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Please Like Me (2013)
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Please Like Me (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.
Style: humorous, sincere, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, feel good, offbeat, emotional, entertaining, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, roommate, sexuality, friendship, lgbt, depression, homosexual, suicide attempt, low self esteem, gay relationship, dating, self discovery, divorced parents, friends, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, sexual identity, gay lead character, gay interest, mother, lgbtqi, bipolar disorder, psychology, women ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia, indiana
Keyword: thai

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, humorous, realistic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, friendship, homosexual and gays and lesbians mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Please Like Me: Looking (2014), Good Trouble (2019), Love, Victor (2020), Queer as Folk (2000), Skam (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Looking (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.
Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay relationship, lgbt, gays and lesbians, friendship, gay latino, homosexuality, group of friends, gay sex, friendship between men, gay slur ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, idaho, california, usa, los angeles ...
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 7.5
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Good Trouble (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After moving to The Coterie in Downtown Los Angeles, Callie and Mariana Foster realize that living on their own is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
Style: light, semi serious, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: young adult, sisters, new job, coworker relationship, friends, love and romance, sister sister relationship, adulthood, grownups, new life, adolescence vs adulthood, society ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love, Victor (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him ...
Style: romantic, humorous, captivating, light, saga ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, high school, gay lead character, friendship, gay teenager, closeted gay, homosexual, gay relationship, homosexuality, lgbt teen, male homosexuality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 8.5
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Queer as Folk (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, homosexual, gay love, friendship, homosexuality, gay lead character, lesbian, lifestyle, sexual activity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, idaho, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Skam (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season.
Style: emotional, dramatic, realistic, sweet, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, teenage sexuality, friendship, gay relationship, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, teenager, high school student, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between girls ...
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 7.7
 1K
Noah's Arc (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Noah's Arc is an American cable television dramedy. The series, which predominantly features gay black and Latino characters, focused on many socially relevant issues, including same sex dating, same-sex marriage, same-sex parenthood, HIV and ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sitcom ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay african american, gay sex, aids, dating, lgbt, friendship, boyfriend, lifestyle, everyday life, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.4
 60K
Will & Grace (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, best friend, roommate, friendship, dating, gay friend, gay straight relations, lawyer, lgbtq, supportive friend, love and romance, platonic ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Queer as Folk (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies. The first series was ...
Style: controversial, sensual, sexual, erotic, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual, first gay sexual experience, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lgbt teen, gay teenager, unrequited love, gay relationship, gay interest, gender ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: manchester, northern england, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Heartstopper (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie, a highly strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Based on Alice Oseman's bestselling ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, cute, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, lgbtq, lgbt teen, gay lead character, gay interest, gay couple, teenage love, gay teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Long-Term Relationship (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tired of the unsatisfying singles scene, Glenn (Matthew Montgomery) answers a personal ad and meets Adam (Windham Beacham), a handsome Southern man seeking a long-term relationship. The two hit it off immediately, but their initial attraction is ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, gay interest, friendship, republican, fall in love, youth, opposites attract, love and romance, gender bending, looking for love ...
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20%
 6.3
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Coffee Date (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Todd's life takes a turn when his friendship with a homosexual causes everyone in his life to start questioning his sexuality.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: gay relationship, gay interest, gay, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, mistaken identity, couples, best friend, family relations, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
 6.9
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Eastsiders (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
TV show
Story: What happens after the world ends? Written and directed by award winning playwright Kit Williamson, "EastSiders" explores the aftermath of infidelity on a gay couple in Silverlake. When Cal (Kit Williamson) finds out Thom (Van Hansis) has ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, gay couple, infidelity, gay sex, lgbt, friends, up and down relationship, lgbtq, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drag queen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 2K
Cousins (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end ...
Style: sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, friendship, religion, boys love, gay erotica, forbidden love, gay sex, cousin, male pubic hair, gay slur, gay relationship ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 4576 min.
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Story: How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, light, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: couples, friendship, roommate, friends, looking for love, singleness, dating, womanizer, couple relations, group of friends, best friend, romantic friendship ...
Time: 2030s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, madagascar, manhattan new york city, usa
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19%
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Modern Family (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5378 min.
