Movies like Hate Crime
If Hate Crime's mix of homophobia, hate crime and gay theme stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Hate Crime's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Moonlight
2016 · Directed by Barry Jenkins · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia, 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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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
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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The Imitation Game
2014 · Directed by Morten Tyldum · 113 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia, gay theme · From the same decade (2010s)
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and…
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Brokeback Mountain
2005 · Directed by Ang Lee · 134 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia, gay theme
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
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Palmer
2021 · Directed by Fisher Stevens · 110 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: homophobia
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home.
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In Cold Blood
1967 · Directed by Richard Brooks · 134 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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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.