Atillâ Dorsay: Best Turkish Films
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- DirectorMuhsin ErtugrulStarsBehzat ButakIsmail Galip ArcanHazim KörmükçüAysel, while working for the strong Satilmiszade family, is seduced by her boss and becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child. Ali, from another village is concerned with her situation, and he offers her a job: to accompany his disabled mother.
- DirectorOrhon Murat AriburnuStarsOrhon Murat AriburnuNedret GüvençMuazzez ArçayTwo people who were exiled, regain their old lives after being defrauded by a prince.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsAyhan IsikGülistan GüzeyMuzaffer TemaNazim who commit crime because of people around him and Ayten loves Nazim and married with him. However, Ayten's stepsister Nezahat and Halil want to separate them.
- DirectorOrhon Murat AriburnuSami AyanogluCahide SonkuStarsZeki MürenCahide SonkuHadi HünThe story of a teenager who becomes a famous singer with the help of a woman.
- DirectorOsman F. SedenStarsEsref KolçakSadri AlisikNurhan NurA story of love and espionage that takes place during the years of the War of Independence.
- DirectorMemduh ÜnStarsMuhterem NurFikret HakanSalih TozanThree hopeless cronies from the slums help a blind panhandler girl who is homeless and hungry. The girl, an ingenue, brings a new hope to everyone's life, especially to the one who falls in love with her.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsÇolpan IlhanSadri AlisikTurgut ÖzatayCaptain Ridvan falls in love with Guner but there is a huge obstacle between them. This is Ali who is a foreign exchange smuggler and bar owner.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadMemduh ÜnStarsAyhan IsikSezer SezinReha YurdakulIn the absence of his father, a little boy and his mother live by themselves on a poor suburb for years. Boy impatiently waits his father's return, till the day a wounded outlaw takes refuge in their home.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsErol TasHülya KoçyigitUlvi DoganA farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsEsref KolçakOrhan GünsirayNilüfer AydanThe two friends take action together with the public to bring the cooperative they want to establish. The Mayor tries to prevent the co-operative from being established, fearing that they will be rivals.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsEsref KolçakSevda FerdagParla Senol
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsTanju GürsuFiliz AkinÖzden ÇelikA Family immigrates from suburb to metropolitan to have a better life. Inspired from the Orhan Kemal's same named novel "Abroad birds", published in 1962.
- DirectorErtem GöreçStarsFikret HakanBeklan AlganAyla AlganStory of a union strike at a paint factory.
- DirectorDuygu SagirogluStarsFikret HakanSelma GüneriErol TasA self-conscious construction labor witnesses how his fellow townsmen lose their virtues and traits when they migrate from village to city.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsTanju GürsuNilüfer AydanPervin ParOne of the earliest Turkish films to display lesbianism, tells the story of three women in Pasha's harem and a newcomer.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsMüsfik KenterSema ÖzcanSüleyman TekcanA poor painter falls in love with a photograph of a woman while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands.
- DirectorErdogan TokatliStarsEdiz HunSelma GüneriTijen ParWhat the poor parents of Ayse plan for their two beautiful daughters is to marry them with wealthy husbands. After his older sister, it's Ayse's turn to get married, but Ayse falls in love with the newly graduated and poor engineer Oguz.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsSadri AlisikAyla AlganAhmet Danyal TopatanBlack comedy about a girl who runs away from her rural village to Istanbul to become and actress and an old drunkard street photographer.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsNil GöncüHayati HamzaogluAliye RonaIn an atmosphere getting darker, and darker and almost without any dialogue, a young woman is kidnapped over and over by an obsessed man.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsTürkan SorayIzzet GünayAyfer FerayHalil is an honest greengrocer with an ordinary life. One day his friends take him to a local night club where he meets a beautiful hostess, Sabiha. The two fall in love. Little does Sabiha know about Halil's life before they met.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyGülsen AlniaçikTuncel KurtizWhen one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsHülya KoçyigitKerem YilmazerAli SenA young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. The family refuses to help her because they can't see anything wrong with the boy and all money is needed for a new shop they have just opened.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsHülya KoçyigitAhmet MekinKamran UsluerA story of a family of six who are coming from Urfa tries to survive economically in Istanbul.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsKadir SavunAydemir AkbasYilmaz GrudaThe film deals with the migration from the village to the city with a realistic narrative. The immigration phenomenon described in workers' hands in a factory refers to both the modernization process in the period and the unionization. Hacer emigrates to Istanbul with his father, two children and his wife.
