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From the Head (2011)
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From the Head (2011)
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, obsession, loneliness, sex show, strip club, workplace, nightclub, wisdom of life, workplace situations, friendship, female nudity, misogyny, brother brother relationship, misandry, drinking, alcoholism, adult virgin, nudity, coworker, alcohol abuse, drinking alcohol, nude, topless dancing, breast implant, yo yo ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa

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Most similar movies to From the Head

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about friendship, society, female nudity, workplace, workplace situations, urban and friends mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like From the Head: Choking Man (2006), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Chocolate City (2015), Out of My Hand (2015), She's One of Us (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Choking Man (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, city life, friendship, self discovery, restaurant, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely, urban ...
Place: usa, new york
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95%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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78%
Chocolate City (2015)
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, entertaining, psychological
Plot: male stripper, newcomer, brother brother relationship, job offer, strip club, friendship, dancer, ambition, sex scene, workplace situations, power relations, nightclub ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.2
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Out of My Hand (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: ‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: workplace, realism, hopes, starting over, society, workplace situations, immigrant, poverty, new life, haunted by the past, strike, plantation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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She's One of Us (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, murder, workplace, police detective, investigation, workplace romance, couples, social misfits, love and romance, misfit, alone, businesswoman ...
Time: 21st century
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Violent Blue (2011)
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: obsession, murder, losing-it hero, sexual relations, dishonesty, captivity, confined, danger, female nudity, social misfits, misfit, mute or deaf ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
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59%
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Cherry. (2010)
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, sexy, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, youth, escapades, revenge, love and romance, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Heat and Sunlight (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters.
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, psychological, serious ...
Plot: profanity, couples, infidelity, haunted by the past, obsession, dishonesty, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, nudity, photographer, broken mirror, strip club ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: california, san francisco, usa, nigeria
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49%
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The Ropes (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Ropes is an inside look into the hilarious, yet explosive world of nightclub bouncing. The series follows the charismatic young Martin, who hustles his way into a job as a bouncer only to be taken under the wing of Big Vic, the club's ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Plot: nightlife, nightclub, stripper, workplace, bribery, owner, lifestyle, workplace situations, sexual content, criminal, organized crime, job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Made in Jersey (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, talky
Plot: lawyer, law firm, lawsuit, workplace, workplace situations, ambition, legal, jury, rivalry, society, strong female presence, unsupportive coworkers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.7
 3K
The Citizen (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: american dream, starting over, immigrant, society, hopes, 9/11, rivalry, arab, legal, lawyer, urban, city ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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46%
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Anna (1987)
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, serious, realistic, psychological, talky ...
Plot: girl, aging, strong female presence, immigrant, lifestyle, actor's life, follow your dream, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, midlife crisis, nightlife ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: czechoslovakia, new york, usa
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45%
 6.1
 2K
Chromophobia (2005)
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, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, social worker, family problems, celebrity culture, friendship, family in crisis, prostitute, obsession, godparent, gays and lesbians, journalism, society ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
She's Lost Control (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Plot: sexual relations, life turned upside down, prostitute, sex scene, women, sex, female protagonist, couples, society, sexuality, woman, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Pornographer (1999)
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: sensual, erotic, contemplative, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, erotica, pole dancer, sexual abuse, film industry, adult film industry, adult filmmaking, nudity, stripper, porn industry, female nudity, sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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42%
Into Temptation (2009)
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, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, clergy, prostitute, society, priest, sin, illegal prostitution, suicide, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
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42%
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The Minister (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style: tense, psychological, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, political intrigue, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, big business, fatal accident ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Winter in the Blood (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style: contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: native american, introspection, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, hung over, indigenous people, native, tribe, american indian, indians, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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40%
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Small Time (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Al Klein and his longtime friend, Ash Martini, own a used car lot and these two know every trick in the book when it comes to selling cars. Klein still pines for his ex-wife Barbara who left him years ago for a more successful man. After their son ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: workplace, family business, parents and children, disorder, workplace situations, dealer, escapades, mentor, family relations, life turned upside down, college dropout, father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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39%
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Missing Pieces (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A heartbroken man kidnaps two strangers in hopes they will fall in love.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: redemption, teenage love, love and romance, obsession, youth, confined, mentally unstable, wilderness, captivity, breakup, teen romance, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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38%
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Lap Dance (2014)
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, cancer, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, dancer's life, life turned upside down, workplace, nightclub, down on your luck ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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36%
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Sheep (2013)
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, small town life, friends, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nightclub, social differences, missing person, love affair, social relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, couple relations, conspiracy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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3 lbs (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: 3 lbs is a drama that aired on CBS from November 14 to 28, 2006, replacing the cancelled series Smith. The show itself was then canceled three weeks later due to poor ratings. The title refers to the fact that the average human brain weighs ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, partner, reluctant partners, doctors and patients, doctor, workplace, power relations, neurosurgeon, medicine, friendship, rivalry, colleague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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34%
 5.7
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Nancy, Please (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, mumblecore, captivating ...
Plot: roommate, university, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, book, relocation, career, society, college, dark humor, social misfits, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
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Wild Field (2008)
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: doctors and patients, boss and employee, village life, self discovery, workplace, hopes, countryside, workplace situations, fish out of water, doctor, loneliness, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
Style: mumblecore, clever, uplifting, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: cons and scams, criminal heroes, friends, friendship, thief, city life, lifestyle, dishonesty, self discovery, resistance, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.3
 1K
Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Errand of Angels (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, church, religions or cults, clergy, society, hopes, missionary, friendship, love, innocence lost, miraculous event, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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