A prediction: Steam will easily be the best Turkish-bath movie released this year. The film revolves around a young Italian of Turkish descent (Alessandro Gassman) whose aunt bequeaths him a run-down ...

`Steam: The Turkish Bath” is a strange homoerotic tale about an unhappily married Italian designer named Francesco (Alessandro Gassmann), who begins to slide into another world when he journeys to ...

Men take a dip in a cold bath at a traditional steam bath "hammam" in Cairo, September 15, 2014. The "hammam", which was adopted during Turkish rule, is similar to a sauna. Local steam bath culture ...