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Yılmaz Güney

Yılmaz Güney

Yilmaz Guney was a Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor, who produced the movies in English.

He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many works were devoted to the feeling of the plight of ordinary, working class people sourced from. South Korean won the Palme d'or with the movie 'the way' he co-produced with the sheriff Seen at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982. He was feeling at odds with the Turkish government because of the constant portrayals of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies.

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Movies Starring Yılmaz Güney (79)

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. ...

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Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney (2016)

Having spent ten years of his life in prisons, Güney escaped from Isparta Semi-Open Prison in 1981 and went to Paris, where he would spend the last years of his life. The recognition Güney received as a filmmaker in France brought him the Palme D'or at t ...

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Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause (2014)

A documentary that explore the films and eventful life of the Kurdish director, actor, writer and revolutionary Yilmaz Güney, who achieved international fame by films like Yol (Palm d'Or, 1982) and Sürü (Golden Leopard, 1978). Güney was at constant odd ...

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Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films (1987)

A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison and broke out of jail to edit "Yol". The film includes the last interview Guney did before his death. ...

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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. ...

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Elegy (1985)

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder. ...

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Room 666 (1985)

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema? ...

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Autour du mur (1983)

One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the Wall on the injustices of the military regime in Turkey and at the same time, director Patrick Blossier began shooting this documentary on the techniques u ...

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The Poor (1975)

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have ...

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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. ...

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Friend (1974)

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. re ...

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The Hopeless Ones (1971)

A romance between Firat and Çigdem. ...

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Silah ve Namus (1971)

A man who earns his living as a driver is forced to become a hired killer as a result of unexpected events that befall him. And his struggle to escape this situation. ...

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Tomorrow is The Last Day (1971)

Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police are still suspicious about them. While police are waiting for their mistake, their enemies are determined t ...

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The Warning (1971)

The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison. ...

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The Profiteers (1971)

The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them. ...

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Fugitives (1971)

Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely cute and innocent girl and Osman. ...

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Sezercik Yavrum Benim (1971)

A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not aware that the strange he has met is actually his father who abandoned him and his mother years ago. ...

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Pain (1971)

Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali killed the young Avanos' son Yasin and went to prison for 15 years. ...

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The Father (1971)

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provid ...

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Çirkin ve Cesur (1971)

The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers. Despite these hardships, it tells of the struggle of the young man nicknamed Yabancı (The Stranger). ...

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Zeyno (1970)

Murat and Zeynep are deeply in love, but there is a major obstacle standing in the way of their love. The two lovers have been defeated by a blood feud and are unable to be together. ...

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Private Osman (1970)

A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines. ...

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Hope (1970)

After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure. ...

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Live Target (1970)

An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played by Yilmaz Guney has to take the revenge for his daughter. ...

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Yedi Belalılar (1970)

The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style. ...

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Son Kızgın Adam (1970)

During a robbery, Yılmaz is caught by the police. He hides the stolen money for later and flees to a village, wounded. He falls in love with Selma, who takes care of him. They live a quiet life until Yılmaz returns to Istanbul. ...

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Belanın Yedi Türlüsü (1969)

The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the need for revenge, he ventures into Istanbul's murky underbelly, where danger lurks at every turn and allegiances shift unpredictably. His relentless pursuit of ...

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An Ugly Man (1969)

Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who collects tribute from their business. Bino is paid by the weight of his victims. ...

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The Hungry Wolves (1969)

Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife. ...

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Bride of the Earth (1968)

In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatolian village who returns his affection. Seyyit Han postpones their marriage so that he can make his fortune elsewhere and return to the village to claim his ...

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Aslan Bey (1968)

Aslan Bey infiltrates the headquarters disguised as a Russian lieutenant. ...

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Azrail Benim (1968)

A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with his desire to protect the vulnerable in his community. ...

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Nuri the Flea (1968)

Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in illegal activities again and ends up at the police station. But he somehow escapes punishment. Meanwhile, Hacıhüsrevli Melahat, a notorious pickpocket, com ...

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Bullets Won't Touch Me (1967)

Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years. ...

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Büyük Cellatlar (1967)

Kerim Şamil, the head of a notorious executioner syndicate, finds himself in a deadly confrontation when his own organization turns against him. ...

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Balatlı Arif (1967)

Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his father's horse carriage driver. Gülşen, the long-time girlfriend of Arif, who is studying at medical school, waits for the day when school ends and they get ...

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My Name Is Kerim (1967)

The story of an undercover cop living with his son. ...

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Kozanoğlu (1967)

Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation, Hüseyin takes an oath to avenge. ...

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Red River, Black Sheep (1967)

The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water ...

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Kuduz Recep (1967)

The film tells the story of a gang leader who helps in the national struggle. Paşa receives gold from foreign powers in order to neutralize the National Forces. Meanwhile, Captain Murat, gang leader Kuduz Recep, and his men raid Paşa's house. They seize ...

