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Lie Down with Dogs (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Wayward mid-20's NYC guy goes to the Pines for a change of pace for the summer.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gender bending, glbt, gay subtext, friends, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, new york
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Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was to place these marginal characters, who are subject to societal prejudices ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: gay, transvestism, friendship, lgbt, self discovery, couples, lifestyle, introspection, social misfits, society, discrimination, social differences ...
Time: 90s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe, baghdad iraq
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My Life in Pink (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.
Style: controversial, touching, psychological, social, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: transsexual, gender, coming of age, transgender, cross dressing, gay, children, glbt, women, lgbtq, psychologist, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: france, belgium, paris france, europe
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 6.6
 420
Like a Virgin (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Chubby high school student and Madonna-devotee Oh Dong-ku is a trans woman living with her abusive, alcoholic father. Dong-ku works part-time to save money for the sex reassignment surgery she craves. Despite being told that she has the perfect ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining
Plot: gay, sport competition, coach, lgbt, transsexual, contests and competitions, gender bending, obesity, obese, gender issues, fight, trance ...
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 6.7
 2K
Satan's Brew (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot: prostitute, investigation, lifestyle, rise to the top, writer's life, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dark humor, prodigy, gender, media satire ...
Time: 19th century
Place: munich germany, southern germany
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Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in ...
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: gay, adoption, gay couple, gay parent, teenage boy, gay slur, gay lead character, gender, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay adoption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Just One of the Guys (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, high school, gender disguise, adolescence, gender bending, college, sexism, prom, hidden identity, switching roles, coming of age, gender bender ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: california, phoenix arizona, arizona, tucson arizona
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Bosom Buddies (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bosom Buddies is an American sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari created by Robert L. Boyett, Thomas L. Miller and Chris Thompson. It ran from 1980 to 1982 on ABC and in reruns in the summer of 1984 on NBC. The show features the ...
Style: sitcom, buddy comedy, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, gender bending, hotel, friendship, physical appearance, workplace romance, showbiz, lifestyle, workplace, battle of the sexes, performer's life, hidden identity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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 7.4
 22K
Tomboy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, indiana, paris france, europe
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Gaudi Afternoon (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American abroad finds herself falling in with an eccentric group of fellow expatriates in Spain in this comedy. Cassandra (Judy Davis) is a nomadic American who finds herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating ...
Style: intense, semi serious, talky, entertaining, independent film ...
Plot: kick-butt women, lesbian, eccentricity, creativity, dysfunctional family, farce, betrayal, translator, comedy of errors, eccentric family, family relations, culture clash ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, san francisco
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 5.3
 345
Lady Peacock (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Let the drag-off begin! When Conner first meets Devin, he feels an instant attraction to him. However, soon Conner's nemesis, the Puerto Rican drag queen Adora wants Devin all to herself. Conner soon realizes the only way to compete with a drag ...
Style: touching, captivating, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: gender, gay, contests and competitions, rivalry, jealousy, gay lead character, transgender, lgbtq, transvestite, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.3
 1K
Buddy Boy (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, depressing ...
Plot: voyeur, home invasion, dysfunctional family, surrealism, thoughtful, misfit, mental illness, murder, couples, psychopath, life is a bitch, obsession ...
Time: 90s
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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: gay, transvestism, gender bending, drag queen, small town, friendship, cross dressing, road trip, on the road, lgbt, transgender, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
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 5.5
 583
Ice Angel (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Matt, a male hockey player who dies in a game and comes back to life as Sara Bryan, a female figure skater due to an accident made by an angel that caused the hockey player to die. Both share the dream of competing in the ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, touching, teen
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: reincarnation, rebirth, angel, skating, ice hockey, coach, misunderstanding, ice skater, winter olympics, hockey, switching bodies, transgender ...
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 6.8
 1K
Mayo Chiki! (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: When you've got acute gynophobia, even a pretty girl can be like a malady, and as the sparring partner for his family of female wrestlers, Sakamachi Kinjiro has the worst case ever! Just one touch makes his nose bleed, so school's a bloody ...
Style: anime, humorous, entertaining, ecchi, captivating ...
Plot: couples, friendship, wrestling, youth, power relations, friends, master and servant, society, school, butler, teenage life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 4.5
 467
Vegas in Space (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three soldiers are ordered to change their gender (via a pill) and are sent on a secret mission (undercover as show girls) to the women only planet of Clitoris' capital city "Vegas in Space." Once they arrive, they must maneuver ...
