Turkish Movies About Women's Issues
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- DirectorÜmit EfekanStarsMehtap AnilIsik ArasDündar AydinliThe law involving the forgiveness of sexual crimes against sex workers will shock the whole country through the story of Naciye.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArAli PoyrazogluHümeyraAsiye is on the verge of entering a bad life. Every decision she makes will reshape the dynamics of her life one step next.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArAytaç ArmanYilmaz ZaferVasfiye, her story, tellers of the story, and their listeners change every time the story is told.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsAyça BingölHazal KayaFirat ÇelikA beautiful woman puts herself and her daughters in danger because of her sexual behavior. Beautiful Melek has a unhappy marriage and she divorces with her husband. Then she starts to flirt with most man in the village.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArMacit KoperYilmaz ZaferAfter Serap, the theatre actress, acts in an advertisement, she loses her identity and become a housewife with two children. The movie is about dilemma of Serap and Naciye.
- 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.
- DirectorMemduh ÜnStarsAsli AltanUgur PolatNalan SayarNil spends years in jail and is being tortured during September 12 junta period and alienates the new life after she is released.
- DirectorAtalay TasdikenStarsZeynep ÇamciIsmail HaciogluZerrin Sümer'Innocence belongs to those who wait.' Meryem, a young woman of 18, has been married for 18 months. But after six days of marriage, her husband left for Istanbul and hasn't reappeared since. As the days turn into weeks and months, Meryem longs for Mustafa and a settled married life, but she doesn't give up hope.
- 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.
- DirectorErhan KozanStarsMiray AkayMelisa CelayirTunç OralDoes not just tell a story in the Greek village of Northern Cyprus, where the sounds of the Ezan is accompanied by the church bells, it also underlines a tradition in Anatolia; the drama of child brides.
- DirectorKutlug AtamanStarsHülya AvsarVildan AtaseverFeride ÇetinAbout two teenage girls, Behiye and Handan, with contrasting characteristics and backgrounds.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsSerdar GökhanNecla NazirBilal InciNotorious for being an immoral woman, Emine is sent to a village in the middle of nowhere as an attempt of rehabilitation.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArNur SürerYilmaz ZaferBeautiful widow seduced by a playboy
- 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.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsHale SoygaziAytaç ArmanTarik TarcanA woman's fight for her identity and freedom as a woman.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTürkan SorayCihan ÜnalHümeyraMine is married to station chief Cemil; at the same time, the entire town attracts the attention of men is a beautiful woman. Mine, exposed to the jealous gaze of the women around her, feels alone and unhappy in her marital life. When Perihan's brother Ilhan, the only friend, comes to town, everything changes.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsMüjde ArYasar AlptekinMehmet Akan7 year old Umur falls in love with his much older aunt in the midst of political upheaval and dysfunctions of his family.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsTürkan SorayErdal ÖzyagcilarBilal InciThis is about the various women figures in Turkey whose live different lives. Turkan Soray is acting out nine woman's life struggle. The film deals with various problems in Turkish society through nine different types of women.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsMüjde ArFaruk PekerSavas BasarThe revenge of a cheated girl.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsMüjde ArTarik TarcanMesut ÇakarliA victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsTülin ÖzenBudak AkalinMusa KaragözZeynep works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not interested in Mustafa who is younger than Zeynep, but she is not indifferent to him.
- 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.
- DirectorHandan IpekçiStarsSenay AydinIstar GöksevenCem BenderThe death warrant of a peasant girl who becomes pregnant before marriage must be carried out by one of the men she loves, her father or her brother.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsTürkan SorayBulut ArasAdile NasitPortrayal of a young depressed Turkish widow in the slums whose infinite dignity alone looks after her orphan kids is depicted by the son of the town sheriff, who is in love with her.
- DirectorCemal SanStarsFadik Sevin AtasoySongül BayogluArzu Tan BayraktutanAn isolated woman meets a stranger at a party and falls in love with him, but he suddenly disappears in the morning. While trying to find him, she gets worse.
- DirectorCemal SanStarsNesrin CavadzadeFirat TanisOsman AkcaDilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself up in her family's barn.
