Movies like The Top of His Head

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The Top of His Head (1989)
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The Top of His Head (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Satellite dish salesman Gus (Stephen Ouimette) experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy (Christie MacFadyen) in this visually poetic fantasy. After Lucy vanishes, leaving a puzzling note, Gus goes on a quest for the mysterious woman. Moving from his meticulous life in a technologically advanced world into the spontaneity of nature, Gus learns some important lessons and begins to trust his own instincts.
Style: art film, independent film
Plot: love, nature, ecology, computer, salesman, woman, conservation, alienation, male protagonist, paranoia, surveillance, suspicion, following someone, materialism, satellite dish, search

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Most similar movies to The Top of His Head

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, touching, captivating and romantic films with plots about love, woman, love and romance, male female relationship, couples, female nudity and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Top of His Head: scissere (1982), Polarized (2023), Mazhayethum Munpe (1995), Mouvements du désir (1994), Charming Christmas (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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scissere (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
Style: art film, independent film, experimental, underground film, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, machinery, guitarist, old man, drug addict, lake, snow, scientist, mother, introspection, psychiatric hospital, stop motion ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.8
 279
Polarized (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lisa, an aspiring songwriter, whose farming family has suffered foreclosure is forced to work at a new, 'urban farm' where she meets Dalia. Her casual racism leads her to be fired but the women end up drawn into a passionate affair.
Style: captivating, melancholic, sincere, dramatic
Plot: lesbian, racism, woman, lesbian couple, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, lesbianism, farm, relationships, lesbian interest, lesbian romance ...
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41%
Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves ...
Plot: woman, love, flashback, suicide, marriage, college, love triangle, prank, professor, dysfunctional marriage, paralysis, depression ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Mouvements du désir (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
Style: avant garde
Plot: train, thief, nudity, masturbation, love, female nudity, female masturbation, mother daughter relationship, attraction, woman, sex, surrealism ...
Place: vancouver, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Charming Christmas (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Meredith Rossman has made Rossman's Department store her entire life, not leaving any time for Christmas or romance. But when she is roped into donning the store's antique Mrs. Claus outfit to play Mrs. Claus at Rossman's famous ...
Style: feel good, sweet, romantic, light, entertaining
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, architect, woman, business partner, family business, mother daughter estrangement, friendship, love, love and romance, romancing partners, love affair ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Affair in the Snow (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
Plot: love triangle, love, woman, mountain, memory, unrequited love, sex scene, teacher, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, snow, suicide, extramarital affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Love Struck Café (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Megan Quinn, an aspiring architect, faces multiple tasks – developing her hometown lake into a commercialized entertainment center, forcing Mrs. Frances Figgins, her childhood mentor, out of her family’s home, and helping out at her family café ...
Style: romantic, light, scenic, visually appealing, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing
Plot: harvest, romanticism, love and romance, problem, love story, career, love, father daughter relationship, workplace problem, family business, cafe, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Love.net (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online.
Style: romantic, captivating, sexy
Plot: internet, love, dating show, computer, adultery, love and romance, online dating, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, social media, romantic relationship, social network ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Sparsh (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with social worker, Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, and he slowly also gets attracted to her. When marriage is ...
Style: parallel cinema, offbeat, art film
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, teacher, friend, love, singing, dormitory, blind boy, determination, breakup, teacher student relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Days to Remember (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this melodramatic tale, the well-made plans of a career-obsessed woman are derailed when she sets her sights on a young man who is plainly not very interested in her. In the story, Katherina is an ambitious reporter for German television, and her ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, woman, partisan, lake, love, television reporter, male female relationship, family relations, platonic relationship, mountain, children, older woman younger man relationship ...
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 659
Porcupine Lake (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, summer, lesbian, friendship, girl, childhood, lgbtq, friends, love and romance, youth, society ...
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Terrace on the Roof (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two very different, but aging neighbors, Ratko and Krekich, share a rooftop terrace. Their settled lives are overturned by the arrival of an outgoing young girl, Andja, who takes the empty flat next door. But their dreams of revived youth and love ...
Plot: love, misogynist, love triangle, neighbor, jealousy, sadness, aging, insecurity, chaos, alienation, old woman, older man younger woman relationship ...
Place: serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Across the Lake (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.
Plot: prison, corruption, police, paranoia, marriage, spy, inspector, getting home, raft, police officer, hard labor, communist ...
Time: 1950s
Place: macedonia, albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.4
 108
