Movies like Destiny
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Destiny (2006)
20K
Original name: Kader
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, independent film, slow cinema, aesthetic, depressing, realistic ...
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, on the run, romancing a criminal, murder, love and romance, crime gone awry, estrangement, hopes, fighting illness, desire, impossible love, prison, criminal, love, death, lonely, turk, femme fatale, women's issues, obsessive love, romantic obsession, family relations, parents and children, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey, turkey
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Most similar movies to Destiny
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, art house and captivating films with plots about family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, parents and children, hopes, couples and turk mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Destiny: The Confession (2001), Fate (2001), The Waiting Room (2003), Innocence (1997), Autumn (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
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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:
100%
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:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
released from prison, starting over, love affair, homecoming, mother son relationship, society, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, reconciliation, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, black sea
Similarity:
100%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery. She takes a job as a needle worker at a garment workshop where she comes across Ziya, her husband's former boss. He can't stay ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, philosophical, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
sex with friend's wife, abusive husband, betrayal by friend, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, jealous husband, marriage, divorce, secret, worried mother, husband wife relationship, old love ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
67%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
stalking, village, couples, family relations, love and romance, sleazy, society, hopes, single parent, village life, fall in love, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
23%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style:
realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, leaving home, teenage life, teenage love, introspection, farm, unfulfillment, small town, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
23%
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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:
23%
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:
22%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, contemplative, serious, art house ...
Plot:
cause and meaning, introspection, artists and showbiz, writer's life, hopes, humiliation, loneliness, existentialism, losing-it hero, party, advice, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, middle east, turkey
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
21%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
fate of humanity, love story, relationships, life is a bitch, male female relationship, love affair, love, destiny, family conflict, engagement, forced marriage, longing ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
society, social differences, lifestyle, homeless, murder, hopes, prostitute, dwarf, sleeping beauty, muslim, turk, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ali is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. Everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the neighbourhood.
Style:
psychological, captivating, art house
Plot:
girl next door, relationships, relationship problems, love affair, male female relationship, romantic relationship, lifestyle change, love interest, character change, new love, romantic friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
uncover truth, estrangement, homecoming, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, father son relationship, loss of son, manhunt, chases and races, sea, zoo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, family relations, on the run, starting over, death in the family, estrangement, family problems, crime gone awry, life is a bitch, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Asya, a peasant girl, marries İlyas, a truck driver. The couple, who love each other very much, are separated when İlyas cheats on her, and their epic love story comes to an unexpected end. After that, Asya takes her son and wanders away, not ...
Style:
romantic drama, dramatic, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
impossible love, fall in love, turk, tragic romance, lonely, hidden treasure, women's issues, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, truck, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house
Plot:
loss, loneliness, family problems, adultery, adulterous husband, loss of wife, loss of child, lifestyle change, changing lives, lifestyle, lonely, lovers ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
19%
578
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, family relations, buddies, parents and children, redemption, estrangement, bittersweet, profanity, friends, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
19%
129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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, ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, art house, feel good ...
Plot:
family relations, family secret, injustice, family life, hidden identity, innocence lost, workplace, boss and employee, life is a bitch, hidden truth, minimalism, politics ...
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey, maghreb, balkan
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, retirement home, friendship, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, couples, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, young lovers, unlikely couple, love affair, interracial relations, life is a bitch, social differences, society, terminal illness, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe, asia, germany
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
redemption, undercover, hopes, life is a bitch, family relations, law enforcement, society, terminal illness, multiple storylines, confession, soccer, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
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:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, misfit, society, life is a bitch, hopes, rehabilitation, parents and children, forced into action, jail, punishment, rape, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
18%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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