Menderes Samancılar
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Adana, Türkiye
Adult: No
Birthday: May 01, 1954
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Male
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What's Fatmagül's Fault
Overview: Story of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Ah Nalan Ah
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Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Blue Exile
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1993-05-27
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Yaban
Overview: Ahmet Celal, who was injured during the war, is in great pain and a young woman named Emine helps him and saves him and heals him. A stormy love breaks out in those scenes and the intrigued life of that love is worked out.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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On Fertile Lands
Overview: The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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Ölüm Savaşı
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Geçim Otobüsü
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-09-03
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Bekçi
Overview: In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a consequence he is often the unwitting and unknowing brunt of jokes. His wife and daughters are painfully aware of his shortcomings, but they generally suffer in silence. One of the daughters ends up working in the factory to help the family out financially, and when Murtaza finds her sleeping on the job one night he hits her so hard she eventually dies from the blow. Though that is not the end of it, by any means.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-01-13
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Yedi Uyuyanlar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-04-02
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Güneşli Bataklık
Overview: Workers' struggle for justice triggers the political tensions of the period.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-06-29
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Riza
Overview: Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Piano Piano Kid
Overview: In 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1991-10-25
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Watchtower
Overview: Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2012-10-16
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Robert's Movie
Overview: Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives him the erotic charge of his life. He begins taking film of their bedroom encounters and says some pretty excessive things about how marvelous she is to him. Meanwhile, his local friends don't trust or like him enough to help him stay in Istanbul, and it seems that he will have to continue onward in his journey to safety.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Halkalı Köle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Kış Çiçeği
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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Children of Secret
Overview: Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang which Cemil takes refuge in Haydarpasa, tries to send him back to his home by putting his pocket money. While the gang gather money for Cemil, they, at the same time, suffer from harsh living conditions. In the mean time Cemil's mother Münevver comes to Istanbul in the hope of finding her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2002-12-20
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Bu Talihimin Canına Okuyacağım
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Siyabend and Xece
Overview: The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ku
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Seyyid
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Sıcak Tatlı Yaz
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Derdim Dünyadan Büyük
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-04-10
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Dil Yarası
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-04-16
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Gelincik Tarlası
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
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Time of Love
Overview: Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Bir Avuç Gökyüzü
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Zamansızlar
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Kara Çarşaflı Gelin
Overview: In "The Bride with the Black Veil" (1975), director Süreyya Duru continues to focus on social issues, exposing problems of the peasants and feodal relations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Kaledeki Yalnızlık
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Memories of the Wind
Overview: At the times of World War II, accomplished painter and translator Aram flees Istanbul due to political offenses. When he is trapped at the USSR-Georgia borders, his flight turns into a remembrance of things past...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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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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Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky?
Overview: Bahadır, 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-04-04
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The Yellow Mercedes
Overview: The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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Kaşık Düşmanı
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Cheery blossom time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Zıkkımın Kökü
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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Wife as Gramophone
Overview: In the 1930s in Konya, Turkey, the famous belly dancer Cemile dreams of going to the big city. Murat falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-10-06
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A Long Night
Overview: The story of a young woman who abandoned her husband and ran away with the man she had been in love with since her childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Blackout Night
Overview: In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his reunion with his wife, who grows testy from the restrictions that hiding him impose on her. Eventually he turns himself in, and while in prison, suffers some torture. All the same, he endures with the flame of his spirit undiminished.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Eskici ve Oğulları
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Kanal
Overview: Directed by Erden Kiral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Asmalı Konak: Hayat
Overview: Bahar (Nurgül Yeşilçay) is sent to New York because a serious illness. Treated in hospital Seymen Aga (Özcan Deniz) and Bahar try together to overcome this disease. Seymen Aga trying to be as strong as possible and not to give up. In Kapadokya, where their family and friends, they are waiting for the good news from the U.S..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2003-10-16
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Toprağın Çocukları
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Les clients d'Avrenos
Overview: Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of the French Embassy who recently died. It is Lélia, the blonde, who asked her to come. She wants to understand the ties that bound them both to Jonsac, to understand the strange couple that this desperate dandy formed with Nouchi, the ex-Bulgarian bar girl. Lélia, the middle-class woman from Istanbul, wants to understand at last, ten years after the tragedy that has left her confined to a wheelchair for life...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-20
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Hıdır
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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I Saw the Sun
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
Overview: In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-23
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My Father's Wings
Overview: Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor. This self-assured debut contemplates the dignity of the individual within the context of modern Turkish society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Babaların Babası
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-03-10
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He's Convict Now
Overview: Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2005-04-14
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Whistle If You Come Back
Overview: A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Mist
Overview: Two Turkish brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the political fence. When one of the brothers is murdered, the boys' father suspects that his surviving son was instrumental in the killing. Celebrated film director Elia Kazan returns to his acting roots in a key supporting role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Cold Nights
Overview: Tomix, Tam-Tam and Mützen-Jacky are children of the street earning their living with music. They travel from one town to the other with their instruments to perform in the streets and in restaurants. Making music is the only thing they have ever learned. They are led by old Mahmud, an alcoholic. He is the one who concludes the business and takes in the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1996-05-03
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Tight Dress
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-12-28
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72. Koğuş
Overview: A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-11-03
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Bu Şehrin Geceleri
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Darbe
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Güneşe Köprü
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-04-02
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Sevdan Öldürdü Beni
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-04-07
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Gün Akşam Oldu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-04-05
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Ayrı Dünyalar
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-04-11
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Omar and Us
Overview: Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2019-10-28
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Fırat'ın Cinleri
Overview: The lives of people crushed by the feudal landowner system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Il derviscio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Chance or Coincidence
Overview: Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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İçimdeki İnsan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2015-03-27
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Opening the Door
Overview: Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, whom they lost twenty-five years ago. All the suffering of the family is refreshed. Yakup and Şemsa go to Mardin with their grandchildren, Nardin, who do not want to leave them alone. This trip will be the beginning of all their personal journeys. When the craftsman Yakup, who had not come for years, abandoned his village and saw his house looted; He will go after his house door. On his journey of finding the door, he will be accompanied by her granddaughter Nardin and the smuggler Remzi.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2019-09-23
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9,75
Overview: During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the chaotic days of Gezi Park protests in Istanbul start, Ahmet learns he has a brain tumor. Just as the lines between truth and fiction, the dream and the reality start to get blurred for him, he meets Serap; the love of his life. But time is ticking and his painful past weighs down on him every day, suffocating him with the same question: Who is the child that plays hide and seek with him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Der gelbe Satin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Ayşe
Overview: Ayşe (47) lives with her brother Rıdvan (38), who has down syndrome, on the outer edge of the ever-growing Istanbul, where the face has begun to change. Their father has been waiting for death in a hospital for a long time. When Ayşe receives a marriage proposal from an international truck driver who stops by the gas station where she works, she makes a choice between her destiny and her dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2024-10-06
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Kuşku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
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All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Overview: Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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