Best movies like The Wild Boys
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Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good families enamoured with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the Captain’s methods, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers that holds a disturbing secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, erotic, psychological thriller, funny, dark, experimental, underground film, art house, dark drama, queer horror
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After Blue (2021)
Plot Summary:
On After Blue, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna, a hairdresser and her teenage daughter hunt a notorious killer by the name of Kate Bush.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: erotic, dark
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Flaming Creatures (1963)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, erotic, psychedelic, dark, absurd, art film, black and white, cult classic, independent film
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Diamantino (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt imagine a famous football player absolutely everybody lusts after. An outlandish, ingenuous and funny comedy on the world of football and gigantic long-haired dogs that portrays the nation in dire need of heroes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, experimental, absurd, avant garde, surreal, queer cinema
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Vincent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, and that is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, emotional, touching, serious
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Struggle for Life (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, not serious, idiotic
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Velociraptor (2014)
Plot Summary:
During the end of the world, two best friends walk around their city, talking about their sex lives, and one of them reveals they are still a virgin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, suspenseful, talky
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Time Has Come (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a time and place indeterminate a bandit has kidnapped Rixo Lomadis Bron’s daughter. Bron is a wealthy landowner who reigns over the shepherds of the Purple Mountain. The time has come when Rixo Lomadis Bron accuses Manjas-Kebir of killing his daughter and urges all the country’s inhabitants to track down the assassin. It’s the time when Radovan Remila Stoï, the land’s greatest warrior, rises up against this foolhardy act which has every chance of leading to war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Jessica Forever (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark drama
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cinematic homage to the Front Homosexual d'Action Révolutionnaire, the first gay rights movement in France, AllesandroAvellis' compassionate drama tells the tale of a young activist living in Paris when homosexuals had no place in society. The year is 1968; Marc is adrift in the city after failing in his efforts to gain national acceptance for gay rights. One day, during a park pick-up, he meets Andre, a small town factory worker still exploring his sexuality but convinced that he will one day marry and start a family. Over the course of the next three years, Marc and Andre continue their heated affair as Marc continues to advocate fiercely for gay rights while butting heads with his close-minded father, a Paris police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Walking with the Ferryman (2014)
Plot Summary:
An emotional fantasy in which a grieving gay man must open disbelieving eyes to the possibility of supernatural and mythological worlds in order to gain opportunity for reconciliation with a lover lost to apparent suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, queer cinema
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Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, queer horror, experimental, semi serious, humorous, suspense, disturbing, controversial, scary, epic
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Poltergay (2006)
Plot Summary:
Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, not serious, horror comedy, exciting, offbeat, queer cinema, campy
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The Stolen Years (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie
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April in Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
Avril is a novice in a convent of "Baptistine" sisters, a monastic order which was officially dissolved by the end of the nineteenth century but that is kept alive by Mère Marie Joseph, the sadistic superior. While Avril is on retreat, locked in for a fortnight in a chapel prior to taking her vows, Soeur Bernadette, a sympathetic sister, discloses a secret to her: she has a twin brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, queer cinema
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, mindfuck, disturbing, art house, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric
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This One Summer (2022)
Plot Summary:
Every summer, 10-year-old Dune goes with her parents to the south-west coast of France, where she meets her best friend Mathilde. Together, they explore pine forests, contemplate the shape of clouds, follow teenagers and crash their parties, and secretly watch horror films. But this one summer is special for Dune – last year, the family skipped their usual holiday without her knowing why. She feels that something has changed. As childhood becomes a little more distant, she begins to see adults and teenagers differently and understand their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Pink Narcissus (1971)
Plot Summary:
An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, aesthetic, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized
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Luna Park (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal with it instead. Alexia owns an apartment complex in California called Luna Park, where her young actors stay while on location. Christi is the apartment caretaker and has been caught hiding in the closet of one of her actors he has a crush on. Maxwell feels indebted to Alexia for taking him off the streets and accepts the task with little protest. When Maxwell and Christi fall in love, Alexia is suddenly forced to deal with the secrets of her past, one of which threatens the boys young love in a way they can't even imagine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, queer cinema
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The Ornithologist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, avant garde, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, contemplative, visually appealing, sexy, experimental, homoerotic
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Transamerica (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bree is about to get a sex change operation that will finally allow her to actually be what she’s already been in her mind for a long time: a transitioned woman. Yet before this happens she suddenly runs into her son who ends up coming for the trip across the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, road movie, independent film, sincere, humorous, lgbt cinema, realistic, comedy drama, erotic
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Little Gay Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema
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Santa & Andres (2016)
Plot Summary:
Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama
Country: Cuba, Colombia, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, homoerotic
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Closet Monster (2015)
Plot Summary:
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, captivating, disturbing, offbeat, gothic, lgbt cinema, semi autobiographical, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Sweet Movie (1974)
Plot Summary:
The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, controversial, experimental, art house, erotic, sexy, mind bending, heartbreaking, psychotronic
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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Plot Summary:
About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, stylized, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, erotic
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The Smell of Us (2014)
Plot Summary:
Self-destructive teens go skateboarding, use drugs and turn tricks in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, erotic, realistic, homoerotic, queer cinema, hot
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Arabian Nights (1974)
Plot Summary:
The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, art house, sensual, disturbing, anthology
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How I Became a Super Hero (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, weird
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You and the Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, queer cinema, weird
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house, mindfuck, mind bending, experimental, atmospheric, stylized