Movies like Back Again
If Back Again's mix of shelter, memory and summer stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Back Again's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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All of Us Strangers
2023 · Directed by Andrew Haigh · 105 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: memory, gay theme · Also romance and drama
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
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Endless Poetry
2016 · Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also a Spanish-language drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic…
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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 132 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: summer, gay theme · Also romance and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture.
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Past Lives
2023 · Directed by Celine Song · 106 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: childhood friends · Also drama and romance
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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My Policeman
2022 · Directed by Michael Grandage · 113 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when…
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Heartstopper Forever
2026 · Directed by Wash Westmoreland · 110 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also romance and drama
It's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life after the last bell rings.
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Looking: The Movie
2016 · Directed by Andrew Haigh · 85 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2010s)
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult…
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Disobedience
2018 · Directed by Sebastián Lelio · 114 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: childhood friends · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2010s)
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction…
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Behind the Candelabra
2013 · Directed by Steven Soderbergh · 118 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2010s)
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
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Closet Monster
2016 · Directed by Stephen Dunn · 90 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.