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Banus, the Horse Thief (1967)

The film tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman he kidnapped for someone else. Sadık Ağa wants Rasim Ağa's daughter Zeynep. However, Rasim Ağa refuses to give him his daughter. Sadık Ağa, who wants to have Zeynep, finds a solution in ...

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Kurbanlık Katil (1967)

Mustafa, known by the nickname "Ipsiz," is a drunkard and a wine lover. He spends the 3-5 kuruş he earns in taverns and is despised by everyone around him. Mustafa lives a poor life, sleeping on the beach at night, while completely different lives are bei ...

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Law of the Border (1966)

In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir's chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a he ...

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The Ugly King (1966)

The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown. ...

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Kibar Haydut (1966)

A man who has been wanted by the police for a long time disguises himself as a stowaway and hides on a passenger ship. The owner of the passenger ship, where he hides in a cabin, is the spoiled daughter of a wealthy family who has been abandoned by her fia ...

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Eşrefpaşalı (1966)

The film depicts Kudret's struggle against Ali Bey and his men, as he refuses to leave his neighborhood. Ali Bey, who has made a deal with the Americans, wants to build a factory in the Eşrefpaşa neighborhood. To do so, he must first evict the neighborho ...

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Horse, Woman and Gun (1966)

Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life. ...

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Yiğit Yaralı Olur (1966)

The film tells the story of Yusuf and Gül, who are planning to get married, and their lives that are turned upside down. Yusuf is a worker at an iron factory. He plans to marry Gül with the money he is owed by the factory. However, his personal accounts ...

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Kovboy Ali (1966)

The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy. ...

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Silahların Kanunu (1966)

The film is about a cop who switches places with a criminal who robbed a bank. Yılmaz Ali stole a bunch of gold from the bank. He left the gold with his wife Türkan and went abroad. He is attacked by a gang who are after the gold. While in the hospital, ...

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Tehlikeli Adam (1965)

The film tells the story of a man trying to find his wife's killer. Returning from a business trip, Yılmaz finds his wife Gülsüm dead. The police then arrive and arrest Yılmaz. At the trial, two neighbors falsely testify against Yılmaz, accusing him o ...

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Krallar Kralı (1965)

It tells the story of how Murat's life changed when he was caught committing a robbery. While searching for a way out of his poverty, Murat gets involved in Yusuf and Sabri's robbery plans. They promise not to betray each other if they get caught. Murat is ...

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I Live When I Die (1965)

Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz Güney confirms his acting qualities with a pathetic composition. ...

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Sayılı Kabadayılar (1965)

A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for Osman (Yilmaz Güney), lying in prison for murder, belongs to those who are expected to benefit from this amnesty law... ...

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Sokakta Kan Vardı (1965)

The story of a journalist and a prostitution ring that leads young girls astray. Faruk, who is married to the daughter of a media mogul and has one child, also works as a writer for the newspaper. His research topic is a gang involved in trafficking women. ...

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Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü (1965)

The film is about two friends trying to take down a crime gang. Metin, who was recently suspended from his job as a police officer, is making a living doing other jobs. He befriends Münir, a police detective who has recently moved to the same neighborhood ...

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Kahreden Kurşun (1965)

Yılmaz and a friend go to a bar called Maça Kızı. Yılmaz meets a girl there. The girl's mysterious demeanor suggests that she knows something. After a while, the two friends start following her. The girl enters a heroin factory. The man who manufactur ...

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Gönül Kuşu (1965)

A wealthy businessman places an advertisement in the newspaper to marry off his college student daughter. The intriguing marriage ad catches the attention of a gangster gang hostile to the girl's father. The gangsters, posing as a wealthy businessman, dema ...

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Ten Fearless Men (1964)

The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus. ...

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Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası (1964)

Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her. ...

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Kara Şahin (1964)

The film tells the story of Kara Şahin, a brave hero who fights against injustice and also searches for love. ...

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Mor Defter (1964)

The film tells the story of how Suphi brings together the people around him in the imaginary world he has created. Suphi's girlfriend İffet dies in an accident. Feeling responsible for the accident, Suphi loses his sanity. He begins to construct a story i ...

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Prangasız Mahkumlar (1964)

Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order established by a landowner. ...

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Both Were Brave (1963)

The film is about two gangsters facing each other. Yalçın is the most notorious gangster in the city. He plans to leave the city with Figen and give up gangsterism. Ali Duran, on the other hand, is a gangster whose reputation has spread throughout the co ...

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Tatlı Bela (1961)

The film tells the story of a young man who starts working for a wealthy family. Osman works for a gardener. He begins working at the mansion of a wealthy family who has moved into their neighborhood. The young man quickly becomes the darling of society pa ...

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The Fallow Deer (1959)

During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time later, when Aga goes back to marry her, he instructs his men to eliminate the obstacle, namely Halil (Yilmaz Güne ...

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Tütün Zamanı (1959)

Zeliş and Cemal are neighbors. The two young people, who are in love with each other, dream of getting married. However, Zeliş's father, Recep, plans to marry her off to Bekir, one of the wealthy men in the village. Upon learning that Zeliş is in love w ...

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This Land's Children (1958)

During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara. ...

