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Plot Summary:
Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 122 min
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Otra historia de amor (1986)
Plot Summary:
A dynamic young man falls in love with his own boss, a married businessman, with two children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crying, queer cinema
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All My Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
For Rami, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, as long as he keeps to himself. But when his longtime lover leaves him to marry a woman and his best friends drift away, he comes face to face with the harsh realities of life as a gay man in Egypt. Against the backdrop of the choreographed crackdown on gay men and the notorious Queen Boat arrests of 2001, he plunges into a world of loveless friendships and spirals downwards to his ultimate downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt, France, Israel, Lebanon
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, independent film
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Of an Age (2022)
Plot Summary:
A Serbian ballroom dancer experiences an unexpected and intense 24-hour romance with a friend's older brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying, queer cinema
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Men in the Nude (2006)
Plot Summary:
A gay affair between an aging middle-aged writer, and a young streetwise hustler.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, queer cinema
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The Marriage (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bekim and Anita are getting married, but Anita is unaware that Bekim is still in love with his best friend Nol.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Kosovo, Albania
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, queer cinema
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I Miss You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new play in honor of his lost love, in which Gabriel’s inner turmoil is transformed into an eye-popping gay fantasia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Bolivia, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, melancholic, surprise ending, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Eismayer (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down. Based on real events.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, independent film, queer cinema
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No Touching at All (2014)
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Shima is an extremely shy young man who just started a new job. On his first day, he shares an elevator with a brash, hungover man named Togawa, who he soon learns is actually his boss. Over time, Shima becomes preoccupied with the Togawa as he tries to decide if it’s worth perusing a romantic relationship after a string of disappointments in his love life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic, romantic drama
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The DL Chronicles (2005)
Plot Summary:
The DL Chronicles is a series of short stories about men of color who lead double sex lives. Episode; Wes introduces us to Wes Thomas, an upwardly mobile real estate banker who is overwhelmed by the demands of his marriage, career, and closeted attraction to men. When Wes' sexy but ambivalent brother- in-law stops in for an unexpected stay, he is directly faced with temptation and ultimately falls for the forbidden fruit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology, queer cinema
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The Pass (2016)
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Two young professional soccer players share a hotel room the night before their first big game. Out of nowhere, one kisses the other. The impact of this 'pass' reverberates through the next ten years of their lives - a decade of fame and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, sentimental, touching, psychological, melancholic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The Third One (2014)
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After meeting in a chat room, Fede (22) arrives at a downtown building to have an intimate encounter with a gay couple older than him. As the night unfolds, Fede has an intense and telling experience. The next morning finds him different, as if suddenly he had found a new possible way to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, disturbing, minimal cast, erotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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About Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Love Story between Matheus and Diego is portrayed in the film script Diego writes when he becomes a filmmaker.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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Mixed Kebab (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ibrahim chooses to fall for young and handsome Kevin over marrying his cute but expensive cousin Elif while kid brother Furkan converts to Islamic fundamentalism.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Plot Summary:
A beautifully affecting love story that has rightly earned comparisons to Brokeback Mountain, Haim Tabakman's potent yet impeccably restrained tale has won awards and accolades at film festivals the world over. Aaron, a pillar in Jerusalem's Orthodox community is respected by friends and family. However, when he hires handsome runaway student Ezri to assist with his business, sexual tensions bristle and the pair cautiously embark on a love affair. Meanwhile, a neighbouring shopkeeper persists in seeing a man of her own choosing, even though she's been promised by her father to another. As forbidden truths come to the fore, these lovers are forced to either confront or relent in the face of a centuries-old religious community, with startling results.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, captivating, lgbt cinema, tense, erotic, homoerotic, powerful, independent film, serious
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Sodom (2017)
Plot Summary:
20-year-old Will is on his stag-do when, handcuffed to a lamppost, he is rescued by Michael. The attraction between the two men is immediate. But back at Michael's apartment, Will is sent into a tailspin of shame and confusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, melancholic, sentimental, romantic, contemplative, unusual plot structure, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Dashing in December (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Wyatt returns home for the holidays to try to convince his mom to sell their family ranch, an unexpected romance with handsome ranch hand Heath may throw off his plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, tense, touching, contemplative, cute, feel good, sexy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Blonde One (2019)
Plot Summary:
Womanising Juan must quickly find a flatmate after his brother moves out. In moves Gabriel (the blonde of the title), Juan's stoic and very handsome co-worker, who is recently widowed and struggling to support his young daughter. What starts off as a seemingly affable living arrangement soon turns to burgeoning attraction, then full-blown desire.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, disturbing, bleak, erotic, surprise ending, psychological, suspense, lgbt cinema, cute, gay cinema
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Sorry Angel (2018)
Plot Summary:
A university student and an older, HIV-positive writer strike up a romance in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, emotional, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Those People (2015)
Plot Summary:
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, psychological, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, lgbt cinema, controversial, queer cinema
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The First Time - Bedingungslose Liebe (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of two boys and how they deal with the discovery of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, crying, unusual plot structure, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Esteros (2016)
Plot Summary:
Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 83 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sexy, touching, melancholic, contemplative, queer cinema, gay cinema
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After Louie (2017)
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As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor's guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what he sees as the younger generation's indifference to the politics of sex, and of death. An unexpected intimacy with a much younger man challenges Sam's understanding of contemporary gay life. Through this unconventional romance, he is forced to deal with the trauma that so informs his past, their present, and an unknown future.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, queer cinema
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen, psychological, humorous, lgbt cinema, crying, teen comedy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two love stories, sixty years apart, charting the challenges and huge change to gay lives with Michael and Thomas from WW2 to Adam and Steve to the present day.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, psychological, touching, erotic, retro, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, period drama
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Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
Plot Summary:
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his realtives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, surprise ending, atmospheric, sexy, enigmatic, feel good
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A Moment in the Reeds (2017)
Plot Summary:
Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, erotic, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Free Fall (2013)
Plot Summary:
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that try as he may, he can't make everyone happy. Least of all, himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexual, disturbing, atmospheric, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema, serious, erotic, sexy
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Just a Question of Love (2000)
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After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, lgbt cinema, disturbing, sexy, cute, powerful, sexual
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I Am Jonas (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Jonas was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan. In addition to guiding him in his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend. Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories still haunt him Trying frantically to put the missing pieces together, Jonas becomes determined to break the shackles of the past and finally set himself free.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sincere, touching, suspense, art house, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema