Drama, Romance
"The Letter Men" is based on the real love letters written by Gilbert Bradley to his sweetheart, Gordon Bowsher during WWII. Exchanged between 1938 and 1941, the letters were uncovered in 2017 and represent the largest known collection LGBTQ love letters from that time period. Using text from the actual letters, "The Letter Men" follows the two men as their fight to keep their love alive in the face of war and loss.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
Occidental
The Tram
Battle of the Bulge
Ride or Die
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The Devil's Skipper
Head on the Wall
The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
Perfect Obedience
Closing Dynasty
Pretty Boy
Rift
Eleni
Seeking Sun Paths
Withnail & I
Swimming Bird
Male Shorts: International V4
Fortress of Flesh and Blood
Military Dog
The Dam Busters
SIMILAR MOVIES
Occidental
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 2018
The mood is heated. Demonstrations are taking place across France, also in front of the Paris hotel where an Italian named Giorgio is booking the bridal suite for him and his boyfriend Antonio. Hotel manager Diana doesn’t trust them and calls the police to get rid of the odd couple. Italians? Homosexuals? Criminals? In the charged atmosphere of the Hotel Occidental, little is needed for initial suspicions to be aroused.The Tram
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2019
A psychiatry student gets on a tram that delivers him twenty-five years into the future, where an unexpected encounter awaits him.Battle of the Bulge
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1965
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.Ride or Die
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2021
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2020
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.The Devil's Skipper
IMDB 10 | Feb , 1928
The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.Head on the Wall
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2024
Three years have passed since the abolition of bullfighting, and Rafael Jesús will no longer be able to become the bullfighting figure he was destined to be. He wanders the streets, trying to fit into this new world that has no place for him. Each step he takes leads him further from the arena and closer to the blood.The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 2012
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.Perfect Obedience
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2014
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.Closing Dynasty
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 2022
On a school day, a seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.Pretty Boy
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 2015
Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen, Sean, struggling with his sexuality and the hardships of high school. After his father finds some questionable magazines in his room, this devout Christian will go to any lengths to get his son to find the light and "perform" the way a man should. Sean is introduced to Katie, a prostitute that understands the stigmas of modern society and helps him see the true light that is within him.Rift
IMDB 5.6 | Feb , 2017
Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. He sounds distraught, like he's about to do something terrible to himself. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.Eleni
IMDB 4.5 | Sep , 2011
When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.Seeking Sun Paths
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1975
Nebi Surreli lives in poverty along with his mother. Doing small jobs to earn a living, he also helps his town's communist unit.Withnail & I
IMDB 7.3 | Jun , 1987
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.Swimming Bird
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2020
Male Shorts: International V4
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2022
The fourth volume of an amazing series, Male Shorts: International V4 features six brand-new short films focusing on men. The 6 short films are: Venus in Nykes [Vênus de Nyke] (2021); The Red Trinket [O Berloque Vermelho] (2021); Ten Times Love (2020); It's Just in My Head [È solo nella mia testa] (2020); Playtime [Giochi] (2021); It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live [Nicht die brasilianischen Homosexuellen sind pervers, sondern die Situation in der sie leben] (2021).Fortress of Flesh and Blood
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1938
Professor Lo Yeung-guo (Hou Yao) and his students escape death from the Japanese army, and call on villagers in the countryside to form a guerrillas group. His son Lo Yung (Lau Hark-suen), however, indulges in debauchery. Entrapped by the Japanese, chicken-hearted Yung leaks information about the guerrilla that leads to deaths and injuries in the group. Yeung-guo reprimands his son for being an invisible traitor, inflicting even more harm than an outright traitor. Placing righteousness before family, he decides to execute his own son. As a writer-director-actor in the film, Hou Yao proclaimed his unwavering stance on resistance on the screen, and delivered a scathing attack on the cowardly ‘invisible traitors‘ at that time. Not long after, Hou was sadly arrested and executed by the Japanese army in Singapore.Military Dog
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 2019
New to BDSM, military officer Lee Jun Zhong meets DT, master of human dogs. One late night, Lee calls DT. Given a task to prove his loyalty to the master, will Lee be able to overcome his doubts and fear?The Dam Busters
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1955
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.