- DirectorÇigdem VitrinelStarsDevin Özgür ÇinarSebnem HassanisoughiErkan BektasWhile both separately living under brutal and demanding conditions of city life, Sevda and Zuhal's paths intersects when Sevda's husband Cezmi starts having an affair with one of his colleagues in hospital, Zuhal. This betrayal is life threatening for Sevda, who considers her marriage and the perfect order of daily life she created as a huge success.
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsEce DizdarTilbe SaranTaner BirselDeniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsFunda EryigitEcem UzunMehmet KurtulusTwo Turkish women, one oppressed by sexist traditions and one liberated by modern mores, have more in common than it would seem.
- 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.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsKadir InanirHümeyraHalil ErgünFuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsKadir InanirHale SoygaziMacit KoperAygul is an unhappy woman trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed husband. She starts working in a factory and this kindles the fire of her consciousness process.
- 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.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsMeltem CumbulSener SenTimuçin EsenA single mother with a child meets a retired teacher who tries to keep pace with his new life and to protect them from her ex-husband.
- 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.
- DirectorErsin PertanStarsDemet AkbagRasim ÖztekinLale MansurThe film depicts a world where women are bullies, men are kidnapped from home to marry, and women bring home the bacon, in short, the roles between men and women have changed.
- DirectorMurat SaraçogluStarsDemet AkbagÖzgü NamalSarp ApakTurkey is under the yoke of the military regime. Unbelievable events will develop in the axis of the house of the custodian mother, who takes care of the children of prostitutes.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMeral OguzLale MansurDeniz TürkaliNewly divorced Nilgün is assigned to a small town. One day, she meets her long-lost childhood friend Havva while examining sex workers in a brothel. Two women get closer, but their relationship is tested by social and cultural conflicts.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsHaluk BilginerDemet AkbagElçin SanguA resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.
- DirectorSüreyya DuruStarsFatma GirikIzzet GünayOya PeriNebahat, who had to bring money to her house after her father's death, starts to work as a chauffeur which is fully male dominated job.
- DirectorYusuf PirhasanStarsBelçim BilginDemet AkbagAsuman DabakMeet Vartanus who has devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagul who realizes that her Mafioso lover will never marry her. Gulnur who's resigned herself to daily beatings as long as her husband doesn't touch the kids, Tulay who's shattered every time her mother gets beaten; hairdresser Fusun who tends to see things on the bright side.
- DirectorTürkan SorayStarsTürkan SorayKadir InanirBilal InciStory of a wife and her son waiting for her husband to come back from Germany, where he immigrated for paying his family's debts in Turkey.
- DirectorTürkan SorayStarsTürkan SorayKadir InanirMahmut HekimogluNewly appointed judge of a small ashore town of Bodrum falls in love with the handsome big shot of the town who is not as innocent as the residents think him of.
- DirectorGuillaume GiovanettiÇagla ZencirciStarsDamla SönmezErkan Kolçak KöstendilEmin Gürsoy25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey's Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area. There she crosses path with a fugitive. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTürkan SorayOguz TunçMüsfik KenterCoskun, who grew up in an orphanage, has been in love with the very famous film star Derya Altinay all of his life. His only purpose in life is to meet her one day and write a film script for her. He is so much in love with her that he believes that he lives with the two film characters which she performed in her old movies.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTürkan SorayRutkay AzizTurgay BetilA retired teacher and a very successful female banker meets at a holiday resort incidentally. The woman is sick and tired of her workload/housework and his husband while the man has escaped from his monotonous lifestyle. He is up to settle in a village nearby where he thinks he will live his dream in solitude.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsKadir InanirMüjde ArHakan TanferKamil, a long distance driver, falls in love with Cevahir. We watch their love story in the grip of poverty, injustice, and the society's look towards Cevahir's ex-work.
- DirectorÜlkü ErakalinStarsTürkan SorayEngin ÇaglarSuna PekuysalMurat makes a fake marriage with a woman who will soon be hanged so that he can inherit his grandfather's inheritance. When Naciye is out of jail, Murat, who married Naciye without love, seeks to get rid of the young woman.
