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Plot Summary:
Based on the 1891 play "Spring Awakening," this filmed stage drama examines the tensions and confusion of young people as their growing sexual awareness conflicts with the repressive social environment around them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Anything's Possible (2022)
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Anything’s Possible is a delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year. When her classmate Khal gets a crush on her, he musters up the courage to ask her out, despite the drama he knows it could cause. What transpires is a romance that showcases the joy, tenderness, and pain of young love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, teen, lgbt cinema, crying, queer cinema
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Another Story of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Diego and Sebastián are 2 teenagers, childhood friends that meet again in summer, which gives way to an intense friendship while they get drunk, smoke weed, and roam around the streets, looking for the meaning of life, sex and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching, gloomy, semi serious, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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The Truth About Alex (1986)
Plot Summary:
Alex admits to his best friend Brad that he is gay.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: crying, queer cinema
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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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Rivers Wash Over Me (2009)
Plot Summary:
After his mother dies, Sequan, a sensitive teenager from Brooklyn, moves in with relatives living in a small town plagued with secrets hidden deep within its lush, rural Alabama terrain. Sequan finds refuge in a friendship with a troubled girl who astutely hones in on his true sexuality and introduces him to her cute brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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True Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Seven short stories about growing up gay in America and searching for true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, queer cinema
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Off Shore (2011)
Plot Summary:
Andi has come to Fuerteventura to see his estranged father Chris, who left the family years ago to live on the island and hasn't been heard from since. The local surfer clique welcomes Andi with open arms and he quickly falls for surfing instructor Tina, forming at the same time a reluctant friendship with a mysterious surfer. But his relationship to his father, whom Andi has never met before, is strained. Soon old wounds start to rip open again and a long-kept family secret threatens to turn Andi's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful
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Story of a Bad Boy (1999)
Plot Summary:
17 year old Pauly is a closeted high school kid who wants it all. His dad wants him to make the track team, his mom wants him to do well in band, and Pauly just wants to get closer to the new student teacher doing the school play.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, queer cinema
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Last Summer (2013)
Plot Summary:
Luke and Jonah, two high school sweethearts, spend their final days together over the course of a long, quiet summer in the rural American South, contemplating their uncertain future and the uncertain future of America.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sexy, melancholic, lgbt cinema, controversial, unusual plot structure, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Boys Life 6 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anthonlogy of four gay-themed stories centered around the idea of first-time crushes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, sentimental, psychological, romantic, captivating, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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The Graffiti Artist (2004)
Plot Summary:
Adrift in the lush, nocturnal urban landscape of THE GRAFFITI ARTIST, Nick (Ruben Bansie-Snellman) is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. For this iconoclastic young visionary, the vast wall surfaces of deserted alleys and train yards are at once a daunting symbol of capitalist oppression and a texturally rich, seamless tableau ripe for exploitation to amplify his artistic dialectic of anger and rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, erotic, contemplative, independent film, queer cinema
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Eban and Charley (2000)
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29-year-old Eban has retreated home to his parent's house in Seaside Oregon after the dissolution of his teaching job in Seattle. There he courts 15-year-old Charlie and eventually the two start a sexual relationship. As the age of consent in Oregon is 18 years and given the age difference, the adults in this drama take a dim view of this development.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, crying
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Vacationland (2006)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Todd Verow revisits his own youth for his latest work. The film's main character is Joe, who, like the director, grew up in Bangor in Maine. Joe, an 18 year old high school senior who longs to move away from poor white trash roots and this town, and dreams of attending art school, lives with his single mother and older sister Theresa on a notorious council estate called "Capehart Projects". Molested at the age of ten, Joe nevertheless decides to keep the incident to himself. He befriends an elderly disabled artist named Victor who hires him as houseboy/model. Joe moves in with Victor in his loft above the local opera house, hoping to escape Bangor with his help. He also works part time at a local market along with his sister, who wants to get out of town as much as he does. For most of high school, Joe has also had a crush on his best friend, Andrew, who plays on the high school football team.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, independent film, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Dare (2009)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sensual, sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, erotic, independent film, semi serious, queer cinema
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Wrecked (2009)
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An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on the right track. This course is quickly threatened with the sudden arrival of his sort-of ex, Daniel, who arrives at Ryan's door wanting a place to stay.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, art house, realistic, gloomy, independent film, sincere, queer cinema
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Loev (2015)
Plot Summary:
