Films like Any Day Now
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
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Short Term 12
Film · 2013 · also dramaGrace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough...
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Losing Isaiah
Film · 1995 · also dramaKhaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reali...
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Boy Erased
Film · 2018 · also dramaJared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program...
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Jet Boy
Film · 2001 · also dramaA coming-of-age story of a reluctant 13-year-old hustler named Nathan who will do whatever it takes to feel loved.
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
Film · 2003 · also dramaBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon...
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Milk
Film · 2008 · also dramaThe true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights...
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As You Are
Film · 2016 · also dramaSet in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construc...
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Philadelphia
Film · 1993 · also dramaTwo competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and...
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The Boys of St. Vincent
Film · 1994 · also dramaThe true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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Falling
Film · 2020 · also dramaJohn Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searchi...
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