Style: grindhouse, thinking, independent film, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: transsexual, lgbtq, gay, drag queen, space opera, glbt, transgender, transvestite, gender bending, glamour, gay interest, gay subtext ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa
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 6.7
 11K
M. Butterfly (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Style: erotic, independent film, neo noir, cult classic, mysterious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: espionage, gender bending, opera, gay, lgbt, transgender, transsexual, relationships, cross dressing, betrayal, culture clash, gender ...
Time: 60s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: china, asia, france, europe, paris france
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There's Something About Mary (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Having never fully recovered from a prom date that became a total disaster, a man finally gets a chance to reunite with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
Style: funny, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: true love, dream girl, dumb, stupidity, private detective, farce, dating, love, obstacle, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: rhode island, florida, miami, usa
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Worried About the Boy (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: gay, musician's life, lifestyle, desire for fame, rise and fall, ambition, music band, rising to stardom, love and romance, anti conformity, love affair, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, london
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Lovers: A True Story (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Plot: tragic love, secret lover, erotica, defloration, love, older woman younger man relationship, love triangle, fall in love, obsession, love and romance, betrayal, couple relations ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: spain, europe
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Birds of a Feather 2 (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as ...
Style: funny, sex comedy, surreal, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: transvestism, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, spy, transsexual, transvestite, transgender, farce, drag queen, gay subtext ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: italy, saint tropez, europe, sicily, riviera ...
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 5.7
 3K
Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs ...
Style: independent film, erotic, controversial, disturbing, social ...
Plot: male prostitution, gay, lgbt, hot guys, lesbian, erotica, hustler, virus, basement, passion, lgbtq, youth ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa
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 6.5
 152
Bugis Street (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It’s monsoon season in Singapore. Bugis Street, the epicentre of multisexual nightlife and unchained libido, is where a band of hedonistic, transidentical poeple has taken root at wacky love hotel SinSin.
Style: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, gay cinema
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbtq, transgender, transsexual, prostitute, transvestism, nudity, sexual content, gender bending, urban, innocence lost ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: malaysia, asia, singapore
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 4.9
 480
Neverland (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. In this version, Peter (Rick Sparks) is a juvenile delinquent, Tinkerbell (Kari... Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, ...
Style: serious, offbeat, bleak
Plot: amusement park, danger, life is a bitch, escapades, youth, peter pan, gay, fantasy world, lgbt, glbt, gay subtext, prostitute ...
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Banner of the Stars II (2001)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, stylized, anime ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, evil empire, heroic mission, distant planet, battles, spacecraft, benign alien, betrayal, good versus evil, heroes ...
Time: future
Is relevant ?
 3.5
 583
Issues 101 (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: College freshman Joe is new to school when he mistakes a rush invitation for a come-on from a cute fraternity brother. He's no less confused after a hazing ritual between him and Christian, his "big brother" in the Greek system, takes ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, college, couples, youth, gender, student life, gay relationship, love triangle, brother brother relationship, fraternity, hidden camera, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 217
Hide and Seek (1996)
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Mixes documentary interviews of memories of lesbian adolescence with the story of the 12-year-old girl Lou discovering her sexuality in 1960s America.
Style: erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, educational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, gender, youth, lgbt, sexuality, lgbtq, lesbian teen, woman, adolescence, best friend, family relations, school ...
Time: 60s
Place: africa
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 350
Showboy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christian Taylor, a writer on hit TV series Six Feet Under, is being profiled by a British documentary crew when he's sacked, though he doesn't know they've overheard the firing. They follow him to Las Vegas, where he is ostensibly ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: follow your dream, actor's life, rise to the top, showbiz, gay, silly humor, lifestyle, starting over, workplace, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, couples ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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The Associate (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While ...
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, witty, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gender disguise, wall street, workplace, sexism, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, women, farce, racism, strong female lead, fake identity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna is coming out. But not as gay as a revolutionary. Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a rockin love song to the heady rush of sex, freedom and rebellion that happens when an everyday girl discovers her own strength and the righteous indignation ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: lesbian, cheerleader, gender, lesbian sex, lesbian love, lgbtq, lgbt, feminism, breakup, fall in love, gays and lesbians, feminist ...
Time: year 1984, year 1948
Place: indiana, virginia, los angeles, bahamas, california ...
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