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We the Animals (2018)
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We the Animals (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style: captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, inspirational, social, sad, poignant, independent film, indie film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: boy, lgbt, gay, coming of age, family relations, gay porn, father son relationship, theft, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, birthday, fired from the job, marriage, domestic violence, friendship, lgbtq, boyhood, society, child protagonist, homosexuality, childhood, homosexual, drawing, mission, traumatic childhood ...
Place: new york state, new york, spain, brooklyn new york city, philadelphia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, realistic and sentimental films with plots about lgbt, lgbtq, family relations, gay, gay interest, coming of age and father son relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like We the Animals: Capernaum (2018), Boyhood (2014), Close (2022), Thirteen (2003), 1985 (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Capernaum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
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Boyhood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style: melancholic, independent film, depressing, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: childhood, coming of age, divorced parents, dysfunctional family, family drama, teenager, youth, domestic abuse, adolescence, divorce, brother sister relationship, stepsister stepsister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, near future, 2000s ...
Place: texas, usa, ethiopia, houston texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
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Close (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and ...
Style: dramatic, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, best friend, friendship between boys, coming of age, teenage boy, intimacy, guilt, bullying, suicide, lgbt child, friendship between men, boyhood ...
Place: france, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 97K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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1985 (2018)
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, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) (2015)
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, melancholic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, gay, sibling relationship, child protagonist, lgbt, betrayal, coming of age, orphan, youth, lgbtq, escapades, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 16K
Beach Rats (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, teenager, older man younger man relationship, gay love, lgbt teen, gay sex, gay erotica, dating, exploring sexuality, lgbt, lgbtq, coming of age ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.6
 673
Salvation Army (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Switzerland
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Abdellah is a young gay man navigating the sexual, racial and political climate of Morocco. Growing up in a large family in a working-class neighborhood, Abdellah is caught between a distant father, an authoritarian mother, an older brother whom he ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, social ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, father son relationship, self discovery, teenage life, family relations, youth, parents and children, lgbt, secret life, domestic violence, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: south africa, morocco, geneva switzerland, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Minyan (2020)
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: disturbing, sincere, touching, erotic, gay cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay love, judaism, gay romance, gay sex, homosexual, gay interest, gay couple, gay relationship, male nudity, lgbtq, teenage boy ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Style: surreal, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay teenager, gay, coming of age, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, friendship, teenage love, lgbt teen, boy, tiger, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
And Then Came Summer (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A reunion of family and friends becomes an unforgettable vacation when two teenage boys discover their secret feelings toward one another. The relationship is eventually exposed to their families - leading to denial and a questioning of self-worth ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, exciting, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay teenager, love, teenage boy, homosexuality, teen angst, gossip, gay relationship, bigotry, confusion, glbt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Giant Little Ones (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style: captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, freeze frame ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, best friend, friendship, gay father, father son relationship, underage drinking, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, bisexual, teenage protagonist, sexual orientation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Echo Park LA (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, religion, virginity, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
 41K
Honey Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Style: inspirational, independent film, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, rehabilitation, absent mother, child protagonist, abusive father, motel, child, alcoholic father, forgiveness, group therapy, childhood trauma, boyhood ...
Time: year 2019, year 2015, 90s, year 2005, year 1995 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015)
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: psychological, sexy, touching, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, lgbt teen, gay, gay teenager, masturbation, lgbtq, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, friendship, self mutilation, puberty, adultery ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Tiger Orange (2014)
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: serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay interest, gay relationship, gay brother, death of father, gay slur, outdoor sex, gay sex, lgbtq, caught in the act ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
My Life in Pink (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.
Style: controversial, touching, psychological, social, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: transsexual, gender, coming of age, transgender, cross dressing, gay, children, glbt, women, lgbtq, psychologist, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: france, belgium, paris france, europe
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19%
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Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 4K
Bad Night (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
Style: black and white, indie film, sexual, thinking, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, immigrant, gay interest, gay sex, opposites attract, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, homosexuality, hustler, glbt ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 166
Ranchlands (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: The story of a spiritually scarred man whose life changes forever when he must return to his estranged family to help care for a brother who is suffering from brain cancer. With the help of a spiritually enlightened caregiver, he faces the demons of ...
Style: rough, suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual sex, family secret, cancer, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay interest, gay slur, brother brother relationship, couple relations, illness ...
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19%
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Consenting Adult (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die - which, in the end, he really does, ...
Style: sad, crying
Plot: gay, gay athlete, father son relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, college student, gay son, sexual orientation, male virgin, first gay sexual experience, family conflict, male homosexuality ...
Place: washington state
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19%
 6.6
 991
Funny Boy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay teenager, name calling, civil war, family relations, relationships, lgbtq, ethnic slur, star crossed lovers, relationship problems, social problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: sri lanka
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19%
Do You Take This Man (2016)
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, touching, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay interest, childhood friend, marriage, lgbtq, homosexual, dishonesty, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
 7.0
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La Mission (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, gays and lesbians, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, family problems, redemption, social differences, gay son, estrangement, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.8
 813
Fireflies (2018)
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: touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, friendship, self discovery, melancholy, migration, exile, solitude, machismo, lgbtq, gay love, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Naked As We Came (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream?
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: gay, gay interest, broken family, sick mother, reconciliation, gay sex, family relations, gay lead character, lgbtq, death of mother, dead mother, cancer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Nasty Baby (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, interracial couple, gay couple, friendship, illegal immigrant, couples, couple relations, best friend, gender, society, love and romance, latinx lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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