Movies like Night Swimming
If Night Swimming's mix of road trip, stranded and swimming stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Night Swimming's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Giant Little Ones
2019 · Directed by Keith Behrman · 93 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: swimming, gay theme
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: lgbt teen, gay theme
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…
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Green Book
2018 · Directed by Peter Farrelly · 130 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: road trip, gay theme
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below…
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Scarecrow
1973 · Directed by Jerry Schatzberg · 112 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: road trip
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
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Mikey and Nicky
1976 · Directed by Elaine May · 106 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: one night
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
2018 · Directed by Desiree Akhavan · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: lgbt teen
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr.
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The Boys in the Band
2020 · Directed by Joe Mantello · 122 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
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The Human Voice
2020 · Directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 30 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: short film
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.