Yılmaz Güney
Also Known As: Çirkin Kral, Йылмаз Гюней, یەڵماز گیونەی
Biography: Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or with the film 'Yol' he co-produced with Şerif Gören at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government because of his portrayals of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Adana, Turkey
Adult: No
Deathday: September 09, 1984
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Torpido Yılmaz
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Legend of the Ugly King
Overview: Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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We Called Him the Ugly King
Overview: A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Kahreden Kurşun
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Gönül Kuşu
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Mor Defter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Hungry Wolves
Overview: Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife. One day he saves a woman from the hands of bandits…
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Çirkin ve Cesur
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Bullets Won't Touch Me
Overview: Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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Kurbanlık Katil
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Elegy
Overview: Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Law of the Border
Overview: In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.
Genres: Crime Drama Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-10-04
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Ten Fearless Men
Overview: The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Poor
Overview: The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have no one, no jobs... Apart from Haci and Arap, everything will be the same for Abuzer, who doesn't know where to go. He will still be alone, starving on the streets of the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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The Fallow Deer
Overview: During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time later, when Aga goes back to marry her, he instructs his men to eliminate the obstacle, namely Halil (Yilmaz Güney)...
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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This Land's Children
Overview: During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Red River, Black Sheep
Overview: The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to make his thirsty sheep cross the river without drinking from the water then the marriage will be allowed.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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I Live When I Die
Overview: Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz Güney confirms his acting qualities with a pathetic composition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Both Were Brave
Overview: "İkisi de Cesurdu" (Both Were Brave) produced in 1963, tells the story of a gang leader in exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cv
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Sayılı Kabadayılar
Overview: A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for Osman (Yilmaz Güney), lying in prison for murder, belongs to those who are expected to benefit from this amnesty law...
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Pain
Overview: Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali killed the young Avanos’ son Yasin and went to prison for 15 years. The film starts with Ali being released and returning to the village…
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Friend
Overview: After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin. Politically committed, he aspires to be useful to his country and more particularly to the forsaken rural world. The two former friends meet again. Due to the influence of Azem, Ahmed gradually becomes aware that his life is a failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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The Father
Overview: "Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Kozanoğlu
Overview: Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation, Hüseyin takes an oath to avenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-02
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İnce Memed Vuruldu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney
Overview: In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-01-31
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Şeytan Kayaları
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Prangasız Mahkumlar
Overview: Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order established by a landowner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Silahların Kanunu
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Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Autour du mur
Overview: One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the Wall on the injustices of the military regime in Turkey and at the same time, director Patrick Blossier began shooting this documentary on the techniques used by Guney to elicit the best performances from his actors. Guney himself comes across as often angry and impatient; he slaps a young actor so as to make him cry for a scene and shows about as much warmth as December in Moscow. Unfortunately, none of this contributes to garnering sympathy for his anti-military cause.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-26
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Live Target
Overview: An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played by Yilmaz Guney has to take the revenge for his daughter.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Hope
Overview: After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-05-25
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Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause
Overview: A documentary that explore the films and eventful life of the Kurdish director, actor, writer and revolutionary Yilmaz Güney, who achieved international fame by films like Yol (Palm d'Or, 1982) and Sürü (Golden Leopard, 1978). Güney was at constant odds with the Turkish government over the portrayal of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-07
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The Ugly King
Overview: The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-06-16
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Son Kızgın Adam
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Bride of the Earth
Overview: In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatolian village who returns his affection. Seyyit Han postpones their marriage so that he can make his fortune elsewhere and return to the village to claim his "bride of the earth." During his prolonged absence, a rich landowner begins to woo the lonely woman, and her brother, intent upon making this propitious wedding happen, spreads the rumor that Seyyit Han has died.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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Yedi Belalılar
Overview: The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.
Genres: Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Zeyno
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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The Hopeless Ones
Overview: O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equally huge false eyelashes not because he is a bad-ass outlaw that she will have to worry about reading his obituary every day. They can not consummate their passions because... now brace yourself, because Firat's badman partners won't allow him (Firat is the top crime dog) to have a girl friend.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-06-22
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Tehlikeli Adam
Overview: Turkish thriller inspired by PSYCHO.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-07-17
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Kovboy Ali
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Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Azrail Benim
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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My Name Is Kerim
Overview: The story of an undercover cop living with his son.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Aslan Bey
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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Horse, Woman and Gun
Overview: Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Belanın Yedi Türlüsü
Overview: The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the need for revenge, he ventures into Istanbul’s murky underbelly, where danger lurks at every turn and allegiances shift unpredictably. His relentless pursuit of retribution cuts through a city riddled with corruption and hardship, marking each step as both a struggle and a testament to survival.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1969-04-03
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Beyoğlu Canavarı
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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Balatlı Arif
Overview: Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his father's horse carriage driver. Gülşen, the long-time girlfriend of Arif, who is studying at medical school, waits for the day when school ends and they get married. However, Arif falls in love with Çiğdem, the daughter of a rich family, whom he met at school. Caught between two different lives, Arif is forced to make a choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Nuri the Flea
Overview: Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in illegal activities again and ends up at the police station. But he somehow escapes punishment. Meanwhile, Hacıhüsrevli Melahat, a notorious pickpocket, comes to the neighborhood where Pire Nuri lives. Hearing this, Pire Nuri goes after Melahat to attract her to his side. However, this time, things don't go as planned. (Ayşe Pay)
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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Kan Su Gibi Akacak
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Genres: Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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Eşrefpaşalı
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-04-03
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Büyük Cellatlar
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Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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Bin Defa Ölürüm
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1969-04-05
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Silah ve Namus
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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The Profiteers
Overview: The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Dağların Oğlu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Yiğit Yaralı Olur
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Tomorrow is The Last Day
Overview: Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police are still suspicious about them. While police are waiting for their mistake, their enemies are determined to give them two choices: work for us or die!
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films
Overview: A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison and broke out of jail to edit "Yol". The film includes the last interview Guney did before his death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası
Overview: Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Sezercik Yavrum Benim
Overview: A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not aware that the strange he has met is actually his father who abandoned him and his mother years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-02-02
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An Ugly Man
Overview: "A Bad Man" - Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who collects tribute from their business. Bino is paid by the weight of his victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Kuduz Recep
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Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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İnce Cumali
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Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Banus, the Horse Thief
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Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Fugitives
Overview: Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely cute and innocent girl and Osman.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-03-01
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Private Osman
Overview: A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1970-06-16
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Tütün Zamanı
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Çirkin Kral Affetmez
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Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Tatlı Bela
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Sokakta Kan Vardı
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü
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Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Kamalı Zeybek
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Krallar Kralı
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Kara Şahin
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Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Sahtekar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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Kibar Haydut
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1966-05-10
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The Warning
Overview: The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Room 666
Overview: During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-02
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Üçünüzü de mıhlarım
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Yılmaz Güney: Adana-Paris
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1995-12-12
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Çifte Tabancalı Kabadayı
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Genres: Action
Original Language: tr
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