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10 Best Movies Like Burning Heads

If you loved Burning Heads, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

2008★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burning Heads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician ...

#2
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burning Heads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#3
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burning Heads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#4
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

1964★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burning Heads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

#5
Landscape in the Mist

Landscape in the Mist

1988★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burning Heads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany....

#6
Ice Castles

Ice Castles

2010★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burning Heads for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young, beautiful, talented Alexis Winston comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. But her rise to stardom isn’t easy. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, an...

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