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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
High school students in Bangkok wrestle with issues such as sex, teen pregnancy, drugs, school violence, family turmoil and more in this Thai drama.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic, satirical
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school, adolescence, high school life, asian lgbt, teenage life, lgbt, teenager, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, apprentice, schoolboy, problem ...
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.
Style:
homoerotic, lgbt cinema, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, gay relationship, outdoor sex, male nudity, gay sex, death of father, gay slur, gay brother, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, offbeat, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, coming of age, afterlife, closeted homosexual, high school, youth, hopes, closeted gay, homoerotic friendship, lgbt, gay, lgbt teen ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
FIVE DANCES, written and directed by Alan Brown, is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer (the amazing ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay couple, dancing, gays and lesbians, coming of age, dancer, gay sex, gay relationship, lgbt, gay interest, mother son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Strange Fits of Passion is a 1999 Australian film about a young woman determined to lose her virginity.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
looking for love, looking for sex, coming of age, virgin, first sexual experience, lgbtq, lgbt, glbt, gay subtext, sexual content, bittersweet, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by ...
Style:
avant garde, independent film, experimental, surreal, poetic ...
Plot:
bisexuality, underground, muse, surrealism, sexuality, odyssey, counterculture, brooklyn bridge, journey, mature, ritual, adaptation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenage friends spending the summer at boarding school become entangled in love triangles after one commits suicide.
Style:
sad, crying
Plot:
lgbt, loneliness, sexual repression, all female cast, lgbt teen, sexual perversion, superhero, boys love, gay subtext, food, friend, painter ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1999, future
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
Style:
independent film, gay cinema
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay subtext, child prostitute, older man younger man relationship, dead boy, drug deal, subway, cocaine, homosexual, teenage prostitution, pimp ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The workplace comedy's story follows a 26-year-old office worker named Momose. He recently changed jobs after his previous boss harassed him. He's worried his new boss will also use power harassment to make his life miserable. Momose is ...
Style:
feel good, anime, uplifting, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
slice of life, workplace, adaptation, workplace situations, supervisor, coworker, new job, co worker co worker relationship, supportive coworker, friendship, career change, urban ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A massive segment of the Sun has broken off and is heading for Earth, whose surface is slowly heating up to an unbearable level. A strange mood pervades a debilitated world: anything could happen, virtually anywhere, without warning. Even in a ...
Style:
road movie, crying, allegory, mumblecore
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, masturbation, gay interest, gay, teenage boy, 18 year old, gay subtext, end of the world, lgbt, lgbt teen, bus driver, sexual predator ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Choosing between the love of a good man and the love of God is a tough call especially for vicar Peter Simmons. His tranquil life is rudely interrupted when he rashly proposes marriage to Jason his Samoan boyfriend, in church. As the news breaks ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot:
gay marriage, gay, religion, lgbt, drag, gay couple, social issues, lifestyle, relationships, gay love, gay crush, social problems ...
Place:
new zealand, pacific ocean
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
While having a day-long swim at Athens' queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature debut.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay couple, gay sex, male nudity, relationships, satire, nude beach, nudity, sex scene, bare chested male, gay, skinny dipping ...
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
From a swimming pool in Brazil to the back seat of a car in Germany via an apartment in the early hours of the morning where three men dance to the beat of wild passions, here are four stories about the marks that can be left when skin touches ...
Style:
touching, anthology, thrilling, art house, reflective ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay interest, skin, intimate, intimacy, multiple storylines, gay couple, problem, relationships, homosexual, couple relations ...
Place:
brazil, germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a ...
Style:
gay cinema
Plot:
gay sex, gay anal sex, suicide, lgbt, male nudity, gay, religious, gay interest, catholic, artist, gay slur, gay subtext ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Benjamin and Dom have been best friends since they were kids. On their last night together, Dom plans to send Benjamin off with a pocketful of cash. All he has to do is deliver a package over the border for a friend...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, gay, gay interest, night, friends, drug, male nudity, drugged, disease, virus, best friend, body horror ...
