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Generic Thriller (2009)
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Generic Thriller (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The writer can do anything he wants, right? Or maybe not...as Steven, a handsome young theater history professor discovers when he sets out to write a stage thriller - a plain, old generic thriller - only to discover that his characters prefer a character study - and want it to be a movie, not a play. At least Steven can create the man of his dreams, right? But that character - Vertigo - named after Steven's sixth grade teacher Mr. Vertigo (Steven always dates men named Vertigo) - isn't really cooperating. Will Steven ever finish his play? Will Vertigo behave (or rather, misbehave) as Steven wishes? And what about the friends on whom Steven is basing his other characters - will they still be his friends when it's all over?
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, surreal, sexy, offbeat, sexual, meta
Plot: college, disorder, nothing goes right, gender, artists and showbiz, gay, serial killer, homosexual, flash forward, gay lead character, breaking the fourth wall, writer's block, lgbt, lgbtq, minimalism, cross dressing, bare chested male, french maid, theatre production, gay protagonist
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and offbeat films with plots about gender, gays and lesbians, love and romance, gay, lgbt, couples and homosexual mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Generic Thriller: True Enough (2007), Boys Briefs 2 (2002), Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003), Say Uncle (2005), The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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True Enough (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot: infidelity, couples, writer's life, gender, lifestyle, jazz, jazz singer, television, extramarital affair, ex husband ex wife relationship, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, lyon, france
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100%
Boys Briefs 2 (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down (2000); Chicken ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, funny ...
Plot: gay interest, coming of age, homosexual, friends, male prostitution, love and romance, sexual relations, gays and lesbians, youth, gender, gay, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The latest installment in this series of gay short films.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, love affair, self discovery, looking for love, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, looking for sex, gay relationship, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 687
Say Uncle (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young artist (Peter Paige), desperate to replace the relationship he had with his recently relocated godson, is targeted by a neighborhood mom (Kathy Najimy) as a potential threat to the community.
Style: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot: gender, godparent, false accusation, coming of age, gay, suburban life, lifestyle, suburbs, small town life, small town, lgbt, glbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, oregon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Man Who Came to Dinner (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat
Plot: lifestyle, social differences, farce, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations, misfit, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, fish out of water, celebrity culture, eccentric family ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Love & Human Remains (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dreary urban landscape of an anonymous Canadian city. Dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and ...
Style: erotic, clever, sexual, dark comedy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lesbian, bdsm, serial killer, lgbt, homosexual, lesbianism, sex, lgbtq, dark humor, shaman, sex scene ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Hollywood, je t'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Recently broken up and barely enduring a dreary winter, gay Parisian Jérôme Beaunez impulsively books a solo Christmas vacation to Los Angeles. While there he meets some colorful locals and pursues a dormant desire to become a movie star - but ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, prostitute, transvestism, lifestyle, lgbt, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, los angeles, paris france, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Don Peyote (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
Style: semi serious, surreal, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: obsession, losing-it hero, disorder, friendship, conspiracy theory, wedding preparations and rituals, drug, stoner, profanity, life turned upside down, unfulfillment, end of the world
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Everything Must Go (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tony is a homosexual law student who quits his studies. With a van and a handful of cash, he hits the road hoping to become a salesman. This, however, turns out to be harder than he expected.
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, witty, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lgbt, homosexual, gay subtext, male homosexuality, law student, violent content, disorder, friends, dark humor, unlikely partners, dishonesty, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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29th and Gay (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: gay, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, friends, friendship, twentysomething life, singleness, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians, gender, actor's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Leather Jacket Love Story (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kyle is 18, an aspiring poet hoping to find inspiration by moving to the arty Silver Lake neighborhood of LA, and maybe love too. On day one, he finds a funky coffee shop, where he hopes to do some writing, but instead meets an older hunk.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbtq, sleaze, lgbt, nudity, homosexual, gay subtext, love affair, looking for love, twentysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.3
 906
The Gathering (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A successful architect, Sakti (Tora Sudiro), is uncertain about his sexuality, but when he meets magnetic and gay Nino (Surya Saputra), he realizes he prefers men. When Meimei (Cut Mini Theo), one of Sakti's closest female friends, reveals ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, friends, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, thirtysomething life, couples, gays and lesbians, misfit, lifestyle, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the ...
