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Summer of 85 (2020)
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Summer of 85 (2020)
Original name: Été 85
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sincere, captivating, stylized, sexy, non-linear, queer cinema, gay cinema, contemplative
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, summer, lgbt, teenager, lgbt teen, friendship, teenage boy, accidental death, death of friend, teenage protagonist, death, gay teenager, male nudity, motorcycle, gay interest, jealousy, bisexual man, gay relationship, love at first sight, death of lover, lgbtq, friendship between men, loss of friend, sexuality, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: normandy, france

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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 ...
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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
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Reinventing Marvin (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
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Place: paris france
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Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Style: romantic, disturbing, touching, social, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay love, gay relationship, boys love, gay asian, gay couple, gay interest, gay bashing, self discovery, homosexual, first love, gay son ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 2020s
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, ontario canada
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My Best Friend (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lorenzo is a teenager who lives in Patagonia. One day his family receives in his house to Caíto, the son of some friends who are going through a serious family situation and can not take care of him. He is a complicated kid and has difficulty ...
Style: romantic, semi serious, sexy, tragicomedy, enigmatic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, teenager, gay teenager, teenage protagonist, gay interest, acceptance, family life, teen angst, gay love, boy, coming of age ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Am Jonas (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
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Departure (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: captivating, controversial, psychological, serious, romantic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
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Style: thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, depressing, epic ...
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Seashore (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
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Plot: gay, gay teenager, gay romance, gay sex, homosexuality, friendship, teenage boy, gay latino, lgbt, lgbtq, character study, couples ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Way He Looks (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, ...
Style: touching, sweet, romantic, sexual, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Killed My Mother (2009)
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: erotic, sentimental, disturbing, romantic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
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Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
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Time: pre world war one, 19th century, 20th century, 1910s, 70s ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
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Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Witnesses (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, siblings relations, love and romance, gender, teenage boy, lgbt ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
Style: realistic, sexy, touching, sexual, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gay teenager, lgbt teen, lgbt, coming of age, gays and lesbians, first gay sexual experience, coming out, gay sex, gay interest, lgbtq ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: ohio, new jersey, usa, midwest, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Matthias and Maxime (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
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Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, art house ...
Plot: gay, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, friendship, homosexual history, life turned upside down, group of friends, first kiss, lgbtq, closeted homosexual, fight ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, friendship between men, love, gays and lesbians, prostitution, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: idaho, portland oregon, rome italy, seattle, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Wild Reeds (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style: erotic, realistic, sexy, stylized, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, coming of age, male homosexuality, gay interest, friendship, homosexual, lgbtq, small town, homosexuality, betrayal, bittersweet, youth ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, africa, algeria, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
50%
North Sea Texas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, romantic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbt teen, gay teenager, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, love and romance, teenage love, gays and lesbians, gay interest ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: belgium, france, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
11%
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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 ⇓
20%
 5.3
 1K
Tan Lines (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Cute teen Midget Hollow wanders through life riding big waves and partying with surfer boys. When Midget's best friend's gay brother Cass arrives on the scene, the two quickly dive head first into a clandestine sea of sexual awakening.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay relationship, homosexuality, coming of age, gay, gay interest, lgbt, coming out, sexual awakening, brother, self discovery, teenage love, teenage life ...
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 3K
Monster Pies (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay teenager, lgbt, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, teacher, gay interest, fall in love, teenage love, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
You Are Not Alone (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
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Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Eternal Summer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
Style: realistic, sexy, sentimental, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, coming of age, friendship, love triangle, school, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, gay asian, unrequited love, high school friend, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
18%
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 1K
Last Summer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Luke and Jonah, two high school sweethearts, spend their final days together over the course of a long, quiet summer in the rural American South, contemplating their uncertain future and the uncertain future of America.
Style: touching, sexy, psychological, melancholic, controversial ...
Plot: gay, small town, gay relationship, gay interest, gay lead character, summer, gay love, teenage boy, coming of age, countryside, lgbtq, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%