Best dark & gritty Turkish movies in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
10 movies in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.0. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. About Dry Grasses (2023)
Movie · Turkish · 3h 17m · Drama · IMDb 7.7 (20.4K votes)
Slow-burnDark & grittySerious
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.
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2. Love Me Instead (2021)
Movie · Turkish · 2h 4m · Drama · IMDb 7.0 (3.7K votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittySerious
Accompanied by a ward, a prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his daughter and make amends, but a tragic truth mars his journey.
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3. The Things You Kill (2025)
Movie · Turkish · 1h 55m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 6.5 (2.2K votes)
TwistySlow-burnCold & detachedDark & gritty
Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.
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4. Edge of Night (2025)
Movie · Turkish · 1h 25m · Drama · IMDb 5.8 (420 votes)
Dark & grittySerious
Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority.
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5. 10 Days of a Bad Man (2023)
Movie · Turkish · 2h 4m · Crime, Drama · IMDb 6.1 (3.6K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seat
Battered, broken and bereaved, a private investigator must muscle his way through a tangle of lies to uncover the truth behind a mansion murder.
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6. 10 Days of a Curious Man (2024)
Movie · Turkish · 1h 50m · A · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 5.7 (1.6K votes)
Cold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seatMature
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.
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7. Sultana (2026)
Movie · Turkish · 2h · Drama, Music · IMDb 5.9 (4.0K votes)
MatureDark & grittySerious
Sultana is a drama set in Istanbul's one and only strip club, telling a story of a women, power, rivalry and solidarity. A new Turkish story where women are not victims in a fairy tale, but warriors learning that the 'handsome prince' is often the real monster- and their only salvation is each other. Meral the long rei
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8. Doğulu (2025)
Movie · Turkish · 1h 30m · Action, Drama · IMDb 3.6 (428 votes)
Cold & detachedEdge-of-seatMatureDark & gritty
After being released from prison, where they had been incarcerated for many years, Fırat Doğulu and his companion Akın find themselves embroiled in a relentless quest for revenge.
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