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The Heart of No Place (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Inspired by the life and work of Yoko Ono; The Heart of No Place began as an answer to a "trade war"-era rumor and evolved into a rumination on the economy; culture and how one generation has dealt with its losses in a world at once limitless and rootless. Shot entirely on Digital 8 in Los Angeles; Berlin; Rome; Tokyo; Liverpool; Glasgow; Death Valley and Ho Chi Minh City; the no-budget film screened at 10 international festivals and won the Best Film (International) at the London Independent Film Festival. It features a song by Yoko Ono and music and personal appearances by art- and Krautrock luminaries including Michael Rother (Kraftwerk; Neu); Dieter Moebius (Cluster) and Holger Czukay (Can).
Style:
independent film, art film, sincere, captivating, experimental, avant garde, art house, philosophical, meditative, poetic ...
Plot:
art, death, the beatles, music, musician, love and romance, musician's life, grief, memory, mourning, aids, hipster, death valley, love, vietnam war, racism, cold war, conspiracy, hiv, sexism, performance, hiv aids
Place:
tokyo, los angeles, berlin germany, rome italy, liverpool
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Most similar movies to The Heart of No Place
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and realistic films with plots about music, musician's life, musician, artists and showbiz, ambition, love and romance and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like The Heart of No Place: Friendly Fire (2006), The Catcher in the Rye (2008), Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012), Stanley's Gig (2000), FEEL (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
A surreal fantasy on the themes of love and friendship, set to the music and songs of the Sean Lennon album "Friendly Fire".
Style:
surreal, captivating, light, emotional, poetic ...
Plot:
love, friendship, surrealism, love and romance, music, friends, memory, loss, intimate, obsession, performance art, underground ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abstract art, surrealism, minimalism, entrapment, absurdism, weirdo, eccentric, hypnotic, cult
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
rock, musician's life, music, introspection, artists and showbiz, love and romance, lifestyle, ambition, art, biopic, junkie, punk ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An emotionally dysfunctional ukulele minstrel lands a gig at a nursing home where he strikes up an unlikely relationship with an ancient jazz chanteuse and awakens from a lifetime of loneliness and inconsequence.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film
Plot:
redemption, musician's life, hopes, love and romance, haunted by the past, friendship, daydreamer, comeback, jazz, singer, cruise, retirement home ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
Style:
art film, experimental, avant garde, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
empathy, intimate, memory, humanism, visionary, bittersweet, character study, identity, artistic, cult
Similarity:
62%
25K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
Style:
psychedelic, art house, bleak, lyrical, intense ...
Plot:
musician, music, rock, rock music, depression, isolation, addiction, drug abuse, biopic, rock and roll, suicide, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught between a new guy at school and her sister's devastated boyfriend. Through her vivid imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love ...
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, teen ...
Plot:
death of sister, grief, musician's life, love affair, relationships, love interest, teenage life, love triangle, love story, loss of sister, music, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
“Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the heart. When a sleazy record producer offers her a crack at rap stardom, Majo faces some daunting choices. With an incarcerated mother, a record ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, sincere, psychological, hood ...
Plot:
hip hop, ambition, moral dilemma, rising to stardom, desire for fame, radio dj, musician's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, music, music industry, exploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Style:
philosophical, art house, meditative, intellectual, experimental ...
Plot:
literary, symbolism, minimalism, mythology, sacrifice, voice over narration, isolation, ritual, time machine, prophecy, utopia, communism ...
Place:
ancient greece
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 40s. Two young lovers, Robert, a Catholic opera singer, and Rachel, a Jewish violin virtuoso, dream of one day performing together at legendary Carnegie Hall. When they're torn apart by ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama
Plot:
world war two, love story, forbidden love, lost love, musician, lovers apart, singer, couple relations, love interest, relationships, music, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1939, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
jazz, talent agent, musician, alcoholism, racism, prejudice, civil rights, trumpet player, blaxploitation, black, racial discrimination, music and dance ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
new york, cincinnati ohio
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An aspiring but adrift teen singer goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier. Together, they overcome adversity and find redemption through their ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
country music, grandmother granddaughter relationship, musician, teenager, family relations, kids and family, family problems, teenage girl, relationships, lifestyle, female singer, teenage life ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, rockumentary
Plot:
musician, the beatles, rock music, prodigy, musician's life, rise to the top, against the odds, youth, lifestyle, rising to stardom, teenage life, working class ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three days in the life of a young clarinetist (Fernando Alves Pinto), who is in love with a violinist (Vera Zimmerman), but can't get her attention. In the first day he feels alone and frail; in the second day what was supposed to be pleasant ...
Style:
art house, art film, sincere, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, violinist, pianist, musical performance, orchestra, love story, love and romance, love interest, musician's life, music, love affair ...
Time:
year 2000
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, China, USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. ...
Style:
anthology, captivating, contemplative, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, life, life & death, fate, memory, symbolism, mortality, experimental narrative, college, forest, minimalism, ritual ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
164K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Having written the music and screenplay for this film, Paul McCartney also plays himself in the leading role. When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous
Plot:
the beatles, rock, music, rock and roll, gangster, friends, heist, showbiz, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, musician's life ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style:
sentimental, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
character study, country music, music, self discovery, small town, comeback, drinking, starting over, musician's life, divorce, love and romance, mother son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, contemplative, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
soldier, jazz, culture clash, rebellion, musician's life, against the rules, military, society, performer's life, music band, friends, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, dying man, memory, haunting, ghost story, family life, near death experience, life & death, family problems, troubled past, mourning, elderly man ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During the Great Depression, identical twins are separated at birth. One, Drexel Hemsley becomes a wildly successful '50s rock star, while the other, Ryan Wade, struggles to balance his passion for music and pleasing his parents, who want him ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
musician, family relations, supportive spouse, musician's life, twin brother, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, rising to stardom, jazz, christian, family secret, great depression ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 50s, 60s, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, alabama
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, society, city life, music, social misfits, fall in love, love, african, rivalry, couples, hustler, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, manhattan new york city, west africa ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, sincere, cult classic ...
Plot:
musician, rock star, music, biopic, rock, musician's life, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, infidelity, drug use, guitarist, rock music ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, london, seattle, new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An urban music singer from a poor neighborhood goes through love and pain on her way to success.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
recording studio, rise to the top, female singer, rising to stardom, desire for fame, love and romance, aspiration, price of fame, ambitious woman, musician's life, love interest, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style:
atmospheric, depressing, black comedy, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
music, homeless, musician, loneliness, musician's life, cat, character study, depression, financial problem, aspiring singer, road trip, melancholy ...
Time:
60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana, chicago, somalia ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
32%
6K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, mentor, black, rivalry, hopes, artists and showbiz, ambition, escapades, musician's life, rags to riches, music, youth ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three friends united by their love of hip-hop work to make their big mark in the music industry. Beginning in the summer of 1990 NYC, Nikki a brilliant recent grad abandons a law school scholarship to pursue her dream of becoming a record exec along ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, entertaining, psychological
Plot:
hip hop, rap, follow your dream, ambition, music industry, direction and purpose, music, musician's life, following a dream, female singer, hip hop culture, friends ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
Style:
road movie, sincere, captivating, motivational, inspirational
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dj, teenager, parent child relationship, small town, music, introspection, coming of age, on the road, self discovery, human spirit, destiny, solitude ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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