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Plot Summary:
Young Soul Rebels is a 1991 film by Isaac Julien which examines the interaction between youth cultural movements in Britain. Skinheads, Punks & Soulboys along with the political and cultural tensions between them. The film received the critics prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, crying, independent film, queer cinema, black cinema
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Tony Manero (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, realistic, contemplative, dark comedy, disturbing, political, visual, black comedy
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To Die Like a Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
A transvestite tries to erase any past history of herself as a male. Struggling with a young male lover and a problematic son.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, sincere, serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized, gloomy, queer cinema
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Rude Boy (1980)
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Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political demonstrations and Clash concerts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cynical, biting, suspense
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The Hours and Times (1991)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, talky, tension, suspense, queer cinema
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Horsey (1997)
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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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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
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Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, mind blowing, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, tense
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Victim (1961)
Plot Summary:
A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure in a time when homosexual acts were still being illegal. But he's queer himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: controversial, neo noir, noir, disturbing, cynical, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Plot Summary:
Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, erotic, lgbt cinema, independent film, cult classic, sexual, funny, retro, underground film
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Brothers of the Head (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, period piece, clever, offbeat, mockumentary, gothic
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
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Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, uplifting, serious, suspense, costume drama, deep, visual, cult classic, tension, crying
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Adam & Steve (2005)
Plot Summary:
Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, clever, realistic, independent film, crying, humorous, queer cinema
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Funkytown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, realistic, sexual, sitcom, crying, independent film, sexy
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Northern Soul (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: period piece, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic, stylized
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Madame Satã (2002)
Plot Summary:
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, lgbt cinema, bleak, realistic, entertaining, queer cinema
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House of Boys (2009)
Plot Summary:
A glamorous, colourful coming-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984 through an exciting world of sex and music, when his deep new passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage, facing a new disease - the "gay cancer" and becomes deep, true love in the expectancy of his friend's horrible death and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sentimental, sincere, avant garde, realistic, lgbt cinema, sexual, homoerotic, independent film
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Fögi Is a Bastard (1998)
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A 15 year old boy (Beni) falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only willing to follow him where ever Fögi wants to. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into the hell of drug addiction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexual, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, sexy, queer cinema
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Times Square (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York by its ears.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, cynical, queer cinema, rockumentary, eighties
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Quadrophenia (1979)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, stylized, depressing, melancholic, lyrical, atmospheric, captivating, rough, serious
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Nighthawks (1978)
Plot Summary:
A gay man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night. A respectable geography teacher by day; by night, hanging out in London's gay bars, looking for a long-term relationship, but usually encountering only one-night stands. Ron Peck later talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making this film in the 1991 movie "Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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The Boys in the Band (1970)
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A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: intense, realistic, witty, powerful, independent film, sincere, humorous, talky, cynical, semi serious
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Bad Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mala Noche is the film debut from director Gus van Sant. The film portrays the unanswered love of an American man toward a young Mexican man.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: black and white, indie film, sexual, lgbt cinema, thinking, postmodern, independent film, touching, serious, realistic
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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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Sid and Nancy (1986)
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Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the couple's turbulent relationship strains the patience of bandmate Johnny Rotten and manager Malcolm McLaren, while plunging Sid and Nancy into the depths of drug addiction and co-dependency.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic, serious, captivating, gloomy, offbeat, intellectual
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Billy Elliot (2000)
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Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional, crying, sweet, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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Beach Rats (2017)
Plot Summary:
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, disturbing, erotic, exciting, sexy, lgbt cinema, social, controversial
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The Deputy and the Congressman (1978)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, Roberto Orbea is a member of the Spanish communist party. He is married to Carmen, and he has been elected as Deputy in the first democratic elections in Spain. But his enemies, the fascist, know his double life. Roberto likes boys, and they hire Juanito to seduce the politician. They fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, social, sensual, sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, crying, independent film
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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited Tony struts his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies. Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his relationship with his dance partner, a secretary eager to move into the glamorous world of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, rough, light, serious, captivating, realistic, cult classic, teen, stylized
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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, captivating, crying, hispanic, entertaining
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54 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar – and a front-row seat at the most legendary party on the planet.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, erotic, psychedelic, art house, deep, cult classic