My Favorite Turkish Movies
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- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇetin TekindorHümeyraYetkin DikincilerIn a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.
- DirectorÖzhan ErenMurat SaraçogluStarsÖzge ÖzberkBurak SergenCansel ElcinDuring the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all men are fighting at four corners of the empire and therefore can not respond to to the appeal.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇetin TekindorFikret KuskanHümeyraThe family of a left-wing journalist is torn apart after the military coup of Turkey in 1980.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçBaran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches for vengeance and his lover.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇetin TekindorYigit ÖzsenerGökçe BahadirGrandpapa and his family were torn from their land, forced to migrate from Crete during the population exchange when he was just seven years old. Grands greatest desire is to see the land of his birth before he dies. It is this longing that makes him frequently drop bottles containing letters into the Aegean.
- DirectorÖmer Faruk SorakStarsMehmet GünsürBelçim BilginAltan ErkekliYear 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crushes into Omer's car. This accident causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies are born on the same day. They see each other for the first time.
- DirectorLevent SemerciStarsMete HorozogluIlker KizmazBirce AkalayStory of 40-man Turkish task force who must defend a relay station.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsYilmaz ErdoganTolga ÇevikDemet AkbagA struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.
- DirectorOsman SinavStarsKenan ImirzaliogluTugçe KazazMustafa AlaboraA long story that started and ended at the station.
- 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.
- DirectorMurat SaraçogluStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerLevent TülekThe story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.
- DirectorErsoy GülerStarsBurçin BildikFulya ZenginerAlper SaldiranThis fast paced farce begins with an apparently innocuous request from a village elder to take a recently deceased man to his home village for proper burial. Salim, the simple village man on which this request is bestowed, is afraid of death and by extension dead people, but he reluctantly agrees to take the dead man in his truck in order to incur good-will.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsFarah Zeynep AbdullahMehmet GünsürKerem BürsinAn old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.
- DirectorDeniz Gamze ErgüvenStarsGünes SensoyDoga Zeynep DogusluTugba SungurogluWhen five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
- DirectorCan UlkayStarsÇetin TekindorIsmail HaciogluLee Kyung-jinSergeant Süleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War. He takes her and names her Ayla. Fifteen months later, Süleyman's brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her behind.
- DirectorRolf SchübelStarsLale YavasErhan EmreTim SeyfiThis heartbreaking TV movie focuses on the first generation of Turkish migrant workers coming to Germany in the 1960s. Melike and Mustafa grow up in a small village of Ürgüp, Nevsehir in the central part of Turkey. She dreams of marrying him until he and his friend Kadir decide to leave their home country to work in Germany. After two years, the young woman must marry the much-older Yasar although she does not love him. For financial reasons, Melike also emigrates to the "golden West" and starts working in a factory. She reunites with Mustafa, now working as a photograph artist, and revives their romance, but one day, Yasar is standing at her door.
- DirectorKetcheCan UlkayStarsTimuçin EsenZerrin TekindorAyça BingölA biopic about turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses, drama, childhood, his life.
- DirectorAhmet KatiksizStarsEkin KoçFarah Zeynep AbdullahFikret KuskanA true love and success story from the 1990s Turkey, revolving around a jockey (Halis Karatas), a horse (Bold Pilot) and the daughter of the horse's owner who is at the same time the voluntary caretaker of the horse.