Movies like Wielki bieg

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Wielki bieg (1981)
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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 stop at nothing to make sure that the right man wins. There are two runners, Budny and Stolar, who are participating in the race for different reasons.
Plot: renaissance, stalinism, communist propaganda, race, president, male nudity, communism, letter, political activist, shower
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: poland, eastern europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out intellectual, realistic, sexual and poetic films with plots about renaissance, communism, death, young, politics, male female relationship and hospital mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres. Some movies like Wielki bieg: 30 Door Key (1991), Sunday Pranks (1983), The Constant Factor (1980), Hands Up! (1981), Short Working Day (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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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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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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 ⇓
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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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30%
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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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Everything for Sale (1969)
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 ...
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: actor, filmmaking, filmmaker, renaissance, journey, wife, director, film set, railway, death, replacement, respect ...
Time: year 1969
Place: eastern europe, poland
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29%
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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28%
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And All That Jazz (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order ...
Plot: radio station, dancing, renaissance, exile, propaganda, university, concert, jazz, teenage boy, communism, protest, josef stalin ...
Time: 1950s
Place: eastern europe
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28%
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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28%
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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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27%
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Sauna (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Plot: male nudity, male pubic hair, joke, politics, theft, iron curtain, communism, martial law, vodka, deception, emigration, discussion ...
Time: 80s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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Death of a President (1977)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 144 min.
Story: After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until ...
Plot: renaissance, great war, world war two, interwar period, police, painter, prime minister, election, socialism, president, parliament, gallery ...
Place: poland, eastern 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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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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26%
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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Fever (1981)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of ...
Plot: renaissance, magic realism, male female relationship, corruption, prison, police, violence, politics, mental breakdown, terrorism, undercover, revolt ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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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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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
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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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The Magnate (1987)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 171 min.
Story: This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
Style: family saga
Plot: renaissance, dynasty, monarchy, nazism, female nudity, nazi, man in a wheelchair, wheelchair bound, cheating wife, communism, sexually frustrated woman, sexually dissatisfied wife ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s ...
Place: poland, eastern 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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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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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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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
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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 to Be Loved (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style: road movie
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Duration: 77 min.
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Plot: surrealism, love, renaissance, girl, blood donor, running, student, waiter, sword, metaphor, generation gap, contest ...
Time: year 1966
Place: eastern europe, poland
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The Sun Rises Once a Day (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Directed by Henryk Kluba
Style: folk tale
Plot: power, partisan, insubordination, fire, remorse, rebellion, mountaineer, punishment, imprisonment, communism, fight, village ...
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The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Plot: world war two, renaissance, post war, vodka, nazism, resistance, anti communist, ss, partisan, communism, nkvd, polish history ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: eastern europe, poland
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