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Movies Like The New World

If you liked The New World (2015), a drama movie directed by Caner Erzincan, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1A Child Is Waiting

    A Child Is Waiting (1963)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to…

  2. 2Where Hope Grows

    Where Hope Grows (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life…

  3. 3Yellow Letters

    Yellow Letters (2026)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    The marriage of Derya and Aziz is under pressure after losing their jobs because of state arbitrariness and moving to Istanbul to live with Aziz's parents. They and their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi have to redefine…

  4. 4The Memory Keeper's Daughter

    The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline…

  5. 5About Dry Grasses

    About Dry Grasses (2023)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    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 student surface, his hopes of escape…

  6. 6The Dead

    The Dead (1987)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.

  7. 7Paper Lives

    Paper Lives (2021)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    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.

  8. 8Brother's Keeper

    Brother's Keeper (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic…

  9. 9Marvellous

    Marvellous (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any…

  10. 10Skater Girl

    Skater Girl (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

  11. 11Kisses

    Kisses (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

  12. 12The Bride

    The Bride (1973)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    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…

  13. 13White Angel

    White Angel (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    The film is a love story. However, it is not a story about the love between two people, but rather a story about the love and affection that a group of people feel for life and for each other. The film depicts all…

  14. 14Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies (1996)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

  15. 15Die My Love

    Die My Love (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…

  16. 16Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  17. 17Climates

    Climates (2006)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the…

  18. 18Broken

    Broken (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

  19. 19Poor Cow

    Poor Cow (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…

  20. 20Heidi

    Heidi (2005)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying…

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