Movies like Somersault in a Coffin (1996)
The best movies like Somersault in a Coffin (1996) are Whistle If You Come Back (1993), Innocence (1997) and A Run for Money (1999). If Somersault in a Coffin hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDistant (2002)7.1/10 from 274 votes
- NewestNausea (2015)Released 2015
Whistle If You Come Back (1993)
A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 thisA Run for Money (1999)
The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothing for men in his shop situated in one of the back streets of Istanbul. Selim is a family man who has devoted his life to his home and his work. He lives with his wife Ayla, his six-year-old daughter Esma and his old father in a simple flat in and old, modest neighbourhood. He has warm relations with his family. He is an affectionate father. One of his neighbours, a young widow named Nihal tries to seduce Selim, but her flirtation leaves him cold. Selim is known for his honesty and integrity among his family and friends. He is a careful spender. As a little child, he has learned that money is not easily earned. He has no tolerance for petty "trickery" met in daily life. One day, Selim finds a bag full of dollar bills (approximately 500,000$) in a cab. From that day on, Selim finds himself in a bewildered state with a bag full of money on his hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (2004)
In his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Wall (1983)
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fate (2001)
Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 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 thisI Saw the Sun (2009)
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 forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToll Booth (2011)
Quiet and introverted toll booth clerk Kenan's life, a humdrum routine between the Tavsancik toll booth plaza and his home, will change the day the new operations chief comes to inspect Tavsancik.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHope (1970)
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVavien (2009)
Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an electrician shop which doesn't go well. They are in debt. The only fun they have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal's love for Sibel Ceylan who works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal's wife, Sevilay, saves her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact that Celal knows her secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCars of the Revolution (2008)
In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisThe Herd (1978)
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeyond the Hill (2012)
In the quiet foothills of Turkey, Faik lives an isolated existence. When his second son brings his boys for a visit, Faik takes the opportunity to pontificate about the law of the land, as he sees it. He shares one unsolicited thought after the next, most particularly focusing on the elusive nomads whom he suspects have been trespassing on his property. The day and night wear on, and each member of the clan takes his turn entrusting the film's audience with his own dark secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhite 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 thisSivas (2014)
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOh, Moon! (1988)
Eleven-year-old Yekta lives in a crumbling island mansion with her strict aunts and ailing grandfather, yearning for her absent mother. As dreams and surreal visions shape her solitude, she sets out in search of a mythical seagull with a child’s head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mommy, I'm Scared (2006)
Reha Erdem’s innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human. The drama revolves around hapless taxi driver Ali, who suffers from amnesia as a result of an accident the cause of which he does not remember. As he struggles to regain his memory, his neighbors—embodying a variety of physical, mental, and emotional states—wrestle with their own difficulties, helping one another along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn Board (1998)
Sailors want to remain in their small world, which is warm and cozy and full of lies, but their routine life turns upside down when one of them gets mugged and badly beaten.
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
My Dear Brother (1973)
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 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.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisToss-Up (2004)
Two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities.
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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 thisCholera Street (1997)
Salih is a mechanic and the son of a respected barber named Ali. A woman named Tina arrives at Cholera Street, where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDon't Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)
Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Somersault in a Coffin?
The closest matches to Somersault in a Coffin are Whistle If You Come Back (1993), Innocence (1997) and A Run for Money (1999). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Somersault in a Coffin?
People who watched Somersault in a Coffin most often go on to Whistle If You Come Back (1993), Innocence (1997) and A Run for Money (1999).
What is the highest-rated movie like Somersault in a Coffin?
Distant (2002), rated 7.1/10 by 274 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Somersault in a Coffin?
Nausea (2015) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Somersault in a Coffin chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Somersault in a Coffin, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.