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From the Head (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Underneath Times Square, there's a strip club filled with beautiful women. Behind the club's bathroom door is Shoes, a bathroom attendant. For three years, Shoes gives advice, compliments or a sympathetic ear to his visitors, getting occasional tips. But on the night of his three-year anniversary at the club, Shoes' customers and coworkers start to make him look into his own life.
Style:
realistic, talky, captivating, psychological, clever, humorous, serious, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
Plot:
stripper, loneliness, sex show, strip club, obsession, workplace, nightclub, wisdom of life, workplace situations, friendship, female nudity, misogyny, brother brother relationship, misandry, drinking, alcoholism, adult virgin, nudity, coworker, coworker relationship, alcohol abuse, drinking alcohol, nude, topless dancing, breast implant ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about female nudity, society, workplace, friendship, workplace situations, friends and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like From the Head: Choking Man (2006), She's One of Us (2003), Out of My Hand (2015), Chocolate City (2015), Not Waving But Drowning (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new york
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
workplace, immigrant, realism, society, starting over, hopes, workplace situations, poverty, haunted by the past, new life, strike, plantation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
liberia, new york, africa, usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, entertaining
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, female friendship, coming of age, personal growth, character study, society, couples, small town, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks ...
Style:
serious, realistic, cynical, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
female nudity, obsession, murder, dishonesty, sexual relations, losing-it hero, captivity, confined, danger, disorder, mute or deaf, social misfits ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
62%
295
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Francine is released from prison and settles down in a small town. She is unable to regain a foothold in society and turns to animals for comfort.
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot:
starting over, workplace, workplace situations, hopes, pets, society, working class, small town, antisocial behavior, ex convict, animal lover, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
752
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sexy, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, escapades, revenge, youth, love and romance, male female relationship, generation y ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters.
Style:
sexual, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
profanity, couples, haunted by the past, infidelity, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, mentally unstable, nudity, jealousy, stand up comedian, strip club ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, nigeria
Similarity:
49%
878
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna (Sally Kirkland). After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, talky ...
Plot:
girl, aging, strong female presence, immigrant, desire for fame, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, actor's life, lifestyle, nightlife, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, usa, new york
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, friendship, family problems, social worker, family relations, obsession, family in crisis, gays and lesbians, society, journalism, godparent, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
Style:
erotic, sensual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, pole dancer, prostitute, sexual abuse, adult filmmaking, nudity, porn industry, stripper, female nudity, sex, adult film industry, film industry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After being cuckolded, Morgan Midwood's life explodes. Turning to his ne'er-do-well best friend Nick, the two embark on an epic journey, tackling issues with women, family, a rogue drug dealer, and one revolutionary piece of furnishing.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
41%
592
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
sexual content, nightlife, nightclub, workplace, bribery, workplace situations, lifestyle, stripper, owner, criminal, new job, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A heartbroken man kidnaps two strangers in hopes they will fall in love.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, suspense ...
Plot:
redemption, teenage love, youth, love and romance, confined, mentally unstable, obsession, wilderness, captivity, breakup, teen romance, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
117
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A new hire joins a small town pizza restaurant just as the business fails and its employees question the "American Dream."
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
human nature, city life, estrangement, redemption, introspection, hopes, addiction, unfulfillment, lifestyle, multiple storylines, family problems, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple made is broken, their lives are changed forever.
Style:
sexy, touching, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot:
stripper, lap dance, exotic dancer, strip club, female nudity, sex scene, interracial sex, infidelity, cancer, moral dilemma, dancer's life, life turned upside down ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, middle east
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
Style:
cynical, realistic, mumblecore, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
estrangement, introspection, satire, social decay, society, shallowness, hipster, life is a bitch, dull life, nihilism, nude dance, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, party, love, girlfriend, society, hipster, human relationship, lifestyle, urban ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
31%
165
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, male nudity, small town life, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, young lovers, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
30%
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