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Plot Summary:
Su Yu, a high school student who lives a simple life with his father, faces a major change when his mother remarries a wealthy man, introducing him to his step-brother Wu Bi. Despite their initial differences-Wu Bi being a cold and arrogant top student, while Su Yu is an unreasonable underachiever-their relationship takes an unexpected turn after an accident. As they gradually warm up to each other, their bond grows stronger. However, when a heated fight arises, their true identities are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 35 min
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My Tooth Your Love (2022)
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Jin Xun An, a promising achiever, is already the chief dentist at his dental clinic at a young age. Although cold-hearted and distant by appearance, Jin Xun An has nevertheless earned himself the coveted title of being the "Master Prince of Dentistry". One day, he is entrusted by Bai Qing, one of his seniors, to treat her precious little brother, Bai Lang.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 35 min
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Jack O' Frost (2023)
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Illustrator Ritsu and salesman Fumiya's love story begins at a quaint coffee shop. Despite their happy union, a misunderstanding causes a rift between the two. After a heated argument, Ritsu has an accident and loses all memory of Fumiya.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Dangerous Romance (2023)
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Sailom, a poor and studious student, has worked several odd jobs along with his elder brother in an effort to keep them afloat. One day, a misunderstanding causes him to hate school bully Kanghan. However, fate plays its hand when Sailom, offered a sum of money too great to refuse, takes on the role of Kanghan's private tutor. Despite their difference, the two develop an irrefutable connection.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
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Fanfic (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two high school students form an intense connection as they navigate the challenges of discovering and expressing their truest selves.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
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Triage (2022)
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Tin is a third-year resident physician in emergency medicine who deals with a wide range of patients who circle the emergency room every day until the night of the 18th. His life changes when Tol, a male student who was pushed into the emergency room in a serious condition. That night wasn't just the the night that he couldn't save him. Because when he woke up, he found himself trapped in a time loop.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration:
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The Heights (2019)
Plot Summary:
A groundbreaking serial about a community trying to protect its way of life, while under the constant threat of gentrification and the social stratification of its neighbourhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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You Are My Boy (2021)
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A story about the relationship from foe to love between two straight guys. It takes viewers through all levels of emotions thanks to the sweet details with romantic and dramatic twist. "Does anyone believe in the love of two boys?".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration:
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Mr. Cinderella (2021)
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Mr. Cinderella tells the story of Dung and Khoa. When Dung was a child, he used to be close and liked a little girl, he often called her "his cinderella" but then the girl moved house and Dung lost contact since then. Later, as an adult, Dung became a chef for a small restaurant, but then lost his job and was chased by a gang, and was fortunately saved by Doctor Khoa in a blood-soaked state. At this time, Dung accidentally discovered that Khoa was the "Cinderella" that he liked in his childhood. Will Dung overcome the thought barrier to come to Khoa's side? And did the appearance of Huynh - Khoa's ex-lover cause this relationship to fall apart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 40 min
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The Underclass (2020)
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After getting dropped from an elite program, a student gets tangled in the affairs of a high school gang while trying to find her own identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Ruri's Island (2005)
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Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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Goldfish Club (2011)
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Irie plays Hiiragi Haru, a third-year high school student with no real interest in women or higher education, instead choosing to live his life idly. When he notices a first-year student named Harukawa Koto being bullied, he lends her a hand, and the two form a “goldfish club” just for themselves. While love begins to bloom between them, the bullying against Koto continues to escalate. --- Tokyograph.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min
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Jungle Fish 2 (2010)
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A beautiful high school student, who is the top student of her class, mysteriously dies. Six of her friends who graduated from the same elementary school attempts to track down the reasons for her death by communicating in real time. While the six friends dig for the truth behind her death, they face difficulties in their studies, dropping out of school, bullying and boyfriend troubles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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En komikers uppväxt (1992)
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Juha Lindström grows up in the 1970s in a peaceful suburb to Stockholm called Sävbyholm. Sävbyholm seems peaceful enough on the surface but underneath a lot of problems exist. The grown-up Juha is a famous comedian who cannot forget his childhood. He remembers being a kid and trying to please the cool kids by being funny. He didn't always succeed. Now he is taping letters to his childhood friend Thomas about how bad he feels and how much his childhood has affected him. We follow Juha and the other kids in 6th grade in flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 135 min
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Just Dance (2018)
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In a Girls' Vocational High School in Geoje, six students dream to win a dance sports competition.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
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SOTUS (2016)
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The "Gear" is one of the engineering mechanical devices in the cogwheel system (as in a clock). Having one signifies that one is a student of the Faculty of Engineering. However, to get one, all engineering freshmen must first undergo the SOTUS (acronym for Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity, and Spirit) system. Arthit (Perawat Sangpotirat), one of the third year seniors, often abuses his power over the freshmen by making them do things against the rules. Freshmen students are practically powerless to complain or resist any orders given by their seniors. Arthit was seemingly unstoppable, until Kongpob (Prachaya Ruangroj) stood up against the abuses by the former. Continual encounters between the two developed from animosity to something much more affectionate.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sweet, disturbing, yaoi, lgbt cinema
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I Am Syd Stone (2020)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a film in a small town, a famous actor puts his personal life and career in jeopardy by starting an intense affair with another man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional
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Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru (2019)
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Jun, a closeted gay teenager who loves Queen, starts a relationship after bumping into his classmate, Sae, and sees her buying "yaoi" manga. However, Jun suffers a lot when he tries to learn to be straight.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, sweet
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Confused Feelings (1981)
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It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Mess (2016)
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Soon after moving to New York City to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, 22-year-old Andy is diagnosed with HIV. Now, Andy and his three best friends must come to terms with his life-changing news while struggling to survive life in the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, unusual plot structure, melancholic, suspenseful, gay cinema
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After Forever (2018)
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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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The Love of Courtyard (2015)
Plot Summary:
The nostalgic account of the lives of the Beijing working class residing in the ghetto-ish quad-court from the late 60s to the early 90s. The stories are told around a frank and outspoken factory canteen chef nicknamed "Shazhu" (dumb pole), a widowed single mother of 3 young children, who eventually become Shazhu's wife, a cunning and snobbish theatre projectionist who is Shazhu's life long foe, as well as the various characters inside and outside the old quad-court, as they navigate through the Cultural Revolution, the economic reform, and the blooming 90s.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating
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Ants without Umbrella (2016)
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Jun Hashimoto is a sci-fi novel writer, but he isn't popular at all. He lives off of his savings. One day, his editor Tateyama assigns him a job: he is to write a "love" themed short story for a web magazine oriented towards youths. At first Jun refuses, because he has never written a love story before, but Tateyama pushes him to write one. The deadline is imminent. Jun's childhood friend Keisuke Murata then appears in front of him. Jun complains to Keisuke that he can't write, but while talking to him, he comes up with an idea.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Residential Complex (2018)
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Story depicts the conflicts and growth of families who live at co-operative houses. Nana Igarashi is 35-years-old and works as a diving instructor. She is married to Daiki who is 32-years-old and works at a toy company. They live in a small apartment, while saving up to buy a house. They enjoy their life. Nana and Daiki decide to buy a co-operative house. They also try to have a baby. Nana and Daiki realize it isn't easy to have baby.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Life (2007)
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Adapted from Keiko Suenobu's manga "LIFE," this drama delves into the dark side of high school life. The story focuses mainly on bullying, but the manga also touches on subjects such as self-mutilation, suicide, and rape. Kitano Kii stars as Ayumu Shiiba, one of the students bullied by a group of classmates led by Ayumu's former friend, Manami Anzai (Fukuda Saki).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, dorama
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Addicted (2016)
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Ever since he was young, Bai Luo Yin has been living with his careless father, Bai Han Qi and his grandmother. When he turned 16 years old, his biological mother Jiang Yuan is re-marrying, and her partner is the party’s high ranking official Gu Wei Ting. Because of his mother’s death, Gu Wei Ting’s son, Gu Hai, has been harboring a deep grudge towards his father. Due to the random hand of fate, the 2 brothers with wildly conflicting emotional backgrounds have been placed in the same class. With time, they slowly developed a different kind of feeling. Bai Luo Yin’s classmates, You Qi and Fa Xiao Yang Meng, have been instrumental in the relationship.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, light, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema, yaoi, unusual plot structure, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Tales of the City (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, sentimental, touching, erotic, feel good, saga, sensual, lgbt cinema, queer cinema
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Same-Sex Parents (2001)
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A jealous classmate exposes the fact that Olympe has 2 gay parents. Feeling ostracized and humiliated, Olympe lashes out at her closeted mother. Life unravels so that the truth can set them free.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, tense, sexual, sexy
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Sebastian (1995)
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In this thoughtful Scandinavian drama, a teenage boy wrestles with his sexuality and learns that most of his deepest fears were unfounded. Sebastian is almost 17 when he figures out that he is a homosexual. Though he lives with wonderful, stable parents and has a good-hearted sister, he finds himself wracked with turmoil and suddenly withdraws from them all. The more they try to understand why, the more distant Sebastian becomes. Things get worse when he falls in love with the handsome Ulf, who comes from an unstable, tempestuous home. Sebastian realizes he is lucky, but still can't help but become irritated when he brings Ulf home for dinner. His parents are too nice and this quietly infuriates their son. Eventually they leave the two boys alone in the house. Sebastian have great fun doing teenage guy stuff, but then they take a bath together and it is then that Sebastian tries to kiss Ulf.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Coming Out (2013)
Plot Summary:
The explosive lives, loves and losses of an intermingled group of Montréalers are explored as they confront the subject of difference. Managing a modern relationship can be a mess. Single? Attached? Married? Divorced? Open? Closed? The most common answer is ‘It’s complicated.’.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, gay cinema
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When We Rise (2017)
Plot Summary:
The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. The period piece tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 341 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, lgbt cinema, suspenseful, political, queer cinema