Movies like Halam Geldi
If you like "Halam Geldi" you are looking for tense, touching and suspenseful movies about / with child bride, military, family relations, school, friendship, teenage girl and corruption themes of Drama genre shot in Turkey.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Halam Geldi (2013)
911
Where to Watch
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"Halam Geldi"(My Aunt has Arrived) does not just tell a story in the Greek village of Northern Cyprus, where the sounds of the Ezan is accompanied by the church bells, it also underlines a tradition in Anatolia; the drama of child brides. Three children in the village, three of them from Diyarbakir (Turkish Kurdistan), three of them at the age of thirteen, three of them imprisoned by their fate.
Style:
tense, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
child bride, military, family relations, school, friendship, teenage girl, corruption, father daughter relationship, young girl, border crossing, loss of child, domineering father, twists and turns, suspense, women, destiny, women's issues, dog, tank, escape, illness, handicapped, border, greek, turk ...
Place:
cyprus
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Halam Geldi
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, suspenseful, tense and captivating films with plots about suspense, family relations, friendship, parents and children, teenager, school and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Halam Geldi: Facing Mirrors (2011), Mickey and the Bear (2019), 6A (2016), Mustang (2015), Perfect Revolution (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transsexual man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same ...
Style:
psychological, touching, disturbing
Plot:
escape, transsexual, lgbt, friendship, forced marriage, patriarchy, arranged marriage, muslim, domineering father, hijab, taxi, taxi driver ...
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Plot:
father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, teenage girl, war veteran, father daughter incest, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, suspense, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
112
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
teenager, school teacher, school, bullying, teacher, doubt, parents, mistrust, crisis, friendship, suspense, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
39K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, realistic, art house, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
sisters, teenage girl, coming of age, virginity, arranged marriage, teenager, women, sister sister relationship, orphan, female protagonist, sexism, children ...
Time:
2010s, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, israel, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own ...
Style:
captivating, melancholic, tense, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot:
disabled person, japanese woman, hospital, sexuality, bipolar disorder, handicapped, lust, suspense, teddy bear, cerebral palsy, restaurant, television ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Also search:
Films like Fathers & Daughters
423
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
school, dictatorship, military, rebelliousness, family in danger, political unrest, parents and children, repression, family relations, dishonesty, rebellion, village ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
military, rancher, corruption, father daughter relationship, family relations, corrupt official, farm, ranch, suspense, problem, horse, capture ...
Place:
north dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yemen, France, United Arab Emirates, USA, Sweden, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Nojoom was forced to marry a 30-year-old man. The dowry offered the family a small income and 'one less mouth to feed'. Nojoom discovers that her life will take a turn for the worse. Her husband is indifferent to her age. ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, touching, thought provoking
Plot:
child bride, tradition, divorce, little girl, sheik, forced marriage, family honor, judge, escape, courtroom, rape, marital separation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Luz Cuevas baby daughter Delimar disappeared in 1997 after their house caught fire during a party, The police reported that she was killed in the fire. However, Cuevas suspects that she was kidnapped and that the fire was staged by an outsider. Six ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, touching
Plot:
child abduction, missing daughter, missing child, mother daughter reunion, husband wife relationship, loss of child, mother daughter relationship, baby, father son relationship, ex convict, house fire, suspense ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jonathan Wright has it all, a prestigious job, incredibly beautiful wife Amy, gorgeous 7-year-old daughter Megan and countless friends. In the prime of his life, Jonathan suffers a life threatening brain aneurysm that leaves him comatose. After ...
Style:
christian film, realistic, touching, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
salvation, love, christian, friendship, filmmaking, family relations, parent child relationship, friendship between men, friends, father daughter relationship, best friends
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Also search:
Movies similar to Mustang
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.
Style:
touching, thought provoking, suspenseful, psychological, rough
Plot:
homelessness, mother daughter relationship, family relations, society, love and romance, friendship, rescue, betrayal, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, dishonesty ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
976
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, touching
Plot:
mining, nature, environmental issue, investigation, technology, government official, government, environment, interrogation, business, politics, corruption ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style:
psychological, touching, disturbing, sincere, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, love, youth, hospital, hospitalization, mental illness, adaptation, life is a bitch, suspense, destiny, friendship, redemption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Lucio and Enedina are a happily married young Teenek couple that lives in the Huasteca Potosina's jungle with their three children. They love each other and share everything, nevertheless, everything crumbles when the construction of a highway, ...
Style:
rough, bleak, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
jungle, life is a bitch, boy, adultery, suspense, society, rivalry, deforestation, destiny, friendship, family relations, parents and children ...
Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot:
on the run, mafia, protection, family relations, dog, doberman, daughter, father, family life, suspense, gangsters, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Also search:
Films like Mud
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, parents and children, family relations, poverty, society, teenage life, social misfits, elderly, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
separated parents, family relations, female protagonist, half sister half sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, girl ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Every parent wants the best for their kids, and Shahzad is no exception. Ever since his wife died he's been trying to keep his two kids Salma and Hassan on track. Salma is growing up quickly, and Shahzad wants to make sure she's set up ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, touching, feminist film, exciting ...
Plot:
death of protagonist, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, college student, teenage daughter, family relations, muslim, father and daughter, relationships, parents and children ...
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
ORDINARY PEOPLE is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
child, husband wife relationship, family relations, money, violence, missing child, mother child relationship, child abduction, twists and turns, suspense, sex scene, gays and lesbians ...
Place:
the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, documentary filmmaking
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, summer school, overweight, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, contests and competitions, youth, working undercover, doctors and patients, social experiment, follow your dream ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Also search:
Movies similar to Mickey and the Bear
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Pakistan, Norway, USA, India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl's marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
child bride, forced marriage, female protagonist, family relations, little girl, family feud, child in peril, chase, mother daughter relationship, on the run, escape, woman in danger ...
Place:
pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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:
psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
life is a bitch, teenage life, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, money problems, social problems, juvenile delinquency, family problems, society, violence, teenager, suspense
Place:
indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is ...
Style:
psychological, touching, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, rough
Plot:
arranged marriage, sex with stepmother, childhood, family relations, teenager, teenage girl, fiancee, girl, countryside, suspense, lesbian, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women meet by chance and discover they were both raped by rapist. Individually and together they must confront the past and finally integrate the long repressed trauma into their lives.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, touching, tense
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, police station, rape, women, palestinian, husband wife conflict, serial rapist, research, political activist, sex crime, suspense, jewish ...
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, psychological
Plot:
suicide, teen romance, self discovery, love, friendship, teenager, lesbian, school, life, muse, coming of age, gay ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot:
teenage girl, gang, dream, friendship, disappearance, teenager, suspense, stranger, escape, isolation, woman, magic realism ...
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, exciting, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, countryside, master and servant, couples, mute or deaf, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, friendship, intellectual disability, ghost ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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:
psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
destiny, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, dull life, life is a bitch, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, chance, sexual content, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
child, stepfather stepson relationship, russian, child protagonist, husband wife relationship, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, disorder, suspense, gay ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, society, high school life, family problems, dysfunctional family, social relations, family relations, parents and children, friends ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
