Movies like Michael
If Michael's mix of princess, artist and model stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Michael's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Center of My World
2016 · Directed by Jakob M. Erwa · 115 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also a German drama
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow.
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Maurice
1987 · Directed by James Ivory · 140 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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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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Looking: The Movie
2016 · Directed by Andrew Haigh · 85 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
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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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923 · Directed by Charlie Chaplin · 82 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: silent film · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1920s)
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with…
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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
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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Total Eclipse
1995 · Directed by Agnieszka Holland · 111 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019 · Directed by Xavier Dolan · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
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Gabriel's Inferno: Part III
2020 · Directed by Tosca Musk · 102 min8.3
Why you'll like itAlso romance and drama
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
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Life in a Year
2020 · Directed by Mitja Okorn · 107 min8.2
Why you'll like itAlso drama and romance
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.