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Plot Summary:
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying world of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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Do It Like An Hombre (2017)
Plot Summary:
Raúl, Eduardo and Santiago have led a happy and "straight" life since their childhood, until, one day, Santiago confesses to them that he is gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, crying, homoerotic, queer cinema
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Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate (2018)
Plot Summary:
After winning over the staff and students of Milford High School, chemistry teacher Richard Martinez aka Bianca Del Rio sent her nemesis Vice Principal Deborah “Debbie” Ward to jail in a flawlessly executed plan. When Debbie is released from jail, she conjures up a scheme to do away with Bianca Del Rio once and for all, by luring her on a dangerous journey to Russia to accept a teaching award and cash prize.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, queer cinema, campy
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My Big Gay Italian Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father, who calls himself "open" and tolerant and fights against any form of discrimination, reveals himself as not so liberal when his son announces the engagement to his partner. Overwhelmed by the news, he regresses into the most fierce opponent of same sex marriage, and tries to undermine his son's happiness with a series of embarrassing situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, gay cinema, queer cinema
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An Almost Ordinary Summer (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bekikang: My Gay Mother (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by friend, Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. When things are going so well between Bekikang and the child, Fortunato and the mother of the child after years of absence reappear to take the child back.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Brother's Shoes (2015)
Plot Summary:
My Brother's Shoes - one zany comedy when brothers - one gay and one straight - magically switch places! A full feature film production of R&R Stage and Screen, LLC. Family is everything - but just how far will these two brothers go?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Grandmother's Gold (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister embark on a journey to retrieve an inheritance from their grandmother in the wake of economic collapse and impending apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, not serious, light, entertaining
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Perfect Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
Perfect Son is comedy-drama television series co-starring Ryosuke Yamada and Kyōka Suzuki, which aired on NTV from 21:00-21:54 on Saturday nights from 14 January 2012 to 17 March 2012. The screenplay was written by Shinji Nojima.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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My Mom is a Character (2013)
Plot Summary:
After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining, funny, feel good, captivating, lgbt cinema
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Et + si @ff (2006)
Plot Summary:
The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, erotic, queer cinema
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From Here on OUT (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gay writer makes a low budget gay spy movie, with lots of laughs along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, erotic
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My Mom is a Character 3 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dona Herminia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The 10 Year Plan (2014)
Plot Summary:
Myles and Brody are best friends with two very different ways of finding love. Displeased with their current love lives, they make a pact to be together if neither finds love in ten year’s time. Now two months shy of their deadline, both friends set off to do whatever it takes to avoid ending up as each other’s last resort.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, captivating, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The Love Patient (2011)
Plot Summary:
A heart broken ad exec pretends to have cancer to trick his ex-boyfriend into falling in love with him again. When the brash Paul (Benjamin Lutz), realizes his ex-boyfreind, the sensitive souled Brad (John Werskey), is dating one-time Bowflex model, Ted (Jackson Palmer) he comes to terms that he has lost him for good. Grasping for straws, Paul concocts an outrageous scheme to win back his sympathy – he stages his own cancer diagnosis. Things seem to be going in Paul’s favor until his mother moves into his house, clears out the furniture and puts in a home-care hospital facility. Additionally, she has the rest of the family move in, most notably Paul’s rich bitch sister who senses his scheme from the very start.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film, queer cinema
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Wedding Night (2001)
Plot Summary:
Florence and Nicolas live happily together. Until the sister of Nicolas them points to a contest you get to win the first prize, a wedding with all expenses paid in Niagara Falls. Without thinking twice, decide to marry. Following on from then occur a series of inexplicable events that will make their relationship is complicated by the discovery of the extravagances of his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Malcriados (2016)
Plot Summary:
This is a Colombian remake of the Mexican movie "Nosotros los Nobles". Three rich adult children are tricked by their father into believing that they are bankrupt and have to go into hiding in an attempt to get them to become more self-reliant.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Brother Nature (2016)
