Metin Çekmez

Liberation: Those Crazy Turks (1994)

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

The Trace (1994)

Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face. ...

The Shadow Play (1992)

Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club. ...

Sis (1987)

The Frogs (1985)

In the half-light of dawn, Halil falls down dead, murdered. His wife, Elmas, cries for justice, but, in fact, there will be no investigation. Life goes on for Elmas: during the day she works in the rice paddies with her little boy and, at night, she goes t ...

The Escape (1984)

Details the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations. ...

The Honest One (1984)

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money. ...

Atla Gel Şaban (1984)

Niyazi is a humble factory worker whose life is turned upside down when he wins the "altılı ganyan" (six-horse accumulator) lottery. Suddenly, everyone from neighbours to total strangers, claiming to be his long-lost relatives, crowds around him hoping f ...

The Eagle's Nest (1974)

A Turkish version of Straw Dogs (1971), set in a small Cypriot village in the days before the 1974 Turkish invasion. ...

Boşver Arkadaş (1974)

Yalancı Yarim (1973)

Sweet Talker (1972)

Ferit is a basketball player from Istanbul. One day, at a camp he attends, he meets Emine, a village teacher. They fall in love at first sight and get married, but the spell is broken when Ferit's friends from the city arrive. ...