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Regardless (2023)

The true story of a man who grew up surrounded by violence and absence of love. But despite everything he became a world-class networking master in his business life. He started from the bottom and was able to reach the top. His story show us that there is ...

In the Blind Spot (2023)

A film crew from Germany, filming in a remote village in northeastern Turkey, interviews an elderly Kurdish woman. She performs an ancient ritual to keep alive the memory of the son she lost years ago. The young woman, who helps the German crew with the Ku ...

Game Birds (2022)

Two years after escaping from an ISIS prison in Mosul, a once successful Turkish war photographer is still a mess. He can't sleep or forgive his wife for what happened to their daughter while he was away. When Hazar visits a hammam, he is confronted by the ...

Sevmedim Deme (2022)

The story of two people who, despite not knowing each other, fight for the same cause and whose paths cross thanks to the unifying power of music. ...

Kerr (2022)

Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity. ...

Pencere Önü (2021)

Pure White (2021)

Vural, a husband and a father who was raised in faith, leads a seemingly pious and conformist life. But everything takes a sudden dark turn when he finds out a truth about his personal life. ...

Have You Ever Seen Fireflies? (2021)

Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change. ...

Aile Hükümeti (2020)

Salih is a young teacher assigned to the village of Elaldı. As Salih tries to adjust to his new life in the village, he falls in love with Zeynep, the most beautiful girl in the village. His greatest fear is that Zeynep will be married off, as cousin marr ...

Vendors' Meeting (2020)

How much chaos can three white goods dealers who come to İstanbul from Anatolia get into in three days? The paths of Namık, Adem and Sadık, three men going through difficult periods in their lives, intersect at a dealer meeting. After a series of unexpe ...

The Adventures of Sukran the Lame (2019)

A none dialogue film about a young woman called Sukran, who has an accident when she is 10 years old and stays crippled for the rest of her life. Throughout the film, she seeks to create a common ground with other people. Despite her hunger to do so, she f ...

Silenced Tree (2019)

A short while after his dominant wife abandons the wimpy and meek Hayati, who is a literary teacher in a patriarchal town, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake. Hayati wants to state that the body belongs to his wife and to take the bl ...

Yalancı Damat (2018)

Aslıhan, the apple of her family's eye, is eagerly awaiting her family's approval to marry. For this, she needs a suitable groom. Just as she thinks she has found the perfect groom and is about to introduce him to her family, things go awry, and she is fo ...

Silent Therapy (2018)

Tuna is going through hard times due to the psychological illness he suffers from. He tries to cope with the problems he faces with the support of his best friend Berkin. Meanwhile, Tuna begins to develop an emotional connection with Selen, his neighbor an ...

Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman (2018)

The life of Vecihi Hürkuş, the first Turkish pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft during World War I and the War of Independence, is being brought to the big screen. Vecihi Hürkuş, who pursued his passion for flying at the age of 16, dedicated his lif ...

Shall No One Hold My Hand! (2018)

A long queue at the cafeteria of a rest stop. A middle-aged man, Emre, refuses to let a young mother - rushing to buy a bottle of milk for her little girl - go in front of him. This simple stand-off opens a Pandora's box when Emre's father gets involved... ...

In the Family (2017)

In the midst of a marital crisis, Fikret befriends the singer Solmaz and has to step in as a father figure for her daughter, who is about to get married. ...

Sideway (2017)

The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday. ...

Words Fly Away (2017)

Three young people enter to a bookshop as out of breath. And the bookseller shows the miracle of books. ...

The Guest (2017)

Lena and Meryem during their escape from the war in Syria. Lena is a ten-year-old girl who has lost her family in the war. She finds herself forced to make her way to Turkey with her baby sister and their neighbor Meryem, along with the other refugees. Len ...

A Splendid Movie (2016)

Ali Kemal and Vahi, two childhood friends striving to realize their dreams, aim to make a Yeşilçam film. Although the two friends, who devoted themselves to their work during Yeşilçam's most dynamic and popular period, thought their task would be easy, ...

Album (2016)

A couple in their late 30's sets out to prepare a fake photo album of a pseudo pregnancy period in order to prove their biological tie to the baby they're planning to adopt. ...

Madımak: Carina'nın Günlüğü (2015)

Carina is a young Dutch woman studying anthropology who travels to Ankara to conduct reesarch. ...

Until I Lose My Breath (2015)

A young girl working in a textile workshop is desperately trying to save money to make her father quit his job and find an apartment together with her. But her father does not seem to be the person she wants him to be. ...

I Am Not Him (2013)

Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors abou ...

Crossroads (2013)

Benjamin is a young poet from Turkey, works in Bosnia as a volunteer to help the extrication of dead bodies from the mass graves. He comes to Bosnia in order to escape from his past. A childish game of Benjamin causes Joseph's lover-Zeliha's dead. The psyc ...

Ships (2013)

Government Woman (2013)

Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, that is, an extraordinary day changes her life - and the lives of everyone else in Midyat. For the illitera ...

Çanakkale 1915 (2012)

The story of the film is about the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in 1915. The film covers the resurrection of Turkey following its defeat in the Balkan War, through depictions of Sergeant Mehmet Ali (Ali Ersan D ...

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. ...

A Noise in the Night (2012)

A crime drama film featuring Cem Davran as a middle-aged university professor on a a harrowing journey towards both Turkey's and his own past after crashing into the wall of an Alevi village cemetery… ...

Küçük Günahlar (2011)

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Oğul (2011)

Hair (2010)

A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day. ...

Jolly Life (2009)

Burdened by troubles and caught between cultures, Riza takes a job as a mall Santa and finds that real life may not be so different from make believe. ...

40 (2009)

A bag full of money lands in front of you. Is it luck? The answer to your prayers? Part of a predetermined plan? Or all of the above? Set in the chaotic streets of Istanbul, 40 is a story of three strangers making their way in a city of 12 million, all sea ...

In Darkness (2009)

A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof. ...

Summer Book (2008)

Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Guler is suspicious of her husband having an affair. Ve ...

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. ...