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Plot Summary:
Elisa and Eric are two teenage war orphans. They change their apartment on the outskirts of the city into a photo-studio to make a living, and they are very devoted to it. The two seem to live like heavenly beings without connecting to the outside world. Their only contact with the exterior is through Jacques, a loyal friend, but he also cuts himself out of any social life. The sister and the brother then take to get in touch with the world by Mrs Jean, a friend of their deceased mother with whom Elisa takes courses of singing. They live in harmony until a young man, whom Elisa falls for, eventually leaves with Eric for the USA and left her brokenhearted alone in France.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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As Luck Would Have It (2002)
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Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of a parentless teenage boy named Antoine. Conflict comes into the story as Jean-Pierre, who has just accepted a major promotion, must now deal with caring for a teenage boy he doesn't want to care for, as well as handling his own jealous boyfriend. Then his wife steps into the picture. Things get complicated from there as Jean-Pierre tries to get out of his guardianship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: crying, queer cinema
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Shame (2010)
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This year, seventy year old grumpy Johan is married with his wife Dora for fifty years. But unfortunately, Johan finds there is nothing to celebrate. Something seems missing... Something that's been out of place for all those years. He spends his daily life routine complaining and bullying and only after the moment he meets sixteen year old Yorgos, a Greek shop employee, he starts to realize he may only have a very short time left to stop denying his true feelings and identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 61 min
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Little Bi Peep (2013)
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Down and out, directionless, and without a driver's license, Emma is going nowhere fast and she knows it. The men and women this bisexual enigma has been sleeping with think she's a waitress, an artist or a kindergarten teacher... while in reality, she works in a seedy porn shop, dressing up nightly as various "sexy" characters. One night at the local Albany bar, Emma meets Mason, a transgender IT technician who seems to have it all. Could Mason be the knight in shining armor she's been searching for? Soon, Emma finds her web of carefully crafted lies beginning to unravel when she encounters one of the few things she hasn't before- sincere feelings for another person. Little Bi Peep... it's hard to find someone to love ewe.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating, independent film
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Why Not! (1977)
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A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new arrangement, but then the divorced fellow suddenly leaves and those remaining in the relationship become quite tense. Fortunately the fellow returns with another, more conventional fellow. Eventually the three persuade him to join them.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Passengers (1999)
Plot Summary:
The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain, sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers, who, for the moment, are rushing headlong toward their destiny. The commuters and their observer have double lives. Once they step off this streetcar, the real-life dramas begin. Each has his or her style of living or dying….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
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Goodbye Mother (2019)
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Văn comes back to Saigon from the US with his boyfriend Ian to visit his mother. Being the male heir of the family, everyone expects him to take a wife soon. And to top it all, his grandmother, who has Alzheimer, mistakes Ian for her grandson.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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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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Some Boys Do (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is left to the imagination in this sexy gay tale about love and the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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4 Days in France (2016)
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A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating app.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, visually appealing, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, queer cinema
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The Male Gaze: The Boy Is Mine (2020)
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We wish to make him ours, to keep and to hold forever - but will the boy reciprocate? And is he everything we expected him to be? In these five tales from the UK, France, Sweden, Mexico and the USA, a variety of characters throw caution to the wind and take their chances on a fleeting moment. The short films are: Uneven [Impar] (2016); Wolves (2016); Johnny (2018); Debut (2016); Guardian (2018).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Sweden, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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Bromance (2016)
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When three friends go on a camping trip in a remote part of Argentina, sexual tensions quickly bubble to the surface. Once in virtual seclusion by the beach, Juli, also camping at the site, quickly recognises that that the boys seem to have a closer relationship than what she would consider 'normal'. The line between friendship and love fade further for two of the boys in particular as their desire becomes too much to bear. When what started as a simple getaway quickly becomes tinged with sex, romance, and conflict, everyone is forced to confront who they really are for the very first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, humorous, lgbt cinema, contemplative, queer cinema
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Taekwondo (2016)