Plot Summary:
Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake house. But everything goes awry when he meets his potential brother-in-law Todd: a full-time camp counselor with a heart of gold and a wild sense of fun, pining to be Roger's best friend, and ultimately catapulting him into a series of unfortunate events. As Roger tries to take a stand amidst outrageous fishing excursions, propulsive water jetpacks and American history-themed musicals, he realizes that being a part of a new family may be more difficult than he'd thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Disconnected (2018)
Plot Summary:
Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, Claudio's girlfriend, a Ukraininan cook and her daughter. When an internet outage strikes, a series of exciting adventures ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences (2011)
Plot Summary:
An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Parents in Progress (2019)
Plot Summary:
The lovely and talented Anna Foglietta (Perfect Strangers, The American) plays Simona; a single mother in her early ‘40s who is wholly devoted to her son, Filippo. To get over her insecurities as a parent and make her son happy on his eighth birthday, she decides to throw him a birthday party in their small flat and invite over his school friends and their parents. For Simona, this birthday is about to pose quite the surprising dilemma between allowing her son to embrace his true self and a mother’s fierce desire to protect her child from their potentially cruel surroundings. This is the last conundrum she was expecting to have to face on a day that is already rife with anxiety. Director Laura Chiossone turns their tiny flat into a melting pot and whilst the children play in the living room, the adults in the kitchen talk about parenthood, love, and different world views.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Too Neapolitan (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Deborah's ex-husband, a popular neomelodic singer, loses his life in a stage dive, Deborah worries for her eleven-year-old son, Ciro, who is exhibiting signs of depression. Searching for a solution, Deborah takes Ciro to see Tommaso, a shy child psychologist. During the course of their visits, Ciro confesses that it's not his father's death that has got him down, it's his love for his classmate, the beautiful Ludovica. The two make a deal: Tomasso will help Ciro to win the affections of Ludovica, while Ciro gives Tomasso a hand at having a chance with his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, captivating, idiotic
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You Should Meet My Son! 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a religious mother who is determined to stop her gay son's wedding. But her plans go awry when she accidentally befriends his fiancé and begins dispensing relationship advice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
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Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Carmen Electra, Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, queer cinema
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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Green (Daniel Letterle) has no problem finding guys who want to sleep with him or even date him, but finding someone to settle down with is a different story. Given three choices -- a sexy teenager, a hunky jock, or his ex-boyfriend who is about to get married -- will he find a Mr. Right, or is he destined to an unfabulous existence. Based on a popular gay-themed comic strip.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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Chief Daddy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Chief Daddy tells the story of billionaire industrialist Chief Beecroft, a flamboyant benefactor to a large extended family of relatives, household staff and assorted mistresses. Chief lives large, like there’s no tomorrow, until the day he dies suddenly and the ‘bullion van’ stops. What’s in his will and who gets all that money? What happens next will surprise you, as Chief Daddy has the last laugh from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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So My Grandma's a Lesbian! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Eva, a young and promising Spanish lawyer based in Edinburgh, sees her wedding plans with the heir to an important and ultra-conservative Scottish family in jeopardy when she learns that her grandmother, Sofía, has decided to marry….
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, queer cinema, bilingual
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Hunting Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hunting Season is an American LGBT-themed comedy-drama web series created by Jon Marcus. Following the romantic and sexual exploits of Alex (Ben Baur) and his small group of friends in New York City, the story was inspired by and largely based on the 2005–08 blog The Great Cock Hunt and the 2008 novel of the same name published by Kensington Books.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, contemplative, erotic, sex comedy, queer cinema
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Times Have Been Better (2006)
Plot Summary:
After moving in with his beau, 30ish banker Jérémy (Arnaud Binard) decides to let the cat out of the bag, telling his unsuspecting parents, Guy (Bernard Le Coq) and Rosine (Charlotte de Turckheim), that he's gay. Though they've always envisioned themselves as enlightened, the news staggers Guy and Rosine -- who are determined to get to the root of Jérémy's homosexuality. Olivier Guéritée also stars in this delicious French farce.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous, realistic, queer cinema