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

Paper Lives
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to İstanbul Tales for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood....

Undergods
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to İstanbul Tales for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune....

About Dry Grasses
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to İstanbul Tales 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 ...

Frenzy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to İstanbul Tales for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, work...

A Tale of Three Sisters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to İstanbul Tales 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...

Lovelorn
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to İstanbul Tales for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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 b...