1986 İSTANBUL SİNEMA GÜNLERİ
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- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsHakan BalamirSerpil ÇakmakliBülent BilgiçYaprak is just one of thousands of young women, who leave their quiet village lives behind them to seek their fortune in Istanbul. But the reality of life in a big city is harsh, and Yaprak is forced to take a job in one of the cities licensed brothels.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArAytaç ArmanYilmaz ZaferVasfiye, her story, tellers of the story, and their listeners change every time the story is told.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-StahlSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsKadir InanirZuhal OlcayYavuzer ÇetinkayaHasan, a little girl named Ayse and Sabahat begins a journey and they are being followed by their foes.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsGérard DepardieuNicole GarciaRoger PierreThe intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
- DirectorAlejandro DoriaStarsLuis BrandoniDora BaretLuisina BrandoThe film centers on a unsuccessful doctor and his patient, whom everyone believes has no hope of ever recovering from a recent accident, and the daily events of a public hospital in Argentina.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsKader BoukhanefRémi MartinLaure DuthilleulIn a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsJohn CassavetesDiahnne AbbottTwo closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiFerruccio De CeresaMarco MesseriThe young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal. Father Giulio determines to leave again, but his stopped parents convince him to perform the wedding ceremony for his friend Caesar and his fiancee. Don Giulio rushes through the ceremony and then away from Rome. Once away from the city, he immediately regains happiness.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsJosé van DamPierre ThauAshley PutnamThe preparations and rehearsals for a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Four fictional characters mirror the seductions, coquetries and infidelities of the libretto.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaAna BelénEncarna PasoIn a small Spanish village, Gloria, the imperious head of a troubled family, is devoted to her two sons. The brothers, Óscar and Juan, have frequent violent disputes. Óscar, the oldest, and his steel-willed mother run the family's grocery store called el Jardín (The Garden), which does a brisk business in the black market. Juan is the handsome, irresponsible, best-loved second son. When Oscar marries his lover Ana, Juan heads for Madrid to work for Franco. He also leaves behind his impoverished cousin, Ángela, pregnant with his son. Jump ten years. Juanito, their son, has rheumatic fever. The doctor says to pamper the boy. Years later, Óscar and Ana remain childless. Gloria wants to bring her illegitimate (and incestuous) grandson and only heir, into the family circle. As Juanito recovers, Juan returns in desperate need of cash; Juanito witnesses a theft blamed on his innocent mother. Things come to a head at a saint's-name party for father and son. Jealousies, betrayals, and a bullet converge.
- DirectorKonstantin KhudyakovStarsLeonid FilatovAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr ZbruevGennadiy Fetisov - young director, who leaves Moscow in order to stage "Chaika" in some provincial theater.
- DirectorPaul MorrisseyStarsWolfgang ReichmannDietmar PrinzJane BirkinIn an effort to provide a secure future for his nephew Karl, Beethoven is fighting his sister-in-law over the custody for the boy. The mother doesn't consider the ageing and irate composer a suitable guardian for her son, and Karl himself shows not much interest in his uncle either.
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsMüjdat GezenGüler ÖktenDamla AkasrsuMurtaza works in factory as a watchman. Being an unthinking conformist he demonstrates an extreme obedience to authority . His self-righteous complacency suffocates all workers as well as his own family.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsJulie CovingtonIan CharlesonJohn PhillipsConnie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ally herself, in her own way, with the struggle for Irish independence.
- DirectorMuammer ÖzerStarsTarik AkanHale SoygaziBaris AdaliA family migrates to big city with hopes to pursue a better life. Unable to afford a place to stay, they find shelter in an abandoned bus. As they turn their new home into "a handful of paradise", firm reels of city life keep rolling.
- DirectorBrahim TsakiStarsMohamed ArbouzBoumediene BelasriCarine MattysTwo deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsMiranda RichardsonRupert EverettIan HolmA stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsCristopher DavidsonLino CapolicchioGianni CavinaYoung W. A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsLeonard RossiterMalcolm McDowellBrian PettiferThe chaotic workings of a hospital with staff on strike.
