Movies like Beautiful Beings

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Beautiful Beings (2022)
 7.4
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Beautiful Beings (2022)
Original name: Berdreymi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path.
Style: crying, tripping
Plot: teenage boy, male rape, bullying, coming of age, gay, male nudity, teenage gang, friendship between boys, 14 year old boy, violence, dream, dysfunctional family, swimming pool, abuse, rape, lgbt, bully, youth gang, mother son relationship, gay subtext, therapist, gay interest, dancing, incest, fight ...
Place: iceland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, psychological, captivating and gay cinema films with plots about lgbt, gay, gay interest, coming of age, teenage boy, gay subtext and male nudity mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Beautiful Beings: Heartstone (2016), For My Brother (2014), Perfect Obedience (2014), Young Hunter (2020), Marilyn (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Heartstone (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, social, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, teenage boy, gay teenager, friendship between boys, lgbt teen, gay interest, first love, unrequited love, boy, friendship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: iceland
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100%
 6.6
 723
For My Brother (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' ...
Style: disturbing, rough, suspense, touching, independent film
Plot: brother brother relationship, child prostitution, pedophilia, child abuse, father son relationship, mistreatment, brothers, incest, sexual perversion, boy, homosexual rape, human trafficking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Perfect Obedience (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his ...
Style: suspense, disturbing
Plot: pedophile priest, punishment, child abuse, teenager, bullying, pedophile, catholic church, catholic priest, child sexual abuse, gay interest, corporal punishment, obedience ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 1K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 6.5
 466
Marilyn (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Marcos and his family work as ranch hands. While his father and brother handle the heavier tasks, Marcos stays home, close to his mother. Each one has their future laid out before them, yet Marcos bides his time waiting for Carnival, the one moment ...
Style: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay friend, gay love, homosexual rape, gay interest, gay lead character, male protagonist, gay teenager, lgbt, gay relationship, homosexual, oral sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 173
New Wave (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Une petite ville de province, au milieu des années 80. La vie d'Éric, collégien rêveur et solitaire, est chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un nouveau dans la classe : Romain, adolescent dissipé au style new wave très affirmé, qui va ...
Plot: friendship between boys, coming of age, rain, teenage boy, male nudity, friendship, school, lgbt, oedipus complex, homoeroticism, gay subtext, punk rocker ...
Time: 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.6
 176
Crossway (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 53 min.
Story: A very interesting thriller about the coming of age of a troubled young man searching his place in this world. Teenage boy Jonathan (Fabien de Marchi) is having a hard time living with his father and stepmother. On a whim, he steals some money and ...
Style: homoerotic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, teenage boy, friendship between boys, lgbt, catholic priest, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, kidnapping, male pubic hair, bare chested male, male nudity, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
 2K
Sparrows (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, melancholic
Plot: coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, incest, boyhood, father, child, boy ...
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Sauvage (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here... longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
Style: rough, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male nudity, male prostitute, violence, gay hustler, male pubic hair, sex work, hustler, gay interest, gay sex, homeless, erection ...
Time: 2000s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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 ⇓
38%
 6.6
 426
My Good Enemy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: boy, bullying, children, friendship, friendship between boys, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, retribution, violence, school ...
Place: scandinavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 1K
Hard Paint (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: While facing criminal charges, Pedro must grapple with his sister's sudden decision to move away and leave him behind. Alone in the darkness of his bedroom, he dances covered in neon paint, while thousands of strangers watch him via webcam.
Style: suspense, melancholic, disturbing, independent film, enigmatic ...
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, bullying, lgbtq, teenager, life turned upside down, escapades, rivalry, youth ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 205
New Dubai (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min.
Story: In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, explicit, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: gay latino, male nudity, gay love, lgbt, male rape, gay sex, gay, erection, male masturbation, gay erotica, gay interest, fetishist ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
100 Days Before the Command (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring. '100 Days Before the Command' is Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the ...
Plot: soviet army, coming of age, teenage boy, male nudity, gay, lgbt, military, nudity, military service, very little dialogue, female nudity, surrealism ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 823
Shed My Skin (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, teenager, gay interest, lgbt, gay sex, teenage boy, suicide attempt, lgbtq, parents and children, self discovery, loneliness ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
To Play or To Die (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 48 min.
Story: In this short motion picture, schoolboy Kees is intelligent, introvert and sensitive, but gets ridiculed verbally and physically at an all-boys school by mindlessly cocky class mates and even insensitive teachers, especially in gym, where his ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, gay, lgbt, gay erotica, youth, high school, school, nudity, masturbation, male nudity, gay crush, gay teenager ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Smell of Us (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
Style: psychological, serious, bleak, rough, erotic ...
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, gay interest, male nudity, youth, skateboarder, underage sex, mother son incest, teenage boy, sexual promiscuity, friendship, under the surface ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Reinventing Marvin (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young gay man determined to reinvent his life leaves everything behind on his quest for self-realization.
Style: non-linear, psychological, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay interest, gay love, gay youth, gay, gay lead character, gay son, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay couple, male nudity, gay club, gay relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 190
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Friends Forever (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenager Kristian moves to a new neighborhood. He makes friends with two very different boys in the new school: Henrik, an independent boy, and Patrick, the leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled when he finds Patrick is gay and having an ...
Style: queer cinema
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay straight relations, high school, soccer, high school student, friendship between boys, gay friend, teenage boy, homosexual, gay teenager, cougar ...
Time: 80s
Place: copenhagen, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 190
Duffer (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Duffer' (1971) is a rarely seen cult British movie that has languished in the vaults of the British Film Institute for the best part of forty years until they decided to release it on DVD/BluRay for the first time last month. It's a ...
Plot: gay interest, male nudity, abuse, gay, male pubic hair, obsession, kidnapping, gay subtext, pubic hair
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.3
 278
Wild Awakening (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Toni and Emma are brother and sister who owns a stable farm. Ramon and his son, Aaron works for them. Toni is openly gay and loves to party, Emma has a crush on Aaron who is a closeted gay who is afraid that his father might find out, but his father ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, male nudity, gay sex, lgbt, murder, couples, gay interest, male objectification, farm, sex scene, police, voyeurism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" ...
Style: psychological, sexy, touching, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, lgbt teen, gay, gay teenager, masturbation, lgbtq, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, friendship, self mutilation, puberty, adultery ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 1K
Prince (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, hood
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, youth gang, teenage love, interracial friendship, friendship between boys, street life, drug dealing, wooing, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, group of friends, single mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.2
 3K
Shank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with ...
Style: realistic, serious, erotic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay teenager, gay bashing, gay erotica, lgbt, gay slur, coming of age, gang, gay sex, lgbtq, closeted homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, children, orphanage, fascism, escape, orphan, freedom, poverty, psychological abuse, family abandonment ...
Time: 60s
Place: buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Giant Little Ones (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style: captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, freeze frame ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, best friend, friendship, gay father, father son relationship, underage drinking, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, bisexual, teenage protagonist, sexual orientation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Lost Boys (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic
Plot: teenage boy, gay, gay interest, gay relationship, gay love, juvenile detention, lgbt, fall in love, star crossed lovers, gay friend, adolescence, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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