Movies like Sauna
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Sauna (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Johan, a gay man in Copenhagen, revels in nightlife until meeting William, a transgender man. Their profound love challenges societal norms surrounding gender, identity, and relationships.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sensual, erotic, pornographic
Plot:
gay, male nudity, bathhouse, gay interest, transgender, gay sex, lgbt, sexuality, lgbtq, identity, self discovery, acceptance, intimacy, empathy, character study, personal growth, nightlife, urban, prejudice, coming of age, exploration, sexually liberated, loneliness, forbidden love, slice of life ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
copenhagen
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Most similar movies to Sauna
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, independent film, queer cinema and emotional films with plots about gay, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, gay subtext, male nudity and gay lead character mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Sauna: Body Electric (2017), Anjos da Noite (1987), Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008), Traveling to Olympia (2001), Drifting (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Elias is a handsome young deputy manager in a garment factory in São Paulo. When he’s not working, he enjoys casual encounters in the big city. The arrival of a young African, Fernando, on the production line piques his interest and Elias finds ...
Style:
sensual, melancholic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, gay interest, gay sex, lgbt, social realism, identity, coming of age, sexual awakening, working class, slice of life, young adult ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this critically acclaimed indie classic from 1992 portrays a gritty side of gay life in Los Angeles. Ethan (Paul Marius), a 27-year-old photographer, believes he has no need for love or commitments, and is living his life ...
Style:
independent film, reflective, melancholic, intense, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, sexuality, jealousy, friendship, acceptance, self discovery, character study, identity, loneliness, heartbreak, realism ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
los angeles, palm springs california, california
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
Style:
sensual, melancholic, independent film, erotic, gay cinema
Plot:
prostitution, lgbt, drag queen, night, lgbtq, nightlife, love, sexuality, nightclub, urban, friendship, hustler ...
Time:
80s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
father son relationship, gay, male nudity, gay interest, gay crush, erotica, lgbtq, sexual awakening, sexual tension, self discovery, obsession, college life ...
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Johnny leaves a Washington State juvenile facility and travels to Olympia where he meets other gay men and starts to put to rights some of the wrongs done to gay youths
Style:
independent film, emotional, reflective
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, identity, self discovery, intimate, introspection, character study, healing, redemption, angst, friendship, coming of age ...
Similarity:
77%
103
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Robi is a young Israeli who lives his grandparents and works at their store. He dreams of finding true love and becoming a movie director, both of which seem increasingly difficult. His film career stalls, until he can get financial backing and his ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, romantic drama, art house, period piece
Plot:
israeli, gay, grandmother, closeted homosexual, gay lead character, sexuality, lgbtq, lgbt, character study, coming of age, identity, social realism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York to spend the summer in an apartment. He interns at a gallery that exhibits the work of an older, unconventional artist he once crossed paths with. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a ...
Style:
art house, sensual, independent film, erotic drama, melancholic
Plot:
art student, intimacy, sexual tension, creative process, self discovery, coming of age, identity, sexual awakening, summer romance, erotic art, gay interest, gay sex ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
76%
291
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A summer trip to Berlin offers a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the country's youth in this vibrant, character-driven drama from director Martin Gypkens. When twentysomething Florian arrives in town to pay a visit to long-lost pal Pit, the ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
male nudity, gay interest, friendship, coming of age, lgbt, youth, slice of life, summer, nostalgia, relationships, realism, urban ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Four gay friends live in L.A. and deal with today's issues, boyfriends, aids, your boyfriend's children, making it in the movie biz, etc.
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, realistic, heartfelt, queer cinema
Plot:
gay african american, gay, lgbtq, lgbt, sexuality, friendship, male friendship, social issues, community, city life, gay interest, personal growth ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The adolescent Milan discovers his own suspected homosexuality at the age of 17 and the consequences for him and his family but also the liberation as he understands why he has been so down and rebellious.
Style:
lgbt cinema, suspense, rough, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, gay anal sex, gay club, teenager, suicide attempt, lgbtq, parents and children, loneliness ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, art house, independent film
Plot:
paralysis, minimalism, gay relationship, disability, character study, sexual awakening, compassion, caregiver, realism, lgbtq, empathy, intimacy ...
Place:
bangkok thailand
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Román is an actor who works in B-movies and who’s isolated in his apartment as a pandemic keeps the world on edge. Aldo, an indigenous young man, is an essential worker who’s allowed by the authorities to come and go. They live across from each ...
Style:
dramatic, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
gay interest, gay, gay anal sex, gay sex, male nudity, male pubic hair, pandemic, actor, homosexual, relationships, homosexuality, quarantine ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Boys On Film surprises and delights with films exploring relationships, dark desires, and confronting hidden secrets. Volume 13: Trick & Treat features 10 new award-winning shorts, including: Anna Österlund Nolskog's "Boygame" ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, relationships, gay interest, lgbt teen, lgbtq, relationship problems, teenage life, love interest, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, forbidden love ...
