15 Movies Like Dry Summer
Loved Dry Summer? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Miracle in Cell No. 7
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dry Summer.
Dilberay
Born into a poor family with eight children in Kahramanmaraş, Dilber Ay endured many sorrows and hardships in the life she began in a tent. At the age of 13, she was sold to an older man for money, they married, and had children. She was beaten and tortured for singing, but despite all the pain she endured, she rose to the top of the stage with the strength she drew from her God-given voice, and she also experienced prison. She never gave up, always singing her way out of the bottomless pits she fell into.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dry Summer.
Two Worlds One Wish
Twenty-one years after a magical meeting at a children's hospital, Bilge and Can suddenly begin hearing each other's voices telepathically. What seems like a miracle soon reveals a hidden secret, as fate-reuniting them after decades-has much more in store.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dry Summer.
Aşk Sadece Bir An
A young man and woman from very different backgrounds fall in love but their relationship faces obstacles from his troubled past and her overprotective parents.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dry Summer.
Cape Fear
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Erin Brockovich
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Sleeping with the Enemy
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Maximum Risk
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
The Place Beyond the Pines
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Midnight Express
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Borrowed Bride
Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dry Summer.
The Dry
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.
Blue Cave
When Cem finds himself at the brink of losing the love of his life, Alara, he embarks on an expedition to the Blue Cave, Alara's most beloved archeological site, to feel close to her again.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dry Summer.
Stillwater
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dry Summer.