TV show
Story: The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, mockumentary, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, everyday life, family relations, generation gap, family life, adolescence, gay adoption, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, blended family, gay couple ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Last Straight Man (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, independent film, homoerotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, closeted homosexual, gay romance, friendship, male nudity, lgbt, infidelity, male homosexuality, gay relationship, lovers reunited, friendship between men, double life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 6K
Ellen (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ellen is an American television sitcom that aired on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, consisting of 109 episodes. The title role of Ellen Morgan, played by stand-up comedian Ellen DeGeneres, was a neurotic bookstore owner in her ...
Style: sitcom, game show, hilarious, controversial, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, bookstore, lgbtqi, lgbtq, small business, gay interest, colleague, best friend, friendship, dating, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 2K
Dorian Blues (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out ...
Style: semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, self discovery, teenage life, youth, friendship, introspection, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Two love stories, sixty years apart, charting the challenges and huge change to gay lives with Michael and Thomas from WW2 to Adam and Steve to the present day.
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay relationship, closeted homosexual, gay couple, love, gay sex, lgbtq, world war two, gay love, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 1950s, post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.1
 10K
Vicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure to cause trouble in their mundane lives.
Style: light, humorous, not serious, sitcom, entertaining ...
Plot: gay, actor, verbal byplay, lgbt, gay relationship, neighbor, gays and lesbians, couples, couple relations, friendship, gay couple, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.3
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Sex Education (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1755 min.
TV show
Story: Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbt teen, teenage sexuality, sex education, youth, classmate, school, teenage life, sex therapy, teenage sex, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.8
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Bob & Rose (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Bob & Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in autumn 2001. It was produced for the network by the independent Red Production Company, and was that company's first ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, lifestyle, love and romance, unlikely couple, opposites attract, lgbt, couples, culture clash, couple relations, gay man straight woman relationship, thirtysomething life ...
Place: england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 5K
Big Eden (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood ...
Style: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good ...
Plot: gay, gay relationship, lgbt, friendship, small town, self discovery, native american, gay couple, gay love, happy ending, gay interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, new york, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Falling for Angels (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: In this riveting anthology series, modern-day relationships are explored through the lens of each distinct neighborhood in Los Angeles including Silver Lake, Bel Air, Leimert Park, Boyle Heights, Koreatown, and Malibu.
Style: humorous, romantic, contemplative, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, fall in love, lovers, love, youth, society, homosexual, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.5
 15K
Get Real (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
Style: sentimental, touching, teen, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, coming of age, teenage life, high school, gender, gay slur, gay teenager, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, youth, gays and lesbians, gay relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.1
 919
As If (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: As If is a British comedy-drama series broadcast on Channel 4. There were 76 episodes across four series, the first broadcast on January 22, 2001 and the last on July 31, 2004.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenage life, teenage love, group of friends, buddies, adolescence vs adulthood, gays and lesbians, multiple perspectives, gay, lgbt, breaking the fourth wall, lgbt teen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Date and Switch (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two guys who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom find their friendship tested when one of them comes out of the closet.
Style: sexy, semi serious, light, happy, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, virginity, homosexuality, friendship, gay interest, gay best friend, gays and lesbians, best friend, looking for sex, profanity, dating, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.8
 436
DTLA (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: DTLA is a gay-themed television series which premiered October 24, 2012. The series was created, and is co-produced and directed by Larry Kennar. It follows a group of friends in Downtown Los Angeles under the slogan: One City, Seven Lives / Old ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, sensual ...
Plot: lgbt, friendship, sexual relations, couple relations, gender, gay, group of friends, gay interest, gay relationship, love, lgbtq, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.9
 11K
G.B.F. (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in ...
Style: humorous, light, sweet, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, lgbt teen, gay lead character, high school, gays and lesbians, gay interest, friendship, teenager, teenage life, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.0
 19K
Uncoupled (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Michael thought his life was perfect until his husband blindsided him by walking out after 17 years. Michael has to confront two nightmares - losing his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-40s.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, feel good, saga ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, male homosexuality, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay erotica, gay crush, gay interest, couples, gay lead character, love, homosexual ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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