Movies like Koepek

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Koepek (2015)
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Koepek (2015)
Original name: Köpek
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An ordinary day in the megacity of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything that satisfies their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love and death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century.
Style: anthology, psychological, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: social criticism, unrequited love, life is a bitch, tragic love, society, multiple storylines, social problems, unfulfilled love, city life, social relations, urban setting, social issues, dog, transsexual, city, female director
Place: istanbul turkey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, psychological and suspense films with plots about social problems, life is a bitch, society, social issues, family problems, relationship problems and social relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Koepek: Jin (2013), This Town (2007), Pink (2011), Aglama Anne (2018), Ten Years (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jin (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This dangerous but incredibly ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: kurd, society, social problems, social issues, social relations, life is a bitch, partisan, feminist, resistance, lonely, girl, female terrorist ...
Place: middle east, turkey
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95%
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This Town (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: womanizer, social problems, multiple storylines, family problems, society, small town, social relations, friends, family relations, city life, lifestyle, friendship ...
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Pink (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: protest, social problems, loss of job, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, society, small town, workplace, small town life, social issues, urban setting ...
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73%
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Aglama Anne (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Aglama Anne (Crying Mom) living in high school for a one-night love for fun at night, Zeynep will suffer for many years later. Alev will get pregnant that night and will not want to have the child. Young people around the event will hear the name of ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: unrequited love, mother daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, parents and children, male female relationship, unfulfilled love, relationship problems, tragic love, dysfunctional family ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Ten Years (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Style: anthology, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: social problems, lifestyle, social injustice, society, social issues, multiple storylines, slice of life, relationship problems, dialogue, politics, existentialism, prophecy ...
Time: future, near future
Place: hong kong, china
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69%
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Trap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, weird
Plot: typhoon, survivor, life is a bitch, social problems, society, social issues, hospital, crucifix, fire, loss of child, death, catastrophe ...
Place: the philippines
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66%
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Jane (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sohyun, a runaway, is left alone after her close friend Jungho disappears. By accident, she gets to know a transgender woman named Jane. She joins Jane and her close-knit community of runaways, who are as comforting and loving as a real family. ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: relationships, unlikely friendships, female protagonist, tragic love, life is a bitch, unrequited love, women, relationship problems, male female relationship, suicide attempt, unfulfilled love, couple relations ...
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65%
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Lady Zee (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: orphan, border crossing, prostitution, brothel, prostitute, social problems, mistrust, in love, life is a bitch, male female relationship, social relations, relationships ...
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64%
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Our Story (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, family relations, coup d'etat, changing lives, parents and children, social relations, social problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, coup, family problems, family life ...
Place: middle east, turkey
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60%
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(S)He (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: (S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, gender issues, gender, parents and children, social issues, social problems, gender roles, life is a bitch, transgender woman, transvestite, society, gender bending ...
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58%
National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears' dog Wellington, he records each fact about the event in the ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: murder suspect, suspect, murder investigation, socially awkward, antisocial behavior, investigation, genius, social issues, mind, crime solving, suspicion of murder, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
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55%
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Playing Hard (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere
Plot: addiction, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, social relations, social problems, female protagonist, women, alcohol abuse, society, female alcoholic, alcoholic, generation gap ...
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55%
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Sammi (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers social issues on the rural society revolving around the concept of Vanni, the series shows moral lessons against common issues such as gender discrimination. Depicting the Vanni concept storyline revolves around the journey of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: life is a bitch, love affair, couple relations, multiple storylines, family problems, male female relationship, social problems, unfulfilled love, tragic love, female protagonist, relationship problems, fight ...
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54%
The Northern Kingdom (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The lives of three disparate families are illuminated by a meteor shower on a winter night.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: psychology, social issues, social problems, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, farm, stepfather, dysfunctional family, family relations, psychologist
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Drunktown's Finest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous transsexual - search for love and acceptance.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: native american, transsexual, indigenous people, native american reservation, lgbt, social problems, indian reservation, relationship problems, life is a bitch, transgender, women of color, american indian ...
Place: indiana, new mexico
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50%
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On the Edge (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
Style: anthology, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: social problems, victim, social misfits, criminal, life is a bitch, society, multiple storylines, social issues, crime victim, problem, gang violence, women's prison ...
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50%
Young Adult Matters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, society, relationship problems, female homosexuality, poverty ...
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49%
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A Day for Women (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A new swimming pool opens in a Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays will be only for females. This causes ripples throughout the local community, while three women - Shamiya, Azza, and Lula - assess their varying lives.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: feminism, social relations, social problems, society, women, introspection, lifestyle, self discovery, swimming, islam, grief
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45%
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Herstory (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: war crime, courtroom, legal action, life is a bitch, rape victim, court, social problems, society, lawsuit, legal investigation, female victim, hunting ...
Time: 90s
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43%
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Listen (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, social
Plot: deaf child, money problems, society, life is a bitch, social issues, family relations, social problems, father daughter relationship, family problems, kids and family, parents and children, deaf mute ...
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42%
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Aruvi (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A gentle girl born and brought up amidst the ever growing eco-social-consumeristic environment finds it difficult to fit in the society. She decides to take it hard on the people.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, sad, stylized
Plot: sexualized violence, socially awkward, rape victim, social problems, social outcast, social misfits, life is a bitch, social issues, antisocial behavior, society, female protagonist, illness ...
Place: india
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42%
Under the Stars of Paris (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: refugee, homeless woman, homeless, search for mother, boy, illegal immigrant, homelessness, life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, urban setting, immigrant ...
Place: paris france
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41%
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Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, art house
Plot: unrequited love, tragic love, suicide, life is a bitch, love and romance, officer, unfulfilled love, countess, love affair, relationship problems, cheating wife, female nudity ...
Time: victorian era
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41%
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Socialphobia (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman is attacked by Internet users after posting provocative remarks online. Using her personal information, they go to her place but what they find is her body; she took her own life. Who made her kill herself? Or, was she killed by someone else?
Style: social, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: social problems, social issues, social outcast, social relations, investigation, murder investigation, social media, society, police investigation, murderer, cold case, murder mystery ...
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40%
The Animal's Wife (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: violent, violence, tragic love, forbidden love, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationships, relationship problems, male female relationship
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40%
What the Night Can Do (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Luana is a 12-year-old girl struggling to grasp the world collapsing around her, as her parents separate and her estranged Grandfather falls ill. It takes one unlikely person to help her find her way.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: teenage life, grownups, social problems, teenage girl, life is a bitch, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, society, adolescence, social issues, teenager, adolescence vs adulthood
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40%
Ms. White Light (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lex Cordova is a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when it comes to dealing with everyone else. When ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: social problems, doctor patient relationship, death, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lifestyle, slice of life, socially awkward, female doctor, social issues, life
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40%
The Mothers of Chico Xavier (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, mystical
Plot: spiritualism, family problems, lifestyle, social problems, multiple storylines, women, female protagonist, social issues, relationship problems, investigative reporter, medium
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40%
The Warrior and the Savior (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Orphaned by A.I.D.S., South African children Ibutho and Umsindisi SIlongo try to make a fresh start in the United States. What they do not know is that their struggles are far from over.
Style: captivating
Plot: children, orphan, adoption, immigration, african, social issues, social problems, social relations, kids in trouble, society, life is a bitch, prostitution ...
Place: new york, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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