Movies like Sauna 1992
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Sauna (1992)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Plot:
politics, male nudity, theft, deception, communism, emigration, debate, joke, sauna, iron curtain, vodka, martial law, foreigner, discussion, solidarity, male pubic hair, bathtub, steam, shower, pubic hair, sweat, towel, sweating
Time:
80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Sauna
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, humorous and captivating films with plots about male nudity, male pubic hair, pubic hair, female nudity, nude, nudity and bare chested male mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like Sauna: The Magnate (1987), Back Then (2021), Damaged (2015), Wielki bieg (1987), Johnnie Waterman (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, West Germany, East Germany
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, nazism, monarchy, dynasty, female nudity, nazi, aristocracy, brotherhood, mine, palace, incest, man in a wheelchair ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
95%
936
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their ...
Style:
sitcom, captivating, satirical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
road trip, nostalgia, family relations, satire, family drama, adolescence, coming of age, hopes, bittersweet, siblings, tenderness, first love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
70%
284
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, family saga, dramatic ...
Plot:
family secret, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, love affair, three generations, lifestyle, family relations, love, psychiatry, introspection, guilt ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Germany, Bulgaria, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Style:
historical drama, art house, slow cinema, reflective, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, male pubic hair, male nudity, massacre, jewish ghetto, holocaust, ethnic cleansing, controversy, moral ambiguity, memory, minimalism, haunting ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 1940s
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
69%
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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 ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, grim, poignant, satirical
Plot:
race, manipulation, propaganda, oppression, power struggle, marathon, betrayal, corruption, irony, moral ambiguity, cold war era, sabotage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
69%
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, modern fairy tale, mind bending, psychedelic, semi serious ...
Plot:
surrealism, magic realism, pagan, miraculous event, dishonesty, rise and fall, desire for fame, supernatural, elderly, supernatural ability, couples, crime and punishment ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
60%
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, ...
Style:
bleak
Plot:
loneliness, poverty, alienation, isolation, social realism, female protagonist, single mother, theft, tragic romance, working class, melancholy, desperation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, west berlin west germany, poland
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now ...
Plot:
painter, dead sister, communism, surrealism, barber, male nudity, getting home, turkish army, political corruption, family relations, boy, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
year 1960
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will ...
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, older woman younger man relationship, politician, male female relationship, bare chested male, bare butt, male pubic hair, nudity, visitor, awkward situation, watching sex, campaign ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
renaissance, campus, father son relationship, male nudity, sex, skinny dipping, nude girl, summer, satire, intrigue, manipulation, summer camp ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the ...
Style:
thinking
Plot:
scientific research, drunk, male nudity, summer, individuality, male pubic hair, nudity, rural setting, narrow mindedness, explorer, daydreamer, loner ...
Place:
eastern europe, finland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, black humor, tragic
Plot:
sexual intercourse, aids, promiscuity, male friendship, satire, social commentary, branding iron, sexually liberated, casual sex, mortality, existential crisis, infidelity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, prague
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot:
obsession, life is a bitch, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, addiction, violence, love, drug, male nudity, fight scenes, nudity ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Brilliantly funny comedy finds humor in what was otherwise a terrifying time, the outbreak of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.
Style:
biting, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspense
Plot:
dark humor, heroes, society, undercover, moral dilemma, politics, government agency, state affairs, labor union, working class, working undercover, anti hero ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
communism, politics, holiday, friendship, state affairs, elderly, small town, dictatorship, international relations, husband wife relationship, revolution, communist ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, romania, europe, bucharest
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
punk, friendship, music band, musician's life, follow your dream, youth, state affairs, rebelliousness, fighting the system, hopes, society, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national lottery winner – though it is less than expected! Yet, they still need to collect the money and ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, bare chested male, gay, nudity, tattoo, cell phone, lottery winner, real estate agent, bank, homelessness, sandwich ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. ...
Style:
semi serious, existential, psychological, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
lake, masturbation, hiking, mountain, skinny dipping, imagination, self discovery, introspection, nature, midlife crisis, male pubic hair, erection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, melancholic, political thriller, pre war ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
political conflict, family drama, sibling rivalry, brothers, moral dilemma, conscience, coming of age, identity crisis, betrayal, nazism, consul, occupation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It's Christmas time in the twin cities. Billy's working a lot of overtime, running barges on the Mississippi. He calls his friend Eddie, whom he hasn't seen in six months, and asks a favor: to drive with him to see his pregnant ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nudity, pregnancy, on the road, gender, love and romance, battle of the sexes, buddies, infidelity, friendship, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time:
80s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, wisconsin
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career ...
Style:
political drama
Plot:
deportation, female protagonist, frustration, class conflict, political repression, melancholy, village, character study, exile, bittersweet, resilience, social satire ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Luxembourg, Brazil, Chile
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his ...
Style:
dark comedy
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, swimming, money, accomplice, bank vault, camping, horse, fall in love, bank, theft, bank clerk ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jan Rydel is a contender for the office of the President of the Republic of Poland. He is in conflict with TV journalists, and when he finally gets on the air, he sits with his back to the camera. However, its ratings are high.
Style:
black comedy, serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
presidential campaign, election, politics, politician, candidate, presidential election, inheritance, last will and testament, argument, press conference, satire, political satire ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Style:
satirical
Plot:
renaissance, road trip, communism, surrealism, robbery, female friendship, old woman, indigenous people, friend, friendship, suffering, male female relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the owner of a fish store dies unexpectedly, a dispute breaks out over his inheritance. The youngest son continues to run the unprofitable store, while the second son and his mother want to sell it and invest the money in their multimedia ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
family drama, family conflict, domestic drama, small town, bittersweet, confrontation, slice of life, intimate, mother son relationship, male protagonist, coming of age, everyday life ...
Similarity:
36%
608
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Style:
art house, existential, meditative, melancholic, experimental
Plot:
surrealism, coming of age, rebellion, generation gap, alienation, nonconformity, individualism, youth, identity crisis, social class, symbolism, social isolation ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Artist Bedřich Mára (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Alois Fábera (Jiři Pecha) begins ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, period drama
Plot:
family life, life is a bitch, political unrest, survival, down on your luck, communism, performer's life, bare chested male, talking about masturbation, masturbation, school principal, secretly observing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
balkan, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, brother sister relationship, family relations, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, siblings relations, small town, single parent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, aids, little boy ...
Place:
poland, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her ...
Plot:
depression, culture clash, multiculturalism, parent child relationship, racial prejudice, emigration, racism, foster child, family relations, sauna, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, death of mother ...
Place:
berlin germany, finland
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging ...
Style:
crying, freeze frame
Plot:
egoism, renaissance, metaphor, tea, hairy chested man, complaint, frustration, agony, bare chested male, shakespeare, coworker relationship, woman hits a man ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
33%
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