Movies Like Big Eden
If you liked Big Eden (2000), a drama and romance movie directed by Thomas Bezucha, 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.
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My Policeman (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceIn 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)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romancePatrick 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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Those People (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceOn Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and romanceIn 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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The Power of the Dog (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
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Beach Rats (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceOn the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour…
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Uncle Frank (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaIn 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Weekend (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceAfter a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
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My Fault: London (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an…
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The Normal Heart (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaThe 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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Jungle Fever (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceA successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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Heartstopper Forever (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and dramaIt's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life after the last bell rings.
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The Boys in the Band (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAt 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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Disobedience (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceNew York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction…
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Queer (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into…
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The Tender Bar (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaJR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined…
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Behind the Candelabra (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceBased on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
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Flow (1996)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
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Maurice (1987)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceAfter his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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A Home at the End of the World (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceThree friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet…