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Plot Summary:
Trevor is a busboy who is so terrified of women that he takes in a young man addicted to heroin and then uses the drug to manipulate, coerce, and terrorize him into becoming "Dorothy", his twisted concept of the "ideal girlfriend.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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2by4 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Johnnie is a foreman of construction crew. On the outside he seems very "normal" and straight, but one evening we see him putting on make-up and feather boa and going for a night at the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy
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All the Rage (1997)
Plot Summary:
ALL THE RAGE takes a satirical and poignant look at one gay man's obsessive pursuit of physical, sexual, and romantic perfection. Christopher Bedford is everyone's fantasy. He's gorgeous, young, clever, rich, and above all, totally buffed and every boy in Boston seems to want him. At thirty-one, he's gliding through life, celebrating himself as the 90's gay playboy ideal, without ever realizing what a mess he's become.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, sexual
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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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Horsey (1997)
Plot Summary:
Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland Yale, but soon it shows he can not be such an anchor - he's possessive, undependable and even a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual, crying, independent film, sexy
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Leather Jacket Love Story (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kyle is 18, an aspiring poet hoping to find inspiration by moving to the arty Silver Lake neighborhood of LA, and maybe love too. On day one, he finds a funky coffee shop, where he hopes to do some writing, but instead meets an older hunk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, gay cinema, queer cinema, cult film
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Taxi to the Toilet (1980)
Plot Summary:
Frank Ripploh tries to keep his professional and personal life separate. During the day, he is a dedicated school teacher. At night and on the weekends, he is a gay man who is always on the prowl for anonymous sex often in public places. Things may change when he meets Bernd, a movie theater clerk. Bernd quickly moves into Frank's flat and the two talk of their future life together, Bernd dreaming of them living together on a farm. But Frank, despite loving Bernd, feels restless and continues his quest for anonymous gay sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, disturbing, eros, biting, sexual, controversial
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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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The Fluffer (2001)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Rebel is a charismatic heterosexual man who makes his living acting in gay porn. His live in girlfriend Babylon is a stripper so she understands the reality of working in the sex industry. Sean McGinnis doesnt. He is a 22-year-old kid who comes to Los Angeles to get into movies and gets sidetracked when he sees a Johnny Rebel video and becomes instantly obsessed. Sean becomes further drawn into the porn scene when he becomes a cameraman for Johnnys company and triggers off a series of events that will change all their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, satirical, semi serious, sexual, humorous, realistic, crying, independent film, erotic
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I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
Plot Summary:
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, freeze frame, queer cinema, hot
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Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero (2000)
Plot Summary:
Located in Madrid's Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga meets up with gigolo Miguel, who co-habitates with gay Benjamin. Sergio, a soon-to-be-married office clerk who can't wait to lose his virginity, makes the acquaintance of prostitute Tatiana, while gay dancer Bruno meets Maximo. Meanwhile, wannabe director Pedro arranges to meet up with Silvia, an actress who wants to work in musicals directed by Gerardo, and bartender Mario is caught between Amor, who wants to marry him, and her little sister Roma, who is truly in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, sexual, crying, sex comedy, queer cinema
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Twist (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, queer cinema
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Skin and Bone (1996)
Plot Summary:
Harry, Billy and Dean are three hustlers at different stages in their careers. All must deal with the realities of their profession. One falls in love with a client, another enters deeper into denial, and another begins to learn the ropes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, experimental, disturbing, contemplative, gloomy, sexual
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The Last Straight Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch up. Over the course of twelve years, we see four additional nights that depict how the two men grow and how their friendship changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, independent film, homoerotic, realistic, lgbt cinema, crying, sex comedy, queer cinema
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Slutty Summer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hunky writer Markus returns home to find his boyfriend of four years naked with another man. Newly single, he begins waiting tables at a swinging Chelsea hotspot where the indelible supporting cast of co-workers offers conflicting directions on the off-road map to love and lust in New York City. Peter insists on holding out for "the one", and Marilyn vows by her "dating commandments." Meanwhile, lascivious Luke promises the film its title by delivering firecracker quips on the joys of his sexcapades. He believes that sleeping around is the best medicine for a broken heart. Despite disillusion, Markus falls for gorgeous model Tyler who doesn't "do relationships" because how can you promise to love somebody forever? Surprising twists, and unlikely advice await, but by the end of one unforgettable SLUTTY SUMMER, happily ever after may just be the answer. Written.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: witty, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film, realistic, sexual, crying, sex comedy, 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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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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Heaven's a Drag (1994)
Plot Summary:
Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to experience and express feelings. Simon is adamant that feelings, especially love, are not for him. Subplots develop as Mark and Simon observe their neighbor Siobhan's love life and as Simon spends his days as a satellite-TV installer partnered with Dogger, a homophobe ignorant that Simon is gay. Is there any key that can unlock Simon's feelings and allow Mark to rest in peace?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, crying, black comedy
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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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Long-Term Relationship (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tired of the unsatisfying singles scene, Glenn (Matthew Montgomery) answers a personal ad and meets Adam (Windham Beacham), a handsome Southern man seeking a long-term relationship. The two hit it off immediately, but their initial attraction is soon put to the test. Glenn's gay friends say he'd be happier playing the field again, but his straight pals encourage him to work at the budding relationship in director Rob Williams's romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, romantic, romantic comedy, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Crutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David's home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny's "support" escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, 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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Barry Munday (2010)
Plot Summary:
Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, offbeat, psychological, light, captivating, sentimental, tragicomedy, realistic, independent film
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Love in the Time of Money (2002)
Plot Summary:
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, sexy, captivating, clever, serious, realistic, sexual
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Stonewall (1995)
Plot Summary:
A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, multicultural, tense, sincere, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Head On (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, rough, sexy
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Candy (2006)
Plot Summary:
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional, sexy, independent film, realistic, erotic, crying
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Full Speed (1996)
Plot Summary:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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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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All About My Mother (1999)
Plot Summary:
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, hispanic, art house, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, controversial, stylized, sensual
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The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Plot Summary:
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, teen, humorous, cult classic, erotic, sexy, philosophical