- 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.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsKadir InanirHülya KoçyigitSemsi InkayaStory of three married couples living in the same apartment.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsNurgül YesilçayGülse BirselHaluk BilginerHürmüz lives in Taskasap, Istanbul and has six husbands in a plot to solve her economic problems.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArNurgül YesilçayOnur ÜnsalAli is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre.
- 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.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsIlyas SalmanSener SenYaprak ÖzdemirogluIn the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.
- DirectorIrfan TözümStarsHalil ErgünSelma GüneriSevtap ParmanHe second half of 1990s Lady Firuzan is about to give birth to a child whose name will be Ihsan. In 1950s Lady Firuzan adapts a daughter called Fatma about 5- 6 years old and Ihsan and Fatma grows up together as siblings. in 1960s Ihsan who was studying at the Robert College lives a big love with Natalie. In 1970s the death of his mother.
- DirectorIrfan TözümStarsHale SoygaziUgur PolatMacit KoperCazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The only thing which is private to her is her projector machine, which she keeps in a room at the roof of the house.
- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsHülya AvsarCem ÖzerArmin BlockA young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband. With his burdened conscience, he goes out to Berlin's Turkish district to find the woman.
- DirectorSüreyya DuruStarsHülya AvsarAytaç ArmanAyberk ÇölokStory of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsKadir InanirHülya KoçyigitPerihan SavasMurat is a charismatic political prisoner in Malatya. He is well respected by both inmates and prison officers. There he meets two women: Tozey, a famous prostitute, and Hanim, a defenseless woman accused of murdering her husband.
- DirectorOrhan AksoyStarsTürkan SorayKadir InanirErol TasDila Hanim, a charismatic land owner in feudal Turkey, wows to kill his husband's killer Riza. Riza taking an interest in Dila presents himself as a local mill owner and the two immediately fall in love.
- DirectorNejat SaydamStarsTürkan SorayTanju GürsuÖnder SomerThe story of a young woman wanted for a crime she didn't commit.
- DirectorTürkan SorayStarsSerkan SenalpFatih AlElif AtakanAn eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsHülya KoçyigitTalat BulutHaldun ErgüvençDetails the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsLevent KircaNevra SerezliSener SenThe funny love and marriage story of 4 people 2 of who is a couple that want to divorce and the other 2 are their attorneys.
- DirectorYesim UstaogluStarsNeslihan AtagülBaris HacihanÖzcan DenizAraf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous lives.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsAslihan GürbüzCaner CindorukTaner BirselWhen her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsUfuk BayraktarVildan AtaseverEngin AkyürekBekir loves Ugur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Ugur disappears.
- 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.
- DirectorMustafa NuriStarsHatice AslanHakan KurtasCengiz BozkurtLeyla and her boyfriend Yilmaz are in porn film sector for 25 years in Germany. While ago, they move to Istanbul and Yilmaz left her for another woman. Although they are separated, Yilmaz comes up with a last minute request:one last movie where Leyla meets 20 years old handsome but quite traumatic character Izzet.
- DirectorOrhan AksoyStarsTarik AkanGülsen BubikogluNilgün AtilganThree boys are having their higher education in Istanbul. In fact, they are messing around and dealing with radical politics, girls and gamble. However the oldest discovers love, and the three realize that it is time to change.
- DirectorEmre ErdogduStarsHazar ErgüçlüOzan UygunHalil BabürMüzeyyen is a young woman who lives a drug-fuelled, chaotic life outside the norms of society. Her brother Ali interrupts his own successful, bourgeois life in Bolu, and goes to Antalya to meet with his recently- discovered sister.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsDemet EvgarFatih AlAlican YücesoyMeet Neslihan. A perfect cook, an expert on Turkish cuisine, strictly loyal to her husband, an impeccable house wife ...and a serial killer.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsDemet EvgarTamer KaradagliLevent ÜzümcüSeemingly content with the way her life goes, and deeply in love with her psychiatrist husband Doruk, Beyza is thrown off-balance by strange, occasional memory blackouts. Meanwhile, a number of mutilated legs found around Istanbul push the city into the terror of a serial murderer.
- DirectorSenem TüzenStarsEsra Bezen BilginNihal G. KoldasSemih AydinNesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents' old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin's writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter.
- DirectorEmine Emel BalciStarsEsme MadraRiza AkinArda AktolgaSerap is a quite but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister; the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father who is a long distance truck driver.
- DirectorAhu ÖztürkStarsAsiye DinçsoyNazan KesalDidem InselelNesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.
- DirectorPelin EsmerStarsBasak KöklükayaÖykü KarayelYigit ÖzsenerWhy would someone like Leyla go to a high school reunion dinner? And take an overnight train to get there. After all, she hasn't been to a single one for the last 25 years - What is Canan, a student nurse, doing on the train? Reluctantly going to an interview for a nursing job when she would like to be an actress instead.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsCemre EbuzziyaEce YükselHelin KandemirThree young girls are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia, one after another, after failing in more affluent foster families.
- DirectorCeylan Özgün ÖzçelikStarsAlgi EkeÖzgür ÇevikKadir ÇermikA News Channel employee Hasret, has been seeing the same nightmare for some time. Through recurring nightmares, a question creeps into her mind: Is it possible that her parents were not killed in a traffic accident twenty years ago but have died in some other, horrific way?
- 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.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsBaki DavrakGürsoy GemecCengiz DanerA Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsSerra YilmazIrem AltugIdil FiratA woman lets a harmless looking fortune teller into her house. The fortune teller is clearly gifted, but it turns out she had no intention of just telling fortunes. Soon, the woman deeply regrets letting her in.
- 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.
- DirectorSahin GökStarsBanu AlkanTolga SavaciYusuf SezginAlthough Arzu, famous model, is not aware of it, she faces a serious danger. This danger is a photographer named Cezmi, who has obsessed with Arzu. Unable to get the attention he expects, Cezmi will try everything to take revenge on Arzu.
- DirectorMahinur ErgunStarsKadir InanirZuhal OlcayYilmaz ZaferThe love story of two very different people.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsYasar AlptekinMüjde ArBülent BilgiçAysen discovers sexuality as she meets Cem.
- DirectorYavuz ÖzkanStarsHaluk BilginerZuhal OlcaySerap AksoyA prostitute lays a rape charge against a politician and an unexpected friendship develops between her and the politician's wife.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsDerya ArbasDeniz TürkaliUzay HepariSerap is a young woman who works as a prostitute in the bars of Beyoglu and one day she meets Fulya, a transgender woman, and Melek, an obsessive woman. Together all there have ups and downs in the dirty night life. Serap's life changes because she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with another man.
- DirectorÜmit EfekanStarsHülya KoçyigitTarik TarcanOrçun SonatAfter losing her husband, a woman lives with her two children. There are many men around her who want to marry. However, the young woman prefers to work, produce and be original.
- 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.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsMüjde ArSener SenHalil ErgünA group of women in a small village get organized against the macho men of the town.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAndaç HaznedarogluStarsEcem ErkekDevrim YakutEngin AlkanRebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.
- DirectorAlper CaglarStarsTayanç AyaydinMine KiliçÇosku Cem AkkayaA conservative Muslim girl falls in love with an agnostic journalist.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsSezer SezinKemal TanriöverSettar KörmükçüAn idealist teacher in national struggle of Turkey and local resident who collaborate with Greeks against her.
- DirectorSerif GörenStarsKadir InanirFatma GirikSerpil ÇakmakliKara Bayram is a poor farmer living in a village with his wife, 3 kids and his mother Irazca. They live on their own until another villager, Haceli who is backed up by the Mukhtar starts to build a new house right in front of their's. Kara Bayram and Irazca do not accept these uninvited neighbors from the first day and unwanted events start right away.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsTürkan SorayFikret HakanBilal InciA father says that whoever wants to marry his daughter must first beat his daughter in a fight.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsSerdar GökhanAysun GüvenIhsan BaysalThe story of a young peasant who wants to reunite with the girl he loves.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsHülya KoçyigitAhmet MekinKamran UsluerA story of a family of six who are coming from Urfa tries to survive economically in Istanbul.