- DirectorFeyzi TunaStarsFatma GirikTamer YigitHayati HamzaogluThe story of Sirvan and his wife Sultan, who rebelled against Cello, the lord of the village.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyKerim AfsarMelike DemiragAfter betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Cemil 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. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin.
- DirectorSüreyya DuruStarsPerihan SavasAytaç ArmanFahri AktürkThe story of a sheepman who is torn between his wife and traditions in his rural village.
- DirectorSüreyya DuruStarsHakan BalamirSemra ÖzdamarAytaç ArmanBeen turned upside down life of black veiled bride who her father is in jail for killing Vakkas's father because of solicitation of landlord.A film has been shot on smuggling,feudalism,blood feud,old and have become meaningless rituals.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsKemal SunalMünir ÖzkulHalit AkçatepeLazy, uneducated students share a very close bond. They live together in the dormitory, where they plan their latest pranks. When a new headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsKemal SunalMünir ÖzkulSemra ÖzdamarA young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.
- DirectorYücel ÇakmakliStarsFiliz AkinTarik AkanCemil SahbazLeyla has become a stranger to her culture as a result of her family's wrong education. During her musical education in Vienna, he meets Mehmet, who is tied to his roots, and begins to have a relationship.
- DirectorBay OkanStarsBay OkanBjörn GeddaTuncel KurtizA group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsKemal SunalSevda FerdagBilge ZobuA janitor/doorman and his family who came to "big city" Istanbul, with the hope to live a better life. With the different characters living in the building, the story evolves around the doorman and his tricky ways to skip work but make some extra cash on the side
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsKemal SunalSener SenAysen GrudaGoing through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his boss.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTürkan SorayKadir InanirAhmet MekinStory of a dilemma between a woman's love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas, who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the hardships and have a happy marriage. However, after he helps a man one night, Ilyas' life changes forever and he leaves Asya and their son for another woman and doesn't come back.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorYavuz ÖzkanStarsCüneyt ArkinTarik AkanHalil ErgünMine workers in Turkey struggling for better working conditions.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsTuncel KurtizErkan YücelYaman OkayThe tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsTürkan SorayTalat BulutHarun YesilyurtHazal is married off to her late husband's brother in his early teens. As she develops a motherly affection for the child groom, she falls in love with mason Emin.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen 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.
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsBektas AltinokIlhami BekirErol DemirözThe tragedy of a father and son who came from the village to the city for the sake of his ideals and struggled to live in the city.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsHülya KoçyigitTalat BulutHaldun ErgüvençDetails the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations.
- 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.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsGenco ErkalErkan YücelSerif SezerA urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArAytaç ArmanYilmaz ZaferVasfiye, her story, tellers of the story, and their listeners change every time the story is told.
- 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.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorBasar SabuncuStarsMüjde ArYalçin DümerIsmet AyThe life adventure and suicide of a female hero named Melek, who was forced to marry a man with a sick soul and sexual perversions.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçIngenuous countryman Ali Nazik moves to Istanbul, expecting help to become a famous singer, he finds Muhsin Kanadikirik, a fading music producer.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsSener SenMüjde ArUgur YücelIll fated lovers, Sener and Mujde, who can never come together because of endless obstacles and misunderstandings, slowly drift into the plaintive world of arabesque music.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsYildiz KenterEsref KolçakFatos SezerAn old widower, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, tries to find someone to look after her cat Hanim after she's gone.
