Movies Like It's Just in My Head
If you liked It's Just in My Head (2020), a drama movie directed by Marius Gabriel Stancu, 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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The Goddess of Fortune (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaAlessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take…
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Perfect Strangers (2016)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaDuring a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
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Saturn in Opposition (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaThis film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that…
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Paternal Leave (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaTorn between longing and anger, 15-year-old Leo travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. The two are complete strangers to each other. They struggle to find truth, affinity, love and the…
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L'immensità (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaClara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrea, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives…
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The Hidden Child (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaGabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to…
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The Human Voice (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
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Giant Little Ones (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaTwo popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
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Killer's Kiss (1955)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaDavey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…
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Finally Dawn (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.
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Mary Forever (1989)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaMarco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of…
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Death in Venice (1971)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaComposer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel…
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Euphoria (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaMatteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from…
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The Swan (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaTwo large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
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What Maisie Knew (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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A Daughter (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an…
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The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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100 Sundays (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAntonio, a former shipyard worker, leads a mild and peaceful life: he plays bowls with friends, takes care of his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and Emilia, his only and beloved…
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Here (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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Adopt a Highway (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaRuss Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn…