Menderes Samancılar

Ayşe (2024)

Ayşe (47) lives with her brother Rıdvan (38), who has down syndrome, on the outer edge of the ever-growing Istanbul, where the face has begun to change. Their father has been waiting for death in a hospital for a long time. When Ayşe receives a marriag ...

9,75 (2020)

During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the chaotic days of Gezi Park protests in Istanbul start, Ahmet learns he has a brain tumor. Just as the lines b ...

Omar and Us (2019)

Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S. ...

Opening the Door (2019)

Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, whom t ...

Tight Dress (2016)

Lisa is a young designer from Paris. She is starting to work as an independent designer and she wants to make a fashion show. A friend of her, a girl named Hêlin persuades Lisa to make the show in Diyarbakir, telling her that in there you can find the mos ...

My Father's Wings (2016)

Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future afte ...

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 ...

Memories of the Wind (2015)

At the times of World War II, accomplished painter and translator Aram flees Istanbul due to political offenses. When he is trapped at the USSR-Georgia borders, his flight turns into a remembrance of things past... ...

İçimdeki İnsan (2015)

Nuri, whose sole aim is to return to Istanbul by selling a garden left to him by his father, has an interesting encounter with his old friend Sabri in the city. Sabri, however, has just smashed his boss's head in due to sudden psychological trauma he suffe ...

Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky? (2015)

Bahadır, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, t ...

We Hit The Road (2014)

Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. ...

Watchtower (2012)

Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. ...

Toprağın Çocukları (2012)

Kaledeki Yalnızlık (2011)

If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)

In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Par ...

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 ...

Der gelbe Satin (2009)

Riza (2007)

Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can't work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime. ...

He's Convict Now (2005)

Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange. ...

Asmalı Konak: Hayat (2003)

Bahar (Nurgül Yeşilçay) is sent to New York because a serious illness. Treated in hospital Seymen Aga (Özcan Deniz) and Bahar try together to overcome this disease. Seymen Aga trying to be as strong as possible and not to give up. In Kapadokya, where t ...

Children of Secret (2002)

Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang which Cemil takes refuge in Haydarpasa, tries to send him back to his home by putting his pocket money. While ...

Il derviscio (2001)

The brother of Mevlevi Sheikh Ahmet Nurettin is thrown into prison despite being innocent. Dervish believes that his brother will eventually return because he is innocent. However, his hopes are shattered when the judge sentences his brother to death. The ...

Chance or Coincidence (1998)

Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her. ...

Winter Flowers (1997)

After 17 years as a laborer in Germany, Mehmet is deported and his wife and son remain in Germany. Unable to come back legally, Mehmet embarks on a long and dangerous journey to return to Germany illegally. ...

Ah Nalan Ah (1997)

Les clients d'Avrenos (1996)

Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of the French Embassy who recently died. It is Lélia, the blonde, who asked her to come. She wants to unders ...

Cold Nights (1996)

Tomix, Tam-Tam and Mützen-Jacky are children of the street earning their living with music. They travel from one town to the other with their instruments to perform in the streets and in restaurants. Making music is the only thing they have ever learned. ...

Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma (1996)

Yaban (1996)

Ahmet Celal, who was injured during the war, is in great pain and a young woman named Emine helps him and saves him and heals him. A stormy love breaks out in those scenes and the intrigued life of that love is worked out. ...

Liberation: Those Crazy Turks (1994)

It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told. ...

Zıkkımın Kökü (1993)

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, ...

The Yellow Mercedes (1993)

The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon ...

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. ...

Robert's Movie (1992)

Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a po ...

Piano Piano Kid (1991)

In 1940s Turkey, the war is recently over, but the wounds are still fresh, and the WWII is going on next door. A different family lives in each room of a mansion. They all lead a scarce life but hold on to life with hope. ...

Time of Love (1991)

Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men. ...

Siyabend and Xece (1991)

The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth. ...

Darbe (1990)

Eskici ve Oğulları (1990)

The film depicts the struggles of a poor family. A father who repairs shoes works alongside his two sons. The father wants his eldest son, Mehmet, to find another job. Mehmet decides to work as a cotton picker with his wife and children. Ali, the younger s ...

Blackout Night (1990)

In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his ...

Cheery blossom time (1990)

Bu Şehrin Geceleri (1989)

Ferdi, a taxi driver who works nights, encounters many of the city's more hidden and harsh sides after dark. Zeynep is on the run from a mob connected to the nightlife business. ...

Ayrı Dünyalar (1988)

Yedi Uyuyanlar (1988)

Bu Talihimin Canına Okuyacağım (1988)

Ferdi, who went to Germany with his father years ago, now wants to return to his homeland. He marries his girlfriend Ayten and returns to his country. He begins living with his mother and uncle, who have been waiting for him for years. However, his relatio ...

Mist (1988)

Two Turkish brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the political fence. When one of the brothers is murdered, the boys' father suspects that his surviving son was instrumental in the killing. Celebrated film director Elia Kazan returns to his acting ...

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. ...

Wife as Gramophone (1987)

In the 1930s in Konya, Turkey, the famous belly dancer Cemile dreams of going to the big city. Murat falls in love with her. ...

A Long Night (1987)

The story of a young woman who abandoned her husband and ran away with the man she had been in love with since her childhood. ...

Bir Avuç Gökyüzü (1987)

Ahmet, who was arrested some time ago for a political crime, has been unable to escape the effects of those painful days. Except for his girlfriend Neşe, he views everyone and everything with suspicion and lives in a state of strange fear. He cannot share ...

Zamansızlar (1987)

Sıcak Tatlı Yaz (1986)

The film is about the life of a gigolo. Bekir, a gigolo, is with a rich woman named Oya. One day, Oya hits a woman with her car. Bekir helps the woman who was in the accident. At the hospital, he meets Esra, the woman's roommate. A friendship develops betw ...

Sevdan Öldürdü Beni (1986)

Yusuf is a quiet man who lives in the village with his mother and wife. He has a feud with Seyfettin, who tried to take his wife away from him years ago. When his pregnant wife's labor pains intensify, Yusuf wants to take her to the city by minibus, but Se ...

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 ...

What's Fatmagül's Fault (1986)

Story of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life. ...

Halkalı Köle (1986)

The couple, who are married and have two children, are in the process of divorcing. Problems that have accumulated throughout their marriage have led them to decide to separate. During the divorce proceedings, they will reevaluate their relationship and ma ...

Seyyid (1985)

The film tells the story of Seyyid, who is trying to build a new life after being released from prison. Seyyid has just been released from prison, where he was sent because of a blood feud. His enemies are waiting for an opportunity to kill him. Having esc ...

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 ...

Geçim Otobüsü (1984)

The film depicts the events that unfold among the candidates in the mayoral elections. A town called Örenyurt becomes a district. Upon this, Zühtü and Tarık, two wealthy residents of the region, decide to run for mayor. The two candidates set off for t ...

Dil Yarası (1984)

Kaşık Düşmanı (1984)

On Fertile Lands (1980)

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova. ...

Kanal (1979)

Based on real events, this story traces a young district governor's moral awakening as he confronts a powerful landowner in rural Adana. What begins as a routine bureaucratic act soon turns into a struggle to shield villagers from exploitation, greed, and ...

Güneşli Bataklık (1978)

Workers' struggle for justice triggers the political tensions of the period. ...

Ölüm Savaşı (1978)

Derdim Dünyadan Büyük (1978)

Hıdır (1978)

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Fırat'ın Cinleri (1978)

The lives of people crushed by the feudal landowner system. ...

Kara Çarşaflı Gelin (1975)

In "The Bride with the Black Veil" (1975), director Süreyya Duru continues to focus on social issues, exposing problems of the peasants and feodal relations. ...

İnce Memed Vuruldu (1975)

A notorious bandit known as İnce Memed falls in love with club singer Sabah, but when he travels to Istanbul to propose, criminals mistakenly murder her instead, prompting revenge. ...