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Meşru Gayrimeşru (2024)

Erdem Kuş, a law professor who recently lost his job, falls into the hands of phone scammers who introduced themselves as a judge, prosecutor, or police chief. Erdem, who goes after the gang that defrauded him, finds himself in a tragicomic adventure he ...

Unfeeling (2024)

Nursel is an actress who settled in France. One day, she is offered the lead role in a play about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, whom Nursel admires. But when she returns to her home in Istanbul, she encounters Perisa, an Iranian translator who has come t ...

Mother Elif (2022)

Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life. ...

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. ...

Time of Impatience (2021)

Dog days of summer in a Kurdish city in Turkey, two unruly bright twins from a poor neighborhood are distracted by their daily routine and school duties, having an only goal in life: to dive into a proper swimming pool, one in particular, in the luxury sit ...

Red Snow (2020)

Yusuf served nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. When he returns home, he sees that his wife, who was pregnant at the time of jail, left home. While searching for his wife and child in the snowy town, he also tracks the events that happened ...

Müsaadenizle Büyükler (2018)

A group of children decide to do something for the dogs they found in the forest abandoned by their owners. The children start feeding the dogs secretly and try to make a warm home for them. While the children are trying to keep their cute friends alive, p ...

The Smell of Money (2018)

A cab driver, a teahouse owner and an out-of-work journalist live in a down-at-heel suburb of Ankara. When the driver tells his friends tales of the murky and unlawful dealings of his passengers, they install a camera to record the passengers. ...

Bana Git De (2016)

Ali who is a guitarist has some issues about him life and decides to make a road trip from Istanbul to Eastern Anatolia. While driving on road, he picked up a hitchhiker who named Leyal. ...

Bir Şey Değilim (2016)

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 ...

Yağmur: Kıyamet Çiçeği (2014)

Elena, who lost her husband to cancer after the Chernobyl disaster, one of the greatest catastrophes in recent history, finds a solution in coming to Turkey for treatment when she learns that her son is also suffering from the same disease. While Elena is ...

Fish (2014)

A fisherman, his wife and young daughter who is unable to speak lives in a village on the shores of a lake. Their story starts with a myth of a fish, trying to find a cure for their daughter. ...

Kanunsuzlar (2014)

Two friends get a bag from their boss to deliever it to another man. But they get curios about the bag and open it to look what's inside. ...

Nefs (2014)

Deniz and Duru, two girls in high school react strongly when the teacher warns Deniz for having a masculine haircut. Now, they have to face the consequences. ...

Benimle Oynar mısın? (2013)

Adı Aşk Bu Eziyetin (2013)

The Breath (2009)

A small task force of the Turkish army have to defend a relay station in the middle of nowhere against a possible terrorist raid. ...

Conscience (2008)

Centers on a passionate and complicated love story that connects three small-town people trying to survive solely on their labor. Aydanur is a young woman living in Anatolia who wants to break away from whatever life has--or doesn't have--to offer her. Mea ...

Deliler: Rapor (2007)

Mavi Gözlü Dev (2007)

The beloved poet of Turkey, Nazım Hikmet, is featured on the silver screen for the period he spent in prison after 1941. Imprisoned for communist propaganda, Nazım became legendary within the prison walls as his fame grew by word of mouth. A group of fri ...

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. ...

Waiting for Heaven (2006)

Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who has ignited an insurrection, is arrested in a far off state and to ...

Where's Firuze? (2004)

Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling ...

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 ...

Renkli-Türkçe (1999)

Sabit spends all his time in a shabby, old neighborhood cinema that shows pornographic films. The cinema is his home, his universe, his everything. This place is a different world because, in addition to all this, there are different types of people who fr ...

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. ...

Hoşçakal Yarın (1998)

This movie is about Deniz Gezmis and his two comrades. They were three revolutionary activist has been executed by military fascist junta in 1972. ...

The Bandit (1996)

The film tells the story of a group of bandits captured in the Cudi Mountains 35 years ago. All of them have died, either from illness or vendettas; only Baran (Şener Şen) survives. After serving his 35-year sentence, Baran is released from Viranşehir P ...

The Eighth Hour (1995)

Esra has given herself 8 hours to get revenge and at the end of this period she will take revenge on Sinan by killing.. ...

Don't Tell Orhan Pamuk That His Novel Snow is in the Film I Made About Kars (2017)

Blind singer Yüksel is expecting some respectable customers, however the best musicians of the town are engaged to leave to another city for a folk dance competition, therefore Yüksel needs to locate new musicians. Hairdresser Kazım, takes photographs o ...