Kemal Sunal
Also Known As: Ali Kemal Sunal, Ali Sunal's father, کمال سونال
Biography: Born in 1944 Istanbul, Turkey. Graduated from Vefa High School, Fatih, Istanbul. Sunal acted in many popular films, although he began his artistic career in the theater. His first play was called, "Unwilling Doctor" and he later worked at the Devekusu Kabare Theatre with Ulvi Uraz. Although Sunal had minor roles at first, after 1973 he was highly acclaimed for his roles in movies with large casts. He won the Antalya Film Festival's Golden Orange Award in 1977. He contributed greatly to Turkish cinema with his successful acting, including his roles in such movies as "Hababam Sinifi" (Outrageous Class), "Kapicilar Krali" (King of Janitors), "Salako" (Moron), "Inek Saban" (Shaban the Cow) and "Davaro". Sunal's latest role was in Sinan Cetin's border comedy "Propaganda"(1999). He also made a TV commercial. Kemal Sunal died suddenly of a heart attack on July 3 at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. he had just boarded the plane for Trabzon, where he was to take part in the filming of director Ali Ozgenturk's "Balalaika" (2000). His death caused a wave of sorrow across Turkey. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and Minister of Culture Istemihan Talay and other politicians sent messages of condolence expressing their sorrow.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: İstanbul, Türkiye
Birthday: November 11, 1944
Deathday: July 03, 2000
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Chaos Class Is on Vacation
Overview: Lazy, uneducated male students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. Because of the financial crisis, the headmaster agrees to enroll female students. As the new students try to fit in, a struggle between both parties start, trying to prank the other part away. The prank war continues until PE-Teacher decides to take the class out on a trip for a becoming scouts.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1977-02-01
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The Foster Brothers
Overview: Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamettin's aide Ramazan, Saban who is foster son of Hüsamettin's sister and Bayram who is married to Hüsamettin's niece stays at Hüsamettin's family residence. Hüsamettin's sister thinks Ramazan is her foster son Saban when she realizes her mistake she introduces Ramazan to her brother as her son in law Bayram since she was afraid of Hüsamettin's short-tempered character. Things get complicated when real Saban and Bayram come to the residence. Now Saban has to be Ramazan and Bayram has to be Saban. Meanwhile, a gulyabani (a ghoul from Turkish folklore) haunts the residence.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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The Chaos Class Is Waking Up
Overview: A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1976-11-20
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class
Overview: A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1975-04-15
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Saban, Son of Saban
Overview: Clumsy soldiers Şaban and Ramazan fall for a singer-dancer and accidentally become secret policemen tracking down a missing diamond.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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Davaro
Overview: Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get married but he doesn't want to kill so they stage a fake death with Sulo and after that his luck runs out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1981-11-09
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Feyzo, The Polite One
Overview: To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Tosun Pasha
Overview: Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, who has a beautiful young daughter, Leyla. Both families try to arrange a marriage between a man from their family and Leyla, so that Daver Bey will be inclined to give the green valley to his "relatives". Tellioglus, who are behind in the race, desperately find a final solution: They will fake their idiotic butler, Saban, as the highest ranked Ottoman soldier in Egypt: Tosun Pasha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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Köşeyi Dönen Adam
Overview: Adem is working as a waiter and he gets fired at that moment he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle in USA. Women start to throw themselves at him, people try to use him, everyone acts nicer to him while he is try to manage his new life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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King of the Doormen
Overview: Seyit, a resourceful doorman of a middle class apartment in Istanbul, finds himself in a struggle for power when the new superintendent decides to crack down on his slack attitude.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Bıçkın
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-04-04
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Bekçiler Kralı
Overview: The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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My Dear Brother
Overview: Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Boynu Bükük Küheylan
Overview: With his 2 wives Kuheylan started as a doorkeeper in an apartment after immigrating from small town to city. While Kuheylan was dreaming to be rich, his wives got impressed under city culture and joined their forses agains their husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Blue Bead
Overview: After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Çarıklı Milyoner
Overview: Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The King of the Street Cleaners
Overview: Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his superior officer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1977-08-09
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100 Numaralı Adam
Overview: A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advertise poor quality products that no one buys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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Atla Gel Şaban
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Meraklı Köfteci
Overview: Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1976-12-01
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Propaganda
Overview: Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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Katma Değer Şaban
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Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Fake Gangster
Overview: Kemal, unaware that his father is a mafia boss, sells cotton candy at train stations. After his father is killed, his inheritance is divided. Kemal begins visiting the establishments of Istanbul's most notorious thugs one by one to reclaim his father's inheritance, and gradually gains a reputation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Kanlı Nigar
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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The Chaos Class
Overview: Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. When a new and obviously strict headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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From the Village to the City
Overview: After they find buried treasure, four hapless brothers from the countryside discover that changing their fortunes will take more than gold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Hanzo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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Korkusuz Korkak
Overview: He is a civil servant in the bland state office. His whole life changes when his reports get mixed up in the hospital and he gets news that he's going to die very soon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Şark Bülbülü
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Sosyete Şaban
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Gerzek Şaban
Overview: People mistake a naive extra for his lookalike gangster and cause funny events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Şaban Pabucu Yarım
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Tokatçı
Overview: A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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Troublemaker Hüsnü
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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Güllü Geliyor Güllü
Overview: Güllü and the goddess Taka Nuri come to Istanbul to avenge a bloodshed. Güllü is a Black Sea girl. Nasi is a rich young man who grew up in the same village as Güllü. Nuri is given a gun in his circumcision wedding. The accidental bullet hits a relative of Güllü and thus starts a blood feud.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Yearning
Overview: The soft spot in her heart for her composer remains unfilled of a star performer, after she's given a red handkerchief as a farewell. She must make her final decision despite a hearing loss risking her promising career.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Oh Olsun
Overview: A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor of his factory, where one of them falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Yalancı Yarim
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Salak Milyoner
Overview: The funny treasure hunt of 4 rural brothers in Istanbul, after the recent death of their father who left them a treasure map as heritage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Sweet Talker
