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Plot Summary:
This gay-oriented drama centers on the life and exploits of Andrew, an aspiring painter. Still living at home with his mother Genna, an avant garde actress, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film
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Some Prefer Cake (1997)
Plot Summary:
In San Francisco, Kira has a day job at a warehouse, writes jokes for her sister (who does stand-up back East), wants to perform her own material, hangs out with best friend Sydney (who writes food reviews), and sleeps once with every woman she can. Then, her roommate sets her up with Robin - who's recently come out and hasn't had a serious relationship yet - and her friendship with Sydney gets rocky. Meanwhile, Kira's being stalked by one of her one-night stands, her sister isn't showing any appreciation, and a night at an open microphone goes badly. Is this all life can offer?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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The Skinny (2012)
Plot Summary:
Feature film from award-winning writer/director Patrik-Ian Polk, tells the story of five black Brown University classmate s- four gay men and one lesbian - reuniting in the Big Apple for a weekend of sin, fun, secrets, lies and drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, suspense, crying, independent film, queer cinema
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According to Spencer (2001)
Plot Summary:
According to Spencer, She's the one... Everyone else thinks so too!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere, melancholic, independent film, offbeat, crying
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24 Nights (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Jonathan Parker was 4 years old, his mother's words and a chance encounter with a Salvation Army Kris Kringle instilled in him a lifelong belief in the legend of Santa Claus. Now 24 and his parents long passed away, Jonathan is a spacey, pot-smoking college drop-out and multi loser in romance who has one shot left to find his true love; he writes a letter to Santa Claus. After meeting Toby, a new co-worker just moved to the city, Jonathan is convinced this is the one who was sent for him, even after he meets Toby's long time boyfriend Keith. This doesn't deter Jonathan, who proceeds to wreck everyone's lives in pursuit of his dream man. Fighting snags, traps and pitfalls to Christmas Day, will Jonathan land his Christmas wish?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Velocity of Gary (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gary is in love with Valentino. So is Mary Carmen. Their life changes when Valentino is hit with a deadly disease and is slowly dying in their hands. They tear each other off to end up re-uniting upon their love for the same man.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, fairy tale, crying
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Leaving Metropolis (2002)
Plot Summary:
David is a painter with painter's block who takes a job as a waiter to get some inspiration. He falls for hunky diner owner Matt, who falls just as hard back. But Violet, Matt's wife is a complicating factor! Toss in David's best friends a dying pre-op transsexual best friend and an aging, bitter, fag-hag journalist. Will David break up Matt's marriage? Will Violet learn the truth? Will David or Matt learn the true meaning of love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, crying, weeping, sexy, queer cinema
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Finding North (1998)
Plot Summary:
In madcap road movie Finding North, Rhonda (Wendy Makkena, Sister Act), a big-haired bankteller from Brooklyn, encounters Travis (John Benjamin Hickey, Love! Valour! Compassion!), naked, suicidal and about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Mistaking him for her perfect man, she stalks him all the way to Danton, Texas. An alliance, and eventually true friendship, is formed between this extremely odd couple as they embark upon a 'treasure hunt' - with clues provided from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, independent film, sentimental, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, soap opera, road movie, sexy
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Eating Out (2004)
Plot Summary:
After getting dumped by his girlfriend Tiffani (Rebekah Kochan), Caleb (Scott Lunsford) commiserates with his roommate Kyle (Jim Verraros), who notes that while he has trouble getting the men he wants he could get any woman because he's gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: witty, erotic, lgbt cinema, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, feel good
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The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends search for fun, love and ultimately themselves in West Hollywood. This movie is an entertaining, and sometimes cynical look into the lives of six gay men trying to come to terms with what being gay and single (or gay and partnered) means to them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: witty, semi serious, romantic comedy, clever, realistic, talky, slang, crying, sentimental, humorous
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Totally F***ed Up (1993)
Plot Summary:
Life really sucks for a group of gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los Angeles. Their parents kicked them out, they're broke and bored, their lovers cheat on them, and they're harassed by fag-bashers. If things are going to be this way, maybe suicide isn't a bad idea; at least not in the mind of Andy, our major protagonist, who gives the film its title by describing himself as "totally fucked up".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: erotic, intense, dark comedy, cult classic, aesthetic, experimental, avant garde, clever, touching, realistic
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Testosterone (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him and his editor, Louise, is hounding him. Instead of working, however, Dean spends his time searching for his Argentine lover Pablo, who went out one night for cigarettes and never came back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, melancholic, erotic, dark comedy, black comedy, queer cinema
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I Think I Do (1997)
Plot Summary:
A screwball comedy about a gay couple at a straight couple's wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Almost Normal (2005)
Plot Summary:
A gay man approaching a mid-life crisis is tired of being different because he is gay. He wants to be normal. Suddenly he is yanked back in time to when he was in high school. But this time, the world is gay and to be straight is considered deviant behavior. Then something else happens. He meets a girl. And suddenly normal becomes ...well almost normal.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, queer cinema
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Humpday (2009)
Plot Summary:
Imagine your life is somewhat complete with a house, job, and wife but then your best friend from college comes knocking at your door at 2 AM. During a pot-induced hedonistic party, a plan is hatched between the two friends to create an Art Film of “two really straight men having sex.” If they only knew how much this would affect all of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, satirical, stylized, humorous, semi serious, sexual, absurd, indie film, mumblecore, sex comedy
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Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman. When the marriage is consummated, the young male lover gets terribly jealous and this creates problems until the irrepressible Doña Herlinda again gets involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual, crying, sex comedy
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, crying
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Willie & Phil (1980)
Plot Summary:
Loosely inspired by Truffaut's JULES ET JIM, this comedy-drama follows the experiences of two friends who fall in love with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Shake It All About (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal, but then something happens: Jacob falls in love with a girl, and not just any girl. The girl is Caroline, married to Jørgens younger brother Tom.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, crying, sex comedy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Touch of Pink (2004)
Plot Summary:
A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, romantic, intense, touching, humorous, funny, lgbt cinema, realistic, semi serious
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Art School Confidential (2006)
Plot Summary:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, cynical, semi serious, independent film, clever, funny, perverse, comedy drama, twisted
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Big Eden (2000)
Plot Summary:
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in Big Eden, Henry must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Latter Days (2003)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) and Christian Markelli (Wes Ramsey) are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. Christian is a shallow WeHo waiter/party boy who only looks forward to bedding a new guy every night.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, controversial, sexy, erotic, independent film, realistic, lgbt cinema, humorous
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Edge of Seventeen (1998)
Plot Summary:
A gay teenager finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle U.S. in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: teen, independent film, touching, realistic, sexual, crying, lgbt cinema, avant garde, sentimental, sincere
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The Taste of Others (2000)
Plot Summary:
Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux (Anne Alvaro). During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: biting, meditative, sincere, touching, art house, clever, witty, talky, powerful, humorous
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Beginners (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking, romantic, visually appealing, indie film, feel good
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Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic comedy, independent film, realistic, talky, sex comedy, offbeat
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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: teen, independent film, sentimental, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema, semi serious, crying, realistic, humorous
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Saving Face (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural, realistic, witty, lgbt cinema, sex comedy
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Nearing Grace (2005)
Plot Summary:
Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Outside Providence (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law convinces his blue-collar dad to send him to a Connecticut prep school. The one saving grace of the new school is Jane, a fellow student Tim falls for immediately.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sweet, intense, semi serious, touching, independent film, epic, sentimental, realistic