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Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own.

Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, that is, an extraordinary day changes her life - and the lives of everyone else in Midyat. For the illiterate, uneducated Xate becomes Mayor of Midyat! While she takes on her mayoral duties much as she does those in her house, the infantile rivalry between her children in municipal matters leads to adventures that have the Midyat folk howling with laughter.

A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of the milk they sell, are being of any benefit to Yusuf and Zehra's lives. When Yusuf finds out about Zehra's secret affair with the town's stationmaster he gets disconcerted. Will he find the way to cope with his anxiety for the unknown future, the rapid change that he is going through and the pain of taking a step into adulthood and leaving his youth behind

A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.

Burdened by troubles and caught between cultures, Riza takes a job as a mall Santa and finds that real life may not be so different from make believe.

Vural, a husband and a father who was raised in faith, leads a seemingly pious and conformist life. But everything takes a sudden dark turn when he finds out a truth about his personal life.

Carina is a young Dutch woman studying anthropology who travels to Ankara to conduct reesarch.

How much chaos can three white goods dealers who come to İstanbul from Anatolia get into in three days? The paths of Namık, Adem and Sadık, three men going through difficult periods in their lives, intersect at a dealer meeting. After a series of unexpected events, they find themselves caught in a crazy plan. To survive, the three dealers have no choice but trust each other and move fast.

A couple in their late 30’s sets out to prepare a fake photo album of a pseudo pregnancy period in order to prove their biological tie to the baby they’re planning to adopt.

Lena and Meryem during their escape from the war in Syria. Lena is a ten-year-old girl who has lost her family in the war. She finds herself forced to make her way to Turkey with her baby sister and their neighbor Meryem, along with the other refugees. Lena wants to return home, while Meryem’s hope is to reach Europe.

A short while after his dominant wife abandons the wimpy and meek Hayati, who is a literary teacher in a patriarchal town, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake. Hayati wants to state that the body belongs to his wife and to take the blame for the murder that someone else committed.

A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.

A crime drama film featuring Cem Davran as a middle-aged university professor on a a harrowing journey towards both Turkey’s and his own past after crashing into the wall of an Alevi village cemetery…

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Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.

Three young people enter to a bookshop as out of breath. And the bookseller shows the miracle of books.

Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.

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The life of Vecihi Hürkuş, the first Turkish pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft during World War I and the War of Independence, is being brought to the big screen. Vecihi Hürkuş, who pursued his passion for flying at the age of 16, dedicated his life to manufacturing aircraft and training new pilots.

Mustafa 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. Ali, their 10-year-old son, has to cope both with his bully classmate and the chewing gums he has to sell. Hasan, Mustafa's younger brother, chose to live a life in solitude after getting a divorce, and has always been an outsider to the family. But now, with his brother in coma, he finds himself involved in family affairs. Hasan has to solve the mystery about Mustafa's mistress and the money lost during his trip.

Aslıhan, the apple of her family's eye, is eagerly awaiting her family's approval to marry. For this, she needs a suitable groom. Just as she thinks she has found the perfect groom and is about to introduce him to her family, things go awry, and she is forced to return to her solitary life. However, to free herself from the pressure her family is putting on her, she urgently needs to find a temporary groom. Just then, her path crosses with a man who appears before her. Aslıhan comes up with a plan involving this man. She will introduce him to her family as her groom.

The true story of a man who grew up surrounded by violence and absence of love. But despite everything he became a world-class networking master in his business life. He started from the bottom and was able to reach the top. His story show us that there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome in life.

A none dialogue film about a young woman called Sukran, who has an accident when she is 10 years old and stays crippled for the rest of her life. Throughout the film, she seeks to create a common ground with other people. Despite her hunger to do so, she fails with people of the opposite sex, and so turns to her own gender. Again, she meets with failure; and again, she is knocked sideways. Just like all of us, Şükran keeps looking helplessly for ways to communicate with other people until the bitter end. Her helplessness may not be the exact same to our own helplessness as spectators, but they are indeed in very close proximity.

When their long-term relationships collapse on the same day, a neurotic man and an eccentric lounge singer cross paths. To help her daughter marry into a conservative, wealthy family, he reluctantly agrees to pose as her dignified police chief father.

A film crew from Germany, filming in a remote village in northeastern Turkey, interviews an elderly Kurdish woman. She performs an ancient ritual to keep alive the memory of the son she lost years ago. The young woman, who helps the German crew with the Kurdish translation, is also the caretaker of seven-year-old Melek. Melek's father is a member of a shadowy organization whose true purpose is unclear. The result of all these people coming together will be devastating.

Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don't allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.

Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner at her house. This is the beginning of a strange and dangerous liaison. When Nihat discovers a picture of the woman’s husband and realizes that he looks astoundingly like him, the relation becomes even more toxic.

A bag full of money lands in front of you. Is it luck? The answer to your prayers? Part of a predetermined plan? Or all of the above? Set in the chaotic streets of Istanbul, 40 is a story of three strangers making their way in a city of 12 million, all searching...for one bag. Shot entirely on location, '40' combines intense story telling with documentary style cinematography embarking on a synchronistic journey dealing with faith, love, luck, destiny, human trafficking...and a bag of cash that falls from the sky.

Benjamin is a young poet from Turkey, works in Bosnia as a volunteer to help the extrication of dead bodies from the mass graves. He comes to Bosnia in order to escape from his past. A childish game of Benjamin causes Joseph's lover-Zeliha's dead. The psychological pressure of his job revives his past in his dreams. Zrinka is Serbian-Bosnian psychologist who is helping to the people in post war syndromes.Benjamin meets her committing suicide on Mostar Bridge.By the time they fall in love. She releases Benjamin from his qualms of conscience. Benjamin goes back to Turkey to face with his brother and past. Zrinka saw a dream something bad happened to Benjamin. She goes to Turkey but she finds secrets and new description of love.

Salih is a young teacher assigned to the village of Elaldı. As Salih tries to adjust to his new life in the village, he falls in love with Zeynep, the most beautiful girl in the village. His greatest fear is that Zeynep will be married off, as cousin marriages are common in the village. Trying to find a solution to this problem, Salih writes a petition to the Ministry of Family Affairs. Following Salih's petitions, the ministry takes action and prepares a project to bring order to family life in the village and resolve the existing issues. According to the project, everyone will have a formal wedding, and those who do not marry their relatives will be entitled to receive the deeds to the houses they live in and the fields they cultivate. After beginning to compile a list of those eligible to marry, Salih is met with an unexpected outcome. According to the list, people are separated from their loved ones and matched with others, leading to a complicated situation.

The story of the film is about the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in 1915. The film covers the resurrection of Turkey following its defeat in the Balkan War, through depictions of Sergeant Mehmet Ali (Ali Ersan Duru) from Biga, Corporal Seyit and many others. To help Russia and threaten Constantinople, the Allies try to force through the Dardanelles Straight with a large fleet. Through a series of historical sketches, the film documents how they were defeated despite many difficulties and hardships.

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Two years after escaping from an ISIS prison in Mosul, a once successful Turkish war photographer is still a mess. He can’t sleep or forgive his wife for what happened to their daughter while he was away. When Hazar visits a hammam, he is confronted by the man who destroyed his life. But discovering that his former torturer is hiding a secret much greater and more dangerous than any terrorist plot, Hazar realizes his plan for revenge has led him back into the war where people are just game birds forced to fight for pleasure and profit. This time he has brought the cockfight home.

The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday.

A young girl working in a textile workshop is desperately trying to save money to make her father quit his job and find an apartment together with her. But her father does not seem to be the person she wants him to be.

Ali Kemal and Vahi, two childhood friends striving to realize their dreams, aim to make a Yeşilçam film. Although the two friends, who devoted themselves to their work during Yeşilçam's most dynamic and popular period, thought their task would be easy, as they became more familiar with the industry, they realized that it was a much more complex and large-scale system.

A long queue at the cafeteria of a rest stop. A middle-aged man, Emre, refuses to let a young mother - rushing to buy a bottle of milk for her little girl - go in front of him. This simple stand-off opens a Pandora's box when Emre's father gets involved...

The story of two people who, despite not knowing each other, fight for the same cause and whose paths cross thanks to the unifying power of music.

Osman was assigned to finish a blood feud by his family. As he hits the road, he spots a snail on the windshield and avoids using the wipers even when it's raining. On the way he picks up hitchhikers who end up guiding him to find his own way in life. Bartu and Günes are two youths who are trying to live in nature. Another hitchhiker Esin has quit her job as a singer at the nightclub because her boss wanted her to work as a hostess. She is the only person that Osman confesses his current task of murder. Muzo is the last hitchhiker Osman picks up and he is carrying a bag full of drugs. When the police stop them, Osman finds a way to live his life with a clear conscience.

Turkish film 2011

Tuna is going through hard times due to the psychological illness he suffers from. He tries to cope with the problems he faces with the support of his best friend Berkin. Meanwhile, Tuna begins to develop an emotional connection with Selen, his neighbor and college friend. This unexpected romance causes the strong friendship between Berkin and Tuna to break down. The serial murders that begin to take place around him drag Tuna towards a dangerous process. Developments that negatively trigger her illness and a trauma he experienced in her childhood cause Tuna to experience complex psychoses. Tuna struggles with the strange games his mind plays on him, while trying to live the love he feels in his heart. He will also have to struggle with Berkin, whose presence turns her into a troubled friend.