Parsley Days (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A young woman mulls how to terminate her unwanted pregnancy and whether to leave her boyfriend.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, couples, love and romance, youth, adoption, breakup, family problems, hopes, babies and infants, teenage love, teenage pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Liminality (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An ensemble of interconnected twentysomethings struggle with the complications of life, work, and love as they cross paths in the city throughout one day.
Style: independent film, mumblecore
Plot: marriage, long distance relationship, twenty something, salesman, single parent, bisexuality, paramedic, love, city, one day, interlinked stories, vignette
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
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Shopgirl (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: depression, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, artist, salesman, love, love story, honest, couples, age difference, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Fallen from Heaven (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their ...
Plot: fate, couples, woman, wealth, hospital, husband wife relationship, love, surrealism, grandmother grandson relationship, radio announcer, old woman, illness ...
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Sealed with a Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Chiu directs this quiet romance that recalls the gentle style of Francois Truffaut. Young and attractive Mandy (Yo Yo Mung) flees the hustle of Hong Kong proper and a failed relationship for the bucolic quiet of Peng Chau, ...
Plot: mute, simple man, unspoken love, love, sign language, island, love letter, male female friendship, tomboy, tough girl, tragic love, fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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A Warm December (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: black romance, biker, black, african american, love, motorcycle racing, motor sport, bittersweet, power relations, couples, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.0
 129
Covergirl (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s."
Style: independent film
Plot: model, male pubic hair, love, male nudity, female nudity, entrepreneur, fashion, infatuation, price of fame, supermodel, rags to riches, mogul ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Barbarian Light (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: THE WAKE OF LIGHT is a romantic drama about a young woman grappling between a deep-felt responsibility in caring for her ailing father and her newfound love for a young man passing through her small town on the way to see the one place his father ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: travel, love, female protagonist, male female relationship, love affair, couples, relationships, moral dilemma, choice, love interest, love story, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Spring Subway (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A stylish urban romance about the silent suffering of a modern Chinese couple.
Style: dramatic, serious, lyrical, touching, independent film
Plot: love, subway, society, love affair, betrayal, showdown, family relations, adultery, brawl, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, bandage over eyes ...
Place: beijing china, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Men Not Allowed (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Men have been the bane of Tanya's (Payal Rohatgi) and Urmila's (Tina Rajumdar) existence since they were young; fed up, they decide it's time for a big change in this Bollywood drama. Tanya's father and Urmila's uncle both ...
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, mogul, love, woman, married, lesbianism, adultery, business tycoon, drug addict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Woman of the Photographs (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A quiet studio photographer is taking photos of insects in the forest when an Instagram model falls out of a tree. Agreeing to give her a lift back into town, he soon finds her dominating his life while sleeping in his home.
Style: emotional, romantic, talky, humorous, psychological
Plot: love and romance, love affair, love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, japanese man, couples, lovers, japanese woman, young lovers, relationships, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 164
Sweet William (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female nudity, open marriage, womanizer, married man, troubled relationship, argument, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, writers, cheating boyfriend, affair, living together ...
Time: year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Burning Patience (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mario is a young fisherman who dreams of becoming a poet. He gets a job as the postman to Pablo Neruda when the legendary writer moves there after being exiled from Chile.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, period drama
Plot: poet, writers, dream, postman, life, fisherman, aspiring writer, changing lives, relationships, male protagonist, ambition, follow your dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Beautiful Risk (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.
Plot: artist, love, solitude, hooker, prostitute, female nudity, surrealism, divorce, suicide, nurse, drug addict, depression ...
Place: new york, quebec, canada, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 88
Truth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An estranged couple on a weekend retreat are pushed further apart when the wife, Becca, becomes romantically fascinated with the journal of the cabin's long-dead former owner. When the ghost of the old owner appears and reciprocates ...
Style: suspense, psychological, touching, sexy, sincere
Plot: troubled marriage, love, unhappy wife, diary, female ghost, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, marital infidelity, ghost, male full rear nudity, bad dream, hunting ...
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.2
 46
Bye Bye Love (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apart. While a couple is forming, another's becoming undone. Yet, the choice of the two friends ...
Plot: passion, emigrant, psychoanalysis, novelist, desire, affair, masseuse, commitment, doubt, male female relationship, love, friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Grocer's Wife (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A meek young man allows a stripper to stay in his house while his domineering mother is hospitalized.
Style: independent film, neo noir
Plot: stripper, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, misogynist, hospital, extramarital affair, death, contamination, assassination attempt, inspector, pen pal, death of mother ...
Place: british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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