Turkish drama movies (2000-2020)
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- DirectorSeren YüceStarsBartu KüçükçaglayanSettar TanriögenNihal G. KoldasMertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working' as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night. There is no urgency for him to find a meaning to this emptiness.
- 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.
- DirectorPelin EsmerStarsNejat IslerMithat EsmerLaçin CeylanMithat Bey is a retired civil servant. Ali is doorman of his apartment. The two men belong to different worlds, unless they live in same apartment.
- 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.
- DirectorBen HopkinsStarsTayanç AyaydinGenco ErkalSenay AydinA Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
- DirectorAsli ÖzgeStarsFikret PortakalMurat TokgözUmut IlkerThe stories of three men working at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul are told by the original characters, in this mosaic depicting real persons exposing their lives and aspirations.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTurgay AydinArzu BazmanEsra Bezen BilginIn an apartment building where neighbors, friends, and family are living in close quarters, three male protagonists encounter three phases of manhood in Turkish society. Directors Reha Erdem's light touch and slyly amusing style do not miss the opportunity to illuminate some serious points in a strictly patriarchal society.
- DirectorCemal SanStarsSerdar OrçinBegüm BirgörenUfuk BayraktarAli is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. But everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the neighborhood. She begins to come by his shop to have some small talk with him and not surprisingly, he falls for her.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsÖner ErkanElit IscanÖykü KarayelThe already sufficiently complex relationships of a group of artists living in the Cihangir district of Istanbul have become a bit strange because of a hand-held camera in their lives.
- DirectorMahmut Fazil CoskunStarsNadir SaribacakGörkem YeltanMurat ErgunMuezzin Musa falls for his neighbor, the Catholic nurse Clara. The story gets even more exceptional when Musa meets Yakup, who turns out to be connected with Clara.
- DirectorIlksen BasarirStarsMert FiratSaadet AksoyLale MansurOnur, who has been deaf since birth, works as a librarian. His father had left him and his mother when he was seven, and Onur has always blamed himself for this. Although being able to speak, he has chosen to stay silent because of the pitying looks of the people around him.
- 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.
- DirectorAtalay TasdikenStarsElif BülbülMehmet BülbülMete DönmezerA brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
- DirectorUgur YücelStarsKenan ImirzaliogluOlgun SimsekBahri BeyatYazi Tura is the film of two stories taking place in 1999. Stories of two young men... One is "Ridvan the Devil", a young football player from Central Anatolia, Cappadocia / Goreme, and the "Cevher the Ghost", a young man who is living with his father in Istanbul. Both went to the army together, and fought in the Eastern Anatolia.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorIlksen BasarirStarsMert FiratNergis ÖztürkZeynep OralErdem and Sevil live in a small town with their two kids, Edip and Sevgi, until they are forced to move to Istanbul to look after Sevil's mother who has become paralyzed. Ten years later, Edip is away at boarding school, disconnected from family life. Erdem still has the same dream: to become a successful writer.
- DirectorÖzgür DoganOrhan EskiköyStarsEmre AydinRojda HuzVehip HuzOne year in the life of a Turkish teacher, teaching the Turkish language to Kurdish children in a remote village in Turkey. The children can't speak Turkish, the teacher can't speak Kurdish and is forced to become an exile in his own country. On the Way to School is a film about a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state.
- DirectorÖzer KiziltanStarsErkan CanMeray ÜlgenGüven KiraçA promotion brings a Muslim's relationship with God into question.
- DirectorMurat DüzgünogluStarsTansu BiçerVuslat SaraçogluEsra KizildoganBahadir, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions.
- DirectorInan TemelkuranStarsKadir ÇermikÖner ErkanDamla SönmezA story from Bornova, a neighborhood in Izmir. Two good friends Salih and Hakan spend their days in front of a grocery store waiting for a chance to do something with their lives.
- 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.
- DirectorOnur ÜnlüStarsSerhan ErgörenSerkan KeskinAhmet ÇevikThere is a murder while at prayer. Selman Bulut, the imam of mosque, starts to investigate the murder and faces with people in the neighborhood.
- DirectorAli AtayStarsErtan SabanSerkan KeskinFunda EryigitSo begins an entertaining road story where we witness two brothers with different cultural backgrounds, who don't even know each other, have similarities, differences and even their fights.
- DirectorRasit ÇelikezerStarsSelen UçerSerdar OrçinYusuf Berkan DemirbagA young married couple live happily in Istanbul, but their decision to illegally procure a child threatens their future together.
- DirectorVuslat SaraçogluStarsBeyti EnginFeridun KoçSerdar OrçinA print shop worker, Tufan, takes in a neighbor with emphysema and helps his daughter take care of a wounded bird, but tensions develop at his economically struggling business and strains develop because of his house guest with his marriage.
- DirectorSerhat KaraaslanStarsBerkay AtesSaadet AksoyIpek TürktanIn the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the letters, in which appears Selma, an inmate's wife. More than an inspiration, she becomes an obsession for Zakir.
- DirectorÖzcan AlperStarsOnur SaylakMegi KobaladzeSerkan KeskinA man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
- DirectorOnur SaylakStarsAhmet Mümtaz TaylanHayat Van EckTurgut TuncalpGaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing.
- 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.
- 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.