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Plot Summary:
Fabricating credentials to score a last-ditch job as a high school guidance counsellor, a boozing, drug-addled former child star becomes an improbable hit with his students by dispensing the worst advice possible, in this hilarious reprobate comedy from writer-director-star Pat Mills.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, feel good, queer cinema
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First Period (2013)
Plot Summary:
New girl Cassie (Brandon Alexander III) and outcast Maggie (Dudley Beene) are easily the most awkward girls in high school. Together, they decide the way to win the hearts of the cute boys and popular girls is to come in first at the school talent show. But rivals Heather, Other Heather, and their popular boyfriends Brett and Dirk will stop at nothing to keep our heroes the laughing stock of the school. It's going to take makeovers, courage, and maybe even a little rapping to beat them in true 80s style.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, campy
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Don't Talk to Irene (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Irene gets suspended, she must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance-themed reality show to prove that you don't need to be physically "perfect" to be perfectly AWESOME.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, uplifting, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Buffering (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seb and Aaron have overspent and built up debts on their credit card. Aaron decides to take matters into his own hands and secretly films their sex life to broadcast online. The money pours in until he gets caught! Realising that the scheme could sort their financial problems, Seb agrees to allow things to continue until they are back in the black. When their friend Jem arrives and suggests a third party might help them make even more cash, things start to get a little tricky.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Saugatuck Cures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Drew and his best friend Brett set out on a road trip to pose as ex-gay ministers using exuberant high jinks to scam churchgoers, all in order to raise money for his mother's experimental cancer treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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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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April in Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Avril is a novice in a convent of "Baptistine" sisters, a monastic order which was officially dissolved by the end of the nineteenth century but that is kept alive by Mère Marie Joseph, the sadistic superior. While Avril is on retreat, locked in for a fortnight in a chapel prior to taking her vows, Soeur Bernadette, a sympathetic sister, discloses a secret to her: she has a twin brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, queer cinema
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Sisterakas (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man takes revenge on his sister by hiring her as his personal assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. But after they miss their connection, they find themselves stranded in Russia, in one of the not the most gay-friendly regions in the world. The start of a crazy adventure as incredible as it is perilous.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema
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Outing Riley (2004)
Plot Summary:
Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he's at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads. The death of his father and a fishing trip with his brothers provide occasions when he could tell them, but he fails. When he screws his courage to the sticking point, how will they react, and how will he deal with their reactions? He imagines a movie of his rather boring life - surrounded by possibilities - but can anything overcome the insular narrow-mindedness of a big Irish Catholic family in Chicago?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, captivating, funny, light, entertaining, crying, freeze frame
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Mango Souffle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mango Soufflé is a 2002 Indian film written and directed by Mahesh Dattani. The film stars Atul Kulnani and Rinkie Khanna. It was promoted as "first gay male film from India" and was adapted from Dattani's own successful English play On a Muggy Night in Mumbai.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Reach (2018)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward band geek, Steven Turano, is planning on killing himself. However, when Clarence, the new quirky kid in school, befriends him, Steven's plans are sidetracked and he reaches beyond his comfort zone forming stronger relationships with his father, friends and teachers. The boys form an inseparable bond as Clarence finds creative ways to pull Steven out of his depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, touching, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, queer 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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Family Commitments (2015)
Plot Summary:
The happy gay couple David and Khaled would love to marry publicly - if there weren't Khaled's homophobic father Faisal, David's pseudo orthodox Jewish acting mother Lea and a possible paternity and gallery insolvency.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, rough, feel good, entertaining, contemplative, queer cinema
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Steam Room Stories: The Movie! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Failing cosmetics magnate Sally Fay (Traci Lords) will stop at nothing to possess the waters of the Steam Room to help lift her sagging empire. What she doesn’t count on is the Steam Room Guys banding together to thwart her evil plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, 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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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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Homo Promo (1991)
Plot Summary:
How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
Plot Summary:
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the personals, he notices GWM. And thinking it "Guy with Money," he heads to the Village and the apartment of gay actor Warren (Barrile), who's in desperate need of this month's rent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light
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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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Soft Hearts (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Annie sets her sights on her co-worker Ron she gets a few drinks in him at an office party and then has her way with him in car. A few weeks later she's expecting and is ready to set up housekeeping. Only problem? Ron's boyfriend Nick doesn't like the idea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tagalog, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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Dating My Mother (2017)
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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Seat in Shadow (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ageing Glaswegian psychoanalyst finds his lust for life renewed following an encounter with the charismatic partner of a young patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, erotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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A Little Lust (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen year old Rocco's two aims in life are to get laid and to see his favorite pop star in concert with his two best friends. When a bullying incident at school forces Rocco to come out to his divorced middle-class parents their liberal leanings are severely tested. Luckily his two friends stand by him and join him in running away from home (in his parents stolen car) to see their favorite singer in concert, followed hot on their heels by his neurotic mother and eccentric gran.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, queer cinema
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A Skeleton in the Closet (2020)
Plot Summary:
Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parents’ wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend. Last time he saw his family, he came out of the closet. Since then, their relationship became tense. Manuel’s plans get ruined when his boyfriend dumps him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, contemplative, queer cinema
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The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
Plot Summary:
High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980's and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. Chance Marquis is the new kid at an American high school in Belgium and is a somewhat awkward teenager who is the target of the school bully. To deal with this dilemma, Chance turns to the opposite ends of the high school spectrum for help. On one end is the flamboyant drag queen and at the other end, the varsity jock.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, teen, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, teen comedy, corny
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The Closet (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, witty, melancholic, talky, semi serious, hilarious, clever, spectacular
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Girl Gets Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
A deliciously lighthearted comedy from the team of the successful web series Girl Seeks Girl. A hot and hilarious LGBT comedy that shows the different ways to understand love & family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, queer cinema
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Bottoms (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two unpopular queer girls in their senior year start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders so they can lose their virginities before graduation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: witty, sex comedy, dark comedy, queer cinema, teen comedy