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10 Best Movies Like Acı Pirinç

If you loved Acı Pirinç, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Tale of Three Sisters

A Tale of Three Sisters

2019★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acı Pirinç for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents fo...

#2
About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

2023★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acı Pirinç for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with ...

#3
Sibel

Sibel

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acı Pirinç for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral...

#4
I Saw the Sun

I Saw the Sun

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acı Pirinç for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As th...

#5
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acı Pirinç for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#6
Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acı Pirinç for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...

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