Beginners
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
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2003★ 5.9
When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.
We Live in Time
2024★ 7.2
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Elena Undone
2010★ 6.9
The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Nothing in Common
1986★ 5.9
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Babyteeth
2020★ 6.9
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.
Departure
2016★ 6.3
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
Make the Yuletide Gay
2009★ 6.2
The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?
Hope Springs
2012★ 6.3
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Chéri
2009★ 6.1
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Something's Gotta Give
2003★ 6.6
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Love, Simon
2018★ 8.0
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009★ 5.8
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
One True Thing
1998★ 6.5
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Not Easily Broken
2009★ 6.3
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996★ 6.7
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Irreplaceable You
2018★ 6.9
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.
Harold and Maude
1971★ 7.6
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Jersey Girl
2004★ 6.2
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
Ordinary Love
2019★ 6.8
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
About a Boy
2002★ 6.7
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.