Similarity:
66%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, art film, surreal ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, self discovery, identity, identity crisis, mental breakdown, character study, alienation ...
Similarity:
64%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Noam Stein is a closeted teenager in a religious community who discovers he might not be alone. When he finds a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before the Holocaust, he sets out to find this mysterious person and uncover both ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, religious community, self discovery, lgbtq, identity, love letter, family secret, self acceptance, coming of age, holocaust, introspection ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Friendship between two old men becomes love. Slightly-unkempt, tired, and frail, Philippe Lanctot moves into a rest home. The administrator says she wants him to be happy, but that seems far from his mind: he's waiting to die. Then, into his ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
lgbtq, lgbt, gay, retirement home, aging, mortality, gay romance, companionship, tenderness, intimacy, acceptance, loneliness ...
Similarity:
57%
567
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, melancholic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, lgbtq, gay couple, gay relationship, gay lead character, homosexual, breakup, carpenter, love and romance, confined ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
56%
689
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Moritz follows a boyfriend to Berlin and is soon abandoned by him. Alone in the big city, he embarks on a journey through a wide range of queer experience. Only through a new circle of queer friends does he develop his own ideas of sexuality and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay interest, male nudity, lgbt, gay lead character, life is a bitch, relationship problems, introspection, self discovery, social problems, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Joe, in the midst of dropping out of college and coming out as gay, decides to record the everyday activities of his life on a handheld mini-video and post the clips to the internet. Soon after he begins this experiment, Joe meets Jesus, a ...
Style:
emotional, experimental
Plot:
identity, sexuality, lgbtq, self discovery, coming of age, character study, intimate, internet culture, identity crisis, social media, slice of life, young adult ...
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay, sex work, gay lead character, homosexuality, gay couple, gay sex, gay relationship, gay love, male male relationship, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After breaking up with his partner, 76 year-old Vicente leads life the way he likes it in Maspalomas: he spends his days lying in the sun, partying, and looking for pleasure. An unexpected accident obliges him to return to San Sebastián and to the ...
Style:
heartbreaking
Plot:
male nudity, gay, retirement home, gay slur, elderly, identity, lgbtq, friendship, melancholy, loneliness, isolation, repression ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
canary islands, spain
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style:
anthology, independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, campus, male nudity, sexuality, gay interest, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A rookie drag queen, reeling from a break-up, escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline yet desperate to avoid the local nursing home.
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, uplifting, lgbt cinema, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay couple, gay relationship, gay son, gay, drag queen, lgbt, self discovery, aging, personal growth, family drama, acceptance ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Denny, a free spirit and artist falls for Ryan, a straight laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender their love is tested.
Style:
sincere, captivating, dramatic, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
lgbtq, desire for fame, gender, relationships, couple relations, painter, gender issues, lawyer, love affair, lgbt, self discovery, acceptance ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Laruang Lalake is a realist film that portrays the workers within the Filipino gay film industry and their personal stories - from the naughty to the gritty, from the horny to the hopeful. The film weaves the journey of ambitious probinsyano actor ...
Style:
independent film, homoerotic, erotic, art house, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gay interest, lgbt, sexuality, lgbtq, poverty, gay slur, controversy, exploitation, ambition, behind the scenes, identity, adult film industry ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, aids, israeli, sexuality, family drama, lgbt, humanism, identity, illness, empathy, gay, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Forced out of home by his religious mother for being gay, Ethan leaves Michigan for Hollywood to pursue his acting dreams. But he soon finds himself spiraling into drugs, prostitution, and homelessness.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
hollywood, homelessness, drug abuse, gay lead character, gay, lgbt, gay slur, sexuality, addiction, lgbtq, social problems, social outcast ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, social, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay relationship, gay sex, gay interest, male nudity, gay, gay lead character, gay love, gay couple, bare chested male, lovers, couples, love affair ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An adaptation of an 18th century Chinese classic remixed for an honest depiction of gay life in Taipei in the 21st century.
Style:
unusual plot structure, contemplative, touching, sexy
Plot:
gay, lgbt, male nudity, gay interest, drug, sexuality, gay couple, youth, gay lead character, homosexual, love and romance, gay love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Film about the writer Manuel Puig and the years he spent in Río de Janeiro.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, emotional, sensual, period drama
Plot:
writers, biopic, exile, gay lead character, lgbtq, identity, repression, sexuality, self discovery, political persecution, sexually liberated, social commentary ...
Place:
argentina, rio de janeiro, brazil, mexico
Similarity:
46%
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