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Dedemin Gözyaşları (2024)

Kemal, who raised his grandson Mustafa, who was battling leukemia, with great love, saw his life take a completely unexpected turn. Mustafa, who had spent a happy childhood in a small coastal town with his grandfather, was diagnosed with a relentless illne ...

The Hardest Thing (2020)

Aci Kiraz (Bitter Cherry) is the story of people who are trying to get a hold on their lives in the shadow of a cherry tree, the story of lost lives and proliferating hopes. It talks about an old couple who are growing cherries, a dishonest... ...

The Legend of Yasar Kemal (2017)

The life of legendary writer Yaşar Kemal is depicted through his words and those of close friends. Using unpublished footage, audio, and documents, the film portrays his epic journey, literature, and worldview. ...

The Legend of the Ugly King (2017)

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later. ...

Koyverdin Gittin Beni (2015)

Görünmeyen (2011)

Refugee (2008)

Sivan, at around the age of 20, is a native of the Southeastern region of Anatolia. His father Saho is the leader of the Givdanli tribe who stays distant both to the state and to the insurgents who are influent in the region, in order to secure its existen ...

Bayrampaşa: Ben Fazla Kalmayacağım (2008)

The story of a man who was wrongfully arrested and forced to spend years in prison without being able to explain his situation. ...

On the Way (2005)

Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison. ...

Kalbin Zamanı (2004)

In this lush police mystery, the love of three different men for one woman spans five decades and results in one man's death. ...

Abdulhamid Falling (2003)

Şefik, a successful soldier, is one of the leading figures of the Committee of Union and Progress. When Abdulhamid II declares a constitutional monarchy, Şefik and his friends go to Istanbul. They plan to closely monitor the events unfolding there. Howev ...

Treasure from Heaven (1999)

Flori and Lucy are on holiday in Turkey. By accident they meet their class mate Ali, who is visiting his grandfather. Ahmet, a genie, sends the three kids on a treasure hunt near an old castle. They find real jewels and the hunt turns into a real adventure ...

The Wound (1998)

Hulya is a young Turkish woman torn between two cultures. Forced to live with her uncle in Turkey, she leaves this house: she wants to return to Germany where she lived with her father and went to school, not so long ago. ...

Hollywood Runaways (1997)

The two friends Tuna & Fedai, who lead their lives with various mischief, decide to escape to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams. ...

Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam Turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Istanbul home that is missin ...

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma (1996)

Wax-Scented Women (1996)

The movie is about the troubles of a group of people living in the same neighborhood. Ihsan has turned in upon himself by the death of his lover and he is waiting for the day when he will die in the mansion where he lives. Fatma sometimes goes to help Ihsa ...

Hoşçakal İstanbul (1996)

The story of Kıymet Hanım, who married Numan Bey, an old Istanbul gentleman and retired long-distance captain. The elderly former captain, Numan Bey, who sought happiness in a retirement home after his retirement, finally decides to get married. He write ...

Özlem: Düne, Bugüne, Yarına... (1995)

A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. "Düne Özlem" (from Hulki Aktunç's Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds ...

The Cockroach (1995)

A cod-Freudian drama (from a novel by Erhan Bener) about an Istanbul police chief who dreams back over his life while dying in an ambulance bound for hospital. ...

Codin si Chira Chiralina (1994)

A restless drifter from Istrati's "Codin" crosses paths in Brăila with a fragile, enigmatic woman reminiscent of "Chira Chiralina" in interwar Romania. ...

Bir Yanimiz Bahar Bahce (1994)

A political prisoner is released from prison. He has problems of adjusting to the changing times. He and his girlfriend resort to suicide as the last solution. ...

The Passenger (1993)

The railway station in a small town in Western Anatolia where no birds or caravans pass, during the most active and critical days of the National War of Independence in 1921. One is the station chief, who lost his eye and the other foot on the front, and t ...

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, ...

Daydreams of Miss Cazibe (1992)

Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The lonely woman, whose only existence is her small room, spend ...

Rosa, I Love You (1992)

Story of daydreaming rebellious Rosa searching for love from her teenage years to her deathbed. ...

Kurşun Adres Sormaz (1992)

Hano is released from prison, but his blood enemy Velo is hot on his heels. Hano takes refuge in Seyfo's house, but later flees from both Velo and Seyfo. Hano finds freedom not outside, but in escape. ...

