Movies like Eastern Boys
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Eastern Boys (2013)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Chechnya. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They might be prostitutes, but there is no way of knowing for certain. Muller, a discreet man in his late fifties has his eye on one of them - Marek. One afternoon, Muller gathers his courage and speaks to him. The young man agrees to come visit Muller the following day, at his place. However the next day, when the doorbell rings, Muller doesn't have the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap.
Style:
bleak, realistic, atmospheric, serious, sexy, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, strong sexual content, prostitute, life is a bitch, sexual relations, male prostitute, gay youth, hustler, disorder, immigrants, lgbtq, friendship, father son relationship, illegal immigrant, middle aged man, gay interest, mother son relationship, sex, revenge, lgbt teen, childhood trauma, coming of age, boys love, ukrainian, russian ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, paris france, europe, chechnya
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, queer cinema and sexy films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay interest, lgbtq, sex, gays and lesbians and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Eastern Boys: The Wounded Man (1983), Bo (2010), Out in the Dark (2012), Being at Home with Claude (1992), Ethan Mao (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
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serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sad ...
Plot:
prostitute, teenage prostitution, downfall, destructive relationship, lifestyle, teenage life, woman in danger, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue in this striking debut feature from Israeli director Michael Mayer.
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emotional, sincere, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
gay, gay relationship, forbidden love, gay couple, gay student, homosexuality, gay love, gay sex, love affair, family relations, male homosexuality, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, israel, tel aviv israel, palestinian authority, tel aviv ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, talky, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, murder, couples, dishonesty, legal investigation, society, mind game, love and romance, legal, prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
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serious, psychological, disturbing, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, thanksgiving, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, lgbt, family problems, survival, rehabilitation, society, youth, drug dealing ...
Place:
los angeles, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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.
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, ...
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tense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
male prostitute, gay hustler, gay, male nudity, gay sex, gay relationship, lgbt, lifestyle, criminal heroes, on the run, lovers on the run, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, europe, france, lyon
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31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, coming out, betrayal, youth, racism, love triangle, friendship, homosexuality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, lyon, europe, new york, algeria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
paris france, new york, france, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
Style:
realistic, serious, melancholic, rough, twisted ...
Plot:
gay, gay sex, gay slur, gay cruising, infidelity, closeted homosexual, first gay sexual experience, masturbation, gay interest, life is a bitch, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 76 min.
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A sexy, romantic and uncomfortably chilling tale of love and deception from first time director Marcelo Briem Stamm. Handsome middle class Manuel (Patrico Ramos), hurt by his previous relationship and bored being alone, meets Julio (Mario Veron), a ...
Style:
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Duncan Mudge, mid-teens, lives apart from his rural world populated by his distant father and rough local kids. His main companionship is a chicken left after his mother's death until the neighbor's son befriends him.
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, boy, coming out, gay, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, coming of age, lgbt, tragic hero, hiv, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Duration: 116 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 80 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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22%
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