Movies like Grinder
If Grinder's mix of sexual abuse, male model and abuse stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Grinder's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Normal Heart
2014 · Directed by Ryan Murphy · 133 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose…
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Mysterious Skin
2005 · Directed by Gregg Araki · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Stuart: A Life Backwards
2007 · Directed by David Attwood · 92 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: abuse
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
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She Said
2022 · Directed by Maria Schrader · 129 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: metoo
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of…
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs.
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Cruising
1980 · Directed by William Friedkin · 102 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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Love Is Strange
2014 · Directed by Ira Sachs · 98 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.