- DirectorJim JarmuschOriginal short that would later become the full feature-length film Stranger than Paradise. This segment would be renamed "The New World" in the film.
- DirectorBasar SabuncuStarsSener SenNilgün AkçaogluPekcan KosarA guy under economic pressure has a nervous breakdown and one night suddenly starts to run naked, which makes him an overnight sensation.
- DirectorMichel DevilleStarsAndrew ChandlerHélène DassuleNicole PalmerA great child group adventure music movie -no words spoken - le petite bande - small band - scape from their music class... excellent for every age, a film that you can watch happily with your children.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsNacer KhemirSoufiane MakniNoureddine KasbaouiA teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacSlobodan AligrudicLjiljana BlagojevicA young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArNur SürerYilmaz ZaferBeautiful widow seduced by a playboy
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMichel PiccoliSalah ZulfikarMohsen MohieddinA story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradition and modernization in the context of fighting the French invaders.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsJosé SacristánVictoria AbrilÓscar LadoireFederico, a senior Spanish TV executive, a man of talent and innate skills for business and diplomacy, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an excellent actress who retired prematurely after marriage, deceives him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks a lot at the sky and is aware of the exact time a comet passes that appears only every hundred years. In other words, she is waiting for her "most beautiful night".
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeVictor BanerjeeSwatilekha SenguptaWhen the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
- DirectorMiklós SzurdiStarsSándor SzakácsiDorottya UdvarosGyörgy LinkaIn communist Hungary, a playwright is dying and the cast and crew of his last play try to conceal from him the fact that the play has been censored and will never premiere. They go on with the rehearsals during the day just to keep him happy while he's still alive and rehearse another play (the one which which will actually premiere) at night.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- DirectorBilge OlgaçStarsYaprak ÖzdemirogluMeral OrhonsayGüler ÖktenA very beautiful and blind girl, Gülüsan marries to miller Mestan and becomes his third wife. Other wives do not welcome her well. The power struggle among the women in the house reaches a dangerous level for her.
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsOmero AntonuttiSonsoles ArangurenIcíar BollaínA woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsBerta SocuéllamosJose Antonio Valdelomar GonzálezJesús AriasAngela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
- DirectorImre GyöngyössyBarna KabayStarsHédi TemessyFerenc ZentheGábor FehérAn elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
- DirectorMichael VenturaStarsTed AllanHelen CaldwellJohn CassavetesDirector Michael Ventura goes behind the scenes on the set of John Cassavetes' last written and directed movie, Love Streams (1984).
- DirectorHelma Sanders-BrahmsStarsBrigitte FosseyHildegard KnefIvan DesnyEmily, an actress' child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open over Isabelle's lifestyle. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother Paula is unhappy--with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, although he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsGlenda JacksonBen KingsleyRichard JohnsonTwo separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
- DirectorAtilla CandemirStarsPerihan SavasHalil ErgünAyhan KavasGönül and Kemal, who fall in love with each other and go to Istanbul to get married, live a life that is shaken by the effects of their livelihoods and different social backgrounds and identity crises.
- DirectorAmir NaderiStarsMadjid NiroumandAbbas NazeriMusa TorkizadehAfter enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.
- DirectorBasar SabuncuStarsMüjde ArTarik TarcanSelçuk ÖzerA married woman with problems secretly starts working as a prostitute and lives a double life.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsHülya KoçyigitTalat BulutYaman OkayThe women who called Elmas is earning her life with picking tomatoes, pepper and frog, she was widowed when her husband killed. Elmas survives with her child. She has to work for Bank and Cooperative debit. Also teenagers in the village are disturb her.
