The Opposite of Sex

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The Opposite of Sex (1998)

Comedy, Drama

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Imaginary Heroes

Imaginary Heroes

2004 ★ 6.5

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

Uncle Frank

Uncle Frank

2020 ★ 7.3

In 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.

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

1967 ★ 7.5

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

Good Grief

Good Grief

2023 ★ 6.2

When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face.

Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012 ★ 5.8

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You

2014 ★ 6.6

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

Three Months

Three Months

2022 ★ 7.1

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.

Demolition

Demolition

2016 ★ 6.8

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

Shotgun Stories

Shotgun Stories

2007 ★ 6.9

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.

Closet Monster

Closet Monster

2016 ★ 7.0

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Chuck & Buck

Chuck & Buck

2000 ★ 6.0

Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.

Cracks

Cracks

2009 ★ 6.6

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Landline

Landline

2017 ★ 6.1

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Heathers: The Musical

Heathers: The Musical

2023 ★ 8.0

A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.

Horns

Horns

2013 ★ 6.3

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

Grandma

Grandma

2015 ★ 6.5

Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

Hallam Foe

Hallam Foe

2007 ★ 6.7

Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.

The Deep End

The Deep End

2001 ★ 6.2

With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?

Joe Bell

Joe Bell

2020 ★ 6.5

The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.

Fitting In

Fitting In

2024 ★ 6.5

A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.

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