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Plot Summary:
An aging, wealthy diva, Ms. Victoria Gaylord, in her late 50's learns that she has a mysterious illness and will soon be dead. Her family, friends, and entourage gather at her fabulous estate to assist her during this time of ill health. Some of these guests are loyal while others are vultures creeping their way into Ms. Gaylord's finances.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Sono Positivo (1999)
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A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her husband's and brother's best friend. Hilarious mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
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5 Lies (2007)
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The supermarket clown Ulrik is dreaming of becoming a stand-up comedian, the handicapped Amnesty girl Kristin is in love with Alexander, but does not dare to tell him, and Maya is to be deported from the country because she is a "consumed" mail order bride.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
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It Gets Better (2012)
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Inspired by the It Gets Better Project this documentary film follows the stories of three real-life subjects who are at unique impasses related to their identities as gay or transgender people.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
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Macho Macho Man (2019)
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Carlão is a prejudiced man who works in a car dealership with Cadinho, Zeca and Antunes. In conversations between them, Carlão always boasts of being the greatest soccer and mechanics savvy, all amidst macho and homophobic jokes. When Evaristo is the target of such verbal assaults, he pursues him and locks him in a magic locker. From there comes Carlinhos, a homosexual alter ego that takes over Carlão's body when night comes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Phoenix (2006)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 classic L'Avventura, Michael Akers' "PHOENIX" is infused with symbolism and a sexy spark. Dylan Wells (Chad Edward Bartley) has a good job, a great apartment and an exciting relationship with Ken Sparks (Gaetano Jones, Boystown), his sexy well traveled boyfriend who just might be "the one." A great life, or so he believes, until Ken's visit for Dylan's 23rd birthday party is unexpectedly cut short when Ken is suddenly called away to tend to a failing real estate deal, and then disappears.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Cowboy Junction (2006)
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In Texas, a closeted lawyer/husband returns home with a surprise for his lonely, sex-starved wife - a cowboy hunk to serve as their handyman (and other things). She at first doesn't realize that there's more to their man-to-man relationship than employer-employee, but neither do the two men realize they share a past incident which links them tightly together.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema, cult film
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Topless (2008)
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The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her plans to marry - a man - Natsuko becomes inconsolable. While all this is taking place, Natsuko's straight male roommate is grappling with his own feelings for her, and a young high school girl comes to Tokyo searching for the mother that long ago left her for a female lover. Each character - queer, straight, male, female, young, old, and in-between - struggles to make peace with him/herself as all their lives overlap. This story captures the power of young love, and the web of the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
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Fun Down There (1989)
Plot Summary:
Buddy, a young gay man leaves his small-town home in rural Upstate New York to make a new life in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Ma saison super 8 (2005)
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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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Drifting (1982)
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Robi is a young Israeli who lives his grandparents and works at their store. He dreams of finding true love and becoming a movie director, both of which seem increasingly difficult. His film career stalls, until he can get financial backing and his love life seems to be in similar shape. While the urban city has places to cruise for sex, Robi struggles to find an organized gay community and a committed relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
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Lieve Jongens (“Sweet Boys”) explores the sexual fantasies of a middle-aged writer and the handsome young men who dominate his life. Wolf, a successful writer of romantic novels, is plagued by self doubt and writer's block. Though pleasant looking and well-preserved, he fears age will rob him of the youthful companionship he so desperately craves. With the help of his equally randy and manipulative young sex partner, Wolf plots to seduce the gentle Muskrat from the arms of a much older lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Tell Me About Yourself (2022)
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Chava, a 17-year-old boy who has a secret admirer, feels more attracted to boys. When leaving his school in a rainy day, Carlos offers him a ride, and so their adventure begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
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Amazing Grace (1992)
Plot Summary:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as a musician in New York: Thomas is ill, detached, in search of hard drugs. Jonathan tries to connect with him. Meanwhile, Thomas's grandmother, facing old age, has become bitter, particularly toward her hard-working daughter. They worry about Thomas. A few blocks away, Jonathan's mother, brother and sister maintain their sometimes bickering relationships, watching Jonathan brave adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Noah's Arc (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today's issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend's children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
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The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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B-Boy Blues (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows the relationship of 27-year-old journalist Mitchell Crawford and 21-year-old bicycle messenger Raheim Rivers, who meet at a gay bar in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1993.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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At the End of the Day (2018)
Plot Summary:
A conservative professor at a Christian college finds himself in a gay support group to stop their launch of an LGBT homeless youth shelter in their small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, queer cinema
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Twice a Man (1963)
Plot Summary:
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde, deviant, independent film
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Open Bodies (1998)
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Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Mattachine Family (2023)
Plot Summary:
While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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How to Be a Slut in America (2017)
Plot Summary:
A three-part feature by Brian Jordan Alvarez An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, gay cinema
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Coming Out Party (2003)
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"Coming Out Party" is a celebration of love, life and freedom as seven gay and lesbian comic storytellers share their personal stories of "coming out" to family, friends, and co-workers, and living "out" and proud. Features: Rene Hicks (World Comedy Tour 2002), Sabrina Matthews, John Riggi (“The Dennis Miller Show”), Dan Renzi (MTV’s “The Real World”), Jackie Beat, Terry Sweeney (“Saturday Night Live”), and Bob Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Gays (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons - Alex and Tommy - advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Holy Mess (2015)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
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Leather (2013)
Plot Summary:
Birch, a young man living in the Catskill Mountains, reunites with his childhood friend from the city, Andrew.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, melancholic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Jeffrey (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, sexual, sexy, independent film, satirical, sentimental, feel good, realistic
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Boys Life 4: Four Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
The latest installment in this series of gay short films.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anthology, independent film, mockumentary, gay cinema, queer cinema
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That's Not Us (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three twenty-something couples, one gay, one lesbian, and one straight, travel to a beach house to enjoy the last days of summer, but what should be a fun and carefree weekend becomes an exploration of what it takes to sustain a healthy relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, romantic, lgbt cinema, romantic comedy, independent film
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Other People (2016)
Plot Summary:
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, depressing, captivating, sad, humorous, lgbt cinema, black comedy, queer cinema
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Geography Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: witty, touching, semi serious, sexual, teen, humorous, lgbt cinema, thrilling, realistic, sexy