Movies like What the Sun Has Seen

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What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
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What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
Original name: Co słonko widziało
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style: independent film
Plot: poverty, street vendor, money, escape, female nudity, singer, boy, single father, bare breasts, girl, father son relationship, unemployment, fat man, husband wife relationship, small town, mother son relationship, dentures
Place: poland

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Most similar movies to What the Sun Has Seen

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about father son relationship, boy, husband wife relationship, poverty, family relations, coming of age and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like What the Sun Has Seen: Walser (2015), Drowsiness (2008), Inner Life (1987), Crows (1994), Virgina (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Walser (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The world of the forest people, a tribe called Contehli, is interrupted by a railway administration clerk: Walser. He tries to penetrate their world and learn their incomprehensible language but all he brings is chaos and destruction.
Plot: female nudity, violence, bare breasts, language barrier, dead body, nudity, woods, invented language, body paint, painted face
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95%
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Drowsiness (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
Plot: gay, sleep disorder, male pubic hair, escape, hysteria, gay bashing, marital infidelity, insomnia, parachuting, narcolepsy, male nudity, sex ...
Place: poland
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88%
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Inner Life (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an ...
Plot: quarrel, aggression, marriage crisis, sexual fantasy, frustration, unhappy marriage, television, apartment building, elevator, father son relationship, argument, neighbor ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Crows (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 66 min.
Story: A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees ...
Style: surreal
Plot: children, magic realism, childhood, coming of age, woman, nudity, family relations, daydreamer, child neglect, child abduction, nude bathing, female nudity ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Virgina (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: "Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the ...
Plot: boy, patriarchy, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, neighbor, husband wife relationship, lie, curse, superstition, village, religion, poverty ...
Time: 19th century
Place: balkan, serbia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Nightmares (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is ...
Style: intellectual, political
Plot: boy, coming of age, polish history, teacher, school, youth, male nudity, boarding house, tyranny, religion, rebel, father son relationship ...
Time: pre world war one
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Lika Cinema (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't ...
Plot: sex scene, obesity, remote village, female nudity, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, rain, doctor, truck, suicide, politics, profanity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Two Moons (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Plot: town, worker, visitor, lower class, social class, blind man, artist, small town, resort, summer
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 218
The Rabbit Man (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hans and Lollo just had their first child. Hans is a gym teacher and is constantly tormented by his pupils. Hans's dad Bengt, is a news reporter on TV9, the channel who shows "such as people want to see". Bengt's latest report ...
Plot: pedophile, female nudity, european, father son relationship, rape, school, sex, bicycle, bare breasts, pedophilia, bully, journalism ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Borrowed Life (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Style: family saga, period drama
Plot: biopic, family relations, father son relationship, boy, poverty, communism, countryside, nationalism
Time: 1950s
Place: taiwan, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Jaime (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Luxembourg
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he ...
Style: sexual, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot: coming of age, politics, boy, boyhood, school, unemployment, pedophilia, society, youth, life is a bitch, family relations, fired from the job ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
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Hi, Tereska (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, dull life, down on your luck, working class, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 109
Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.5
 44
The Curse M (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: She's tantalizing. Spellbinding. Irresistible. And yet freelance photographer Uemura fights his attraction for the beautiful Mari with all his might. For not only is she the wife of the prominent head of a prestigious hospital, but all of those ...
Style: erotic
Plot: sadomasochism, bondage, model, unfaithful wife, husband wife relationship, photographer, female nudity, impotent husband, bare breasts, cuckolded husband, doggystyle, simulated blow job
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, compassionate, disturbing, meditative ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, boy, immigrant, poverty, working class, farm, children, bullying, corporal punishment, youth, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, 1870s, 1890s
Place: denmark, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Room with a View on the Sea (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
Plot: coworker, fiance fiancee relationship, teacher student relationship, suicide threat, police inspector, rescue, suicide attempt, old man, mistaken identity, psychology, police, father son relationship ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Valparaiso My Love (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
Style: freeze frame, slang
Plot: youth, childhood, mother, cinema, death of brother, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, bus, singing, mother daughter relationship, prison ...
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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No Place Like Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two ...
Style: inspirational, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: homeless shelter, coming of age, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, homeless, youth, family relations, homeless woman, homeless man, daughter, children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Dog Days of Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, offbeat ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, small town, social relations, small town life, friendship, childhood, friendship between boys, father son relationship, male female relationship, boy, accident ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Hubertus Castle (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
Plot: hunting, animal, hunter, son, narrow mindedness, girl, boy, father son relationship, children, rural setting, hill, hut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Subject Was Roses (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Timmy Cleary (Sheen), comes home from soldiering, he's greeted by the open but strained arms of his two parents, John and Nettie, (Neal and Albertson). Once considered sickly and weak, he has now distinguished himself in the service and is ...
Plot: world war two, veteran, regret, world war, marriage, dysfunctional family, world war two veteran, conversation, poverty, abusive father, coming of age, unfaithful husband ...
Place: bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The City (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style: black and white, independent film, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 87
Slave Widow (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that ...
Style: erotic
Plot: exploitation, pink film, erotica, cheating fiance, nudity, widow, suicide by drowning, bare breasts, suicide, female nudity, father son relationship, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 123
Taryanche Bait (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story: Shreedhar works as a clerk, lives a happy, content life with his family in a beautiful Konkan village. His troubles begin when he takes his wife, son and daughter with him on an official tour to Mumbai. Dazzled by the sights, Omkar, Sreedhar’s son ...
Style: captivating, suspense, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure
Plot: father son relationship, little boy, big city, money, poverty, stock market crash, stock broker, rural setting, temple, boat, village, studying ...
Place: mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 140
Child Murders (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A melodrama about children, the child murders that the film’s title refers to are the million and one ways that children’s souls are ravaged by neglect, unkindness and cruelty, even though several physical deaths take place in the story.
Style: thought provoking
Plot: boy, revenge, poverty, youth, disability, cat, young boy, girl, dysfunctional society, schoolboy, murder, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.9
 185
Wild Pigeon (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant ...
Audience: kids
Plot: pigeon, boy, teenager, escape, van, rocket, astronaut, bicycle, tattoo, memory, father son relationship, soviet ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.5
 233
I Remember (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: coming of age, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, childhood memory, relationship problems, family relations, mother son relationship, memories ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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