Ali Sürmeli

What a Wonderful World (2024)

A secret organization called the "Ancients" builds a futuristic hotel-style shelter to protect 100 chosen individuals from a deadly viral epidemic that will destroy the world. Taxi driver Noah, who stumbles upon this hotel-like shelter, finds himself in an ...

Love’s Hour 19.03 (2023)

The film is about the spirit of Beşiktaş, which a grandfather wants to inflict on his grandchild. ...

A Matter of Prestige (2023)

The film, which deals with the birth and rise of the Prestige Music generation, tells the passions and life struggles of artists, including Özcan Deniz, Haluk Levent and Mahsun Kırmızıgül, from the 1990s to the present. ...

Mother Elif (2022)

Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life. ...

The Life of a Snowflake (2022)

In Trabzon, snow falls heavily like never before in the last days of autumn, and the roads are blocked. In this setting, two people who attend the same school but have never met have a chance encounter at a bus station, waiting for the same bus that has ru ...

Seni Bulacam Oğlum! (2021)

Ertan is swindled by his best friend Iskender who takes all of the money that they both spent their whole life's saving. ...

Miracles Of Love (2019)

During the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful girl in the village. ...

Hep Yek 3: You Shook Me (2019)

With the mafia on their tail, Altan and Gürkan embark on new misadventures when they find themselves at a party hosted by a notorious antiques smuggler. ...

The Last Game (2018)

Meftun Taylan, former member of the Grey Wolves, who was sent to Europe in the '80s to fight against ASALA, now struggles with regrets about his criminal activities after the operations for the fatherland. Dreaming of a clear conscience, Meftun sees it as ...

Vezir Parmağı (2017)

In this story set in ancient times, 31 women who lost their husbands, fathers, and children in war rise up against their lack of men after many years and demand that the state send them men to marry and have children. Five single men from different regions ...

Hayat Çizgisi: Suriye (2016)

Doğan is a young and successful surgeon living in Istanbul. He works at a hospital owned by his father Faruk, who is also a doctor. Having received a Western education, Doğan is unfamiliar with his own country and believes that his life is limited to Ist ...

Somuncu Baba: Askin Sirri (2016)

Based on a real life story of sufi dervish Somuncu Baba, who lived in Aksaray in Turkey. ...

Babaların Babası (2016)

When Nejdet learns that the other mafia bosses he works with are plotting behind his back, he decides to teach them a lesson. The biggest surprise he has in store is his son, whom he has kept hidden from everyone for many years. However, Berk, a conservato ...

The Miracle (2015)

1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and t ...

Full of Hunger (2012)

Three people from three different worlds... Three Others who become the unwitting cause of each others suffering...Three ordinary lives so tormented that even death seems sweet... Can emotional pain be vanquished through physical pain? ...

A Noise in the Night (2012)

A crime drama film featuring Cem Davran as a middle-aged university professor on a a harrowing journey towards both Turkey's and his own past after crashing into the wall of an Alevi village cemetery… ...

Takiye: Allah Yolunda (2010)

The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin invested all his money in one such company, JIMPA, and even convinced his close friends and family to do the ...

Five Minarets in New York (2010)

Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus ...

Kolpaçino (2009)

Lives of several low-level gangsters get intertwined after a game of craps in their underground casino ends in a bloody shootout. ...

I 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 Istan ...

The Storm (2008)

Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system ...

Hoşça Kal Güzin (2008)

Serkan, who spends his days watching Turkish movies at home, starts working in a nursing home at the urging of his older brother. ...

Twisted (2008)

A naive apolitical young man, who is interrupted by a fundamental religious environment, turns bitter. ...

Beyaz Melek (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 sch ...

Eve Giden Yol 1914 (2006)

During the years when World War I began to turn the Ottoman Empire's territories into a war zone, the pain of a great love story that unfolded in southeastern Anatolia and present-day Syria burned as fiercely as the war itself in the hearts of those involv ...

Heist School (2006)

Five high school students plans to steal University Entrance Exam booklets. ...

Hope Island (2006)

"Hope Island" tells the story of a group of people who come to the UK from Turkey illegally and a young girl who comes for the purpose of educational opportunities. These young people, who come from different classes and cultures, are taking the journey of ...

The Waterfall (2001)

The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now a famous pa ...

Elephants and Grass (2000)

Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2 ...

Diploma of Madness (1998)

Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself? ...

Karışık Pizza (1998)

Murat, who is not very attractive, is actually a naive person. His biggest dream is that the alternative universe, in which he imagines himself as an invincible hero. ...

The Man in the Street (1995)

The film tells the tale of a man who gets involved in smuggling. Hasan works as a steward on a ship. During their trip to Marseilles, he makes a deal with an Armenian man to smuggle goods into İstanbul. He brings the goods with his friend Yakup to İstanb ...

Babam Askerde (1995)

The story of three children whose parents are arrested during the coup... ...

Düş, Gerçek, Bir de Sinema (1995)

The Blue Exile (1993)

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, ...

Dönüş (1988)

Captives of a Night Dance (1988)