Movies like The Sun Rises Once a Day

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The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
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The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
Original name: Słońce wschodzi raz na dzień
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Directed by Henryk Kluba
Style: folk tale
Plot: village, fight, mountaineer, partisan, fire, power, security guard, communism, rebellion, remorse, punishment, imprisonment, insubordination, ballad
Place: poland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and thought provoking films with plots about communism, politics, father son relationship, renaissance, husband wife relationship, female nudity and society mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Sun Rises Once a Day: The Scar (1976), The Uprising (1966), Matthew's Days (1968), Wielki bieg (1981), Marcowe migdaly (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Scar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, bleak, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: communist, small town, factory, politics, innocence lost, human nature, state affairs, moral dilemma, introspection, society, social relations, small town life ...
Time: 70s
Place: poland
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The Uprising (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the ...
Plot: rebellion, torture, winter, ancient, arson, peasant, punishment, village
Place: transylvania, romania
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82%
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Matthew's Days (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a ...
Plot: magic realism, nature, socially awkward, house, peace, stranger, man child, nightmare, loneliness, parable, brother sister relationship, countryside ...
Place: poland
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81%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Marcowe migdaly (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
Plot: exile, teenage boy, teenage girl, classmate, high school, communism, suicide attempt, anti semitism, emigration, youth, party, teenager
Time: 60s
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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70%
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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70%
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Die Chance (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately as he does. His adversary is a possessed sports instructor, gaining growing control over the students ...
Plot: intimidation, new teacher, high school, tournament, training, suicide attempt, resistance, blackmail, team, coach, school teacher, tyranny ...
Place: poland
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68%
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The Axiliad (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Plot: train, library, love, tree, young woman, colleague, lumberjack, old lady, village, dream, winter, male female relationship ...
Place: poland
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66%
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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64%
Johnnie Waterman (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, magic realism, pagan, miraculous event, supernatural ability, supernatural, dishonesty, elderly, rise and fall, desire for fame, couples, on the road ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
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52%
Saviour Square (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Style: compassionate, suspenseful, touching, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: unfaithful husband, jealousy, selfishness, debt, hysteria, money problems, desperation, domineering mother, marriage, husband wife relationship, humiliation, frustration ...
Place: warsaw poland, poland
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52%
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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
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50%
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Strike (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIE’S CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: politics, working class, labor union, rebellion, human spirit, ambition, fighting the system, injustice, rivalry, life is a bitch, legal, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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46%
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Custody (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out ...
Plot: lesbian, prison, life sentence, baby, choir, female nudity, suicide, public humiliation, wedding, women's prison, released from prison, motherhood ...
Time: 60s
Place: poland
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46%
The Law and the Fist (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Plot: shooting, post war, ghost town, murder, death, violence, drinking, train, world war two, death by gunshot, gun
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: poland
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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
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43%
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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Zebras in Wyoming (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: A prisoner soon has his guard questioning his own world-view.
Plot: imprisonment, security guard, locked in, defiant, captivity, justice, prisoner, philosophy, police
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Politics (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, sexy, captivating, tense
Plot: gay, lgbt, politics, politician, media manipulation, corruption, church, political corruption, government corruption, priest, government, power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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41%
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Personnel (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist.
Plot: bare chested male, argument, politics, teenage protagonist, porter, backstage, opera, opera singer, communism, aunt nephew relationship, technician, moral dilemma ...
Place: poland
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40%
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The Calm (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into ...
Plot: bigger dreams, strike, labor union, corruption, politics, twenty something, ex convict, shipyard, worker, construction worker
Time: year 1978, year 1976, year 1977, year 1980, year 1979
Place: poland
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39%
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Time to Die (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with ...
Style: independent film
Plot: philosophy, shakespeare, old woman, piano, old lady, house, generation gap, son, dog, death, family relations, shakespearean quotation
Place: poland
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39%
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The Welts (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family relations, parent child relationship, punishment, love, fear, fall in love, male female relationship, father son relationship, father, redemption, emotional abuse, violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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38%
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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
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37%
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
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35%
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Konopielka (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. ...
Plot: female nudity, village, village idiot, civilization, male female relationship, rural setting, prophet, sickle
Place: poland
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35%
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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34%
What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
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, girl, female nudity, singer, father son relationship, escape, small town, bare breasts, husband wife relationship, boy ...
Place: poland
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34%
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Father (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by Dániel Erdély and later, as a young man, by András Bálint) is clearly determined to find out what he can ...
Plot: boy, father, partisan, elementary school, communism, single mother, young boy, teenager, 12 year old
Time: year 1966, post world war two
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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