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Fernando is on holiday with his closest male friends in a beautiful country house in a suburb of Buenos Aries. On their own without their girlfriends in a “men only” environment, the hunky young studs bask in the hot sun, play in the pool, smoke pot, and drink, most often semi-clad or naked. In this freewheeling and testosterone-infused environment, they talk of their desires and strengthen their individual bonds.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, sweet, captivating, disturbing, lgbt cinema, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Open Bodies (1998)
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Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Available Light (2015)
Plot Summary:
An experimental feature film about people in different cities who are trying to escape their loneliness through love, lust or a combination of both. The film was shot in real locations using only available light. The viewer is both a voyeur - watching the characters in intimate situations that are not meant to be seen - and an active participant - imagining what the characters are going through and making connections between them that may or may not be real.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, sentimental, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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Kept Boy (2017)
Plot Summary:
A story of love, greed - and moisturizer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, queer cinema
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Desire Will Set You Free (2015)
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Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of an American writer of Israeli/Palestinian descent and a Russian aspiring artist working as a hustler, offering access to the city's vibrant queer and underground scenes while examining the differences between expatriate and refugee life. Our characters travel through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape; on their adventures they discover influences and remnants of the Weimar Republic, WWII, the Bowie years, and punk.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy, humorous, erotic, queer cinema, gay cinema, cult film
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Stupid Boy (2004)
Plot Summary:
This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, art house, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Before the Fall (2016)
Plot Summary:
It's a classic case of opposite attraction: Handsome Ben Bennet (Ethan Sharrett) is a gay, affluent, stylish attorney at the top of the genteel social set in southern Virginia, while Lee Darcy (Chase Conner) is a rough-hewn welder with a secret that he nightly tries to blot out with an excess of liquor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, sexy, captivating, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, independent film, queer cinema
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Sorry Angel (2018)
Plot Summary:
A university student and an older, HIV-positive writer strike up a romance in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, emotional, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Cousins (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, emotional, touching, realistic, homoerotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Lazy Eye (2016)
Plot Summary:
Passions re-ignite and secrets revealed when a graphic designer reconnects with the great, lost love of his life for a weekend tryst at a house in the desert near Joshua Tree.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, humorous, psychological, light, sincere, unusual plot structure, contemplative, cute, erotic, gay cinema
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That's Not Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, romantic, lgbt cinema, romantic comedy, independent film
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Dating Amber (2020)
Plot Summary:
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching, social, sad, independent film, queer cinema
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Baby Love (2008)
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They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge, at the risk of losing Philippe. But how do you make a child when you are gay?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sincere, disturbing, romantic, heartbreaking, humorous, semi serious, crying, queer cinema
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Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015)
Plot Summary:
The bonds between Naomi and Ely are tested when they fall for the same guy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, entertaining, disturbing, teen, queer cinema
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
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Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen, psychological, humorous, lgbt cinema, crying, teen comedy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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G.B.F. (2013)
Plot Summary:
The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, while Tanner must decide whether his skyrocketing popularity is more important than the friendships he is leaving behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, sweet, semi serious, erotic, lgbt cinema, sex comedy, realistic, independent film
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Date and Switch (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two guys who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom find their friendship tested when one of them comes out of the closet.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, semi serious, light, sex comedy, teen, happy, independent film, realistic, humorous, teen sex comedy
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Different for Girls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same. Karl is now Kim, a transsexual, and she has no desire to stir up the past while she's busy forging a neat and orderly new life. Prentice, on the other hand, has charm but is a social disaster stuck in a dead-end job. His main talent is for getting them both into trouble. Amid the squabbles, they start to fall in love. One night, Kim invites Prentice to a romantic dinner at her flat. Prentice, finding the seduction unexpectedly effective, freaks out. He proceeds to make a public display of both of them and winds up in court. Humiliated and angry, Kim runs away. Only she can save Prentice now, but will true love triumph for a new made woman and an aging punk?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, thought provoking
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Get Real (1998)
Plot Summary:
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, teen, sincere, romantic, emotional, realistic, sexy, lgbt cinema, romantic comedy