Movies like Everything for Sale

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Everything for Sale (1969)
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Everything for Sale (1969)
Original name: Wszystko na sprzedaż
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: actor, filmmaking, filmmaker, renaissance, death, railway, journey, wife, director, respect, film set, replacement, film within a film, young
Time: year 1969
Place: eastern europe, poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out intellectual, realistic, serious and psychological films with plots about renaissance, death, filmmaking, couples, identity, young and doctor mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Everything for Sale: La rabbia (2008), The Constant Factor (1980), The Birch Wood (1970), 30 Door Key (1991), Wielki bieg (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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La rabbia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, independent film, intellectual
Plot: filmmaking, director, actor, surrealism, filmmaker, social problems, life philosophy, lifestyle, self discovery, producer, male nudity, female nudity ...
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The Constant Factor (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: renaissance, mountaineer, frame up, job, father, fired from the job, father son relationship, dying, death, corruption, death of father, death of mother ...
Time: year 1980
Place: poland, eastern europe, himalaya
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88%
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The Birch Wood (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover ...
Style: contemplative, gloomy, sexual, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, countryside, piano, renaissance, magic realism, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, village life, comeback, life & death, family life ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, switzerland
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77%
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30 Door Key (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Style: mindfuck
Plot: renaissance, writers, teacher, surrealism, bully, boarding school, adult as child, young
Place: eastern europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Wielki bieg (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new motorcycle by the country's president. Chief organizer is a ruthless manipulator who will ...
Plot: renaissance, stalinism, communist propaganda, political activist, communism, letter, president, race, male nudity, shower
Time: 1950s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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70%
The Structure of Crystal (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Physicist John worked as a meteorologist. He lives in a small village with his wife, a teacher. Meanwhile, his friend from university, Mark, is doing a research career. Trying to get John to return to academic work in the capital. Mark is not ...
Style: poetic, intellectual, masterpiece
Plot: identity, old friend, renaissance, provincial life, moral dilemma, university, married, persuasion, science, point of view, physics, discussion ...
Time: year 1969
Place: poland, eastern europe
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68%
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Spiral (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: hopelessness, depression, lecture, morgue, renaissance, rock climbing, mental breakdown, tourist, suicide attempt, climbing, bad temper, mountain ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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65%
Sunday Pranks (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Plot: renaissance, group of children, medal, leader, communism, stalinism, kitten, bullying, arrest, children, cat, game ...
Time: 1950s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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64%
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Short Working Day (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Plot: renaissance, political party, clerk, communist, government, politics, job, demonstration, worker, solidarity, window, aquarium ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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59%
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A Lonely Woman (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The first motion picture film by Agnieszka Holland about loneliness, longing for affection, and misfortune. Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with a inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, ...
Plot: renaissance, love, social injustice, youth, murder, school, suffocation, hotel, car accident, postman, poverty, pessimism ...
Place: eastern europe, poland
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59%
The Weather Forecast (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The setting is an old age home run by an aging director with an authoritarian hand. In the evening many of the residents huddle in a living room, penetrated by the October cold, to listen to the news. The announcement is giving the number of ...
Plot: renaissance, chase, anxiety, escape, waiter, hippie, runaway, manager, rebel, drug addict, metaphor, panic ...
Time: 80s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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55%
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Hands Up! (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Beginning with a sci-fi prologue before finding itself with several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted medicos ruminate over the effect that communism (particularly the ...
Style: philosophical, dark comedy, experimental, avant garde
Plot: memory, trauma, renaissance, surrealism, post-apocalyptic future, politics, communism, medical profession, police station, van, minimalism, revolt ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
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Behind The Wall (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his ...
Plot: suicide attempt, chemistry, workaholic, professor, writers, renaissance, midlife crisis, career, promotion, tough guy, dedication, exhaustion ...
Place: eastern europe, poland
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Sweet Rush (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot: mature woman, small town, dying, love affair, tragic love, love and romance, infidelity, couples, dealing with death, couple relations, dishonesty, terminal illness ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: poland, europe
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Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and ...
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, psychiatric hospital, european, renaissance, doctor, nazi occupation, psychiatric patient, sudden ending, grave, experiment, suicide by poison ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: poland, eastern europe
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The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
Plot: hollywood, historical event, behind the scenes, actress, director, film set, filmmaking, film industry, movie star, casting, actor, film producer ...
Time: 1930s
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The Illumination (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Style: philosophical, existential, poetic
Plot: unrequited love, love letter, identity, mental disorder, disorder, psychological manipulation, renaissance, meaning of life, psychology, nerd, monkey, philosophy ...
Time: year 1973, 60s
Place: eastern europe, poland
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48%
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Man of Marble (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
Style: emotional, meditative, compassionate, talky, disturbing ...
Plot: politics, visceral, communism, working class, friendship, honest, eviction, terrorist, journalism, heroes, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 1950s, year 1976, 20th century ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
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48%
Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
Style: tricky, serious, captivating, clever, intellectual ...
Plot: doctor, meaning of life, cancer, suffering, terminal illness, ex husband ex wife relationship, cynicism, death, illness, fighting illness, life & death, cause and meaning ...
Time: 2000s
Place: eastern europe, poland
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47%
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The Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, witty ...
Plot: poet, renaissance, mythology, poetry, polish history, wedding, ghost, performer's life, satire, family relations, revolution, couples ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, year 1900
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, austria
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How Far, How Near (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style: surreal
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, apparition, nudity, partisan, suicide, ghost, christmas eve, metaphysics, memory, first love, ex husband ex wife relationship
Place: poland
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Close Your Eyes (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Style: metafiction
Plot: life, male protagonist, cinema, director, film industry, amnesia, projectionist, village, past, cia, old friend, behind the scenes ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film is set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos), a tired, sloppy, lonely man, whose wife has long since left him. For him, censorship is both an art and a ...
Style: surreal, intellectual, mind bending, psychedelic
Plot: renaissance, free will, communism, satire, projectionist, father daughter relationship, surrealism, communist, husband wife relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, actor, censorship ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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42%
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The Pad (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Two former classmates (one an honest working man with a wife and children, the other a conman) meet at a train station. The conman comes to stay with his old friend and slowly begins to assume the role of master of the house, taking the place of ...
Plot: renaissance, con man, criminal, poverty, honesty, affair, bribe, loss of job, old friend, con artists, card playing, apartment
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Fucha (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 63 min.
Story: International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985
Plot: renaissance, national identity, drunkard, grave, dignity, renovation, cemetery, history teacher, lie, heroes, coffin, headstone
Place: eastern europe
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42%
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Gra (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: About an existentialist alienation drama between a bourgeois couple caught in a stationary environment. Between a man and a woman lost in themselves.
Plot: renaissance, couples, married, solitude, cemetery, marital crisis, male female relationship, flashback, betrayal, husband wife relationship, funeral, kiss
Place: eastern europe
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42%
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Long Shot (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 ...
Style: spoof
Plot: satire, filmmaker, film producer, director, filmmaking, producer, film festival, director cameo
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland
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41%
September 30, 1955 (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a ...
Plot: filmmaking, radio, suburbs, movie star, college, friend, autumn, actor, death, fandom
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: arkansas
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41%
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Kontrakt (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the ...
Plot: renaissance, exhibitionist, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair, wedding, party, sex, snow, doctor, female nudity, sauna ...
Time: year 1980
Place: eastern europe
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40%
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