Style: talky, humorous, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gay, gays and lesbians, lgbt, glbt, friendship, mistaken identity, lgbtq, farce, odd couple, gay interest, lgbt teen, gay straight relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Film to Come (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another ...
Style: sincere, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, siblings relations, couples, artists and showbiz, disorder, actor's life, midlife crisis, couple relations, nothing goes right, actor, brother brother relationship, movie actor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
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21%
The Big Gay Musical (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paul and Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical "Adam and Steve - Just the Way God Made 'Em." Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is looking for the perfect man and Eddie is ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, lgbt, lgbtq, self discovery, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, family relations, looking for sex, sexual relations, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Seven Days of Grace (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four women - a blonde, a hippie, a lesbian and a barmaid - are looking for love, money and success. When one inherits an Italian restaurant from her father, they see this as a chance to fulfil their dreams. Then the restaurant is in danger of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, love and romance, couples, best friend, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, actor's life, singleness, down on your luck, friends, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.7
 45
Ornaments (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Religion, alcohol and politics are three things best avoided at holidays - but it's something this group of friends haven't learned. In this dark comedy, six friends have reunited for what may be their last holiday together.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, christmas horror, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, christmas, estrangement, dark humor, love and romance, buddies, youth, college, holiday, gay, xmas, gay subtext ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Showboy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christian Taylor, a writer on hit TV series Six Feet Under, is being profiled by a British documentary crew when he's sacked, though he doesn't know they've overheard the firing. They follow him to Las Vegas, where he is ostensibly ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: follow your dream, actor's life, rise to the top, showbiz, gay, silly humor, lifestyle, starting over, workplace, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couples ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Easy Way Out (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Plot: self discovery, gay interest, life turned upside down, couples, infidelity, couple relations, disorder, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, siblings relations, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Passion (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: society, celebrity culture, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, religions or cults, celebration, art, filmmaking, religion, artists and showbiz, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Jeffrey (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
Style: humorous, witty, sexual, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, aids, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, hiv, celibacy, homosexuality, love, happy ending, lgbtqi, gay interest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.9
 220
Gypsy Boys (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Drama of two young San Francisco couples, both deciding how to define their relationships.
Style: humorous, sincere, sentimental, sexy, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay lead character, youth, drug, gay interest, relationships, love and romance, glbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, love, drag queen ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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How to Be a Slut in America (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A three-part feature by Brian Jordan Alvarez An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.
Style: unusual plot structure, romantic, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: gay, relationships, male homosexuality, lgbt, promiscuity, gay interest, threesome, gender, gay sex, menage a trois, male nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Goldfish Memory (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A small group of friends experience relationships which grow and stumble, involving everything from straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships. The speed with which these relationships last leads to the Goldfish memory effect, the belief ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, gay, lgbt, looking for love, love triangle, lifestyle, wooing, couples, battle of the sexes, couple relations, infidelity, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 1K
Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.7
 248
Leading Ladies (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gender, lesbian, family relations, eccentric family, couples, parents and children, fall in love, contests and competitions, ambition, dancer's life, lgbt, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.2
 846
200 American (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Conrad is a gay man living in NYC. He's also CEO of an ad agency and by nature a control freak. Although Conrad is still in love with Martin (his ex), he hires a young Aussie hustler named Tyler, first for a night and then to work for his ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, broken heart, lifestyle, unlikely couple, fall in love, opposites attract, looking for love, couples, love and romance, downfall, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, australia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 410
Hello Carter (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure throughout London to find her, picking up some odd helpers along the way.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: obsessive quest, nothing goes right, unfulfilled love, love and romance, disorder, escapades, chases and races, city life, nightlife, bittersweet, bare chested male, male objectification ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 476
The Chops (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
Style: sexy, semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, love triangle, gender, master and servant, couples, power relations, doctors and patients, odd couple, love and romance, aging, hospital, society ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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