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Plot Summary:
Featuring copious sex, drugs and rock and roll (and that's just in the pre-credit sequence), The Pretty Boys swings to its own queer beat. Writer-director Everett Lewis' 1973-set period piece concerns Pagan, a shirtless, pansexual, drug-addled singer-songwriter. He's smitten with hunky Donovan, probed by an ambitious journalist and drugged by an evil groupie. Unfolding as a double LP, Pretty Boys meanders from seductive and weird to wild and tender. -Gary Kramer, Instinct Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two entertainers destined for the big time are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Deathfight (1993)
Plot Summary:
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Code Name: Dynastud (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2024, homosexuality has been outlawed by an extreme right-wing government. Only one extraordinary man can stop this wave of terror and repression, a superhero for our troubled times.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: satirical, exciting, humorous, captivating, homoerotic, entertaining
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Performance Anxiety (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this quirky romance, Jeff is a messy, hippie musician, while Peter is a tidy, almost obsessive, office worker. Their idiosyncratic natures lead them on unusual journeys that have amusing consequences, and lead them to a moment of truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Hot Guys with Guns (2013)
Plot Summary:
If you can imagine Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as younger, hotter ex-boyfriends, you'll have the basis for Hot Guys With Guns, a modern take on the old-fashioned detective story. It's Chinatown meets Boystown.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, detective, independent film, queer cinema
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Man on High Heels (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ji-wook is a cold-blooded detective who would brutally assault and stop at nothing to catch criminals. However, despite her perfectly masculine appearance, Ji-wook struggles with a secret desire to be a woman. At last, Ji-wook decides to transition. However, a gang Ji-wook brutally arrested by force plots revenge against him. While Ji-wook resigns and secretly dreams of transitioning into a woman, people close to her get caught up in a conspiracy and killed. When the one person he must protect, Jang-mi, also falls in danger, Ji-wook faces a crossroads in making his choice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, captivating, neo noir, detective, queer cinema
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Fists of Iron (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Dale Hartwell's best friend gets killed, he swears revenge on the bloodthirsty promoter and fighter who did it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Champions (1997)
Plot Summary:
William Rockman, a champion "Terminal Combat" fighter who retired from the sport after accidentally killing a young man while training. Five years after his retirement, Terminal Combat has been banned by the government and has gone underground. The "new" Terminal Combat is just that; one combatant in each match usually does not live to tell about the experience. When Rockman's younger brother is killed in one of the underground matches by his old rival, the King, Rockman enters the tournament to exact revenge on the King, not knowing that the King and his wife, Daria, have been enslaved by Max Brito, the tournament's greedy promoter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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White Tiger (1996)
Plot Summary:
When D.E.A. agent Mike Ryan undertakes the huge task of avenging the brutal murder of the partner John Grogan, he find he must fight both sides; the murderer and his double crossing police buddies. Now with the unexpected help of the lovely Jade, he must confront the new generation Chinese underworld want-to-be kingpin and fight like and out-of-place "White Tiger".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film
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Long Time No See (2017)
Plot Summary:
The renown hitman, ‘Flying Dagger’, bumps into ‘Wild Dog’, who happens to be a hired assassin for mobster ‘Black Leopard’. While both of them try to be incognito, they cannot help falling in love with each other. However, ‘Wild Dog’ has a secret that he couldn't confide to 'Flying Dagger.'. After all, ‘Flying Dagger’ and ‘Wild Dog’ reveal their secret identities to each other during the fight led by their bosses. They run into danger as gangsters brand them as traitors. Will they be able to overcome obstacles and keep their love?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Fun Down There (1989)
Plot Summary:
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in society. The year is 1968; Marc is adrift in the city after failing in his efforts to gain national acceptance for gay rights. One day, during a park pick-up, he meets Andre, a small town factory worker still exploring his sexuality but convinced that he will one day marry and start a family. Over the course of the next three years, Marc and Andre continue their heated affair as Marc continues to advocate fiercely for gay rights while butting heads with his close-minded father, a Paris police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Aaron... Albeit a Sex Hero (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wild and unpredictable events shake up the life of Aaron (Matthew Burnett), who, before being stung by a scorpion and kidnapped, was a simple wage slave. Now, he's immersed in a strange adventure that will find him seduced by a coworker and assaulted by a gang of elderly women...and that's just the start of his trials and tribulations!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, queer cinema
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You Can't Escape Lithuania (2016)
Plot Summary:
After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The City of the Future (2016)
Plot Summary:
A naturalistic film about the nontraditional relationship of lovers Mila, Igor, and Gilmar that shuns convention, instead embracing love in all its dazzling iterations.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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You'll Never Be Alone (2016)
Plot Summary:
Introverted Juan, manager of a mannequin factory, lives alone with his eighteen-year-old gay son, Pablo. Whilst Pablo blithely studies dance, Juan is hoping that, after twenty-five years at the firm, his boss will consider him for a partnership. When Pablo is badly wounded in a brutal homophobic attack which sees him hospitalised, his father realises just how far they have become estranged. A lack of witnesses and expensive medical bills force Juan to leave the quiet stability of his life for good and reposition himself in a world where there is discrimination. Time and again his efforts come to nought, until one night on the streets of Santiago he makes up his own rules in order to save his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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Lucky Bastard (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rusty is a successful architect with the life of his dreams. However, when his boyfriend leaves town, Rusty meets a mysterious drifter names Denny who opens Rusty up to a strange new world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, independent film, sexual, queer cinema
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Amazing Grace (1992)
Plot Summary:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Noah's Arc (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today's issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend's children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Praxis (2008)
Plot Summary:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to discover his true core. Fighting against fear and the indifference of society - aptly symbolized by the medical establishment - his quest reflects the classical mythos of Proteus and the human search for meaning in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Body Electric (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds himself increasingly drawn into socialising with his work colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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B-Boy Blues (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Fixing Frank (2002)
Plot Summary:
Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds reprehensible. Frank quickly comes clean with Apsey but continues to meet with him under the pretense of interviewing him, but finds himself questioning himself, Jonathan and their six-year relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, cult film
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Cop Secret (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Bússi, Iceland's toughest cop, is forced to work with a new partner to solve a series of bank robberies, the pressure to close the case as soon as possible proves too much for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: art house, exciting, tense, captivating, satirical, disturbing, gay cinema
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Fire Island (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but when a sudden change of events jeopardizes their summer in gay paradise, their bonds as a chosen family are pushed to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, buddy comedy, romantic comedy, queer cinema
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The Gays (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons - Alex and Tommy - advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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José (2018)
Plot Summary:
José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. Jose spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, Jose is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, queer cinema
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2022)
Plot Summary:
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 struggles with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Remarkable Shades of Gay (2016)
Plot Summary:
Remarkable Shades of Gay is a compilation of 9 short films shot by award winning LGBTQ director William Branden Blinn between 2008 and 2014. Included in the compilation are Thirteen or So Minutes... (2008); Chased (2009); Never or Now (2013); Without a Mom (2011); Triple Standard (2010); Toeing the Line (2013); À la carte (2013); Truth or Dare (2014); and He She We (2010).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, melancholic, gay cinema
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Cicada (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ben is a young bisexual man. He comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben's past crawls to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, emotional, talky, erotic, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema