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Movies Like Broken Mussels

If you liked Broken Mussels (2012), a drama movie directed by Seyfettin Tokmak, 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. 1Yellow 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…

  2. 2About 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…

  3. 3Sibel

    Sibel (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    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 whistled language of the area.

  4. 4I Saw the Sun

    I Saw the Sun (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    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 the war intensifies, the family is…

  5. 5Kisses

    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.

  6. 6Georgetown

    Georgetown (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected…

  7. 7Inside

    Inside (2012)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.

  8. 8Herself

    Herself (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a…

  9. 9For Love and Honor

    For Love and Honor (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is…

  10. 10Fate

    Fate (2001)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

  11. 11Charm City Kings

    Charm City Kings (2020)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds…

  12. 12Clouds of May

    Clouds of May (1999)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    An aspiring filmmaker visits his parents and begins to devise a movie. Amidst creating and casting for the film, he encounters with family & friends who struggle with their own problems, dreams and life.

  13. 13The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    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.

  14. 14Hungry Hearts

    Hungry Hearts (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

  15. 15Innocence

    Innocence (1997)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his…

  16. 16The 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…

  17. 1710 Days of a Curious Man

    10 Days of a Curious Man (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    When a young woman goes missing in Istanbul, a jaded writer gets tangled up in a deadly chain of events as he sets out to find her—and a good story.

  18. 18Skin

    Skin (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

  19. 19The Enforcer

    The Enforcer (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…

  20. 20Paper 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.

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