Movies like Hair
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Hair (1979)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center.
Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.
Style:
stylized, thought provoking, psychedelic, cult classic, retro, feel good, ironic, sad, deep, sentimental ...
Plot:
hippie, nudity, counterculture, vietnam war, broadway, anti war, music, rock and roll, dancing, male nudity, commune, female nudity, lsd, dance, lgbtq, bohemian life, rock music, bare breasts, culture clash, drinking, social commentary, drug, love, wedding, drug use ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 1960s
Place:
oklahoma, vietnam, new york, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., nevada, manchester ...
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Most similar movies to Hair
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, weird, melancholic and visually appealing films with plots about drinking alcohol, drinking, storytelling, kiss, love, dancing and dialogue mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hair: Across the Universe (2007), Rent (2005), SLC Punk (1998), Together (2000), Goodbye, Columbus (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, sexy, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family outing, adult
Plot:
anti war, hippie, freedom, music, vietnam war, artist, dancing, love story, fall in love, political unrest, young lovers, passion ...
Time:
60s, year 2007, y2k, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, california, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark ...
Style:
sentimental, stylized, lyrical, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, bohemian life, aids, lgbtq, gay, drug abuse, hiv, glbt, drug addiction, christmas, friendship, drag queen ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 2005, future, 90s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, new mexico ...
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36K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Style:
realistic, philosophical, harsh, teen, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, subculture, rock, rebelliousness, coming of age, punk rock, self destructing, drug overdose, drug, rock and roll, friendship, drug addiction ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
utah, north dakota, england, seattle, woodstock ...
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100%
25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hippie, commune, friendship, utopia, idealism, gay, lesbian, loneliness, domestic violence, homosexual, coming of age, ideology ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypical Jewish-American-Princess, very emotionally involved with her parents world and the world they have created for ...
Style:
sexual, independent film, humorous, witty, weeping ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
swimming pool, skinny dipping, hotel, wedding, satire, young lovers, couples, guilt, passionate kiss, engagement, class differences, jewish wedding ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, columbus ohio, tahiti, usa, ohio ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Style:
sexy, entertaining, feel good, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
rock, teenager, broadway, rock and roll, sex scene, dancing, music, nightclub, love story, fall in love, rock star, musician ...
Time:
80s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
college, vietnam war, lottery, friendship, anti war, politics, coming of age, teenage life, fighting the system, political unrest, love affair, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, year 1971
Place:
vietnam, ohio, usa, asia, cambodia ...
Similarity:
47%
4K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott battles with his conservative veteran father, Cliff, and Ralph deals with his desperately sexual ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, serious, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vietnam war, prejudice, anti war, unfaithfulness, death of father, drug use, hippie, small town, drug, college, coming of age, male nudity ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s
Place:
vietnam, usa, california, texas, canada ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
Style:
sincere, contemplative, serious, realistic, hispanic ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, thanksgiving, family gatherings, marine, love and romance, soldier, society, self discovery, homecoming, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, usa, california
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar ...
Style:
stylized, freeze frame, funny, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, dancing, nightclub, transformation, charity, elevator, love, depression, tattoo, dancer, top hat, based on broadway musical ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style:
touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, teenager, high school, depression, first love, friendship, drug, stoner ...
Time:
year 1994, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ample teen Tracy Turnblad wants nothing more than to be on the hip local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show" -- and when her dream comes true, her lively moves and bubbly personality meet with unexpected popularity. But after ...
Style:
light, satirical, stylized, witty, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, rock and roll, racism, civil rights, fat girl, satire, dance, interracial romance, music, interracial friendship, social differences ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, year 1963, 80s
Place:
baltimore, usa, maryland, america, california ...
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, ...
Style:
sexy, melancholic, sweet, anthology, talky ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love story, young lovers, interracial relations, multiple storylines, looking for love, city life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, first love, love affair ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
44%
174K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Style:
romantic, funny, sentimental, independent film, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, summer job, friendship, coming of age, amusement park, workplace, college, marijuana, first sexual experience, youth, misfit, young adult ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1987, 2000s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, boston, new york ...
Similarity:
44%
324K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style:
romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
high school, opposites attract, coming of age, dancing, dance, makeover, summer romance, teenage love, love story, first love, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style:
talky, humorous, independent film, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, slacker, graduation, drinking, campus, lone hero, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
44%
28K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, surreal, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, anti war, satire, military, bomber, male nudity, soldier, aviation, social commentary, literary, wartime, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1970, year 1944, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, alexandria egypt, sardinia, mediterranean sea, new york ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, teen, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
wedding, mother daughter relationship, dancing, father daughter relationship, single parent, greek island, teenage girl, single mother, happy ending, dance, broadway, meet the parents ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, fictional island, italy, new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style:
humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school life, teenager, father son relationship, american football, adaptation, high school, family relations, prank, honest, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, y2k, year 1999
Place:
usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
Similarity:
43%
40K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
sexy, psychological, semi serious, independent film, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, fall in love, depression, musician, starting over, self fulfillment, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Style:
sexy, dark comedy, stylized, teen, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
college, sex, suicide, virginity, violence, drug abuse, lesbian, party, virgin, nudity, youth, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new hampshire, italy, paris france, dublin ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
Style:
depressing, epic, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, russian roulette, hunting, anti war, suicide, friendship, small town, wedding, u.s. army, gambling, drunkenness, war crime ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, post world war two, 60s
Place:
vietnam, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is ...
Style:
surreal, witty, humorous, satirical, talky ...
Plot:
satire, mental illness, dark humor, religion, insanity, dysfunctional family, nobility, farce, country estate, misfit, split personality, mistaken identity ...
Time:
20th century, year 1972, 70s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, london, england
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style:
melancholic, talky, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
politics, fighting the system, conspiracy, depression, justice, biopic, mental illness, revolution, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, woodstock, pentagon ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is partnered with Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), to give notice to the families of ...
Style:
touching, sincere, depressing, sad, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
military, soldier, redemption, honest, character study, bereavement, human nature, officer, jihad, relationships, wartime, friendship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
iraq, bosnia, usa, california
Similarity:
43%
64K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Style:
satirical, stylized, atmospheric, period piece, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
nazi, gay, fascism, lgbtq, cabaret, gay interest, decadence, world war two, closeted homosexual, dancing, politics, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, new york
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the ...
Style:
sexual, touching, sincere, erotic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, aids, making love, glbt, loneliness, self discovery, male male relationship, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
ohio, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style:
road movie, erotic, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, crazy love, rebellion, sex orgy, male nudity, outdoor sex, politics, pink floyd, materialism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, phoenix arizona, italy ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, death, hitchhiker, suicide attempt, friendship, on the road, gay brother, suicidal, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
turkey, new jersey
Similarity:
42%
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