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This Special Friendship (1964)
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This Special Friendship (1964)
Original name: Les Amitiés particulières
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt teen, gay teenager, friendship, teenage life, youth, boys love, boarding school, lgbt, gay love, teenage boy, school, child, gays and lesbians, catholic school, teenager, friend, romantic friendship, lgbtq, gay, boy, suicide, first love, childhood, trippy, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, touching and serious films with plots about gay, lgbt, youth, coming of age, lgbtq, gay interest and gay teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Horror genres. Some movies like This Special Friendship: The Nature of Nicholas (2002), The Fire That Burns (1997), You Are Not Alone (1978), For a Lost Soldier (1992), The Last Year (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Nature of Nicholas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Nature of Nicholas is a surreal story of twelve-year-old Nicholas as he struggles with an attraction to his best friend.
Style: touching, serious, surreal, captivating, queer horror ...
Plot: coming of age, zombie, friendship, sexual orientation, school, teenage love, teenage life, gay, youth, fall in love, obsession, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: canada
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100%
The Fire That Burns (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
Plot: altar boy, coming of age, gay, boys' school, lgbt, lgbtq, childhood, youth, boyhood, glbt, catholic, school ...
Time: pre world war two, 1930s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Style: touching, sentimental, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, youth, gays and lesbians, first love, teenage life, gay teenager, student, friendship, lgbt teen, friends, couples, boarding school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
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81%
For a Lost Soldier (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a romantic relationship between a Canadian soldier and a child set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII. Told in flashback from the present day, the child, now a man, is still seeking his lost soldier.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, world war two, pedophilia, man boy relationship, soldier, forbidden love, intergenerational friendship, boy, sexual awakening, homosexual, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1945
Place: netherlands, europe, germany, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Last Year (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, couples, gender, incest, gays and lesbians, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenage love, love affair, friends, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Jet Boy (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: orphan, kids in trouble, man boy relationship, child neglect, gay, youth, prostitute, boy, teenage prostitution, coming of age, lifestyle, lgbt teen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, lgbt cinema, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, lgbt child, boys love, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, idaho, europe, flanders
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100%
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Bad Spelling (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sexual ...
Plot: boarding school, buddies, boys' school, rebellion, friendship, youth, family relations, rebelliousness, boss and employee, power relations, friends, boarding school life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Style: surreal, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay teenager, gay, coming of age, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, friendship, teenage love, lgbt teen, boy, tiger, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Monster Pies (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
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 teenager, gay relationship, lgbt, gay interest, coming of age, gender, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, teenage love, self discovery, fall in love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Chosen Ones (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to ...
Plot: boarding school, child abuse, gay, sexual abuse, boy, suicide, suicide attempt, whistleblower, kiss, overalls
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
Mary Kay Letourneau: All American Girl (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, sexual
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teacher student sex, pregnancy, forbidden love, love and romance, against the rules, unlikely couple, legal, youth, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, teachers and students, babies and infants ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Schoolboy Crush (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Aoi, a young teacher with striking good looks, has just learned that his newest student Sora is the alluring teen prostitute he once hired. Here the nightmare begins. As the walls of the prestigious academy become a percolating hotbed of sexual ...
Style: psychological, realistic, sexy, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: gay, boys love, high school, transsexual, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, student life, lgbt, couples, power relations, school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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2:37 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, brother sister incest, rape, youth, high school life, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, suicide, incest rape, society, social misfits ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
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71%
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, cute, sweet, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, blindness, lgbt, homosexuality, coming of age, school, gay teenager, friendship, gay love, teenage life, homosexual, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sao paulo, brazil, brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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: coming of age, gay, love triangle, school, friendship, unrequited love, gay sex, gay teenager, lgbt, high school friend, loneliness, true love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Boys Life 3 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Jason Gould satirizes coming out in Hollywood in Inside Out, starring Alexis Arquette and papa Elliot Gould. Lane Janger's Just One Time was a festival favorite recently expanded into a feature film that turns the tables on a groom-to-be and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, youth, friendship, self discovery, teenage life, couples, sexual relations, closeted homosexual, relationships, gay love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Rock Haven (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start. Their mission: to spread the word of the Lord. But while roaming the beach one day, Brady meets ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, sensual ...
Audience: girls' night
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Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 4K
Dream Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
 6.4
 2K
Watercolors (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Carter, a troubled teen stays with a friend of his dads and starts flirting with her son Danny. After the weekend school returns, however Carter a school jock tells Danny he does not want to be seen with him at school. Their relationship grows ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Sugar (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Cliff has just turned 18 and his little sister has a gift for him: booze, a joint, a subway token and the command to have sex. Heading out on the town, Cliff finds friendship -- and more -- in the person of a young hustler named Butch. But ...
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Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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20%
Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA
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: disturbing, sincere, captivating, social, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
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Place: taiwan, asia, taipei, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.6
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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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 ⇓
19%
 7.4
 6K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 13K
Summer of 85 (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
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. ...
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
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Place: normandy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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: independent film, semi serious, cute, lgbt cinema, crying ...
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Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Takumi-kun Series: Pure (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Unlike the three previous films, Pure focuses on the relationship between Misu Arata and Shingyouji Kanemitsu , which begins when Shingyouji takes the test to enter Shidou Gakuen . That's when he meets Misu and falls for him. Then we come back ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, yaoi
Plot: gay, lgbt, friendship, boys' school, gay couple, gay interest, boarding school, gay best friend, relationships, male homosexuality, lgbt teen, male male relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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