İsmail Hacıoğlu

Tears of Cem Karaca (2024)

Against a backdrop of political unrest in Turkey, this biopic charts the life of Anatolian rock singer Cem Karaca, focusing on his revolutionary ideals. Heightened emotions and moments of threat reflect the country's rising tensions. ...

49 (2023)

Following ISIS's occupation of Mosul in 2014, members of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) engaged in a difficult struggle to rescue 49 personnel taken captive at the Turkish Consulate General. ...

Intersection: Glad to Have You Eren (2022)

A true intersection story of a teenage boy lives in Black Sea hills whose life is full of struggle, a heroic soldier Ferhat and an uninvited visitor from back of beyond. ...

Blind Love (2019)

During a turbulent period in the '80s, love blossoms between a young man and a woman residing at a mental health rehabilitation center in Turkey. ...

Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu (2019)

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu. ...

Turkish Ice Cream (2019)

In 1915, two Turks in Australia make a living by selling ice cream. When they hear war has broken out, they decide to go to Çanakkale. Authorities don't let them leave the island, so the two decide to put up a fight in Australia. ...

Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)

In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm's way. ...

Lokman İlyas (2016)

Years of accumulated pain turned into rigid prejudices and built high walls between people. We memorized mistrust without learning to share. Yet it was a common place where the fire fell. Everyone had received their share. Ilyas's healing hand, which he di ...

Mahrumlar (2016)

Kutlu and Müjdat, who live lives deprived of everything, including their surnames, and live their lives as they please in their daily jobs, realize that they need to get their lives in order when they fall in love, but this will not be easy for them. ...

Kayıp İnci (2016)

Kafes (2015)

Sonsuz Bir Aşk (2015)

Volkan and Serhan, who is caught with cancer, has a passenger named Özlem this time. In their journey together, they once again challenge their destiny with their love for living. ...

Meryem (2013)

Meryem, a young woman of 18, has been married for 18 months. But after six days of marriage, her husband left for Istanbul and hasn't reappeared since. As the days turn into weeks and months, Meryem longs for Mustafa and a settled married life, but she doe ...

Türkan (2011)

Türkan Saylan, fighting cancer with all her might, continues to help everyone she knows and doesn't know with every last ounce of energy she has. As her illness progresses, her eldest son Çınar, who lives in Germany and is also a doctor, comes to Istanb ...

Becoming Italian with Signora Enrica (2011)

A shy Turkish student, Ekin, goes to Italy for his studies. There, he meets Signora Enrica, a strong-willed Italian widow who agrees to host him in her home. At first reserved and cautious, Ekin gradually discovers her warmth, joie de vivre, and eccentrici ...

Çakal (2010)

Akın's life, who lived with a father he didn't like and a sick mother, changed after he lost his mother. He plans to start a new life with the money he steals from the carpentry workshop where he works. When his girlfriend Deniz dismisses this dream as ri ...

Vali (2009)

The suspicious deaths began with the information obtained by MTA engineer Ömer Uçar, who has been a friend of Governor Faruk Yazıcı since childhood, and his colleagues regarding the rich uranium deposit in the region. ...

Sonsuz (2009)

A portrayal of three cancer patients' struggle to hold on to life and their friendship. ...

Children of the Otherside (2008)

Semih, who was discharged from the army a month early for his "heroism" in operations in the southeast, encounters his brother's funeral on the day he returns from the army. When he sets out to find his brother's killer, Semih is drawn into another battle ...

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. ...

3 Apples Fell from the Sky (2008)

Recep, a retired soldier, is left alone after losing his wife. He lives a routine life every day. She cannot get along with her upper neighbor Nilgün, who is a prostitute. He tries to kick Nilgün out of the apartment because he is the manager. One day, h ...

For Love and Honor (2007)

Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life ...

Heist School (2006)

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

İstanbul Tales (2005)

Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. ...

Encounter (2003)

The story of a man who believes he's been presented with a new life where he witnesses his son's resurrection. ...

In Nowhere Land (2002)

Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate. ...

Bana Şans Dile (2002)

Bahadır, an introverted, uncommunicative, clumsy high school student, wakes up one morning and decides to change the world. That morning, on his way to school, Bahadır takes his classmates hostage with a gun he has strapped to his waist, causing them to ...

Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş (1998)

A famous but unnamed radio announcer encounters with a girl who loves his radio show and starts a love between two of them first with a fight. ...