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219
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Worlds collide at an awkward dinner party in 1959 New England. Tables turn when a progressive biracial couple attends dinner at the imposing home of an unexceptional artist and questionable psychiatrist. By daybreak, they find themselves pawns in a ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
skinny dipping, gay, mental disorder, identity, interracial relations, interracial couple, problem, psychiatrist, relationship problems, psychology, couple relations, racial prejudice ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Every few hundred years, the most powerful demon on earth—a snake demon—awakens, and the Yin-Yang Masters are summoned to the capital. Meanwhile, the Princess of the realm has her own plans, as she conspires to claim the demon’s power.
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, xianxia
Plot:
good versus evil, supernatural, opposites attract, secret, friendship, cold case, investigation, legends and myths, paranormal investigation, secret revealed, magic, protector ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
china
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6K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Ruben and Carlos become cellmates in a minimum-security prison. While Ruben struggles to learn the ropes of daily life and where he falls in the complex hierarchical prison system, Carlos becomes a mentor and then eventually a lover. The two men ...
Style:
suspense, emotional, romantic, talky, psychological ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay, gay erotica, prison, gay latino, lgbt, gay relationship, gay slur, erotica, sexual tension, male nudity, drug ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A married poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings for him.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, touching, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, gays and lesbians, poet, poetry, lgbt, infertility, artificial insemination, closeted gay, teacher, husband wife relationship, love and romance, gay couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, jeju island
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A three-part feature by Brian Jordan Alvarez
An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.
Style:
feel good, unusual plot structure, sexy, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, relationships, male homosexuality, sexuality, gay interest, menage a trois, gender, gay sex, promiscuity, threesome, gay relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt teen, gay lead character, gay interest, gay teenager, lgbt, teenage protagonist, introspection, self discovery, friendship between men, friends, problem ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
texas, el paso texas
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, bad weather, disaster, tornado, aftermath, gay relationship, rescue, race against time, small town, hiding place, survival, family relations ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
Style:
saga, captivating, tense, social, sad ...
Plot:
lgbt, aids, lgbtq, gay, hiv, gay interest, gay couple, friendship, gay sex, gay relationship, homosexuality, male nudity ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
london, england
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306
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A high school student and a young criminal are trying to get reciprocity from the most popular guy in the school. The general and the dancer in 1985 put their careers and life on the line to be together.
Style:
tense, melancholic, psychological, crying, thought provoking ...
Plot:
parkour, gay teenager, sex scene, dancer, sex talk, new identity, trans woman, talking about love, prejudice, gay slur, high school, art class ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The series accompanies a group of 16-year-olds on the journey of their life following their day to day in real time. Dependence on social media, how they face sex, love and ruptures, religion, the search of their identity and the need to fit in.
Style:
realistic, sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
sapphic, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, real life, teenager, feminist, lgbt, gay, friendship, high school, love, urban setting ...
Place:
spain, madrid, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On their last night together, four longtime flatmates' lives are suddenly upended when a secret is revealed during the course of an evening celebration.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay relationship, closeted gay, female nudity, intoxication, friendship, secret, relocation, game, friends, society, adolescence vs adulthood, group of friends ...
Place:
madrid, spain
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955
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
17-year-old Jakob wants nothing more than to feel alive. Uncontrollable anxiety attacks prevent him from doing so and force him to escape into virtual worlds. One night, he meets 26-year-old Kristjan in a cam chat. Their encounter marks the ...
Style:
erotic, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay interest, coming of age, teenage boy, gay, gay love, gay sex, bare chested male, homosexual, boy, gay teenager, crazy love, father son relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
austria, vienna
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dancer, dancing, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, couples, friendship, rivalry, gay romance, obsession, audition, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, ethiopia, eastern europe, asia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself.
Style:
tense, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, time paradox, lgbtq, problem solving, back in time, life & death, time jump, teenage life, time traveler, teenager ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style:
lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lgbtq, closeted homosexual, gay interest, closeted gay, gay, male nudity, troubled youth, male objectification, bare chested male, gay teenager, bisexual man, homophobic slur ...
Time:
2000s
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