Movies like Three Monkeys
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Three Monkeys (2008)
24K
Original name: Üç maymun
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, art house, feel good, philosophical, neo noir, contemplative, cerebral, visual ...
Plot:
family relations, injustice, family secret, family life, life is a bitch, hidden identity, innocence lost, workplace, hidden truth, boss and employee, minimalism, politics, hit and run, murder, adultery, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, confession, muslim, art, lonely, alienation, minimal dialogue, third world, communication ...
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey, balkan, maghreb
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Most similar movies to Three Monkeys
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, art house and psychological films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, murder and couples mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Three Monkeys: Distant (2002), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Clouds of May (1999), Winter Sleep (2014), The Town (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little ...
Style:
sincere, art house, stylized, lyrical, philosophical ...
Plot:
unemployment, loneliness, photograph, midlife crisis, isolation, telephone call, photography, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, introspection ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey, balkan, maghreb ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, slow cinema, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, police investigation, forensic, brutality, forensics, character study, road trip, isolation, everyday life, law enforcement, introspection, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, maghreb, turkey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a film using a cast of local people (based on the director Ceylan's first feature, Kasaba). While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about ...
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, alienation, lonely, art, family relations, human nature, innocence lost, artists and showbiz, parents and children, urban setting, turtle, minimalism ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style:
philosophical, art house, cerebral, independent film, meditative ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, winter, hotel, divorce, storytelling, art, haunted by the past, social differences, couple relations, estrangement, guest, workplace ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
middle east, cappadocia turkey, maghreb, turkey
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
Style:
aesthetic, slow cinema, black and white, art house, independent film
Plot:
art, minimalism, muslim, alienation, small town, spring, children, town, turk, rural setting, student, school ...
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Germany, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, couples, disorder, hidden identity, infidelity, workplace romance, dishonesty, illicit affair, husband, relationships, relationship problems, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer returns to his native village in rural Turkey, where he becomes overwhelmed by his father's debts.
Style:
captivating, erotic, psychological, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
writers, childhood, debt, family conflict, family relations, father son relationship, homecoming, countryside, family crisis, gambler, gambling debt, snow ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, bosnia herzegovina, maghreb, turkey
Similarity:
32%
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Musa, a customs clerk, lives quietly with his mother. Tragedy and change come for him, as they do for everyone, and he must confront his own attitude towards life’s absurdity.
Style:
realistic, serious, art house, existential, spiritual ...
Plot:
destiny, human nature, couple relations, existentialism, atheism, absurdism, dialogue, death, fate, art, alienation, spirituality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, balkan, turkey
Similarity:
29%
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23K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…
Style:
art house, psychological, gloomy, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, death, advice, turk, slow burn, women's issues, kurd, muslim, hidden treasure, lonely, couples, murder ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, pushes those who love him away and cannot ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, aesthetic ...
Plot:
depressed man, depression, crime and punishment, director, betrayal, husband wife relationship, creative block, family relations, crisis of conscience, family problems, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
27%
20K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style:
tense, serious, art house, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, romancing a criminal, on the run, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, fighting illness, impossible love, desire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
Similarity:
27%
15K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
Style:
road movie, art house, political, black and white, psychological ...
Plot:
kurd, racism, prison, love, muslim, turk, nationalism, road trip, lonely, labor, social commentary, strike ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
kurdistan, turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires ...
Style:
sincere, tense, bleak, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
swinger couple, sexual relations, female pubic hair, swinger, family problems, family life, husband wife relationship, dishonesty, couples, older man younger woman marriage, bare breasts, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A taut, beautifully acted psychological drama about a husband who suspects his wife of having an affair, but is terrified that confronting her about it might prove she really is.
Style:
realistic, serious, art house, touching, exciting ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, love affair, midlife crisis, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, illicit affair, confession, affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
muslim, islam, society, faith, koran, politics, family relations, solitary, fall in love, new job, religions or cults, heaven ...
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
23%
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, serious, touching ...
Plot:
rape, cultural difference, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, turk, women's rights, misogyny ...
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
22%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, courage, minimalism, underground, alienation, mental disorder, immigrant, deadend life, urban ghetto life, vengeance, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
Similarity:
22%
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15K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, erotic, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, sexual relations, crazy love, rape, winter, rough sex ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
turkey, middle east, sarajevo, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
11%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, midlife crisis, family relations, factory worker, parents and children, unfulfillment, naked man, big city, underground, post apocalypse, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives ...
Style:
art house, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, alienation, male nudity, dysfunctional family, family problems, injustice, estrangement, society, unlikely criminals, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
germany, europe, munich germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, manipulation, destructive relationship, femme fatale, lifestyle, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, female psychopath, strong female presence, power relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, infidelity, adultery, husband and wife, cuckolded husband, confession, dishonesty, love and romance, sex scene, married woman, female pubic hair, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
21%
Movie in collections
284
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape and revenge, murder, rape, heartache, feminist, homestead, angst, servant, minimal dialogue, loneliness, violent content ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 80s
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
thought provoking, contemplative, slow cinema, serious, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, misfit, starting over, urban ghetto life, addiction, decolonization, husband wife relationship, military coup, lost love ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
politics, dysfunctional family, introspection, factory worker, life is a bitch, drug dealing, parents and children, family relations, youth, factory, family life, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, japan, middle east, persia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, biting ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, food, family problems, under the surface, couple relations, siblings relations, disorder ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, islamic ...
Plot:
street kid, youth, life is a bitch, dehumanization, cruelty, poverty, parents and children, family relations, power relations, master and servant, disability, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iran, asia
Similarity:
20%
6K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, art house, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
village life, poet, love and romance, parents and children, homecoming, family relations, dealing with death, curses spells and rituals, small town, small town life, loss of mother, funeral ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
20%
239
Genre: Drama
Country: Albania, Greece, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian movie directed by Buyar Alimani. It’s a story about two people who meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but relationship has ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
prison, forbidden love, love affair, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, pardon, legislation, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
albania, europe
Similarity:
20%
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