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Plot Summary:
After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense thriller, queer cinema
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Twisted (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kara and Tyler are close to marriage when Tyler’s dangerous ex-girlfriend returns from rehab, and is adamant on winning him back, pulling Kara into a twisted game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Last Ferry (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a young gay lawyer arrives on Fire Island to explore his sexuality, he becomes witness to a murder after being drugged. A stranger helps him to safety, but he soon discovers his saviour is friends with the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, queer horror, independent film, queer cinema
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Seven Lucky Gods (2014)
Plot Summary:
An illegal immigrant from Albania infiltrates the lives of a group of Londoners with devastating consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Albania, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative, gay cinema
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Kate Can’t Swim (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Kate’s best friend Em returns from abroad with a surprising new lover, they embark on a reunion vacation with their partners, but the peaceful getaway quickly becomes emotionally complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, sexy, sentimental, touching, unusual plot structure, independent film
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I Promise You Anarchy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Miguel and Johnny know each other since childhood. They are dedicated to skate and have fun. To earn easy money and continue skating, they sell their own blood to a clandestine contact in a hospital. The activity becomes business until a large transaction is not as they imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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Like You Mean It (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Mark commits to falling back in love with Jonah, he is forced to look at himself with unprecedented courage and honesty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, sentimental, unusual plot structure, contemplative, lgbt cinema, cute, queer cinema
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Kiss Me, Kill Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
While confronting his unfaithful boyfriend, Dusty blacks-out. When he comes to, his boyfriend has been murdered and he's the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, queer cinema
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, historical drama, queer cinema, period drama
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M/M (2018)
Plot Summary:
Wayward Canadian, Matthew, crushed by the isolation of being new to Berlin, turns his sexual desires toward Matthias that spiral into a dark fixation of assumed identity. Soon, this obsessive power struggle between the two, careens toward brutal passion and violence in a bid for dominance.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, lgbt cinema, sexy, psychological, sincere, touching, melancholic, contemplative, experimental, gay cinema
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Sequin in a Blue Room (2019)
Plot Summary:
Favouring the instant gratification of anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters over meaningful relationships, high schooler Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but never-engaged, hook-up generation. He ghosts ex-partners and remains emotionally unavailable. That’s until he finds his way to an anonymous sex party, where a whole new dizzyingly alluring world unfolds before him. In one scene, Sequin connects with a mysterious stranger, but they are separated suddenly. Utterly fixated on this man, Sequin sets off on an exhilarating and perilous mission to track him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, queer cinema
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Ghosted (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is mourning the love of her life falls into a relationship with a mysterious stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, melancholic, touching, bleak, gloomy, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Cocoon (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, queer cinema
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Loverboy (2017)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Caro is one of the inconspicuous students in her school. One day she get noted by a handsome, wealthy Turkish guy who is 5 years older than her. Since they start seeing each other she turns into a totally different person.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, sentimental, sexy, captivating, disturbing
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So Long Suburbia (2016)
Plot Summary:
So Long Suburbia is a campy queer coming of age teen film. Can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/195164161 (Offical).
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, indie film, queer cinema, campy
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Love Is All You Need? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world where homosexuality is the norm, a small Indiana town is rocked to its core when Jude, the star quarterback of the local university football team, strikes up a love affair with Ryan, a sports journalism major. When the straight couple is outed, the community’s powerful religious leader begins a vitriolic crusade against all heterosexuals.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, psychological, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative, psychological thriller, queer cinema, psycho film
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Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, contemplative, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Hopefuls (2015)
Plot Summary:
Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Miriam Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, contemplative
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Juze (2017)
Plot Summary:
Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Chicken (2015)
Plot Summary:
RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their already precarious living conditions get even worse. Then a chance meeting with the new landowner's daughter, 17 year old ANNABEL (Yasmin Paige), leaves RICHARD besotted; whilst POLLY befriends the guys who run a seedy traveling fair. Richards optimistic view on life becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as Polly's abusive behavior worsens, family secrets are revealed, and he is torn between loyalty to his brother and his first true friend in ANNABEL. For better or worse, Richards life is about to change forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
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Stuff (2015)
Plot Summary:
Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film, queer cinema
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Nude Area (2014)
Plot Summary:
Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Poland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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Ambrosia (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ambrosia is the story of an Iranian-Canadian couple, Ali and Leila, who dream of an exciting future in Vancouver: Ali owns a pizza shop and thinks of expanding and Leila is an up-and-coming clothing designer. However, their situations change dramatically when Ali's shop is affected by bad economy and Leila is hired to work at a fashion design firm.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, independent film
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And Breathe Normally (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, independent film, queer cinema
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Always Shine (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, mumblecore, disturbing, unusual plot structure, contemplative, stylized, twisted, weird
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First Girl I Loved (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen, psychological, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, lgbt cinema, independent film, cute, queer cinema
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Sweetheart (2021)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, touching, feel good, queer cinema
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Chloe (2009)
Plot Summary:
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, sexual, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, erotic, sensual, emotional, romantic
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One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative
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Butterfly Kisses (2017)
Plot Summary:
We follow Jake and his two best friends, Kyle and Jarred through a world distorted by sex and porn. The leader is Kyle – he talks about girls non-stop, Jarred can’t stop cheating on his girlfriend and then there’s Jake, a quiet and shy teenager whose friends are determined to help him lose his virginity to Zara, the pretty girl on the 19th floor of their estate. All three are trying to find their way in a complex world. They all have their demons, but Jake’s secret is one that he must keep to himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative