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Plot Summary:
A love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema (Jana Plodková) runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony (Ondrej Nosálek), even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the internal, as well as external, obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a love story of two people and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, humorous, captivating, suspense, crying, gay cinema
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Vanilla Flavour (2002)
Plot Summary:
A dramatic love story, taking place in the final days of the Second World War when the American Army liberated the Pilsen region of West Bohemia. Anne lives with her mother, husband and stepchildren at a solitary country farm. But her life is not what she would wish it to be. She had previously lived with her aunt in London, and the only reason why she returned to Czechoslovakia was to look after the orphaned children of her sister. She married their father, but the rural environment is alien to her, and neither does she get on very well with her husband. A group of American soldiers arrives at the farm, having strayed away from their designated route of advance. To their great surprise, they are welcomed by a young woman who speaks fluent English, and invite her to go with them to Pilsen as an interpreter. Anne long hesitates, well aware that she attracts the affection of one of the soldiers, and herself becomes fond of him, too. She feels that the trip to Pilsen could mean an.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying
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Perfect Days (2011)
Plot Summary:
Celebrity hairdresser Erika might seem to have it all: a successful business, her own TV show, stylish modern loft in center of Prague, designer clothes, lots of friends and an ever-loving mother with a housework fixation. However, as Erika reaches her 40th birthday, all of a sudden here comes the deafening tick of her biological clock.Erika wants a baby and it has to be now or never. She is longing for a young life, even though she finds her own mother hard to get close to. The trouble is, she needs a man. The film follows in the lines of trashy genres, but at the same time it plays with them and by stressing 'gender themes' it even enters the poetics and ideology of feminism.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, captivating, contemplative
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All or Nothing (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, witty, crying, queer cinema
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Women in running (2019)
Plot Summary:
Women on the Run. Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three daughters doesn't think that doing so will be a problem. She and her daughters will split up the route into four parts, and they'll overcome the over 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay team. Of course, the fact that neither of them has ever ran even a meter poses no problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, witty, crying, detective
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The Skinny (2012)
Plot Summary:
Feature film from award-winning writer/director Patrik-Ian Polk, tells the story of five black Brown University classmate s- four gay men and one lesbian - reuniting in the Big Apple for a weekend of sin, fun, secrets, lies and drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, suspense, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts teaching at a local village school. Since she can't find a lodging, she moves to a former morgue. The small house is already occupied by a quirky and grumpy graveyard keeper named Bozicek. Their house sharing leads to a series of comical conflicts, but they eventually fall in love and Eliska proves to her ex-husband that she is able to stand on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying
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An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work as much as possible so that she can afford to study and thereby achieve a better outlook on life, but she unfortunately runs up against a boss who doesn't have the best intentions with her. Ultimately Luisa's husband demonstratively commits suicide. Erika accidentally kills her boss in self-defense... The women blame themselves for all these failures, and that has got to change. Both have to grow up and start living again. Perhaps even together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic, compassionate, crying, gay cinema
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Deep End (1970)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: offbeat, controversial, artsy, psychosexual thriller, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual
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Mothers (2021)
Plot Summary:
The four best friends are confident, smart, having fun, discussing men, relationships and sex. But they're also taking care of kids, or they just had kids, or they're pregnant. Sara has a nice ass, so she started taking pictures of it and living in the world of social media. Hedvika lives in a bit of a golden cage, her workaholic husband isn't home much, so it's no wonder she's charmed by the young busker David. Zuzana, after her break-up with Kamil, is penniless, just a worked-up and hurried mother of two. Slovak immigrant Eliska, on the other hand, has a great boyfriend, unbearable parents, is pregnant and is sick of everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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In Family I Trust (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, neurotic, crying
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Don't Blame Karma on What Happens to You for Being an Asshole (2016)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a Madrid-based feather-fashion designer and her whole family's completely tumbles after the appearance of a musician long-lost high school crush who is involved with her model sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, semi serious, crying, sex comedy, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, feel good
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Tell No One (2012)
Plot Summary:
Mattia is about to move to Madrid by his boyfriend Eduard. When the day before leaving for Spain, Eduard announces his arrival in Rome to know the "laws", Mattia must choose whether to finally come clean with his companion, or confess to being a formidable liar.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, sexual, non-linear, crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Callback Queen (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the cut-throat London film industry a vivacious actress chasing her big break struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of the director's advances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sex comedy, romantic, crying
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My sister's wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marie is a typical urban single. Although she works as a successful television presenter, she has the gift of attracting only idiots in relationships. On the contrary, her sister Karolína has already found the right one and is planning a wedding. That is why Maruska comes to visit her home village after a long time with her family. At home, he meets his old love, Jirka. In a few moments, it is clear that their feelings are not in the past and will end up in bed together. But the whole thing has one big catch. he is her sister's fiance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: neurotic, funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, suspense, entertaining, witty
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Ice Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, funny, light, romantic, entertaining
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Women in Temptation (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, contemplative, sex comedy, crying
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Coming In (2014)
Plot Summary:
Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, light, humorous, crying, gay cinema
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A Fine Madness (1966)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: retro, psychological, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, crying, suspense
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What a Man Wants (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two couples' windy comedy movie that is more dangerous than typhoons in Jeju Islands.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, crying, freeze frame
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Plan B (2009)
Plot Summary:
Bruno's plan to win back his ex-girlfriend hits a snag when he becomes attracted to her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, lgbt cinema, atmospheric, captivating, romantic comedy, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious
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A Different Story (1978)
Plot Summary:
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, crying, independent film, freeze frame, gay cinema
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Just Friends (2018)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy about two young men, their relationship and their relationship with their mothers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, light, captivating, sincere, humorous, lgbt cinema, erotic, cute, romantic comedy, crying
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The Late Bloomer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, light, touching, feel good, captivating, funny, romantic, sexy
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Home Again (2017)
Plot Summary:
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, light, neurotic, crying, freeze frame, romantic drama
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Confusion of Genders (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that he can 'have it all'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, witty, erotic, sex comedy, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Mascarpone (2021)
Plot Summary:
Antonio is a 30 yo family man, whose life finds an unexpected twist when he's suddenly dumped by his husband, whom he depends both psychologically and economically: he needs to find a new place to stay, a job and a new purpose in life. Antonio finds a room in an apartment owned by Denis and starts to work in a bakery owned by Luca, while attending pastry school. Through this process he discovers that it was wrong of him to give up his independence for the sake of his relationship in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky, crying, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Thing About Harry (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, lgbt cinema, psychological, romantic comedy, uplifting, neurotic, crying, romantic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Permission (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, psychological, humorous, romantic, surprise ending, romantic comedy, lgbt cinema, sex comedy, homoerotic
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Out Of My League (2020)
Plot Summary:
Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying
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Center of My World (2016)
Plot Summary:
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, lgbt cinema, erotic, cute, teen, crying, freeze frame