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Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life.
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a well-respected Muslim scholar and family man who years before fled to the United States after being released from a Turkish prison, where he served time for murder. This tale love, friendship, peace and prejudices, takes us on a journey seeking to answer the question of whether innocence or guilt even matters to one who lusts for vengeance.
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.
Lives of several low-level gangsters get intertwined after a game of craps in their underground casino ends in a bloody shootout.
Three people from three different worlds... Three Others who become the unwitting cause of each others suffering...Three ordinary lives so tormented that even death seems sweet... Can emotional pain be vanquished through physical pain?
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Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, Bodrum. In fact he is considered by some to be the first ecologist. The film concentrates on this latter aspect of his character and through flashbacks portrays the inner turmoil of a man who is trying to come to terms with his past. The slow pace is somewhat of a drawback, the flashbacks are often confusing and the protagonist is not always very convincing. But the photography of the country side is exceptional Kenan Ormanlar and the short appearance by a very theatrical Hanna Schygulla of Fassbinder fame adds a little spice to the drama.
The film tells the tale of a man who gets involved in smuggling. Hasan works as a steward on a ship. During their trip to Marseilles, he makes a deal with an Armenian man to smuggle goods into İstanbul. He brings the goods with his friend Yakup to İstanbul without being caught at customs. Several times, he calls furrier Nubar who is to receive the goods, yet he cannot reach him. This worries Hasan and Yakup who want to deliver the goods without being caught. Unable to contact Nubar, Hasan goes to the shop of the other partner, Leon. He learns that Nubar has been arrested after a tip off was made. Leon is also afraid and tells Hasan to take the goods back. Wanting to get the job done, Hasan will make the deal he wants with Leon. (Meltem İşler Sevindi)
In Trabzon, snow falls heavily like never before in the last days of autumn, and the roads are blocked. In this setting, two people who attend the same school but have never met have a chance encounter at a bus station, waiting for the same bus that has run late. They fall in love at first sight.
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.
Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.
During the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful girl in the village.
A secret organization called the "Ancients" builds a futuristic hotel-style shelter to protect 100 chosen individuals from a deadly viral epidemic that will destroy the world. Taxi driver Noah, who stumbles upon this hotel-like shelter, finds himself in an unexpected situation.
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…
The film is a love story. However, it is not a story about the love between two people, but rather a story about the love and affection that a group of people feel for life and for each other. The film depicts all kinds of love, from east to west, from schoolchildren to villagers, from young to old, in both an emotional and humorous way.
With the mafia on their tail, Altan and Gürkan embark on new misadventures when they find themselves at a party hosted by a notorious antiques smuggler.
Serkan, who spends his days watching Turkish movies at home, starts working in a nursing home at the urging of his older brother.
Comedy about Yesilcam (Turkish Hollywood)
A naive apolitical young man, who is interrupted by a fundamental religious environment, turns bitter.
When Nejdet learns that the other mafia bosses he works with are plotting behind his back, he decides to teach them a lesson. The biggest surprise he has in store is his son, whom he has kept hidden from everyone for many years. However, Berk, a conservatory graduate, is a ballet dancer. The young man, who knows nothing about any of this, dreams of becoming a principal ballet dancer. Berk, who lives a modest life with his ballerina girlfriend, suddenly finds himself caught up in a showdown between the mafia bosses. Moreover, the most powerful and feared among them is his own father.
The story of three children whose parents are arrested during the coup...
Five high school students plans to steal University Entrance Exam booklets.
The film is about the spirit of Beşiktaş, which a grandfather wants to inflict on his grandchild.
Based on a real life story of sufi dervish Somuncu Baba, who lived in Aksaray in Turkey.
The film, which deals with the birth and rise of the Prestige Music generation, tells the passions and life struggles of artists, including Özcan Deniz, Haluk Levent and Mahsun Kırmızıgül, from the 1990s to the present.
During the years when World War I began to turn the Ottoman Empire's territories into a war zone, the pain of a great love story that unfolded in southeastern Anatolia and present-day Syria burned as fiercely as the war itself in the hearts of those involved. Mahmut leaves his home, abandoning everything—including the person he loves—because he refuses to commit murder. After being caught up in the relentless war raging across Anatolian lands and fighting for years in the struggle for liberation, he sets out to return home. His sole desire is to reunite with the one he was forced to leave behind and to seek revenge for the injustice he suffered years ago.
Ertan is swindled by his best friend Iskender who takes all of the money that they both spent their whole life's saving. As if this was not bad enough Iskender has also left behind a large
In this story set in ancient times, 31 women who lost their husbands, fathers, and children in war rise up against their lack of men after many years and demand that the state send them men to marry and have children. Five single men from different regions and cultures are selected at a porter market in Istanbul to marry these 31 women. The selected men, unaware of what awaits them, believe they are going to war. However, the porters, referred to as "human donkeys," find themselves in a completely different adventure instead of the front lines.
Doğan is a young and successful surgeon living in Istanbul. He works at a hospital owned by his father Faruk, who is also a doctor. Having received a Western education, Doğan is unfamiliar with his own country and believes that his life is limited to Istanbul. Problems with his father and fiancée lead him into a dead end. During this time, he receives an offer from the Ministry of the Interior and agrees to go to a field hospital in Gaziantep to perform surgery on an important patient for the government. In Gaziantep, he meets Ayşe, a translator at the same hospital who fled the war in Syria. Doğan's decision to go to Gaziantep will change his entire life.
The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin invested all his money in one such company, JIMPA, and even convinced his close friends and family to do the same. This company, JIMPA, which had made grand promises, goes bankrupt after collecting the money, and its managers disappear. Many people who invested their money demand accountability from Metin. Like hundreds of thousands of other families who believed in such Islamic investment companies and invested their money, Metin's family has also lost all their savings in an instant. The journey Metin embarked on to resolve the situation would confront him with realities he never anticipated. Metin’s father-in-law, the Imam, warned him. In fact, the Imam seemed to know more than he was letting on.
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.
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?
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now a famous painter, Cemal goes back to his hometown years later and remembers his childhood. In those days Cemal's father and uncle, member of rival political parties, are in a continious struggle with each other. The film depicts this absurd struggle and the strange stories of people in Harbiye together with the lyric story of the famous waterfall of the town.
Murat, who is not very attractive, is actually a naive person. His biggest dream is that the alternative universe, in which he imagines himself as an invincible hero.
"Hope Island" tells the story of a group of people who come to the UK from Turkey illegally and a young girl who comes for the purpose of educational opportunities. These young people, who come from different classes and cultures, are taking the journey of hope towards England to resume life elsewhere.
Meftun Taylan, former member of the Grey Wolves, who was sent to Europe in the '80s to fight against ASALA, now struggles with regrets about his criminal activities after the operations for the fatherland. Dreaming of a clear conscience, Meftun sees it as his task to eliminate such criminals and gangs. He chooses his targets from his circle of friends. Afterwards, he has the cold blooded hitman Cerkez come over from a Turkish prison. The operations are accomplished successfully one after the other. Instead of finding a moral balance, Meftun loses himself completely. After this there is a final mission for Cerkez to buy off his freedom. Meftun leaves his and Cerkez' future to “fate”. A special kind of fate, typical for Meftun.
