Best movies like The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Special
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Plot Summary:
The story of two queens who set out to create a classic Christmas TV variety show, but just can’t agree on how. DeLa tries her hardest to uphold the cheery Christmas traditions of her childhood. Meanwhile, Jinkx is much more interested in bawdy jokes, cute boys, and boozy libations.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: christmas special, independent film, slapstick comedy, queer cinema, campy
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King Size (2007)
Plot Summary:
This sexy and very entertaining musical comedy shows the ups and downs of engaging in a 'ménage à trois'. When Vincent and Nicholas, a very much integrated and respected long-time couple, suddenly decide to live together with young Gabriel, they must confront the moral disapproval of their gay friends, a jealous sister, and practicalities like how to find a bed that's big enough. Filmed against a stunning Paris as backdrop, this all-out song and dance extravaganza almost explodes on-screen in a very French 'Joie de vivre'.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, gay cinema, campy
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Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two entertainers destined for the big time are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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The Bob Hope Christmas Special: Around the World with the USO (1968)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope's USO tour from 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: christmas special
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City of Lost Souls (1983)
Plot Summary:
With stars like Angie Stardust (also music credits), Judith Flex, and Joaquin La Habana, director Rosa von Praunheim has fashioned a film about the teeming flip side of life in Berlin centered on eccentric characters of almost every imaginable sexual orientation, or disorientation -- most are American performers drawn to the city of "lost souls" as a place where they can give full rein to their creative natures.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Musical, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, avant garde, sex comedy
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A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, satirical, talky, melancholic, parody, christmas special, cult classic, road movie, thought provoking
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Click & Collect (2018)
Plot Summary:
To save his daughter's Christmas, Andrew goes on a road trip with Dev, his neighbour from hell, to buy an elusive Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: christmas special
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Hurricane Bianca: From Russia with Hate (2018)
Plot Summary:
After winning over the staff and students of Milford High School, chemistry teacher Richard Martinez aka Bianca Del Rio sent her nemesis Vice Principal Deborah “Debbie” Ward to jail in a flawlessly executed plan. When Debbie is released from jail, she conjures up a scheme to do away with Bianca Del Rio once and for all, by luring her on a dangerous journey to Russia to accept a teaching award and cash prize.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, queer cinema, campy
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Cherry Pop (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Zaza, headliner of a weekly drag show, 'CHERRY POP', refuses to come out of her dressing room, all hell breaks loose backstage. A young newcomer, The Cherry, is hiding a huge secret from the girls while getting ready for his debut performance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema, campy
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20 Centimeters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her housemate and best friend Tomás finds ways to spend, lose, or cost her those funds. She meets Raúl, whom she likes and who likes her; the trouble is he also likes that part of her she wants removed. If that's not enough, she also has narcolepsy, and when she conks out, she dreams of musical-theater numbers in which she's the singing and dancing star. Are these dreams always going to be 20 centimeters out of reach?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, offbeat, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Naked Boys Singing! (2007)
Plot Summary:
This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, sexy, semi serious, independent film, suspense, erotic, biting, sexual, queer cinema
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Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Can't Stop the Music (1980)
Plot Summary:
Movie about the Village People filmed in a documentary style.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, retro, independent film, feel good, realistic, semi serious, double entendre, erotic, light, road movie
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Single All the Way (2021)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter convinces his best friend Nick to join him for the holidays and pretend that they’re now in a relationship. But when Peter’s mother sets him up on a blind date with her handsome trainer James, the plan goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Bitch Who Stole Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-throat housewives, a high-stakes “Winter Ball” competition, and a sinister plot that could destroy Christmas fore-evah!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, christmas special, queer cinema, corny
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High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special (2020)
Plot Summary:
The cast of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” delivers an abundance of feel-good holiday cheer as they perform their favorite Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s songs and share their fondest holiday memories.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
Plot Summary:
Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, christmas special
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A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
Plot Summary:
In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations.The Sesame Street regulars, including Big Bird, Bert, Ernie and others, join the festivities, but to Kermit's dismay, the only one missing is Miss Piggy, who has been caught in a snowstorm.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: christmas special, feel good, humorous, not serious
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Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse (1988)
Plot Summary:
Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, commands Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello to make Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee's Christmas list was so big, he didn't have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, surreal, not serious, absurd, christmas special, campy
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Dating My Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying world of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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Leave It on the Floor (2011)
Plot Summary:
Our African-American hero , Brad is bullied by his dysfunctional mom; he flees his home and by chance tumbles down the rabbit-hole into the LA ball scene where he finds a ragtag new famiiy. With music by Beyonce music director, Kim Burse, screenplay and lyrics by Glenn Gaylord choreography by Beyonce dance master, Frank Gatson Jr. and eye-popping visuals and direction by Sheldon Larry, the film is an ode to the wild funky and heart-aching life of this amazing underground. Written by Sheldon Larry (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, independent film, captivating, feel good, stylized, semi serious, queer cinema
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Boyfriends (1996)
Plot Summary:
Paul, Matt, and Will (in their 30s) have been friends for years. They converge at the seaside for the weekend, each with a boyfriend in tow. Paul is with Ben, his companion of five years: their relationship is on the rocks after months of Paul's moodiness since his brother Mark died. Matt brings Owen, whom he's dated for three months and wants to live with; to everyone else, they seem singularly.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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Fruit Fly (2009)
Plot Summary:
Filipina performance artist Bethesda moves into an art commune to search for her long missing biological mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fairy princess, fag hag, fruit fly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, clever, offbeat, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Freak Dance (2010)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled rich girl who wants to be a dancer finds herself caught into between two rival dance groups set to do battle at an underground competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, parody, realistic, alternative comedy
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Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Feature film adaptation of the musical about a teenager from Sheffield, England who wants to be a drag queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, emotional, touching, social, anamorphic, realistic, queer cinema, fun
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Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (2020)
Plot Summary:
A rich and nasty woman returns to her hometown to evict everyone but discovers the true meaning of Christmas thanks to the local townsfolk – and an actual angel. Features 14 original songs with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, feel good, humorous, colorful, gay cinema, colourful
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It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have very little time to pay a debt they owe. Meanwhile, the Muppets are trying to put on a Christmas show. After the Muppets are confronted by Bitterman, they make a lot of sacrifices to save up so they can keep the Theatre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, christmas special, witty, stylized, feel good, not serious, spoof, fantasy adventure, exciting, parody
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Meet The Santas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Because she is marrying the man who assumed the mantle of Santa Claus last December 26, Beth's postponed wedding has to be rescheduled for Xmas eve. Overwhelmed by selling the house she and her son share and the prospect of the duties of Mrs. Claus, she has to call on her estranged socialite Grinch of a mother to arrange the wedding. Of course her mom has never met the fiancé nor his family and has no inkling of his secret. This is a sequel to 2004's Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good
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Season of Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
A queer lady holiday movie that follows the lives of three very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set right before Christmas through New Years.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, non-linear, independent film, romantic comedy, queer cinema
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Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, teen, inspirational, epic, independent film