Mem û Zîn (1991)

Based upon an ancient epic poem by "Ahmad Khani", the film relates the story of Mem,a young Kurdish boy, who falls in love with Zin, the daughter of the governor of Butan,when the people are celebrating "Newroz", the ancient national ceremony of Kurds. ...

Uzlaşma (1991)

Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine ...

Suyun Öte Yanı (1991)

Gün Ortasında Karanlık (1990)

The film tells the story of a mother who has lost her child. After losing her husband in a traffic accident, Güzin is left alone with her physically and mentally disabled son Sedat. She spends a long time looking for a caregiver to look after Sedat. All t ...

Boynu Bükük Küheylan (1990)

With his 2 wives Kuheylan started as a doorkeeper in an apartment after immigrating from small town to city. While Kuheylan was dreaming to be rich, his wives got impressed under city culture and joined their forses agains their husband. ...

Cheery blossom time (1990)

Çaylar Şirketten (1989)

Filim Bitti (1989)

At the edge of divorcing each other, two movie stars are asked to star as passionate lovers in the same movie. In their last movie together, they have to experience something that is just the opposite of their real life. Both sides of life displayed: Conti ...

Kızın Adı Fatma (1988)

The story of a character named Fatma, the difficulties in her life and the family dynamics. ...

Kadın Dul Kalınca (1988)

72. Koğuş (1987)

A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager. ...

Bir Günah Gibi (1987)

Sis (1987)

Muleteers (1987)

Three villagers, four soldiers and a journalist woman traveling through the snow. ...

We Called Him the Ugly King (1987)

A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey. ...

Zincir (1987)

Güneşe Köprü (1986)

When water is poured onto the cotton field, Musa, whose crop is ruined, cannot pay his debt. He has only one option to save his field from the loan shark: to work at Captain Tayfur's sand quarry. He leaves his wife in the village and starts working with a ...

The Guard (1985)

In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a consequence he ...

Gülüşan (1985)

A very beautiful and blind girl, Gülüşan, marries miller Mestan and becomes his third wife. Gülüşan is not welcomed by the other wives, resulting in a dangerous power struggle among them. ...

Kırlangıç Fırtınası (1985)

Kemal, who lives with his family in a small town, wants to go to Istanbul. He dreams of continuing his father's profession of shoemaking there. However, his father opposes Kemal's wish. Determined to leave the town, Kemal waits for his father to be persuad ...

Güneş Doğarken (1984)

Nalan, who comes to work at a brothel in Konya, begins a love affair with Kara Davut, the city's notorious gangster. Kara Davut, who receives no attention from his wife at home, and Nalan, who has never experienced true love and affection, begin a relation ...

Kaşık Düşmanı (1984)

The Baggy Trousers Case (1983)

A group of women in a small village get organized against the macho men of the town. ...

A Broken Love Story (1982)

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results. ...

The Road (1982)

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government. ...

Kuma (1979)

There is a story about a German second wife brought from Germany to a village in Erzincan. ...

The Mine (1978)

When work accidents in a coal mine start to result in death, İlyas warns his colleagues working in the mine. It starts to collect signatures for the necessary measures to be taken, but the necessary solidarity among the workers cannot be established. A te ...

Short Film In Three Parts (1978)

In three stylistically very different parts, it deals with various forms of escapism in a society that has become blind to the violence that is eroding it from within. Made shortly before the 1980 military coup, Üç Bölümlü Kısa Film was bound to appe ...

Merhaba (1976)

İzin (1975)

The story of four days spent by a hired killer who benefited from the amnesty law with a hired woman. ...

Yarış (1975)

A death row escapee unexpectedly saves a troubled young woman attempting suicide during a ferry crossing, and they find refuge together in a secluded house. ...

Acılar Paylaşılmaz (1989)

This Turkish movie introduces a father who tries to discourage his homosexual son and associates homosexuality with paternal issues. ...

Kırlangıç Fırtınası (1985)

Kemal, who lives with his family in a small town, wants to go to Istanbul. He dreams of continuing his father's profession of shoemaking there. However, his father opposes Kemal's wish. Determined to leave the town, Kemal waits for his father to be persuad ...

Merhaba (1976)