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- DirectorÖmer Faruk SorakStarsCem YilmazÖzge ÖzberkOzan GüvenA slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
- DirectorAli Taner BaltaciCem YilmazStarsCem YilmazMazhar AlansonÖzlem TekinFailed magician Iskender decides to do a tour to save his career, but has to bring his grumpy and senile father along. The tour is quite unexpectedly interrupted when a bride actually disappears from the stage.
- DirectorAli Taner BaltaciCem YilmazStarsCem YilmazÖzge ÖzberkZafer AlgözCommander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today.
- DirectorÖmer Faruk SorakStarsCem YilmazOzan GüvenDemet EvgarIn 1881, two Ottoman Secret Agents travel to the USA, at the Sultan's request, to deliver a valuable diamond as a gift for the President.
- DirectorYüksel AksuStarsCem YilmazBerat Efe ParlarAdam BayIn the 1970s, a boy named Adem starts working for soda seller Kemal during the holy month of Ramadan. Adem's only dream is to fast like the adults. He tries to perform this worship secretly from everyone.
- DirectorKivanç BaruönüStarsCem YilmazOzan GüvenÖzkan UgurAfter 8 years, Arif's old friend 216 from planet GORA pays a visit to Earth.Together they go on a quest where they'll be visiting 60's.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganÖmer Faruk SorakStarsYilmaz ErdoganDemet AkbagAltan ErkekliLives of residents in a small, Anatolian village change when television is introduced to them.
- 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.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsKivanç TatlitugMert FiratBelçim BilginIn a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsNejat IslerFikret KuskanBasak KöklükayaA Turkish thriller about a man forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇetin TekindorFikret KuskanHümeyraThe family of a left-wing journalist is torn apart after the military coup of Turkey in 1980.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsCemal HünalMelis BirkanYildiz KültürTells about those people whose lives have been isolated by modern lifestyles; It is also Foods, mothers, old songs and love that this movie is consists of.
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsÇaglar ÇorumluSevinç ErbulakGenco ErkalSeçil and her daughter Gizem move to the apartment where Aziz lives. Before long, Gizem has an unfortunate accident. Aziz, who loves the little girl very much, will try to fulfill the three wishes written in the girl's diary until she wakes up.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsSener SenAdile NasitAysen GrudaWhen an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
- DirectorNesli ÇölgeçenStarsSener SenErdal ÖzyagcilarNilgün NazliThe landlord of a village in eastern Turkey decides to sell his land after a severe drought and migrates to Istanbul with his family. However the struggle for survival in the 'big city' will not be easier for them.
- DirectorBasar SabuncuStarsSener SenNilgün AkçaogluPekcan KosarA guy under economic pressure has a nervous breakdown and one night suddenly starts to run naked, which makes him an overnight sensation.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsSener SenMünir ÖzkulUgur YücelA train station official wins the lottery but has to hide it from the other villagers. When the truth comes out, he loses his mind and finds himself in emptiness.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçIngenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Muhsin Kanadikirik to have his first album.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçBaran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches for vengeance and his lover.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenPitircik AkermanAytaç YörükaslanHasmet, director of love stories, wants to make a film with a "social content". With great difficulties he finally succeeds, but the response is not the one he hoped for.
- 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.
- DirectorÖmer VargiStarsSener SenKenan ImirzaliogluIsmail HaciogluA retired former dangerous man has to fight a new generation of mafia boss for the girl his son loves.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenCem YilmazÇetin TekindorThe lives of three homicide detectives are turned upside-down during a murder investigation.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenÇigdem Selisik OnatRutkay AzizHe is a boss who dedicates his life to grow up the textile empire he inherited from his father and does not hesitate to follow ruthless methods for it. He decides to choose a different life after a heavy traffic accident.
- DirectorÖmer VargiStarsCem YilmazMazhar AlansonCeyda DüvenciWhen Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsErkan CanHaldun BoysanYildiray SahinlerSailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.
- DirectorKudret SabanciStarsGüven KiraçIstar GöksevenCengiz KüçükayvazPimps want to expand and conquer the world, by abiding the greats and oppressing the losers, but they lose their prostitute to some sailors.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAhmet UgurluTuncel KurtizAysen AydemirMahsun is homeless and unemployed. He lives in Rumelihisari (one of the most picturesque and oldest quarters of Istanbul), and tries to stay alive with the help of local fishermen. Mahsun loves cars, he steals at nights and in the mornings he drives them back clean and well kept.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAli SürmeliSanem ÇelikBülent KayabasA chief police inspector's first hand witness testimony impeaches someone of an intelligent service crime. Some hitman who is officially dead, but concealed by an intelligence agency, has been involved in a political treason plot.
- 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.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerdar OrçinZeynep TokusEngin GünaydinMusa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful.
- 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.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuzaffer ÖzdemirMehmet Emin ToprakZuhal GencerAfter his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEbru CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNazan KesalDowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsYavuz BingölHatice AslanAhmet Rifat SungarA family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuhammet UzunerYilmaz ErdoganTaner BirselA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsHaluk BilginerMelisa SözenDemet AkbagA hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDogu DemirkolMurat CemcirBennu YildirimlarAn unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
- DirectorÖzer KiziltanStarsErkan CanMeray ÜlgenGüven KiraçA promotion brings a Muslim's relationship with God into question.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsMüjde ArSavas DinçelRafet El RomanThirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsNejat IslerHakan BoyavSerdar OrçinA group of college students are captured by another group at a bar and try to survive hours of intense violence. Adapted from a true crime.
- DirectorÇigdem VitrinelStarsErdal BesikçiogluSezin AkbasogullariErdinç GülenerBut Müzeyyen It's A Deep Passion.
- DirectorTolga ÖrnekStarsTaner BirselAli DüsenkalkarHalit ErgençIn the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsHaluk BilginerSebnem DönmezBeyazA story about the tragedy and the danger of humor and the humorist - A comedy as grand as the Lands of Rome...
- 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.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsNejat IslerSaadet AksoyUfuk BayraktarYusuf, who goes to town for his mother's funeral, meets his mother's friend Ayla. Ayla pressures Yusuf to fulfill her mother's vow.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsMelih SelcukBasak KöklükayaRiza AkinYusuff has a hard time defining his adulthood. In one hand, there are his mother's expectations while on the other hand his passions.
- DirectorSemih KaplanogluStarsBora AltasErdal BesikçiogluTülin ÖzenThe quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsKemal SunalSevda FerdagBilge ZobuA janitor/doorman and his family who came to "big city" Istanbul, with the hope to live a better life. With the different characters living in the building, the story evolves around the doorman and his tricky ways to skip work but make some extra cash on the side
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsIlyas SalmanMeral ZerenSener SenBilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money he needs.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsKemal SunalMüjde ArAdile NasitA poor peasant, Feyzo returns from military service dreaming about getting married to Gülo, the love of his life. However, he has to face many obstacles. According to tradition, a man has to pay a lot of money to the bride's father in order to get the bride's hand.
- DirectorAhmet UluçayStarsFizuli CaferofGülayse ErkocHasbiye GünayIn his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.
- DirectorMert BaykalStarsFerhan SensoyRasim ÖztekinAli ÇatalbasBased on a true event, the film tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization.
- DirectorDurul TaylanYagmur TaylanStarsEngin GünaydinBinnur KayaSettar TanriögenA reckless electrician, who is struggling with debt, decides to kill his wife and use her savings as a way out. His plan takes an unexpected twist when his loving wife, comes back from the dead to be with her family.
- DirectorTolga ÖrnekStarsNejat IslerYigit ÖzsenerAhu TürkpençeKaan and Mete, co-hosts of a mid 1990s radio show called Kaybedenler Kulübü (Losers' Club), struggle to deal with their daily lives after their show becomes an instant hit. Kaan meets Zeynep, the girl of his dreams, but their relationship comes under pressure as the show continues to stir controversy and attract fans from every segment of Istanbul society.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsAli AtayDemet EvgarDamla SönmezCemal is a man who lives with his father in Akhisar town of Manisa and works in his own barber shop. Cemal, who seems to be at his own pace, is in trouble, and even he doesn't know what's going on. On the other hand, in this town where almost everyone knows each other, seemingly ordinary people have extraordinary powers.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsHaluk BilginerÖzgü NamalKöksal EngürPeople's souls changes. Souls pass when someone dies.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsTansu BiçerEge TanmanAhmet Rifat SungarFive characters, trying to struggle for life, who are far from each other mentally, are connected with coincidences or desires. At first, Aydin falls in love with Mehtap working in a candy store just like Sevket, who falls in love with Dilek working in the same store. Both, disappointed, cannot impress their beloved ones.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsHaluk BilginerÖzgü NamalRagip SavasMusa Rami, who has become a legend with his struggle against the mafia, is a police officer at homicide division. One day prior to celebrating his 63rd birthday, with a surprise party arranged by his family, he finds out that he has cancer and two months left before his death.
