Movies like Fate (2001)
The best movies like Fate (2001) are Innocence (1997), Destiny (2006) and Inside (2012). If Fate hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Wild Pear Tree (2018)7.5/10 from 334 votes
- NewestLife (2023)Released 2023
- Same seriesThe Confession (2001)Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales
Innocence (1997)
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 life in unexpected ways…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDestiny (2006)
Bekir loves Uğur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Uğur disappears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInside (2012)
Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shadow Play (1992)
Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisClouds of May (1999)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAutumn (2008)
Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSomething Useful (2017)
A chance meeting on a train in the Turkish countryside leads two women to a journey that shows them the importance of setting a path for one's life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisToss-Up (2004)
Two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Confession (2001)
A man suspects his wife of being unfaithful, but he's not prepared for what her confession will do to him.
Why it matches: Same series: Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDistant (2002)
A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams of working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNausea (2015)
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
White Angel (2007)
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 kinds of love, from east to west, from schoolchildren to villagers, from young to old, in both an emotional and humorous way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomersault in a Coffin (1996)
Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Third Page (1999)
Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJolly Life (2009)
Burdened by troubles and caught between cultures, Riza takes a job as a mall Santa and finds that real life may not be so different from make believe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmber (2016)
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Climates (2006)
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 ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Small Town (1997)
A story in four parts is told from the perspective of two children, showing life in school, in nature, with family and at home. All of this unfolding along with the seasons. The Small Town depicts life in the village, while also portraying the relationships between members of a small-town family, in a long centerpiece scene around a campfire with family members talking about the past, life and its disappointments. Both brother and sister witness the complexities and darkness of the adult world, as well as the mysteries of nature and wildlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Muhsin (1987)
An ingenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Mr. Muhsin to have his first album.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisEgg (2007)
Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThree Monkeys (2008)
A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife (2023)
Hicran runs away from home when she is forced into an engagement with Rıza by her father. Rıza, who thinks that Hicran doesn't want to be with him, doesn't care at first. But when it begins to bother him, he decides to confront the situation and embarks on a long search for her in Istanbul.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Everything About Mustafa (2004)
A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThou Gild'st the Even (2013)
In a small town in Anatolia, whose inhabitants possess various supernatural powers but still have to deal with ordinary problems, Cemal helps out in his father’s barbershop and, in his free time, acts as a football referee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIvy (2015)
When the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAbout Dry Grasses (2023)
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 fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFig Jam (2011)
On a night of despair after being turned down continuously for the scripts he writes, Metin ends up in a bar where he meets a girl named Duygu. After spending the night together, she walks out in the morning before he wakes up and leaves only a short note. The next time they meet, Metin becomes curious about her secret and decides to follow her. What he finds out will be the beginning of an everlasting love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisİstanbul Tales (2005)
Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Fate?
The closest matches to Fate are Innocence (1997), Destiny (2006) and Inside (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Fate?
People who watched Fate most often go on to Innocence (1997), Destiny (2006) and Inside (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Fate?
The Wild Pear Tree (2018), rated 7.5/10 by 334 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Fate?
Life (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Fate part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales, which includes The Confession (2001).
How are movies similar to Fate chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Fate, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.