- DirectorZülfü LivaneliStarsRutkay AzizSevtap ParmanAsli AltanIt's brother against brother in a turbulent period in Turkey. Former judge Ali Firat is dragged into the turmoil when his son Murat is killed. Is it his brother with the opposite view that killed him in this political turmoil environment?
- DirectorTunç BasaranStarsOzan BilenNur SürerFüsun DemirelBaris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.
- DirectorFehmi YasarStarsGenco ErkalDeniz GökçerSerif SezerA scenario writer who struggles to have any of them filmed, delves into problems of his housemaid.
- DirectorYusuf KurçenliStarsTarik AkanBülent BilgiçNurseli IdizThe story of a teacher who is also a writer, trying to hide from the police during WWII in Turkey. He is wanted because of his leftist articles and books.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsZuhal OlcayFikret KuskanSevda FerdagA young man, who came to Istanbul to study despite his father's objection, started photography when he was out of money. He takes souvenir photos for people in taverns. One day, a mysterious woman says she wants to see all the photos she took. The young photographer takes the photos he takes every morning to the woman.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçBaran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches for vengeance and his lover.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsOkan BayülgenMüjde ArSavas DinçelA young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsAlessandro GassmannFrancesca d'AlojaCarlo CecchiFrancesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsGüven KiraçHaluk BilginerDerya AlaboraYusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsErkan CanHaldun BoysanYildiray SahinlerSailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsNazmi KirikNewroz BazMizgin KapazanMehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten.
- DirectorTomris GiritliogluHakan EserStarsHülya AvsarZuhal OlcayKamran UsluerThe film is set during the period of the Varlik Vergisi where many non-Muslims were forced to pay higher taxes, often in an arbitrary and unrealistic way. Around 2,000 non-Muslims who could not pay the amount demanded for the tax within the 30-day time limit were arrested and sent to a forced-labor camp in Askale in the Erzurum.
- DirectorHandan IpekçiStarsSükran GüngörDilan ErçetinFüsun DemirelThe paths of 75-year-old retired judge Rifat Bey and little Hejar, who was left with a relative because he lost all his relatives in the operation carried out in his village, cross paths in Istanbul.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganÖmer Faruk SorakStarsYilmaz ErdoganDemet AkbagAltan ErkekliLives of residents in a small, Anatolian village change when television is introduced to them.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsYilmaz ErdoganDemet AkbagAltan ErkekliVizontele Tuuba is the sequel to Vizontele and recounts the 1980 military coup, the repercussions of the coup in a small southeastern town in Turkey. This is a very confusing period: every sad incident leads to a funny event or every funny incident results in sadness.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerdar OrçinZeynep TokusEngin GünaydinMusa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsTaner BirselBasak KöklükayaIskender AltinA man suspects his wife of being unfaithful, but he's not prepared for what her confession will do to him.
- DirectorTayfun PirselimogluStarsZuhal OlcayMichael MendlParkan ÖzturanSükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to keep away Veysel from political actions. Veysel get lost. She tried to find him but she did not. She called upon the competent authorities to find him but she was refused.
- DirectorZiya ÖztanStarsMeltem CumbulMehmet KurtulusHalil ErgünThe film, which started with the declaration of the Constitutional Monarchy, reflects events such as the dethronement of Sultan Abdulhamid, the events of March 31 and the arrival of the Operation Army in Istanbul.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuzaffer ÖzdemirMehmet Emin ToprakZuhal GencerAfter his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBirol ÜnelSibel KekilliGüven KiraçWith the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
- DirectorReis ÇelikStarsTuncel KurtizFilmmaker Reis Çelik and actor Tuncel Kurtiz set out together to the town of Çildir in Ardahan province to trace the tradition of improvised storytelling of Anatolian folk poets based on the concept of intransigence.
