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Films like Hair.

Hair (1979) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured musical / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Tale of How Tsar Peter Married Off His Moor (1976) poster
1. The Tale of How Tsar Peter Married Off His Moor1976

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Xica da Silva (1976) poster
2. Xica da Silva1976

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Legendary Weapons of China (1982) poster
3. Legendary Weapons of China1982

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather (1986) poster
4. Robinsonade, or My English Grandfather1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Kinfolk (1981) poster
5. Kinfolk1981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Something Wild (1986) poster
6. Something Wild1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Heroes of the East (1978) poster
7. Heroes of the East1978

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a stubborn streak of hope.

Calamity (1981) poster
8. Calamity1981

Keeps the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) poster
9. The Man Who Would Be King1975

Keeps the heightened unreality; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Fall Guy (1982) poster
10. Fall Guy1982

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dirty Ho (1979) poster
11. Dirty Ho1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Murmur of the Heart (1971) poster
12. Murmur of the Heart1971

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Hair’s neighbours — where are yours?

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