- DirectorTolga KaraçelikStarsNadir SaribacakHakan KarsakKadir ÇermikWhen the crew of a bankrupt cargo ship gets stuck on board for months, isolation breeds pressures that sink the men into a sea of madness and terror.
- DirectorTolga KaraçelikStarsTolga TekinBartu KüçükçaglayanTugce AltugIn a Turkish village, three siblings who neither know each other nor anything about their late father, wait to bury his body. As they start to find out more about their father and each other, they also start to learn more about themselves.
- 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.
- DirectorMehmet Ada ÖztekinStarsAras Bulut IynemliNisa Sofiya AksongurDeniz BaysalA story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six year old daughter. Prison will be their home. Based on the 2013 Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013).
- DirectorAli AtayStarsAhmet Mümtaz TaylanAlper KulSarp ApakMermer Family lives a double life working at their family owned restaurant while being undercover assassins for an international organization. After their secret is revealed, this dysfunctional family needs to work together to survive.
- DirectorAli AtayStarsUgur YücelBinnur KayaCengiz BozkurtA serial killer keeps creating crime scenes that are ridiculously decorated with paints, markings and poems everywhere. The team begin solving the most mysterious murder case of the country, using the most wrong methods.
- DirectorYilmaz ErdoganStarsYilmaz ErdoganFarah Zeynep AbdullahSongül ÖdenPromising a visual feast of colors, costumes, light and locations, SOUR APPLES will have you simultaneously laughing and crying with its powerful acting performances as well as Yilmaz Erdogan's witty and memorable dialogues.
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsHaluk BilginerÖzcan DenizDemet AkbagThe tragicomic story of a young man who wants to be a famous singer
- DirectorEzel AkayStarsNurgül YesilçayGülse BirselHaluk BilginerHürmüz lives in Taskasap, Istanbul and has six husbands in a plot to solve her economic problems.
- 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.
- DirectorDurul TaylanYagmur TaylanStarsEngin GünaydinHaluk BilginerBinnur KayaThe story of Aziz through an existential crisis longing for his youth: he is not happy with his work nor his private life, which is hijacked by his sister and her family, who have been living with him for some time now.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsFikret HakanNurhan NurAliye RonaKaraagac was a small village and Bayram had an ordinary life with his mother Irazca, wife Hatice and children in there until Haceli take a place front of his house to make a new building.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsErol TasHülya KoçyigitUlvi DoganA farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsMüsfik KenterSema ÖzcanSüleyman TekcanA poor painter falls in love with a photograph of a woman while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsTarik AkanKahraman KiralHalit AkçatepeTwo poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsSener SenMüjde ArUgur YücelThis is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together. Sener is the son of a simple family in the village and he is in love with the village headman's daughter Mujde. Kaya is also in love with Mujde. With Kaya's misleading, Mujde's father is against her marriage with Sener and does everything to prevent it.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- 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.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenSevket AltugLarissa LitichevskayaMahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. Sulo brings a deaf and dumb girl named Kumru, to working the night club, but the club owner sends her away, she in he sees that Kumru is deaf and dumb.
- 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.
- DirectorSinan ÇetinStarsMetin AkpinarKemal SunalMeltem CumbulBased on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehdi is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsYilmaz GüneyGülsen AlniaçikTuncel KurtizWhen one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment.
- DirectorZeki ÖktenStarsTarik AkanMelike DemiragTuncel KurtizBecause of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep in far away Ankara.
- DirectorSerif GörenYilmaz GüneyStarsTarik AkanSerif SezerHalil ErgünWhen five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
- DirectorYilmaz GüneyStarsTuncel KurtizAyse Emel Mesci KurayMalik BerrichiTeens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions.
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsFarah Zeynep AbdullahErdal BesikçiogluTilbe SaranBergen, a valuable Turkish Arabesque singer, fights to stay afloat despite all the difficulties in her life.
- DirectorKetcheCan UlkayStarsTimuçin EsenZerrin TekindorAyça BingölA biopic about turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses, drama, childhood, his life.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsAli PoyrazogluCezmi BaskinSerra YilmazCops question six people about the rape and murder of a beautiful vagrant
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsSelahattin PasaliEkin KoçErol BabaogluEmre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsTamer LeventReha ÖzcanMehmet ÖzgürWhen some people from the other side of the mountain invade the territory of a farming family, the family head tries to unite the family and fight back. But then problems within the family start to appear as well.
- DirectorEmin AlperStarsMehmet ÖzgürBerkay AtesTülin ÖzenAmid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist informations, activities, and searching for bombs on trash cans.
- 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.