
10 Best Movies Like Esir Hayat
If you loved Esir Hayat, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

About Dry Grasses
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Esir Hayat 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 ...

A Tale of Three Sisters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Esir Hayat 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...

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Esir Hayat for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

40 Acres
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Esir Hayat for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now stru...

The Attack
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Esir Hayat for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing....

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Esir Hayat 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...