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Movies Like Beyond Norms: Exploring Identity - Masc vs. Masc

If you liked Beyond Norms: Exploring Identity - Masc vs. Masc (2025), a movie directed by Kelly Balch, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Welcome to Chechnya

    Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

    ★ 7/10

    This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a…

  2. 2From Straight A's to XXX

    From Straight A's to XXX (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10

    When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her…

  3. 3Geek Charming

    Geek Charming (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Film geek Josh is looking for the subject of his new documentary when a chance meeting puts the perfect star in his sights—Dylan, his school's most popular junior. But Dylan's hopes of using the film to become Blossom…

  4. 4Zerophilia

    Zerophilia (2005)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Luke, a young man insecure about his masculinity, discovers he's a Zerophiliac, with the ability to change sex at will. Join Luke as he journeys into the extraordinary world of Zerophilia where so many crazy questions…

  5. 5Behind the Candelabra

    Behind the Candelabra (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

  6. 6Benjamin

    Benjamin (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician…

  7. 7Shortbus

    Shortbus (2006)

    ★ 6.2/10

    In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics…

  8. 8Camp Belvidere

    Camp Belvidere (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Camp Belvidere is a lesbian romance set in the 1950s about the coming of age of Camp Leader Rose and her forbidden encounter with Nurse Gin. It depicts the journey and evolution of a friendship into a romance between…

  9. 9Fitting In

    Fitting In (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life…

  10. 10To All the Boys I've Loved Before

    To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

  11. 11Flow

    Flow (1996)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

  12. 12Maurice

    Maurice (1987)

    ★ 7.6/10

    After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

  13. 13Disclosure

    Disclosure (2020)

    ★ 7.8/10

    An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

  14. 14Western Stars

    Western Stars (2019)

    ★ 7/10

    The incomparable Bruce Springsteen performs his critically acclaimed latest album and muses on life, rock, and the American dream, in this intimate and personal concert film co-directed by Thom Zimny and Springsteen…

  15. 15Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

  16. 16Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

    ★ 6.1/10

    An ambitious director sets out to revive a faded slasher franchise, but her meeting with the film’s reclusive original star spirals into a terrifying maze of obsession, fear, and blood-soaked delusion.

  17. 17Newness

    Newness (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

  18. 18The Last Repair Shop

    The Last Repair Shop (2024)

    ★ 7.5/10

    In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four…

  19. 19Alex Strangelove

    Alex Strangelove (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A…

  20. 20Bros

    Bros (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.

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