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Plot Summary:
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, touching, captivating, social, realistic, disturbing, lgbt cinema, crying, independent film
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Like Grains of Sand (1995)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story. Shuji, a Japanese teen, is falling in love with his friend Hiroyuki, however, Hiroyuki is attracted to Kasane, the new girl in their class.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: gay cinema, queer cinema
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Firebird (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Estonia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, captivating, suspense, erotic, thought provoking, lgbt cinema, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Red Balloon (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chen is a serious top student in school, both in studies and sports. He thought everything will be smooth-going... until he meets Wan, a carefree student. He dislikes him at first, but later he develops feelings for him. When Chen's dad, who is a gang leader, finds this out, the boys face opposition from their family too. On top of that, doubts come from friends, classmates and themselves too. Will they be able to love bravely?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, melancholic, contemplative, unusual plot structure, gay cinema
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Young Royals (2021)
Plot Summary:
Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: disturbing, romantic, captivating, psychological, feel good, emotional, saga, 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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Hidden Away (2014)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes for themselves, experiencing first love in a way they never could have imagined. And having to keep it Hidden away.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, cute, touching, queer cinema, gay cinema
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And Then We Danced (2019)
Plot Summary:
Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In this conservative setting Merab finds himself having to break free and risk it all.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, social, art house, independent film, cute, romantic drama, queer cinema
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Heartstopper (2022)
Plot Summary:
Charlie, a highly strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Based on Alice Oseman's bestselling graphic novel series HEARTSTOPPER.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, disturbing, cute, teen, feel good, queer cinema, gay cinema, fun
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Boys (2014)
Plot Summary:
BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, lgbt cinema, captivating, disturbing, sexy, independent film, sexual, cute
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Fair Haven (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, disturbing, lgbt cinema, independent film, christian film, queer cinema
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Hidden Kisses (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of sight and kiss each other, but someone takes a picture of them. Soon, the photo is published on Facebook and a storm overtakes their lives as they face bullying and rejection.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, realistic, captivating, disturbing, existential, cute, melancholic, atmospheric, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Shelter (2007)
Plot Summary:
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, sexy, romantic, sweet, sincere, realistic, emotional, lgbt cinema, romantic drama, erotic
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God's Own Country (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, lgbt cinema, erotic, sexy, psychological, sentimental, sincere, captivating, dorama, emotional
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Holding the Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge burden which will affect every aspect of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, suspense, sincere, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative, romantic, lgbt cinema, sad
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Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Plot Summary:
A sociological study of two men in the Israeli army who are lovers. The others in the unit react to their situation, suspecting, but not always understanding. One will leave the military soon, a few months away, as a snowy and desolete outpost is guarded from attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, realistic, compassionate, epic, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, serious, independent film, erotic
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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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The Way He Looks (2014)
Plot Summary:
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, cute, romantic, sweet, sexual, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, romantic drama, spectacular
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Eternal Summer (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, realistic, touching, serious, captivating, erotic, atmospheric, lgbt cinema, contemplative
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North Sea Texas (2011)
Plot Summary:
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, with his lousy grey Fiat, as a driver for the nights she has to “perform”. As a kid Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens. But when Pim turns 16 he dreams of Gino, the handsome boy next door, instead. Ever since they were children there has been this tension between them. Now Gino is Pim’s motorcycling hero. Cold mockery, little humiliations and tiny bits of hope make up Pim’s life. No wonder he sometimes flees to his dream world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, romantic, suspenseful, erotic, art house, sexual, cute
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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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Love, Simon (2018)
Plot Summary:
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sweet, emotional, sincere, exciting, captivating, lgbt cinema, disturbing, realistic
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Weekend (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, touching, sexy, meditative, art house, romantic, atmospheric, melancholic, lgbt cinema
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Being 17 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains, nut learns to fight back. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorised him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, disturbing, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 302000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: touching, lgbt cinema, independent film, disturbing, sincere, homoerotic, romantic, sad, erotic, sexy
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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
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Summer of 85 (2020)
Plot Summary:
What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, stylized, novela, cute, sexy, independent film
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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
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Plot Summary:
True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sad, emotional, depressing, serious, motivational, thought provoking, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema
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Boy Erased (2018)
Plot Summary:
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, intellectual, depressing, serious, lgbt cinema, sad, cult classic
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I Killed My Mother (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, sad, sentimental, sexy, brutal, depressing