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Plot Summary:
A Banker, Husband, and Father, Mr. Smith must leave it behind him. He's made a mistake and he's trying to pay for it but he doesn't know if there is enough money in the world. Or so he tells Bobby the eighteen year old male hustler Smith employs for company. Bobby quickly learns however, that Smith is no regular John, and their meeting has unintended consequences that neither of them is prepared to afford.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Three young vigilantes huddle on la linea ready to chase illegals back across the border into Mexico... but they soon learn that there are borderlines deep within each one of them that each of them has to cross.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, lgbt cinema, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, queer cinema
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Manhattan Merengue (1995)
Plot Summary:
A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Outsiders (1986)
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Based on the book written by author Pai Hsien-yung and first published in 1983 in Taiwan. A-Qing, a young student is discovered during sex by a night watchman, young A-Qing is beaten and expelled from home by his violent abusive father. In a public park in Taipei he is found by Yang (a middle-aged photographer), who introduces him to three other teenage boys--all abandoned by their families because they were gay. They form a kind of surrogate family. When A-Qing meets Wang Kei-Lung, he falls madly in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Next Year in Jerusalem (1997)
Plot Summary:
The oldest son in an orthodox Jewish family is living at home (in Brooklyn) with his parents and younger brothers. He's being pressured by his parents to marry the girl they have chosen, (the daughter of a rabbi). But he is coming to the realization that he is gay. When he becomes reacquainted with a school hood friend that has moved into Greenwich Village and come out (at least to himself), our hero begins to come out to himself as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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David Searching (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young gay man's search to find himself. David is a young, gay aspiring documentary filmmaker and takes his first tentative steps towards his adult life. His roommate, Gwen, after ending a mysterious marriage, is looking for stability. Together they try to manoeuvre their way through New York on a search for happiness. Instead, they find bad dates, worse job interviews and bizarre sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Angel (1982)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover. Later on, he will also join the army. A former lover of his visits him and tells him things about Michalis. At a party, Michalis forces Angelos to dress up as a woman. Later on, Angelos ends up on the street with other transvestites. He gets arrested and expelled from the Navy, while his father kills himself out of shame. His clients often humiliate him, and his lover beats him brutally.Angelos, in despair, decides to kill Michalis..The film is based on true facts and has shocked Greek public opinion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Plot Summary:
Gay man in Soho tries to come to terms with new reality after 9/11.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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True Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Seven short stories about growing up gay in America and searching for true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, queer cinema
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Too Late Tomorrow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young convict named Antonis, takes a 48 hour discharge from prison. His brother wants to spent this time together, but Antonis has other plans. He meets Olia, a girl who has abandon her household and her boyfriend has pimp her. The two fall in love and the deicide to get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
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Forty Deuce (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema
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Johns (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. He's ripped off a local drug dealer to pay the bill, but as he's sleeping that morning, someone steals his shoes right off his feet, with the money in them. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him for Camelot, a theme park in Branson, MO, where they'll work as lifeguards. John spends the day trying to hustle the money for the hotel, avoid Jimmy the Warlock, keep his girl friend placated, and figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, entertaining, crying, homoerotic, road movie
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Speedway Junky (1999)
Plot Summary:
A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be then gets a lesson in the wild side, getting involved in one situation after another. Patsy Kensit makes a cameo as another hustler and Daryl Hannah appears as the scam artist's surrogate mom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: talky, serious, realistic, slang, feel good, light, independent film, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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The Architect (2006)
Plot Summary:
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, melancholic, absurd, sincere, realistic, crying, independent film
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Fox and His Friends (1975)
Plot Summary:
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: melancholic, disturbing, serious, realistic, art house, bleak, sexual, erotic, mind bending, psychedelic
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Flawless (1999)
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An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: talky, independent film, light, thinking, cult classic, comedy drama, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Good Boys (2005)
Plot Summary:
Movie follows two young gay hustlers through interwoven stories during a night in Tel Aviv.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Circuit (2001)
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John is an ex-cop who leaves small-town life and provincial attitudes behind for a new existence in West Hollywood. As he seeks an open, accepting gay life, John is introduced to the fast-paced Circuit Party scene, featuring beautiful people and a tantalizing mixture of sex and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, sexual, crying, independent film, sexy, queer cinema
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Just Say Love (2009)
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Physical attractions appear to be the obvious explanation for two people to become a pair. But are they really the reflection of something sublime, everlasting or dare we say, spiritual? Do relationships start in the bedroom or in the heart? In this male love story, the bliss described by Joseph Campbell and sages throughout the millennia is a practical option for finding happiness. As the camera delves into the character’s minds and actions we find fulfillment on both a physical and spiritual level.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: touching, contemplative, serious, realistic, crying, double entendre, queer cinema
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Boy Culture (2006)
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A successful male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, enigmatic, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, queer cinema
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Our Paradise (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: France
Duration: 96 min
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Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up so much unrequited lust that it explodes with horrible results.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexual, neorealism, homoerotic, sexy
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The Last Match (2013)
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Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field at their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife and wife's granma, gambler Reinier always fails in getting the stoke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his wealthy -and elder- girlfriend whom he hooked to pay him a lavish life in the big city, and the works he makes for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, serious, homoerotic, erotic, lgbt cinema, cute, humorous, semi serious
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Hot Summer Nights (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, light, humorous, freeze frame, sexy, sweet, social, sex comedy, independent film
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The Falls: Testament of Love (2013)
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The Falls: Testament of Love is a continuation of the story of RJ Smith and Chris Merrill, two Mormon missionaries that fell in love during their mission in a small town in Oregon. The boys haven't spoken in five years, but when an unexpected tragedy compells them back to the Oregon town where they served, they find themselves, once again, thrust into one another's lives. As old feelings begin to surface they find themselves again facing difficult choices. If they pursue their desire to be together, RJ and Chris risk hurting the ones they care about as they embark on a spiritual journey to discover love, freedom, and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, spiritual, heartbreaking, lgbt cinema, sexual, crying, independent film
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Nine Lives (2004)
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Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, the connections betwen the characters reveal the secrets each one holds.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, captivating, sexual, crying, hispanic, sexy, cult film
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A Single Man (2009)
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Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of close friend Charley who is struggling with her own questions about life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 117000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Keep the Lights On (2012)
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An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers—compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Plot Summary:
When David, an ex-monk still in his twenties meets Mark, he falls hard; soon he's asked Mark if they can live together. Things go well for awhile, and then differences in their definition of "commitment" begin to push them apart. Mark wants other sexual adventures, David tries to go along. Can they talk through the crisis in their relationship or is a breakup in the offing? David sees his relationship with Mark as a marriage, so if it ends, can David's heart ever heal?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, touching, serious, emotional, controversial, lgbt cinema, sad, art house, realistic, contemplative