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Plot Summary:
Tweek City is a week in the life of Bill, a potentially closeted, half-Latino, small-time speed dealer in San Francisco's Mission District. Bill is stuck on an endless walk from one empty experience to the next. Only Bill's friend Jerm has the ability to connect and ground him in reality. When Jerm makes an ill-advised stage dive, Bill plunges into a downward spiral that takes him on a nocturnal journey through the streets of San Francisco and ultimately down to Los Angeles where he crashes his high school sweetheart's wedding. From his sleep-deprived, hallucinogenic state, Bill fails miserably in a desperate attempt to reconnect with his first and only love. With nowhere else to go, Bill jacks a car and ends up at the deserted drive-in theater of his childhood where he is forced to confront the ghosts that he had tried to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Ferox (2013)
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Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: crying
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Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
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A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
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Los jornaleros (2003)
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Los Jornaleros presents the interwoven stories of three young Hispanic men who come to this country to pursue te American dream and instead end up struggling as day-laborers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Nowhere to Run (1978)
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Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing a winning blackjack system, he hatches a plan that takes years of preparation: to fake his death, assume a new identity and win $500,000 at blackjack.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Booking (2009)
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Feature film.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
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The First Day of Winter (2008)
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Valerio is a lonely young boy who can't get on with the others of the same age. He just observes without been seen and tries to compare himself to them, especially with two tough guys from his swimming course. One day Valerio sees something that will change him forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema
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The Men Who My Father Loved (2018)
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A man returned to his home in Kyoto after being away for a year. As he works his way into film industry as a part-timer, his sister decides to sell their childhood home since both of their parents have passed away. One night, his recalls his father's favorite watch and looks for it, and he stumbles across a notebook titled "My Memories." He starts to read it and sees the words written on the first page saying "The men I loved who passed me by..." and is followed by a record of his father's love life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 61 min
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God Made Man (2020)
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Leading double lives and seeking redemption, a transgender man, a drag queen and a corrupt lawyer collide in this urban purgatory.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, queer cinema
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Dublin Oldschool (2018)
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Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Anonymous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man finds himself homeless after a fight with his significant other.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Bareback ou La guerre des sens (2006)
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A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting is not good. But perhaps there's a good reason not to go after the adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, 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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Duffer (1972)
Plot Summary:
'Duffer' (1971) is a rarely seen cult British movie that has languished in the vaults of the British Film Institute for the best part of forty years until they decided to release it on DVD/BluRay for the first time last month. It's a black and white movie set in a declining Notting Hill with pretty much no dialogue spoken by those taking part in it. Almost everything is spoken as a commentary by Duffer, a lost teenage boy whose life bounces between homosexual and heterosuxual worlds. This movie anticipates David Lynch's 'Eraserhead' by five years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
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Dinah East (1970)
Plot Summary:
A glamorous movie queen of the 1950s is revealed to be a man whose secret led to complicated relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Shelter (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, depressing, captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, serious, social
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7 Kinds Οf Wrath (2014)
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Petros is an archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of "infidels", determined to conquer it by any means; A Greek-French cello player, who is burdened by the agony of her alcoholic mother; A young Albanian pianist, who carries the curse of his own personal genius and divinity; A Greek immigrant, who was repatriated but now has nowhere to call home; A bank director, who believes everything can be bought, even love; A patrolman, who creates his own version of socio-political reality. Petros' contact with these people is in fact a traumatic experience. For each encounter he has to pay a price. Sometimes the price is material, while other times it's emotional. At times it is both. Will the experience gained make up for the loss?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Praxis (2008)
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Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to discover his true core. Fighting against fear and the indifference of society - aptly symbolized by the medical establishment - his quest reflects the classical mythos of Proteus and the human search for meaning in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Lonesome (2022)
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Two young men make a connection neither of them expects or knows how to navigate. Casey, a young man from the countryside running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in the big smoke of Sydney. When he meets Tib, a young city lad, struggling with his own scars of isolation, there’s chemistry, not only sexually but also emotionally as both men find something they have been missing. Can they overcome their own insecurities and let the other in or are the walls they have built too strong to knock down?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: art house, gay cinema
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Night Watch (2005)
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A long night's journey into day: Victor, a street hustler in the Santa Fe and Pueyrredón neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, from the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, to the dawn of November 2, All Souls Day. Victor's odyssey takes him from clients to friends to a gay gym then a hotel room and an all-night café. He plays pick-up soccer with kids whose parents are going through trash or waiting in parks. A vendor gives him a chrysanthemum. It seems he's being followed, and on the night streets, death is close at hand. Can Victor survive until dawn?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 81 min
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Waterberry Tears (2010)
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This coming of age story is about a gay boy, Goyo, as he discovers himself. Living with his Mexican family in the Coachella Valley, Goyo has a hard time hiding his sexual preferences. Although Goyo seeks acceptance from his father Ramon, Ramon will not accept that his only son is gay. Adding to the situation is that his sister Rosa and Goyo both fall in love with the same guy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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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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That Certain Summer (1972)
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The first US teleplay to deal sympathetically with homosexuality. Divorced San Francisco contractor Doug Salter is looking forward to a summer visit from his fourteen-year-old son Nick, who lives in Los Angeles with his mother Janet. The boy does not know that his father is gay and committed to Gary McClain, his life partner of several years.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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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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The Stranger in Us (2010)
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In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, independent film, touching, serious, crying, queer cinema
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Peter von Kant (2022)
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Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up, leaving Peter alone to face himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: stylized, queer cinema
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Fixing Frank (2002)
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Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds reprehensible. Frank quickly comes clean with Apsey but continues to meet with him under the pretense of interviewing him, but finds himself questioning himself, Jonathan and their six-year relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, cult film
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New Dubai (2014)
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In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what about love? Is love just a construction?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: explicit, experimental, avant garde, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Nobody's Watching (2017)
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Nico is a young Argentine actor fighting to build a career in the US, without assistance, or connections, never too far from heart-breaking failure, but often blinded by the mirage of immediate success.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, soap opera, erotic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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José (2018)
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José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. Jose spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, Jose is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, queer cinema
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Minyan (2020)
Plot Summary:
In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, disturbing, erotic, gay cinema, queer cinema