- DirectorFeyzi TunaStarsAhmet MekinTalat BulutDerya ArbasAn orphan, Yusuf, is adopted by Selahattin Bey, an idealistic district governor. Yusuf falls in love with Muazzez, the daughter of Selahattin Bey. When Shahir, the son of Hilmi Bey, wants to marry Muazzez, a great conflict arises between him and Yusuf.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsChristopher PlummerMaggie SmithElke SommerBroadway star Fitzroy Wynn (Christopher Plummer) is thrilled when his wife Lily (Dame Maggie Smith) writes a new script with a brilliant lead role. While egocentric Fitz thinks himself perfect for the role, Lily dashes his hopes when she admits she wants to find someone different for the part. Fitz refuses to give up his pursuit. Enlisting the reluctant help of his agent, Fitz poses as Roberto Terranova, a young Italian actor and the exact model of what Lily wants for the role. But trouble arises when Lily appears to be falling for the charming Italian, and Fitz is left to wonder just how serious she was about finding someone different.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsAleksandr KalyaginDistant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
- DirectorRobert ParrishBertrand TavernierThe two directors meander through rural Mississippi in search of the spirit of local music and society. Highlights the heritage of William Faulkner, the role of Black churches, and gospel and blues music.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTapan ChatterjeeRabi GhoshUtpal DuttThe musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsKen OgataSumiko SakamotoTonpei HidariIn a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsÁngela MolinaNorman BriskiLuis PolittiIn 1952 Spain, young Juan embarks on a quest through the Basque mountains to locate the renowned guerrilla El Andarín, hoping to uncover from him the fate of his father.
- DirectorYusuf KurçenliStarsHakan BalamirNecla NazirÇetin Öner
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsSabine AzémaFanny ArdantPierre ArditiElisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsGary BuseyTony CurtisTheresa RussellFour 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
- DirectorBrita WielopolskaStarsDavid BertelsenZuhal ÖdemirLars JunggrenAdventure film about the boy Hodja who gets a magic carpet of a wise old carpet man. A wicked and desirous of power sultan will get their hands on the carpet.
- DirectorPál ErdössStarsErika OzsdaAndrea SzendreiDénes DiczházyJutka was an innocent 15-year-old peasant when she and her friend Zsuzsa left for the big city to get work in a textile factory and live independently. Their freedom quickly became more than they could handle when Zsuzsa found herself pregnant.
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsVictor BanerjeeSmita PatilOm PuriOver the course of two years Shyam Benegal interviewed Satyajit Ray about his career, the result is this documentary.
- DirectorErdogan TokatliStarsKadir InanirSevtap ParmanYaman OkayTwo people will struggle to leave the past behind and make a fresh start.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsShashi KapoorFelicity KendalGeoffrey KendalThe story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJulie ChristieGreta ScacchiChristopher CazenoveAnne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMatt DillonMickey RourkeDiane LaneAbsent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsVangelis GermanosDespoina GeroulanouNikitas TsakiroglouA director in existential and creative crisis tries to find the script of his new film.
- DirectorNikolay GubenkoStarsZhanna BolotovaYelena FadeyevaFyodor NikitinBoring and monotonous was the existence of the inhabitants of the house of veterans. Everything changed with the arrival of a new chief physician. She tries not only to treat the ailments of the elderly, but to return to them their lost interest in life, the belief that one can still love and be loved.
- DirectorPál GáborStarsVera PapErzsi PásztorÉva SzabóVera Angi works as a nurse in a hospital after WWII in communist Hungary. Because she speaks up about the terrible conditions in which the nurses and doctors have to work, she's placed in a six-month education course.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsVittorio GassmanRuggero RaimondiGeraldine ChaplinThree intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.
- DirectorZeki AlasyaStarsKadir InanirMelike ZobuBülent Bilgiç
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsBurt LancasterPeter RiegertFulton MackayAn American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorRadoslaw PiwowarskiStarsPiotr SiwkiewiczAnna KazmierczakAndrzej ZielinskiThe growing up of four teenagers is connected with the songs of the Beatles.
- DirectorPetr SvédaStarsPavel KrízJirí KnotJán Króner Jr.
- DirectorJaromír BorekStarsJirí LangmajerDana VávrováFrantisek LaurinEven under socialism it was not advisable to cross the boundaries between rich and poor.
- DirectorPéter GothárStarsAnikó IvánIstván ZnamenákPéter GálfyA teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.
- DirectorNesli ÇölgeçenStarsSener SenErdal ÖzyagcilarNilgün NazliThe landlord of a village in eastern Turkey decides to sell his land after a severe drought and migrates to Istanbul with his family. However the struggle for survival in the 'big city' will not be easier for them.