- DirectorAhmet UluçayStarsFizuli CaferofGülayse ErkocHasbiye GünayIn his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsHaluk BilginerÖzcan DenizDemet AkbagThe tragicomic story of a young man who wants to be a famous singer
- DirectorÖmür AtaySelim DemirdelenKudret SabanciStarsAltan ErkekliÖzgü NamalMehmet GünsürFive interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairy tales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇetin TekindorFikret KuskanHümeyraThe family of a left-wing journalist is torn apart after the military coup of Turkey in 1980.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsOzen OzkanAli Bey KayaliElit IscanThe pain of growing up, as seen by three Turkish youths: Ömer, the son of the local imam, who wishes the death of his father; his best friend, Yakup, who's enamored with the village schoolteacher; and Yildiz, who is forced to balance her studies with the needs of her demanding mother.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsSerhat TutumluerMelisa SözenMesut AkustaEflatun 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 be executed soon.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsMehmet Ali NurogluSerhat Mustafa KiliçSettar TanriögenStory of a man who is suffering because of a crime and trying to escape of his suffering.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsHazar ErgüçlüOsman AlkasPopi AvraamShadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
- DirectorÖzer KiziltanStarsErkan CanMeray ÜlgenGüven KiraçA promotion brings a Muslim's relationship with God into question.
- DirectorBaris PirhasanStarsNurgül YesilçayCem ÖzerDerya AlaboraOn the first day of Ramadan, Hasan arrives at a railway station in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. He has with him a young wife and a young daughter. He has heard that the small station community needs an imam to lead the prayer ritual and teach the children Koran during the holy month.
- DirectorBiket IlhanStarsYetkin DikincilerDolunay SoysertÖzge ÖzberkThis is a story of the great Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, the poet of struggle and combat, the poet of passion and love. Having adopted communism as his life philosophy, he reflects his thinking in his art, and is continuously chased by the police as a result. Every move he makes, every word he writes or says is under the close scrutiny of the state.
- DirectorAbdullah OguzStarsTalat BulutÖzgü NamalMurat HanWhen an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.
- DirectorTolga ÖrnekStarsTaner BirselAli DüsenkalkarHalit ErgençIn the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsCemal HünalMelis BirkanYildiz KültürTells about those people whose lives have been isolated by modern lifestyles; It is also Foods, mothers, old songs and love that this movie is consists of.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsOnur SaylakMegi KobaladzeSerkan KeskinA man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
- DirectorSeyfi TeomanStarsTaner BirselTayfun GunayHarun OzuagMustafa 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. Veysel, their teenage son, wants to leave the military academy and study business administration.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsYavuz BingölHatice AslanAhmet Rifat SungarA family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsNurgül YesilçayMurat HanTülin ÖzenAydanur, who works at the factory, has a forbidden love with Mahmut, who married his childhood friend. Hearing this relationship leads to great tragedy.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsNejat IslerSaadet AksoyUfuk BayraktarYusuf, who goes to town for his mother's funeral, meets his mother's friend Ayla. Ayla pressures Yusuf to fulfill her mother's vow.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsMelih SelcukBasak KöklükayaRiza AkinYusuff has a hard time defining his adulthood. In one hand, there are his mother's expectations while on the other hand his passions.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsBora AltasErdal BesikçiogluTülin ÖzenThe quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsElit IscanErdal BesikçiogluLevent YilmazHayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting.
- DirectorLevent SemerciStarsMete HorozogluIlker KizmazBirce AkalayStory of 40-man Turkish task force who must defend a relay station.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsTsilla CheltonDerya AlaboraOnur ÜnsalWhen an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenCem YilmazÇetin TekindorThe lives of three homicide detectives are turned upside-down during a murder investigation.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsSermet YesilTürkü TuranSerkan KeskinA strange man with otherworldly talents becomes both a friend and a pariah in a small Turkish town in this drama from writer and director Reha Erdem. Yahya is nearly in a panic when his young son falls into the river on a wintry day and looks lifeless when he's pulled from the water.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuhammet UzunerYilmaz ErdoganTaner BirselA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.