affair, gay romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, italy, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in ...
Style: realistic, bleak, captivating, tense, erotic ...
Plot: gay, forbidden love, gay love, gay relationship, first gay sexual experience, closeted homosexual, infidelity, lgbt, jewish, orthodox jew, gay bashing, gay sex ...
Place: israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Holding the Man (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, 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: touching, psychological, sexy, sincere, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay romance, aids, lgbt, gay couple, gay student, gay love, gay relationship, gay teenager, coming of age, gay bashing, gay interest ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: austria, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 1K
Front Cover (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: One man does all he can to veil his Asian heritage; the other takes great pains to hide his sexual orientation. Both of these things begin to change when Ryan is hired to prepare film star Ning for a fashion shoot, and the men develop a bond.
Style: touching, sincere, sexy, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, closeted homosexual, gay sex, boys love, gay slur, actor, sexual tension, love and romance, life philosophy, first gay sexual experience, star crossed lovers ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Land of Storms (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: gay, gay love, gay relationship, male homosexuality, gay interest, gay slur, male nudity, gay bashing, gay sex, lgbt, skinny dipping, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary, germany, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016)
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: disturbing, touching, thought provoking, sexy, queer cinema ...
Plot: gay love, lgbt, gay, gay club, gay couple, gay interest, male male relationship, gay lead character, gay relationship, gay sex, unprotected sex, gay bar ...
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 1K
A Brother (2018)
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 ...
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, lgbt, gay teenager, gay relationship, gay sex, gay love, gay interest, gay friend, gay erotica, love, friendship between boys ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%