Top 20 movies like The Tenderness
Top 20 Movies like The Tenderness
- 1. Bend It Like Beckham
- 2. Fire
- 3. Bad Education
- 4. Brokeback Mountain
- 5. The Wilding
- 6. Waffles
- 7. Graduation Film
- 8. Persephone Mara
- 9. Angel
- 10. Dustin
- 11. The Sword and the Balance
- 12. Hair
- 13. Extremely Unique Dynamic
- 14. C.R.A.Z.Y.
- 15. Wilde
- 16. Words of Devotion
- 17. All Our Fears
- 18. Never Let Me Go
- 19. Cavafy
- 20. Two Drifters
1. Bend It Like Beckham
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
It has an average vote of 6.301 on TMDB.
2. Fire
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
3. Bad Education (La mala educación)
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
4. Brokeback Mountain
A sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
5. The Wilding
When juvenile inmate Malcolm is offered a chance at parole, he is torn between his chance for freedom and protecting the one he loves.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
6. Waffles
A young, gay millennial discovers she's slept with the enemy and has to choose between swallowing her pride and standing by her principles.
7. Graduation Film (졸업영화)
A film student is having her birthday party with a few of her classmates she hasn’t seen in a while. Yeong-ju and Chae-eun become close friends after the party, and the two form a romantic relationship after realizing the chemistry they have. Yeong-ju writes a screenplay based on the story of her and Chae-eun.
8. Persephone Mara
Memory, love, and mental health are explored in this hybrid-fiction-cinema-play about two adolescents that decide to escape from the world around them, by none other than locking themselves away in an old projector room at the Cinematheque.
9. Angel (Angel)
Twenty-something-year-old Angelo is suffering heartbreak after his longtime girlfriend leaves him for another man. Angel is forced to find a new version of his life without her in a big and new city. When he thinks all hope is gone, a sexual encounter with an old school friend reawakens him and forces him to question everything he thought he knew about himself.
10. Dustin (Dustin)
In an abandoned warehouse, a crowd is dancing as one on 145 BPM techno music. Among them is Dustin, a young transgender woman and crew: Felix, Raya and Juan. As the night draws on, collective hysteria morphs into sweet melancholy, and euphoria into yearning for tenderness.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
11. The Sword and the Balance (Le glaive et la balance)
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
12. Hair
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
It has an average vote of 7.307 on TMDB.
13. Extremely Unique Dynamic
Ryan and Daniel, two childhood best friends and aspiring actors, spend one final weekend together before RYAN has to move to Canada with his fiancé. Wanting to create one lasting memory, they decide to make a movie... about two guys making a movie.. about two guys making a movie. Along the way, they unpack their decades-long friendship and prepare for the next chapters of their respective lives.
14. C.R.A.Z.Y. (C.R.A.Z.Y.)
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
15. Wilde
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
It has an average vote of 6.599 on TMDB.
16. Words of Devotion (愛の言霊)
Ootani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they're in college, they live together, they're happy and everything seems prefect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl?
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
17. All Our Fears (Wszystkie nasze strachy)
Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
18. Never Let Me Go
After running away from an abusive relationship that lasted for 8 years, Alec moves to Ireland to start over and rediscover himself. However, his journey takes an unexpected turn after Jonathan enters Alec's life.
19. Cavafy (Καβάφης)
An ailing, elderly poet reminisces about his life of unrest and homosexual urges.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
20. Two Drifters (Odete)
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.