Movies like The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night

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The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night (2019)
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The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Israel, Belgium, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When darkness falls, temperatures rise in these six stories about late night confessions, intimacy for sale, high speed hookups and full moon frissons. But when the sun comes up and reality reveals itself, will it have all been worth it?
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, touching, poignant, compassionate, queer cinema
Plot: male male relationship, gay, lgbt, dating, repressed sexuality, friendship, forbidden love, competition, friendship between men, ambition, life philosophy, against the odds, generation gap, young heroes, lgbtq, gay interest, sexual relations, gay subtext, male homosexuality, homosexual, homosexuality, night, kinky, nightlife, gay relationship ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, psychological and gay cinema films with plots about gay, lgbt, gay interest, gay subtext, lgbtq, gay lead character and homosexual mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night: Young Hunter (2020), Hidden Kisses (2016), Hawaii (2013), My Fair Son (2005), B-Boy Blues (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Young Hunter (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ezequiel, a sixteen-year-old gay teenager in his sexual awakening, meets a boy of twenty-one. They quickly start a relationship and the situation unravels unexpectedly.
Style: serious, stylized, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay interest, gay teenager, gay sex, manipulation, skateboarder, male nudity, friendship, couples, lgbtqi ...
Place: argentina
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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, existential ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay love, gay bashing, gay lead character, gay romance, homosexuality, gay teenager, closeted homosexual, male male relationship, gay son, gay slur ...
Time: 2000s
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100%
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Hawaii (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eugenio offers his childhood friend Martin a work for the summer. With a game of power and desire a relationship starts to grow that goes beyond their friendship.
Style: serious, stylized, atmospheric, touching, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay interest, gay relationship, friendship, gay, male homosexuality, gay lead character, male male relationship, male pubic hair, homoeroticism, lgbtq, gay love, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Israel, China, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, anthology
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, male homosexuality, nightlife, sexuality, homosexuality, violence, seduction, one night stand, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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My Fair Son (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When young art student Ray moves in with his estranged businessman father after years of separation, the two tentatively begin to reconcile their many differences -- including Ray's revelation that he's gay, which his father struggles to ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay son, gay teenager, dysfunctional family, father son estrangement, single father, homosexuality, father son relationship, homosexual, gay couple, gay love, gay lead character ...
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28%
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B-Boy Blues (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
Style: thrilling, captivating, romantic, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, fall in love, gay subtext, gay interest, gay african american, gay love, relationship problems, couple relations, male male relationship, relationships, gay friend ...
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27%
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Boys Life 2 (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Compilation of four short films about homoerotic situations involving young men. In "Trevor", by Peggy Rajski, a teenager faces homophobia and falls in love for the first time. Tom DeCerchio directed "Nunzio's Second ...
Style: independent film, anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, best friend, high school life, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 439
Boys to Men (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A four-part anthology film dealing with homosexuality from the young to the old. Crush, detailing the budding friendship of a 12-year old girl and a 16-year old boy, who bond over their favorite TV program and musical tastes. The Mountain King, ...
Style: homoerotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, homosexual sex, drug use, gay erotica, homosexual, gay teenager, gay lead character, gay couple, gay friend, gay crush ...
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27%
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Label Me (2019)
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: touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, lgbt, sex work, gay love, male nudity, love, homosexual, hustler, gay for pay, lgbtq, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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26%
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Salut Victor (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, friendship, friendship between men, retirement home, gay relationship, bachelor, homosexuality, closeted homosexual, gay lead character ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Through a Boy's Eyes (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 76 min.
Story: When a boy becomes a young man, the way he sees the world can change not just his perceptions of those around him, but how others see him. As burgeoning desires come to the surface, there is the choice of either embracing and acting upon them, or ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, friendship, sexual identity, family relations, gay subtext, gay interest, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, love, gay love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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25%
Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style: anthology, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, sexuality, male nudity, gay interest, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, campus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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24%
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Open Bodies (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, homosexual, gay subtext, teenager, coming of age, arab, bisexuality, male nudity, wig
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24%
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Noah's Arc (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today's issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend's children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay african american, gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay subtext, friend, hiv, male nudity, dating, friendship between men, gay parent ...
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24%
Boys On Film X (2013)
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: melancholic, touching, tense, romantic, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, love and romance, gay lead character, love affair, love, homosexual, gay relationship, lovers, gay couple, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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23%
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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
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23%
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Fair Haven (2016)
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: touching, disturbing, sincere, lgbt cinema, independent film ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, gay teenager, rural setting, gay relationship, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, love, gay couple, gay interest, gay lead character ...
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22%
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Amazing Grace (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: israeli, lgbt, aids, gay, glbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, mother, homosexuality, erotic fantasy, homosexual, gay teenager ...
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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An Unusual Affair (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jochen Wenzel, a young teacher, married with two kids, one day surprisingly falls in love with a young male colleague, Tom Leuthner and they begin an unusual affair (= "Eine aussergewöhnliche Affäre"). While Ina, Jochen's wife, ...
Style: suspense, sincere, touching, captivating, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay lead character, love triangle, fall in love, extramarital affair, infidelity, husband wife relationship, adultery, gay father, homosexual, bisexual ...
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22%
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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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21%
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Paths (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but ...
Style: melancholic, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, gay couple, gay, lgbtq, carpenter, breakup, gay relationship, love and romance, love, homosexual, love affair ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: germany
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21%
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Raising Heroes (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Josh and Paul want to adopt Nickie, the child of Paul's recently deceased friend Susan. Susan's mother opposes gays' adopting, and Monday is the final court date. On Friday, Josh stops by a market for milk and glimpses a Mob hit. ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay parent, lgbtq, gay adoption, gay subtext, lgbt, couples, gay couple, homosexual, gay lead character, gay father, adoption ...
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21%
Boys On Film 17: Love Is the Drug (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Explore hidden desires on a sleepover, fall in love with the handyman and be seduced by a stranger on the beach as you discover why Love Is the Drug. Boys On Film 17 includes nine complete films: Nicholas Colia's "Alex And The ...
Style: touching, contemplative, melancholic, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, physical disability, coming of age, love, gay slur, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, gay lead character, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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21%
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022)
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: psychological, captivating, thrilling, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay teenager, friendship, lgbt teen, teenage protagonist, lgbt, gay youth, friendship between men, introspection, self discovery, gay lead character ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: el paso texas, texas
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21%
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Sebastian (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, touching, gay cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, boys love, glbt, lgbtqi, coming of age, gay subtext, fall in love, best friend, couples, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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21%
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Fixing Frank (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds ...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, glbt, male nudity, closeted homosexual, conversion therapy, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Boys in the Band (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Style: realistic, heartbreaking, serious, compassionate, powerful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, gay crush, gay cruising, lgbtq, male objectification, mental health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1968
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 1K
Sublime (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When 16-year-old Manu realises that he has fallen in love with his bandmate Felipe, turbulent emotions start brewing beneath the surface. How do you avoid losing a friendship once its very foundation has shifted?
Style: art house
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay teenager, lgbtq, coming of age, friendship, teenage boy, latinx lgbt, boys love, teenage crush, teenager ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 142
Boy Crush (2007)
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: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: gay, lgbt, youth, gay youth, gay love, teenager, friendship between men, gay interest, male male relationship, gay best friend, society, gay culture ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Nowhere (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Nowhere" is a drama about Adrian and Sebastian, a Colombia couple living together in New York City. When Sebastian is faced with immigration complications, Adrian must learn to overcome his fear of rejection from his family back in ...
Style: romantic, psychological, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay love, immigration, gay couple, fall in love, chase, escapades, gay relationship, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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