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The Herd (1978)
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The Herd (1978)
Original name: Sürü
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
Style: political, art house
Plot: kurd, lonely, marxism, women's issues, injustice, nationalism, prejudice, political repression, political oppression, family relations, killing an animal, independence, police corruption, racism, bench, herd, turkish
Time: year 1979
Place: kurdistan, turkey, balkan

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Most similar movies to The Herd

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about family relations, kurd, turk, society, life is a bitch, lonely and prison mostly in Drama, War and Family genres. Some movies like The Herd: The Road (1982), The Wall (1983), Big Man, Little Love (2001), In Nowhere Land (2002), On the Way (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Road (1982)
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, black and white, political, art house, uplifting ...
Plot: kurd, racism, love, muslim, turk, social injustice, road trip, lonely, social commentary, strike, union, labor ...
Time: year 1982
Place: turkey, kurdistan
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100%
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The Wall (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal ...
Style: political, art house, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: kurd, juvenile delinquency, prison life, jail, sex crime, social injustice, traumatic childhood, politics, child abuse, revolutionary, injustice, revolution ...
Time: 80s
Place: kurdistan, turkey, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Big Man, Little Love (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hejar, meaning "Dispossessed", a little Kurdish orphan war victim, educates a Turkish judge!
Style: sincere, suspense, sentimental, islamic, political ...
Plot: racism, kurd, nationalism, children, orphan, neighbor, political oppression, old man, cultural difference, injustice, murder, police ...
Place: kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
In Nowhere Land (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to keep away Veysel from political actions. Veysel get ...
Plot: kurd, resistance, missing son, turk, friend, military police, politics, missing person, journalist, hotel receptionist, 40 year old, tragic event ...
Place: turkey, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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On the Way (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.
Plot: kurd, nationalist, artist, wedding, prison, racism, celebrity, curfew, road trip, prejudice, martial law, political oppression ...
Place: kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Familiar Soil (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.
Plot: stereotypes, artist, generation, brother sister relationship, middle age romance, cancer, political oppression, kurd, lonely, village
Place: iran, kurdistan
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31%
Somersault in a Coffin (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help ...
Style: art house, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: homeless, turk, hobo, tramp, lonely, philosophy, bird, existentialism, hunger, heroin, unemployed, urban ghetto ...
Time: 90s
Place: balkan, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Big Big World (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style: art house, crying
Plot: forest, hospital, motorcycle, taxi, lonely, goat, hugging, taxi driver, orphan, magic realism, bleeding
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Bride (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The struggles of a migrant Anatolian family to adapt to and survive in the very different conditions of urban Istanbul. A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, suspense, art house
Plot: loss of son, honor, doctor, little boy, husband wife relationship, business, mother in law daughter in law relationship, money, tradition, women's issues, immigration, fiancee ...
Place: istanbul turkey, balkan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Lovelorn (2005)
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, touching, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: stalking, village, family relations, couples, love and romance, sleazy, society, single parent, hopes, fall in love, village life, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Destiny (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style: serious, tense, art house, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: romancing a criminal, life is a bitch, on the run, fall in love, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, destiny, fighting illness, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Three Monkeys (2008)
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, political corruption, family secret, injustice, family life, workplace, innocence lost, life is a bitch, boss and employee, hidden identity, hidden truth, politics ...
Place: turkey, middle east, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Journey to the Sun (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon ...
Style: road movie, sad, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: kurd, human rights, female fight, female fighter, anarchist, injustice, friendship, politics, discrimination, racism, self discovery, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: kurdistan, turkey, iraq, istanbul turkey, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Come to My Voice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, against the odds, elderly, youth, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, family in crisis, false arrest, on the road, kurd, military, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Boy Who Stopped Talking (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: Netherlands, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Memo is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Turkey with his mother and little sister, while his father works in a Netherlands seaport. When war looms near his family home, Memo's father moves the family to be with him in the Netherlands. Memo is ...
Plot: kurd, boy, friendship, village, rural area, childhood, turk, rural setting, family relations, anger, postman, police ...
Place: kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
My Only Sunshine (2008)
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: single parent, youth, parents and children, family relations, poverty, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, lonely ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's ...
Style: touching, emotional, lyrical, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: immigrant, tragic event, prostitute, student, loss of daughter, multiple storylines, rebelliousness, lgbt, coincidence, prison, migration, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: germany, turkey, hamburg germany, middle east, balkan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Waiting Room (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 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: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot: depressed man, betrayal, crime and punishment, director, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, male female relationship, creative block, relationships, crisis of conscience, depression ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Distant (2002)
Genre: 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, bleak, art house, lyrical, stylized ...
Plot: loneliness, unemployment, midlife crisis, isolation, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, photography, love and romance, introspection, existentialism ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
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24%
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Oh, Moon! (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
Style: surreal, art house
Plot: dialogue, existentialism, classical music, moon, girl, grandfather, spinster, seagull, aunt niece relationship, english teacher, bedridden, young
Place: turkey
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22%
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Clair Obscur (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sexual, art house
Plot: psychiatrist patient relationship, small town, female psychiatrist, repressed sexuality, psychiatric patient, small town life, women, abusive relationship, troubled marriage, relationship problems, female protagonist, family relations ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Bliss (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 105 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, serious, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: cultural difference, rape, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, sexual humiliation, turk, women's issues ...
Place: middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Little Bit of Freedom (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the metropolitan city of Hamburg, illegal immigrant Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an openly gay African youth with blond hair, makes his money by dealing drugs and dreams of one day living in Australia. Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt), meanwhile, is a Kurdish ...
Plot: gay, revenge, kurd, lgbt, youth, coming of age, immigrant, obsession, young man, interracial, oppression, exile ...
Place: kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Dry Summer (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
Style: art house, educational, black and white, tense, realistic ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, summer, social commentary, muslim, animal abuse, water, prison, drought, rural setting, farmer, village, siblings relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Autumn (2008)
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: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Fratricide (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot: kurd, politics, racism, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, orphan, friendship, social decay, injustice, vengeance, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ember (2016)
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, philosophical, brutal, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: sex with friend's wife, abusive husband, unfaithful wife, jealous husband, marriage, divorce, secret, husband wife relationship, old love, worried mother, cheating wife, violence ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style: philosophical, melancholic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: kurd, countryside, small town, fish out of water, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, poetry, existentialism ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.
Style: cinema verite
Plot: kurd, narration, male female relationship, prejudice, tragedy, border, love, bureaucracy, turk, iraq war, oppression
Place: iraq, iran, kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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