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Plot Summary:
Aspiring influencer Marco lands a dream job with a makeup mogul and begins a dazzling journey of self-discovery amid work chaos and romantic challenges.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, teen comedy
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Joe vs. Carole (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, learns that when fellow exotic animal lover Joe "Exotic" Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit, she sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 408 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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The Shipper (2020)
Plot Summary:
A fujoshi who is a hard shipper had an accident and her soul got into Kim's body. She takes advantage of the situation to make her ship sails while Kim's brother notices that his brother is not the same.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Sugar Highs (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three roommates who can’t make rent would rather get high than work menial jobs. So they set out to find sugar daddies to pay their bills.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Macho Macho Man (2019)
Plot Summary:
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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Fish Upon the Sky (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pi has a crush on Mueang Nan, one of the hottest students in the Allied Health Sciences Department, but since he is not confident enough about his looks, he is helpless. That is, until Duen and his friends help him get a makeover to boost his confidence. When Pi finally has the guts to approach his crush, he meets his love rival, Mork. Pi has tried to surpass Mork in everything to get Nan's attention but he is not lucky enough to beat him. However, everything changes when Pi starts to feel a different set of feelings towards Mork, making things more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags:
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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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Indoor Boys (2017)
Plot Summary:
A new comedy series about two gay guys who don't leave the apartment, INDOOR BOYS follows Nate and Luke as they navigate their no-boundaries friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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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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Go-Go Boy Interrupted (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Fowlie (writer/actor) developed the concept for “Go-Go Boy Interrupted” from his time as a go-go dancer in LA. He was inspired to create his own sketch show at The Groundlings Theater, where he regularly performs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Ingredients (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tops is a young man who has been fascinated by cooking since childhood. He finds happiness in cooking delicious and tasty food with great care. Marwin is young, romantic, playful, and charming. He loves and is dedicated to music and dreams of becoming a world-class musician. His interest in music is so strong that he didn't take care of himself until he came to live with Tops. When the difference between the two becomes the perfect combination, chaos ensues, and the two find themselves deciding between their dreams and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags:
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Our Skyy (2018)
Plot Summary:
A five-episode anthology that serves as a continuation of the stories of Pick and Rome (Secret Love: Puppy Honey), In and Sun (My Dear Loser), Tee and Mork ('Cause You're My Boy), Kao and Pete (Kiss Me Again), and Arthit and Kongpob (SOTUS).
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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Lieve Jongens (1980)
Plot Summary:
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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My Emptiness and I (2022)
Plot Summary:
Raphi, from France, fantasises about romances with princes, and about starting a traditional family. But in reality, things aren’t like that. She works in a call centre in Barcelona, struggles with at times embarrassing dates, and is diagnosed by her therapist as having gender dysphoria. During this confusing, yet valuable period, we follow this trans woman as she makes her transition, as well as in her everyday life. She talks candidly with colleagues, queer friends, and the men she meets through apps. In spite of all the advice she receives, it turns out that it is mostly time and experience that will help her embrace her place in this world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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High School (2022)
Plot Summary:
A story about finding your own identity—a journey made even more complicated when you have a twin whose own struggle and self-discovery so closely mimics your own. Told through a backdrop of ‘90s grunge and rave culture, the series weaves between parallel and discordant memories of sisters growing up down the hall from one another. Based on the autobiographical book High School by musicians Tegan and Sara.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Sort Of (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fluid millennial Sabi Mehboob straddles various identities from bartender at an LGBTQ bookstore/bar, to the youngest child in a Pakistani family, to the de facto parent of a downtown hipster family. Sabi feels like they’re in transition in every aspect of their life, from gender to love to sexuality to family to career.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, queer cinema
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Mango Souffle (2002)
Plot Summary:
Mango Soufflé is a 2002 Indian film written and directed by Mahesh Dattani. The film stars Atul Kulnani and Rinkie Khanna. It was promoted as "first gay male film from India" and was adapted from Dattani's own successful English play On a Muggy Night in Mumbai.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Body Electric (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds himself increasingly drawn into socialising with his work colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 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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All You Need (2021)
Plot Summary:
All You Need is a Dramady series about four gay men in Berlin, searching for love and security in the age of Grindr.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, emotional, talky
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Love Reinvented (1996)
Plot Summary:
Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man. The vignettes were originally shown individually on French television.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
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Fixing Frank (2002)
Plot Summary:
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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After Forever (2018)
Plot Summary:
After Forever is the story of Brian and Jason, a 50-ish New York City gay couple, who have it all until they don't.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Queers (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eight short monologues charting the UK gay experience and in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act, curated by Mark Gatiss. Each monologue is set in the same pub, taking place at various points in the last hundred years.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: queer cinema
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In Between Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
All-American guys feel caught between two worlds, not truly knowing where they fit in.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, queer cinema
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Queer as Folk (2022)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a diverse group of friends in New Orleans are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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DTLA (2012)
Plot Summary:
DTLA is a gay-themed television series which premiered October 24, 2012. The series was created, and is co-produced and directed by Larry Kennar. It follows a group of friends in Downtown Los Angeles under the slogan: One City, Seven Lives / Old Friends, New Stories. The main seven characters are Lenny, Bryan, Sara Jane, Matthew, Marky, Kai, Stefan.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, erotic, sensual, touching, semi serious
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People You May Know (2016)
Plot Summary:
'People You May Know' tells the story of four friends in their 40s in Los Angeles. All them will have to confront a new reality when Delia gets pregnant from Joe, her best friend who happens to be gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, humorous, melancholic, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Special (2019)
Plot Summary:
A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, ironic, queer cinema
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Queer as Folk (1999)
Plot Summary:
Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies. The first series was re-shown on More 4 between 14 and 18 October 2007, as part of Channel 4's 25th-birthday celebrations. Queer as Folk was produced by the Red Production Company for Channel 4. The title of the programme comes from a dialect expression from some parts of Northern England, "there's nowt so queer as folk", meaning "there's nothing as strange as people"; which is a word play the modern day English synonym of "queer", meaning homosexual. Davies had originally titled the series this, although at the suggestion of Channel 4 executives for a period during its development and pre-production it was known as Queer as Fuck, before it reverted to the former name.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: controversial, sensual, sexual, erotic, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sex comedy