Movies like Total Eclipse
If Total Eclipse's mix of mentor, poet and 19th century stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Total Eclipse's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Wilde
1997 · Directed by Brian Gilbert · 118 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century, gay theme · From the same decade (1990s)
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a chat at the theatre with Lord Alfred…
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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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Cabaret
1972 · Directed by Bob Fosse · 124 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also romance and drama
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
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Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Leonardo DiCaprio · Shares: 19th century
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Those People
2015 · Directed by Joey Kuhn · 89 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also drama and romance
On 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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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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The Revenant
2015 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itWith Leonardo DiCaprio · Shares: 19th century
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Rocketman
2019 · Directed by Dexter Fletcher · 121 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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My First Summer
2020 · Directed by Katie Found · 78 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso drama and romance
Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.