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10 Best Movies Like The Turkish Gambit

If you loved The Turkish Gambit, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Dead Man's Bluff

Dead Man's Bluff

2005★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Turkish Gambit for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar...

#2
Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

2009★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Turkish Gambit for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies....

#3
The State Counsellor

The State Counsellor

2005★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Turkish Gambit for fans of Mystery & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else...

#4
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Turkish Gambit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#5
Taiga Novel

Taiga Novel

2001★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Turkish Gambit for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Far East. 70th years. A small garrison on the border with China. Here, as everywhere, there are men and women. Everyone has his own story, his own destiny, his own love. The common...

#6
Hardcore Henry

Hardcore Henry

2015★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Turkish Gambit for fans of Adventure & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongs...