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Reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's 1985 production, After Hours, this film narrates the events of a night in the chaotic backstreets of Beyoğlu in Istanbul. The day he receives his wage, and after arguing with his wife, Haydar (Tarik Akan) leaves the house in a fury and heads to Beyoğlu for a wild night out. However, a prostitute and her pimp bring him such troubles, and he finds himself penniless and in police custody.
Gülizar is a young and beautiful village girl. Against her will, she is betrothed to a young man from her village at her family's request. Her fiancé goes to Istanbul to work in order to earn a dowry. One day, Gülizar's fate suddenly changes with the arrival of a new teacher in the village. Gülizar secretly falls deeply in love with the teacher, İsmail. They eventually decide to marry. However, the teacher's death in an accident shatters Gülizar's world. Her fiancé returns to the village with the dowry money after some time. While Gülizar endures the immense pain of losing her beloved without being able to share it with anyone, she is forced to marry her fiancé. Yet Gülizar has become the woman of the young teacher she loves. Gülizar's father is caught between tradition and his daughter, as according to custom, her honor can only be cleansed by her death.
Years after a divorce divides their family in half, six siblings encounter each other by chance and try to get their parents back together.
A group of women in a small village get organized against the macho men of the town.
The film tells the love story of a Turkish girl and a Greek boy who grow up together. Their families' strong opposition to the relationship leads the story to a tragic end.
Lutfu is a cook in the mansion of the wealthy Kerim. One morning he sees that there is nobody at home. The maid is to get engaged on that day but her fiancée does not show up either. From the brother of their driver, he learns that workers are on strike and their boss Kerim has gone to Europe. Things get back to normal.
In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his reunion with his wife, who grows testy from the restrictions that hiding him impose on her. Eventually he turns himself in, and while in prison, suffers some torture. All the same, he endures with the flame of his spirit undiminished.
Political satire comedy featuring the memories of a red leather chair. He is aware that no matter who the next governor will be, more corrupted will the system get. But only until the last governor who decides to set him on fire.
Aziz, a former Yeşilçam director, was devastated when the woman he loved, Leyla, starred in a sex film, and he left Istanbul. Thirty years later, the stubborn man sells everything he owns and returns to Istanbul to film the script he has kept under his arm. Upon arriving in Istanbul, Aziz's first task is to find his "old friends." The elderly crew members are excited by the idea, but none of them are where Aziz left them, or as he left them. A lot has changed since then. Most of them have moved away from cinema and are doing other jobs. Aziz's determined attitude convinces the old crew that they can make the film. His friends know that Aziz wrote this script for Leyla at the time, and they suggest casting her in the role. Aziz vehemently refuses. His friends realize that the wounds are still fresh, and Aziz has not been able to let go of Leyla. It is clear that Aziz and Leyla are in for a difficult reckoning.
A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.
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The film tells the story of an old husband Hüsrev and Melek, who was first a servant and then his wife. With this marriage Hüsrev’s subconscious hidden passions are revealed.
After martial law is declared, Sibel is taken in. Sibel, who has completely lost her self after the torture, tries to hold on to life. But her husband Atilla's questions about what happened in Sibel's custody will become frequent.
Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and funny events.
A depiction of social satire, Talihli Amele [The Lucky Worker] (1980) shows the transformation of a young man who immigrated to Istanbul to provide a better life for his family. With hopes to become a successful mason, he suddenly finds himself the star of a TV commercial. Drawing attention to the rising consumerism culture and its effects on individuals in Turkey, the film was allowed to be shown with a State Council verdict.
When water is poured onto the cotton field, Musa, whose crop is ruined, cannot pay his debt. He has only one option to save his field from the loan shark: to work at Captain Tayfur's sand quarry. He leaves his wife in the village and starts working with a group of workers whose lives are as painful as his own.
During World War II, Şvayk, a seemingly ordinary, hapless dog-seller, finds himself entangled with the Nazi regime.
Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?
Emrah, who comes from his village to study in the city, settles in a boarding house. He meets a girl who is studying at the university in the same boarding house, and they fall in love, but as always, problems arise between them.
The 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.
Alişan, a former senator, runs a motel in a seaside town with his daughter Ayşe, son-in-law Orhan, and sons Bahadır and Mehmet. Orhan married Ayşe, whom he met at teacher training college. They are living happily. Orhan, a former teacher who has been dismissed from his job, enjoys a happy married life, but this is turned upside down when Menekşe arrives in town. This is because the young woman sees Orhan as a resemblance to her deceased husband, whom she refuses to believe is dead. This resemblance leads to a forbidden relationship between them. This affair quickly spreads throughout the town. After various events, Orhan receives news that Menekşe has committed suicide. Menekşe's body is recovered from the sea.
After being released from prison, Müslüm will fulfill his dedication and sacrifice his 2.5-month-old son to God by cutting the throat of him.
