Movies like 1985 2018
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1985 (2018)
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style:
psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sad, black and white, crying, queer cinema
Plot:
aids, gay, gay interest, closeted homosexual, christmas, homosexuality, hiv, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, stand up comedian, gay slur, homosexual, childhood friend, teenager, parents and children, lgbtq, hiv positive, friendship, youth, friends, life is a bitch, society, german shepherd, gay son, sexuality ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, psychological, touching and sincere films with plots about gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay subtext, family relations and gay lead character mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like 1985: Philadelphia (1993), Pit Stop (2013), Reinventing Marvin (2017), Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015), Our Sons (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
272K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gender, gay, gay interest, gay parent, working class, closeted homosexual, gay sex, lgbt, gay father, lgbtq, gay latino ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa, midwest
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100%
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, contemplative ...
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 ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" ...
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, psychological, homoerotic, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lgbt teen, teenage boy, gay teenager, masturbation, friendship between boys, teenage protagonist, birthday, birthday party, coming of age ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
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841
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, homosexual ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Style:
unusual plot structure, sincere, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
gay couple, gay interest, summer vacation, gay, couples, love, friendship, summer, love and romance, friends, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, italy, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay, gay rights, lesbian, civil rights, closeted homosexual, friendship, gay love, women's rights, friend, gay interest, racial prejudice, family relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco, idaho
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: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, sea turtle, mother's day, birth mother ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, touching ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay marriage, gay relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, childhood friend, marriage, homosexual, dishonesty, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, closeted homosexual, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, gay, last will and testament, gay son, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
Similarity:
100%
999
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:
realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbtq, closeted homosexual, sex scene, lgbt, male pubic hair, religion, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place:
guatemala
Similarity:
100%
909
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, Greece, Dominican Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, melancholic, touching, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, exile, gay love, friendship, closeted gay, gay lead character, machismo, melancholy, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Germany, Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, father son relationship, gay, teenage boy, gay father, lgbt, father son estrangement, small town, painter, gay slur, family tradition, machismo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dysfunctional family drama. Absent father, alcoholic brother Tim (Jim Carrey) try to cope with life. Fox movie of the week.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, semi serious, talky, gloomy ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, lgbt, gay, gay son, lgbtq, gay interest, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, suicide attempt, homosexuality, gay brother, recovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
yale university
Similarity:
100%
558
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, aids, hiv, gay relationship, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, terminal illness, idealism, hopes, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Panama, France, Colombia, Venezuela
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
At the height of the 1980s AIDS epidemic, Cuban boxing champion Horacio's punishment for failing a drug test is to watch over the brash, combative Daniel, a patient in a sanatorium where HIV patients are compulsorily confined. The two collide ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
aids, hiv positive, boxer, hiv, friends, friendship, gay, escapades, youth, male objectification, bare chested male, boxing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, aids, lgbt, glbt, friendship, hiv, terminal illness, suicide, gay interest, death, deaf, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
542
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, contemplative, tense, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay lead character, gay friend, gay love, homosexual rape, abuse, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt, gay relationship, male rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, terminal illness, family relations, hiv, gay brother, gay son, bereavement, cancer, dying, childhood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
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%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on the coming-of-age young adult novel by American author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Set in El Paso, Texas in 1987, the film follows two Mexican-American teenagers, Aristotle "Ari" Mendoza and Dante Quintana, their friendship, and their ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt teen, gay lead character, gay interest, gay teenager, lgbt, teenage protagonist, introspection, self discovery, friendship between men, friends, problem ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
texas, el paso texas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, haunted by the past, death in the family, aids, lgbt, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
338
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story:
Describes everyday life in a Lyon LGBT centre, examining the initial political, emotional and sexual life of a man who recently came out as gay.
Style:
sexy, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot:
gay, closeted homosexual, male homosexuality, homosexuality, gay relationship, gay muslim, gay club, gay slur, politics, transvestism, love and romance, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Mark commits to falling back in love with Jonah, he is forced to look at himself with unprecedented courage and honesty.
Style:
cute, sexy, contemplative, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, relationships, gay interest, relationship problems, lgbtq, breakup, drug, love, gay couple, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
149
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seven short films in which gay youths and young men negotiate society, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. In several, teen boys come out, perhaps first to a close friend - how will the friends react? For some youths, coming out risks violence. ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay youth, youth, gay love, teenager, gay interest, friendship between men, gay culture, teenage life, male male relationship, social problems ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, USA, Indonesia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The poor outlying districts of Bangkok are a world where you grow up very quickly. After both their parents die, 11-year-old Oat, his little sister and his older brother Ek move in with their aunt. Ek works in a bar for male prostitutes and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, gay, child protagonist, sibling relationship, lgbtq, lgbt, betrayal, coming of age, youth, orphan, male homosexuality, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand
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%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Boys On Film presents the tenth volume in the world's most successful short film series. All boundaries will be broken as Boys On Film X promises to take it further than ever before, showcasing eight of the most sexy, unique and brilliant new ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, gay lead character, love and romance, escapades, young lovers, society, gay couple, friendship, gays and lesbians, gay love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
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