Movies Like Head Film
If you liked Head Film (1971), a movie directed by Wakefield Poole, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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My Fake Boyfriend (2022)
★ 5.9/10A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. But everything backfires when he meets…
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Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
★ 7/10This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a…
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A Month in the Country (1987)
★ 6.5/10A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to…
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Akron (2015)
★ 7.2/10Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a…
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Single All the Way (2021)
★ 6.4/10Desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter convinces his best friend Nick to join him for the holidays and pretend that they’re now in a relationship. But when Peter’s mother sets…
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Tongues Untied (1990)
★ 6.7/10Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs…
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My Policeman (2022)
★ 7.5/10In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when…
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Bros (2022)
★ 6.6/10Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.
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Looking: The Movie (2016)
★ 7.1/10Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult…
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Flow (1996)
★ 7.7/10A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.
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Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
★ 6.8/10A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
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The Boys in the Band (2020)
★ 6.8/10At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
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Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
★ 8.3/10For Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of MAYHEM.
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Duck Duck Goose (2018)
★ 6.2/10After he’s grounded by an injury, a high-flying bachelor is saddled with two wide-eyed orphans as they come face-to-face with the dangers and beauty of the outside world.
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The Object of My Affection (1998)
★ 5.8/10A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
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The Matchmaker's Playbook (2018)
★ 7.1/10After a career-ending accident, former NFL recruit Ian Hunter is back on campus, and he's putting his extensive skills with women to work as one of the masterminds behind a successful and secretive dating service. But…
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Departure (2016)
★ 6.3/10An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from…
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Heartstopper Forever (2026)
★ 7.2/10It's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life after the last bell rings.
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All Over the Guy (2001)
★ 5.9/10A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
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Sneakerella (2022)
★ 5.9/10When El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity…