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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.

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#1
About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

2023★ 7.7

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 ...

#2
A Tale of Three Sisters

A Tale of Three Sisters

2019★ 7.2

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...

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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....

#4
40 Acres

40 Acres

2025★ 6.7

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...

#5
The Attack

The Attack

2012★ 6.8

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....

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Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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...

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