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10 Best Movies Like Heart Breaks Open

If you loved Heart Breaks Open, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Parting Glances

Parting Glances

1986★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heart Breaks Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick...

#2
Jeffrey

Jeffrey

1995★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heart Breaks Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it...

#3
Three Months

Three Months

2022★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heart Breaks Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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 t...

#4
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heart Breaks Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#5
My Policeman

My Policeman

2022★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heart Breaks Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#6
An Englishman in New York

An Englishman in New York

2009★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Heart Breaks Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observ...

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