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Plot Summary:
Welcome to the world of the City Rats where eight lives collide in a Pulp Fiction style blend that reveals London‘s true dark and twisted underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Boys in Brazil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers decide to attend attend São Paulo's annual Gay Pride Parade, encouraged by one of their uncles, a successful - although closeted - business executive. After witnessing an incident of shocking violence at the parade, the group makes a pact - they all have one year to come out of the closet.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, independent film, queer cinema
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Girl Stroke Boy (1971)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a young boy who has, until now, shown no interest in the opposite sex, are shocked when he comes home with a girl/boy from the West Indies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Dangerous Lady (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Lady was a four-part British mini-series TV drama, which aired on ITV and was based on Martina Cole's first published novel of the same name. The series premièred in 1995 and starred Sheila Hancock, Jason Isaacs, Susan Lynch and Owen Teale. Each episode lasted 60 minutes and was a Warner Sisters production for the ITV network.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 198 min
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The Aquatic Effect (2016)
Plot Summary:
Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Iceland
Duration: 83 min
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Other People's Children (2015)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker, reeling from the death of her famous father, falls down the rabbit hole of a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary and her new love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Newly Single (2017)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of booking a life-changing motion picture, a film director drives away his girlfriend and aggressively re-enters the LA dating scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy
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Cru (2014)
Plot Summary:
A tight knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship -- a catastrophe that will shape all their lives. But as adults, some 15 years later, they come together again for a reunion that will open olds wounds, expose long-hidden secrets -- and pave the road to forgiveness and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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King of Sorrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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2 Nights Till Morning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Caroline, a French architect in Vilnius, Lithuania, on business, has to spend an extra night in the city due to a delayed work meeting. At the bar of her hotel she meets Jaakko, a Finnish DJ who is in Vilnius for a gig. Caroline lets him understand that she doesn’t speak English, and Jaakko doesn’t speak French. Although they lack a common language, they find themselves enjoying each other’s company.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Lithuania
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Drink Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
James and Andy, a sexy gay couple, seem to have everything they ever dreamed of…but things are about to change. Andy loses his job and they take in a handsome stranger called Sebastian. Nightmares come to life as Andy realizes that Sebastian is hiding a dark secret. Could Sebastian be the killer stalking the streets of their neighborhood? A classically sexy thriller- with a delicious vampiric touch, DRINK ME is a highly erotic and exciting film.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, sexy, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, erotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Venus Talking (2001)
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Novellist Venus lives with her family out of Berlin and moves temporarily to the city where she is starting to write a new book. Her fans can watch her via a webcam. Away from husband and children she begins an affair with Fabrizio.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Erotic Stories (1980)
Plot Summary:
A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality. Segments: 1- Small Planet, 2 - The Tilita, 3 - The Vile Metal, 4 - Broken Times, 5 - Koñensonaten, 6 - Peppermint, 7 - Frac, 8 - Everyday Life, 9 - Love is a Wonderful Thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Saint-Narcisse (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dominic’s fetish is… himself. Nothing turns him on more than his own reflection. That’s why discovering that he has a twin brother, raised in a remote monastery by a depraved priest, causes him major consternation. Fate brings the two young men back together again, and their fraternal relationship is torn between sex, revenge and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, queer cinema
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The Cost of Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dale is an attractive, hard-as-nails gay male escort in Greenwich, London. He specialises in fulfilling sexual fantasies - dressing up as a schoolboy, BDSM, you name it, he's done it, yet his own dreams of a happy ending are complicated when straight best friend and childhood crush Raj announces his forthcoming marriage. Meanwhile, a spate of gay hate crimes are being reported on the local heath.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, psychological, captivating, offbeat, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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More Scenes from a Gay Marriage (2014)
Plot Summary:
Leigh has made a film about how Darren and Joe met and fell in love. Due to its exaggerated nature, personal complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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No Night Is Too Long (2002)
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Young Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets Tim on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder. In a flashback, he tells his story of cruelty, love and a soul-destroying guilt that offers little chance for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sexual, lgbt cinema, controversial, sexy, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Looking for Simon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Simon, a young German doctor who lives and works in Marseille, goes missing. His appartment is empty. His mother Valérie is desperate. She doesn't understand the reason of his disappearance. Therefore she asks Jens, Simon's former boyfriend, to come to Marseille and help her finding him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere, serious, gloomy
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Virtual Sexuality (1999)
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Desperate to find her perfect man Justine goes to a technology fair with her nerdy classmate Chas. It's not really her thing but is eventually persuaded to try a virtual reality makeover machine and discovers that she can create her perfect man even if it is only an electronic facsimile. The power surge from a freakish accident causes a part of her psyche to be copied into her virtual perfect man.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, erotic, controversial, teen sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy
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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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The Cakemaker (2017)
Plot Summary:
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search for the wife and son of his dead lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, psychological, tense, social, queer cinema, bilingual
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Forgive and Forget (2000)
Plot Summary:
A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Anchor and Hope (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eva and Kat enjoy a carefree existence on their houseboat on a London canal. Until Eva's dream of becoming a mother is reignited by the death of their pet. Kat just wants to get a new cat. But when Kat's best friend, Roger, visits from Barcelona, they decide in a moment of drunkenness that he can be Eva's sperm donor. But what are the consequences for the lesbian couple, the biological father, the child and their relationships with one another?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, humorous, melancholic, art house, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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Things to Do Before You're 30 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate comedy drama about a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, indie film, sexy
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Friends & Lovers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. Meanwhile, David is gay and virginal; Ian's business partner, Keaton, is unhappy that his sister Jane is pregnant with no plans to tell the father; Lisa is everybody's pal and no one's lover; John, stuck in adolescence, is always on the make. He brings German-born stunner, Carla, and promptly loses her affection to Hans, a fast-talking ski instructor. David meets Manny: they have chess in common. Soon, surprises abound as relationships take new turns.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, melancholic, humorous, realistic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, witty
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Lawless Heart (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, talky, romantic, captivating, entertaining, humorous, realistic
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Inferno (1999)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny (Danny Trejo). Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the men who stole his motorcycle, with local handyman Jubal Early (Pat Morita) lending a hand and several area ladies offering aid and comfort.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, cult classic, independent film, rough
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My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Plot Summary:
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: talky, multicultural, independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, thought provoking, enigmatic
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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Plot Summary:
A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, romantic, cult classic, lgbt cinema, art house, eros, sincere, clever, touching
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Beautiful Thing (1996)
Plot Summary:
A pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Thamesmead, in south-east London, become aware of their homosexuality. While both were vaguely aware they might be gay, neither had ever acted on their impulses. Once they decide that they're attracted to each other, neither is sure just what to do.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sweet, lgbt cinema, sincere, semi serious, independent film, realistic, thought provoking, social