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Movies Made By Yılmaz Güney (45)

Elegy (1985)

Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder. ...

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The Wall (1983)

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishment ...

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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. ...

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The Enemy (1980)

Ismail (Aytac Arman) is the educated Turk who travels to Asia from Istanbul to escape crushing unemployment in this somber social drama. With an ailing mother-in-law, a bitter wife, and a pretty young daughter to support, he takes a job as a dog killer. Is ...

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The Herd (1978)

Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the ...

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Düzen (1978)

A story of love and blood feud. A club run by a gangster known as Kemal from Maraş is raided by his enemies. During the raid, Kemal kills the brother of one of his enemies. Kemal meets a young girl in a traffic accident. The girl falls in love with Kemal. ...

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İzin (1975)

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

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The Poor (1975)

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have ...

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Certainly One Day (1975)

Based on Yılmaz Güney's script and filmed in semi-documentary style, the movie provides a fresh perspective on the history of labor issues in 1970s. ...

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Friend (1974)

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. re ...

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Anxiety (1974)

The story of Cevher and his family and their daily struggles as seasonal workers in the cotton fields of Southern Turkey. Cevher depends on the family earnings from the fields to pay blood money for a murder one of his relatives committed. On the cotton fi ...

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The Hopeless Ones (1971)

A romance between Firat and Çigdem. ...

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Tomorrow is The Last Day (1971)

Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police are still suspicious about them. While police are waiting for their mistake, their enemies are determined t ...

Watch Now

The Warning (1971)

The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison. ...

Watch Now

The Profiteers (1971)

The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them. ...

Watch Now

Fugitives (1971)

Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely cute and innocent girl and Osman. ...

Watch Now

Pain (1971)

Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali killed the young Avanos' son Yasin and went to prison for 15 years. ...

Watch Now

The Father (1971)

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provid ...

Watch Now

Çirkin ve Cesur (1971)

The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers. Despite these hardships, it tells of the struggle of the young man nicknamed Yabancı (The Stranger). ...

Watch Now

Private Osman (1970)

A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines. ...

Watch Now

Hope (1970)

After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure. ...

Watch Now

Live Target (1970)

An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played by Yilmaz Guney has to take the revenge for his daughter. ...

Watch Now

Yedi Belalılar (1970)

The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style. ...

Watch Now

An Ugly Man (1969)

Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who collects tribute from their business. Bino is paid by the weight of his victims. ...

Watch Now

The Hungry Wolves (1969)

Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife. ...

Watch Now

Bride of the Earth (1968)

In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatolian village who returns his affection. Seyyit Han postpones their marriage so that he can make his fortune elsewhere and return to the village to claim his ...

Watch Now

Azrail Benim (1968)

A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with his desire to protect the vulnerable in his community. ...

Watch Now

Nuri the Flea (1968)

Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in illegal activities again and ends up at the police station. But he somehow escapes punishment. Meanwhile, Hacıhüsrevli Melahat, a notorious pickpocket, com ...

Watch Now

Bullets Won't Touch Me (1967)

Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years. ...

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My Name Is Kerim (1967)

The story of an undercover cop living with his son. ...

Watch Now

Banus, the Horse Thief (1967)

The film tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman he kidnapped for someone else. Sadık Ağa wants Rasim Ağa's daughter Zeynep. However, Rasim Ağa refuses to give him his daughter. Sadık Ağa, who wants to have Zeynep, finds a solution in ...

Watch Now

Law of the Border (1966)

In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir's chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a he ...

Watch Now

Eşrefpaşalı (1966)

The film depicts Kudret's struggle against Ali Bey and his men, as he refuses to leave his neighborhood. Ali Bey, who has made a deal with the Americans, wants to build a factory in the Eşrefpaşa neighborhood. To do so, he must first evict the neighborho ...

Watch Now

Horse, Woman and Gun (1966)

Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life. ...

Watch Now

Kovboy Ali (1966)

The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy. ...

Watch Now

Krallar Kralı (1965)

It tells the story of how Murat's life changed when he was caught committing a robbery. While searching for a way out of his poverty, Murat gets involved in Yusuf and Sabri's robbery plans. They promise not to betray each other if they get caught. Murat is ...

Watch Now

Prangasız Mahkumlar (1964)

Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order established by a landowner. ...

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Ölüme Yalnız Gidilir (1962)

Needing money, Kudret gets involved in a robbery with his friends. According to the agreement he made with them, whoever gets caught will take the blame. He'll collect his share after he's released from prison. After the robbery, only Kudret and his close ...

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The Death Curtain (1960)

The plot of Death Curtain is incredibly interesting. According to the film, communists are about to blow up Istanbul with a secret bomb hidden in a curtain, but Murat Davman saves Turkey from this disaster. In the film, the leader of the communists is a wo ...

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The Fallow Deer (1959)

During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time later, when Aga goes back to marry her, he instructs his men to eliminate the obstacle, namely Halil (Yilmaz Güne ...

Watch Now

This Land's Children (1958)

During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara. ...

Watch Now