Overview: Tarik is the best scorer basketball player of his team and is very popular. One day he comes to a village with his team to do entreman. There, he met the village teacher, Emine. He loves her very much and they get married immediately. But, some days after he had to return to istanbul. He wants Emine to go to istanbul with him but she says that she can't leave the village and her students.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Salako
Overview: A man falls hopelessly in love with a village leader's daughter, who herself has feelings for an outlaw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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Windfall
Overview: This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elements -like most Kemal Sunal films- but generally tells its story as well. The story is familiar to Turkish audience: A young man loves young girl. In most Turkish love films one of the partners is rich or poor according to the other but in this movie both sides are poor and they have many difficulties to reach happy end. In my opinion, these kind of movies always gives hope to people to get over it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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The Confused Groom
Overview: While Serpil pretends to be a religious village girl to his rich uncle she gets cought at an erotic party. Her uncle sees what she actually is than he forces her to marry simpleton Apti or she and her family cannot inherit his fortune.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Sakar Şakir
Overview: Shakir, who lives in Kayseri, has a great legacy from his uncle who died in Istanbul. His uncle sends a telegram to Kayseri and dies before seeing Shakir, but a relative who does not want to share the legacy begins to make plans to eliminate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1977-11-01
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İbo ile Güllüşah
Overview: A poor villager who cannot marry the girl he loves because he cannot afford a bride-price, follows her to Istanbul. But he is unable to raise the money and appear in front of his father. Meanwhile, his friendship with a little girl he meets by chance complicates everything. Seeking attention from her family, the girl tells the young man to kidnap her for ransom. In this way, both she will test whether she is loved or not, and the poor boy will get the girl he loves and wants to marry thanks to the ransom. But things turn into a tangle in an instant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Avanak Apti
Overview: Apti is a simple minded village man and he believes what is happening around him by chance is actually his doing. He becomes famous by beating a feared man and everyone starts to respect him than he meets a singer and an action-love story starts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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Zübük
Overview: This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-09-11
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Zehir Hafiye
Overview: The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1989-01-15
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Umudumuz Şaban
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Trickster
Overview: Rıfkı, who lives in Germany, returns to his village, which he left years ago, to sell the properties inherited from his late father. A few coincidences that occur upon his arrival in the village lead to his name being associated with the 'Saint' title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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İnek Şaban
Overview: A poor grocery owner becomes a popular goalkeeper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Postacı
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Dokunmayın Şabanıma
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Ortadirek Şaban
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-03-01
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Kiracı
Overview: Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his landlord tells him to look for another house or raise the rent money.He finds a house by the help of Sühandan whom he works together and in love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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Stubborn
Overview: While the dam project will be expropriated, Yellow poplar and Long poplar villages are included in the expropriation. Although this is supposed to protect the confidentiality, a member of the commission sells this information to a holding company and someone in that holding company sells what they heard to another holding company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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The Handsome
Overview: Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Davacı
Overview: It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because some sheep ate a few cabbages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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En Büyük Şaban
Overview: A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-02-21
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Japon İşi
Overview: Veysel loves a singer named Basak. But she doesn’t love him back. One day Veysel saves the life of a Japanese tourist. Later, the tourist sends a gift to Veysel from Japan. The gift is a robot that looks exactly like the singer he loves, Basak.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1987-11-29
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Şendul Şaban
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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Sevimli Hırsız
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Polizei
Overview: A movie about the lifestyles of Turkish people who are living in Germany.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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Henpecked
Overview: Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and funny events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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Tarzan Rıfkı
Overview: A story about a poor and guilt guy who is being used by mafia for dirty work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-03-12
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Şabaniye
Overview: A poet, who works as a waiter to make ends meet, postures as a female singer to end a blood feud between two families.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1984-06-02
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İyi Aile Çocuğu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Uyanık Gazeteci
Overview: A comedy of a journalist who feigns war news and makes his agency strand.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Doktor Civanım
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Expat Şaban
Overview: Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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Queer World
Overview: Living in an Ankara shantytown, Mehmet plays the clarinet at a nightclub to support his family. When their home is sold to a contractor by his brother-in-law, the gap between Mehmet’s dreams and reality significantly grows.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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The Top Scorer
Overview: Sait, who is in love with Sevim, a football enthusiast, starts playing football to catch her attention. When Sevim mocks him, Sait gets angry and decides to become a football player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Yoksul
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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Koltuk Belası
Overview: Political satire comedy featuring the memories of a red leather chair. He is aware that no matter who the next governor will be, more corrupted will the system get. But only until the last governor who decides to set him on fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-11-01
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Keriz
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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Deli Deli Küpeli
Overview: Two schizophrenic patients escape from a mental asylum supposing they were mistakenly quarantined. When they arrive at a country village, the villagers assume one is a sheriff and the other is a local magistrate.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Varyemez
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Talih Kuşu
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Laughing Man
Overview: Yusuf Şaplak is a seemingly ordinary man who has a condition where he can't stop laughing. An idealist young doctor decides to cure him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-01-26
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The Teacher
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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Abuk Sabuk Bir Film
Overview: A misunderstood villager seeks remedy to protect his late father's settlement in post-modern times, when all of his wicked and proud neighbors lay a snare under each other. The villager soon finds himself trapped in a sociopathic crisis.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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Poor
Overview: Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.
Genres: Drama Family Romance Comedy
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1986-10-28
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