When hot shot, Wall Street dealmaker Jai thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, Sahil, his young, music-producer friend, drops everything, including his reckless boyfriend Alex, to help him execute the perfect getaway. Hiking the hills and canyons of Maharashtra, amidst half-attempted conversations and sudden silences, business calls and old jokes, the friends discover there is more than just time-zones keeping them apart. Things take another turn when Alex shows up with a new male-companion at his side, throwing up old conflicts and bringing unanswered questions to the fore.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, light, touching, homoerotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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More Than Friendship (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mia, Lukas and Jonas always where like one heart and soul since their earliest childhood. Until three years ago when everything changed. Friendship became love that is well beyond all conventions. A Part of the society feels provoked by such kind of companionship and meets them with some lack of understanding to say the least. Even their parents aren't really fond of the situation. Once a year, the trio makes a trip. During which they try to let emotion flow as they come, not having to fear the reactions of others. Now there is the time again for such a trip. And that is where the film starts. After renting a mobile home the journey starts as usual. Only one thing different this time, Jonas was diagnosed with cancer in terminal state a few months ago. The three of them know that this might very well be the last trip they will ever make. Regardless, Mia and Lukas try their best for Jonas not to think of the inevitable. Sadly the vow to spend the last trip only in joy, fails.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sexy, suspense, lgbt cinema, crying, queer cinema
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Beneath the Skin (2015)
Plot Summary:
After his family falls apart Joshua is forced to move to Canada to live with his estranged father. It is there he meets Jay, a local tattoo artist. The two becomes closer despite the negativity that surrounds them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, psychological, sexy, touching, contemplative, unusual plot structure, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Dating Amber (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, social, sad, independent film, queer cinema
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Beautiful Something (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, independent film, queer cinema
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Jitters (2010)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a Summer studying abroad. Realizing he is gay, Gabriel returns home and is immediately scrutinized by his family and friends who notice he’s different. But as the school year launches with Gabriel distracted with parties and his friends’ own dramas, Marcus returns, reigniting the hot, thrilling emotions of one’s first crush. Jitters fires head-first into the topsy-turvy world of first love with an attractive cast and pulsating soundtrack, making it a smartly refreshing journey into the queer, teen experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic, queer cinema
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The Falls (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Falls is a feature film about two missionaries that fall in love while on their mission. RJ travels to a small town in Oregon with Elder Merrill to serve their mission and teach the words of Joseph Smith. Living together and sharing the challenge of leaving home, the two men help each other discover their strengths. They share a passion for their faith and learn to express their feelings, risking the only community they have for a forbidden intimacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema, psychological, heartbreaking, independent film, humorous, serious, realistic
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First Girl I Loved (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen, psychological, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, lgbt cinema, independent film, cute, queer cinema
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Sugar (2004)
Plot Summary:
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 Butch's dark side, along with a growing drug problem, leaves suburban family boy Cliff fearing for their future in this gay coming-of-age tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Tan Lines (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cute teen Midget Hollow wanders through life riding big waves and partying with surfer boys. When Midget's best friend's gay brother Cass arrives on the scene, the two quickly dive head first into a clandestine sea of sexual awakening.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, offbeat, realistic, sexual, homoerotic, sexy, queer cinema
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The Journey of Jared Price (2000)
Plot Summary:
"The Journey of Jared Price" is a gay-themed coming-of-age 2000 film written, produced and directed by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black. Black won the Oscar award for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk". The Journey of Jared Price was Black's first feature film. A hustler for a roommate, a wealthy Hollywood executive for a boss, a lonely blind woman and a loveable new best friend make "The Journey of Jared Price" an adventure you will never forget. Jared Price is a small town boy who arrives in Hollywood with a few hundred bucks and a lifetime of dreams. See how he handles each situation he gets into and grows in his understanding of who he is. When what he thinks is his first love turns out to be false, see how he is helped and given the strength to stay in L.A. and try again. This film will remind you that love is worth waiting for and that there is always hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Plot Summary:
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 headmaster's son (Peter Bjerg) and the two boys form a bond that slowly grows into a sexual relationship. Frank and unadorned, this Danish film concluded director Lasse Nielsen's youth-oriented trilogy that began with La' Os Være (1975) and continued with Måske Ku' Vi (1976). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, art house, grindhouse, romantic drama, sexual
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Monster Pies (2013)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, lgbt cinema, cute, independent film, queer cinema
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Dream Boy (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, sexy, gothic, art house, independent film
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Heartstone (2016)
Plot Summary:
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 Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, lgbt cinema, social, crying, depressing, epic, psychological, queer cinema