Fuat Onan

Chokehold (2023)

Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but quickly discover the locals are determined to get rid of them. ...

Suna (2022)

Suna, fifty year old, a poor woman with no income, finds a place to stay by marrying an old man. Suna hates making love with her husband. Her restless heart won't give her or anyone close to him peace. She gets depressed. She drinks alcohol secretly. She m ...

Saf (2022)

Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul neighb ...

Operation Cicero (2019)

Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during WW2. After Bazna starts to work as a German spy he is going to experience a series of unexpected events. ...

Keşif (2018)

Esma, Berk and Hasan are three people who try to escape the troubles of life with the help of a video game called Discovery. These three young people is sucked into the game in a mystical way. They find themselves in the battle of Gallipoli. ...

Feys: Another World (2018)

Ver Kaç (2017)

Sedat and Fikret, childhood friends, are devoted to the Kadırga Sports Club. The Kadırga Sports Club, a poor club, wants to transfer a footballer named Hakan as a savior. Tevfik Amca, a former member of the club, donates his car for the transfer, but tim ...

Overnight Republic (2017)

Peker Mengen wins the post of mayor in a remote town with the promise of a visit by the prime minister and making the town a province. When the people do not forget his promise, Mengen ends up persuading the prime minister to visit the town with his idiosy ...

Ve Panayır Köyden Gider (2016)

A series of strange events begins in a small village with a dark past when a stranger arrives and questions his own past. ...

Adana İşi (2015)

Maksut and Şimşek, who work as plumbers, are assigned to repair the plumbing at the bank on New Year's Eve. Their efforts result in them accidentally demolishing the wall of the bank vault, leaving them face to face with the money stored there. Although ...

Münafık (2015)

Valeria works at a laboratory in the Soviet Union in 1984 that studies parapsychological phenomena. Her former lover, Nazım, invites her to Turkey to investigate a mysterious case. Valeria goes to Nalbant Village in Azdavay to investigate Nazife Hanım, w ...

Çalsın Sazlar (2015)

"Çalsin Sazlar" tells the story of two friends, both dreamers and easy going, who fall in love with the same girl and the resulting relationships involving passion, conflict and friendship from a fun yet naively sorrow perspective. Encompassing the tragic ...

Under Construction 2 (2014)

Ali and Sudi, who received a 10-year imprisonment for embedding many bodies in the backyard of a construction they had previously worked on, were now free after completing their sentences. After the past events, both friends are determined not to get invol ...

Circle (2014)

In the hard-boiled world, where will the soft-shelled end up? A cozy kind of extermination is on the stage and keeping a low profile. The decadence around us is nothing less than clandestine annihilation of the civil man. Yet it is carried out so well with ...

72. Ward (2011)

A love story of a prisoner in Turkey in the 1940s. ...

Zephyr (2010)

Zephyr, a strong-willed adolescent girl, spends her summer vacation with her grandparents in the mountains, waiting for her mother to come and take her back home. Her mother finally shows up, but only to say farewell before going far away places for a volu ...

The Shadowless (2009)

A barber working in Istanbul longs to be 'both here and far, far away'. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people di ...

Peri Tozu (2008)

Deniz, who is full of life and spreads joy around her, and her best friend Emre make a promise to each other when they are children. No matter what happens, they will never part and will live in the "Land of Dreams" they have created. Cem, who has always a ...

Fikret Bey (2007)

Throughout his life, Mr. Fikret thought of his country, saying, "Domestic goods are the goods of the country," and strove to do useful work for his homeland and his people as best he could. As his life drew to a close, Mr. Fikret made an important breakthr ...

9 (2002)

In a poor neighbourhood of Istanbul, a young homeless girl has been found dead. Six people from the neighbourhood are being interrogated. While the police camera is recording, these six witnesses find themselves caught in manipulation and abuse, forcing th ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Third Page (1999)

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun. ...

Şara (1999)

Şara was born and raised in Istanbul, is a law student in her final year, and is an educated tribal girl. She learns that her father, whom she has never met, is seriously ill and goes to her hometown to see him. At first, her family, tribe, and step-sibli ...

Everything's Gonna Be Great (1998)

When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete oppos ...

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma (1996)

Somersault in a Coffin (1996)

Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahs ...

Whistle If You Come Back (1993)

A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship. ...

Ateş Üstünde Yürümek (1991)

The turbulent history of a country will be narrated through a modern ballet imbued with extraordinary aesthetics and poetry, staged as if on a theater stage. While the events are narrated solely through the modern ballet from a historical perspective, the ...

Uzlaşma (1991)

Raziye (1990)

The film deals with the conflict between the intellectual and the villager through the characters of the uncle, his nephew, and Vedia. The uncle is an intellectual who has made it his principle to develop the villages. He continues to follow city customs w ...

Prenses (1987)

Abbas in Flower (1982)

While working as an assistant to swindling driver Şakir, ingenuous Abbas falls for the same woman his boss loves. ...

Çirkinler de Sever (1981)

The story is based on a fictional account of the events that unfold between a film crew who come to shoot a movie in a remote village in Anatolia and the villagers. It attempts to convey the pure and innocent feelings that Mazlum, a young villager, has for ...

Story of a Day (1980)

Mustafa, has to marry his brother's widowed wife as per the customs. However, the young man is in love with his new wife's sister Zeynep. Mustafa's friend Nizam is also in love with Zeynep. ...

Ateş Böceği (1988)

Duygu, who works as a translator at a translation agency, experiences loneliness with her doctor husband Yılmaz, although she does not know the exact reason why. The young woman takes refuge in her childhood to escape her inner conflicts and remembers the ...