Haluk Bilginer
Also Known As: Nihat Haluk Bilginer, هالوک بیلگینر
Biography: Nihat Haluk Bilginer (born 5 June 1954) is a Turkish actor. In addition to his acting career in Turkey, he has also worked in the United Kingdom and remains best known for his role as Mehmet Osman in the television soap opera EastEnders during the 1980s. He has also starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor. He played a villainous guerrilla leader in the 1987 comedy film Ishtar and a Turkish Mafioso in the 2001 dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers. In 2018, he played Doctor Sartain in Halloween and in 2023 he starred as the lead in the TV series The Turkish Detective. For his role in Şahsiyet (2018), Bilginer won the Best Actor award at the 47th International Emmy Awards.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: İzmir, Turkey
Birthday: June 06, 1954
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Gender: Male
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Innocence
Overview: Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-10-24
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A Son of the Sun
Overview: Although it sounds good in theory, the miracle of becoming the Son of the Sun doesn't in practice turn out the way Fikri Şemsigil expects. His whole life depends on this one "big" day, but the consequences of this miracle disappoint Fikri as his life is turned upside down. To rid himself of this so-called miracle, Fikri decides to explore its source but there's still the big problem with the woman in the building across the street!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2008-11-06
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Sawdust Tales
Overview: Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land scarred by social decay and imminent war, a circus troupe awaits the arrival of the mysterious Rupert who is to deliver them from danger into a better world. The old and wise tightrope master keeps a watchful, loving eye on his young apprentice who, to his concern, could be drafted into the army at any moment. To make matters worse, the boy falls in love with a mermaid...
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Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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7 Husbands for Hurmuz
Overview: Remake of a well-known Turkish musical comedy loved by generations, the film is about the adventures of flirtatious Hurmuz in late 1800's Istanbul. Hurmuz who lives in Taskasap, Istanbul has six husbands in a plot to solve her economic problems. She arranges to meet each of her husbands one day of the week. However, suddenly, she falls in love with the town's doctor whom she meets at her husband's barber shop. The doctor falls in love with her too... But, one night all six husbands come home at the same time, and Hurmuz and Safinaz - Hurmuz's "go-between/accomplice/friend" - find themselves in a series of very awkward yet funny situations.
Genres: Comedy History Romance Music
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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Police
Overview: Musa 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. In these two months, will he be able to fight against the mafia that has intensified its threats against his family and simultaneously reveal his deep love to Funda, who is a university student 40 years younger than him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2007-02-16
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Robbery Alla Turca
Overview: With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared to be sold at an auction, two Turkish thieves from Germany are hired to steal valuable paintings from the art collection. Meanwhile, Seckin the fashioner designer - also the brother of Binnur, wife of the late billionaire - prepares for a fashion show in the same hotel that the robbery is going to take place. With the intervention of police, the beautiful model and her ex-lover, a hip papparazi, the two "Laz" mafia bosses seeking revenge, and the getaway driver straight out of Selcuk Erdem caricatures, the robbery is bound to go wrong. Prepare for a twist at the end as the plot unfolds towards a climactic ending...
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2005-02-10
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Killing the Shadows
Overview: Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and died by their sense of humour.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2006-02-17
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Five Minarets in New York
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-09
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Cars of the Revolution
Overview: In 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!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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W.E.
Overview: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-01
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7
Overview: A musical based on the works of William Shakespeare, describing the 7 ages in two acts.
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Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2011-06-07
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15 Minutes Over Low Heat
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2006-05-19
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Where's Firuze?
Overview: Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to promote Ferhat's debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always what they seem...
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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Çanakkale Çocukları
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2011-05-09
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Beneath the Hagia Sophia
Overview: A documentary about Hagia Sophia. But somewhere nobody seen or filmed before. Cisterns, wells and passages beneath the Hagia Sophia
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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The 80th Step
Overview: The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Elephants and Grass
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2000-10-22
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Rosewater
Overview: In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Antonius and Cleopatra
Overview: While enjoying his relationship with Cleopatra, Antony neglects his Roman responsibilities, angering Octavian Caesar. Cleopatra rejoices when Antony's wife dies, but Antony's desire for political advancement leads him to marry Caesar's sister. The fragile peace that emerges is short-lived, as Antony returns to Egypt, leading to full-scale war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2012-03-27
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Maria
Overview: Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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Winter Sleep
Overview: Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2014-06-13
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Ölürayak
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Beans
Overview: The duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax return forms to him. Taking the forms along with the lunchbox full of beans his mother cooked for him, he's underway. But he meets some weird people on the way, who also run into some other weird people, and things start to follow an unexpected path for everyone involved, bringing hillarious moments along.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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Half Moon Street
Overview: Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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Ishtar
Overview: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Güle Güle
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Two Women
Overview: A prostitute lays a rape charge against a politician and an unexpected friendship develops between her and the politician's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Nihavend Mucize
Overview: Directed by Atif Yilmaz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Ben-Hur
Overview: A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Genres: Action History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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The Ottoman Lieutenant
Overview: Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for the titular military man, Ismail, just as the war is about to erupt.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-28
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The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Overview: This is the glorious story of the Hittites - the most powerful people in the Near East of their time. Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, "The Hittites" brings the fascinating history of this mighty empire to life with expert interviews, stunning cinematography, dramatic reenactments, and visual effects. Highlights include a breathtaking recreation of the controversial battle of Kadesh that decimated the armies of Egypt's Pharaoh Ramesses II. Based on the actual words of the Hittites, deciphered from ancient clay tablets excavated in the 20th century, their story unfolds as beautifully as it written almost 3500 years earlier.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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The Bank of Broken Hearts
Overview: Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2017-04-13
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Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Overview: During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave for Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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The International
Overview: An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-03
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Cingöz Recai
Overview: An ex-thief returns for the revange of his father's murder makes an intelligent plan to reach the killer, a godfather named as Ghost. During his robbery operations, he plays with the police chief who is trying to stop him. In his final robbery, he finds something different than what he expects, something bigger.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
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Genres: Adventure Animation Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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Forget About Nick
Overview: Against the backdrop of New York's dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to live with her husband's ex-wife when he disappears without a trace.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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Shelter
Overview: Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Cloud in Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1991-02-08
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Halloween
Overview: Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-18
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The Last Schnitzel
Overview: The world is ending, but the president of The Grand Turkish Republic won’t let that happen until he has a chicken schnitzel. Gleefully silly science fiction satire with political bite.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2017-03-14
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Overview: Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady spy. Relying on his wits and her tantalizing skill at belly dancing, the daring duo works desperately to defuse the explosives placed in the city's vital water wells by the occupying Turks. The story culminates in a spectacular cavalry charge by the gallant soldiers of the Australian Lighthorsemen Regiment, whose very survival hinges on the success of Indy's mission.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-21
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Buffalo Soldiers
Overview: A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Genres: Drama Comedy War Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Noah Land
Overview: Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the enshrined Noah Tree which his father claims to have planted half a century ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2019-09-29
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Trendy
Overview: Richard, a 30 year-old teacher, moves to East London, where he discovers gentrification: hipsters meet cockneys and immigrants in a tense environment. Richard is looking for a fresh start. He explores the East End: its nights, its drugs, its people - But the big city is not a welcoming place. Faced with rejection and abuse, Richard's past demons resurface and let loose his violent instincts.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-25
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Overview: In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-24
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A Long Cold Winter
Overview: A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Winter Sleep" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 'Winter Sleep' had been shot in about 14 weeks in Cappadocia region of Anatolia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2014-12-31
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Stuck Apart
Overview: Entrenched in a midlife crisis, Aziz seeks solace from his mundane job, lonesome friends and rowdy family while pretending to have his act together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2021-01-08
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Last Harem
Overview: A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Leyla Everlasting
Overview: A resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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Disappeared
Overview: Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them have been working as nightclub dancers and not as the charity workers like Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounting paranoia....
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-19
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Amerikalı
Overview: Revenge story in Istanbul
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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