The story of a man who learns that his friend, whom he loves more than his life, is the enemy he was looking for to kill.
A woman is searching for a face in photographs taken by a photographer. The face she hopes to meet one day belongs to a watch repairman, but the shop has long since closed.
Cemil is a shy young man who works behind the scenes in a shopping mall. He wants to be "the employee of the month" badly but he can't. That's when he rebels in a way that shocks everyone.
Workers' struggle for justice triggers the political tensions of the period.
Hüseyin is a young man who lives with his grandfather and grandmother in a village in Thracian Turkey. The two great loves of his life are his clarinet and Müjgan, a nurse. Although Hüseyin is content with his life, with his music and dreams of Mügan, due to an unexpected development he leaves his village. He ends up in Istanbul where he finds support first in his clarinet and then in the friendship of the singer Firuzan. Firuzan is a popular nightclub performer who is eagerly working on an album as she leads a colorful but complicated life. When Firuzan meets Huseyin, the course of events gives away to a hilarious adventure.
Life is tough for Geyikli clarinetist Huseyin Badem after marrying his true love, Mujgan. He must grab every opportunity that comes his way to take care of his expanding family, even if it means playing clarinet by night for dingy clubs in the area.
The film tells the story of Temel, who tries to overcome an impossible task with his friends in order to be with the girl he loves.
Aykut moves to a new private school in the middle of the year with his father, who is the principal. There are two separate groups between girls and boys at the school, which Aykut's father Nurettin tries to keep in line. The girls' group is 'Adab-ı Muaşeret' and the boys' group is 'Mokokolar'. Groups where not everyone is accepted are feuding mischievously among each other. A love affair begins between Aykut and Zeynep, the leader of 'Adab-ı Muaşeret', but they both have reasons to keep this love secret.
A clarinetist from a village in Turkey's Thracian region tries to reach his fiancé, who works as a nurse in a village near Çanakkale, to give her a ring to win back her heart.
The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everything starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long drought and provocations of Kekec Salman (big brother of Kiraz), the peasants steal the crops and run away to Istanbul. Without the peasants and crops, Agha is also forced to sell the village and move to Istanbul. But he cannot keep up with the big city life and consumes all his money and belongings. Agha's wife and relatives leave him during this downfall.
Three friends, Ediz, Tarık, and Kadir, who perform at the Yeşilçam Stage, are struggling financially because no one comes to see their plays. They team up with the unlucky director Ertem and his assistant Ayşen to form a new group called Genç Kafa (Young Mind) and start meeting with TV channels to pitch their demo for a new TV series. One of the channels they approached shows serious interest in their project. However, the friends, who were waiting for the news of the series' acceptance, are shocked to learn that the channel has taken their series idea and filmed it with another team. They seek legal recourse to assert their rights, but end up losing what they had in the process. The Yeşilçam Stage, which was the lifeblood of Savaş Usta and where they had spent their lives, also slips from their grasp. To save the stage and escape the dead-end they find themselves in, they embark on a rather entertaining adventure.
El Yazısı follows three stories on a day when the town is welcoming its very first foreign English teacher. As an accidental tourist is mistaken for her, the wind of change starts to blow.
Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolated province, virtually an exile since there is no library in the village. The family is warmly welcome, but these are the years of political anarchy and leftist/rightist clashes in big cities and the youth of the village inevitably follow the tides. They arrive in Vizontele, just as the situation is becoming really absurd. Guner brings wisdom; his daughter Tuba brings beauty, innocence and love. Some like the Mayor, Nazmi Dogan and crazy Emin appreciate these things but they are in the minority and confusion continues to reign. The story is based on the memories of writer-director Yılmaz Erdoğan of the last summer of his childhood in Hakkâri, Turkey in 1980.
Ömer, who maintains a traditional family life at the expense of his father, cheats on his wife with a singer. Away from his family day by day, Ömer meets the theater actor Ipek one day. This acquaintance soon leads to a forbidden love between Ömer and Ipek.
A victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.
Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The lonely woman, whose only existence is her small room, spends all her time in this old room, dreaming and fantasising about her ex-lover.
The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.
International terrorist Deşifre manages the finances of terrorist groups around the world. One day, Deşifre steals a virus from the Pentagon and completes the chemical weapon he has been working on. He carries out his plan at the NATO summit in Turkey by injecting the virus into water bottles. The virus causes people to mutate, with some delegates turning into women, others into trees, and so on. The agents tasked with uncovering the truth are K9, who is as clumsy as he is successful, and his beautiful and sexy partner, Agent Ayşe Kosovalı. This adventure, filled with clumsiness and absurdity, is a first for Turkey and even unique in European cinema.
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Funny experiences of the townspeople who want to change the current mayor in the elections.
Uğur and Barış are childhood friends. They run a DVD store opened by Barış's uncle Engin, who is a motorcycle manufacturer. Uğur is in love with Leyla, Barış's cousin and Engin's sister. Leyla is not indifferent to Uğur either; they occasionally meet in secret without her brother's knowledge. Leyla's greatest wish is to escape her brother's control and start a new life with Uğur. However, Uğur is not much help to Leyla in this endeavor. How can he face Engin and ask for Leyla's hand in marriage? He hasn't even managed to get his own life in order. The solution comes from Barış. They will shoot a film starring Uğur and Leyla. However, when they watch what they have filmed, they realize that this task is not as easy as they thought. While seeking help, they come across a director.
“Anlatacaklarım var! Vaaz vermek değil niyetim, duyduğumu söylemek. Söylemeye değer şeyler duyuyorum zira. Belki hayatı daha yaşanır kılmak için ya da belki sade, ama sade anlatmak için... Sen anlat dedi Tanrı bana, anlaşılsın diye değil, hiçbir mükafat istemeden anlat... Çünkü bir mükafattır artık bir anlatıcıya doğru düzgün anlaşılmak! Sen anlat dedi... Sen sade anlat! Umudu hatırlatsın diye umutsuzluğu, çareye yol açsın diye çaresizliği anlat... Ders verme dedi kimseye, çünkü hoca denmez öğrenmesini bitirene. Çırakları olan bir çıraktır usta, olsa olsa... Sen anlat dedi bana Tanrı, sen sade anlat.... “ Yılmaz Erdoğan, “Bana Bir Şeyhler Oluyor” oyununun kahramanı Hilmi Duran’a söylettiği bu sözlerle, yazar olarak neden böyle bir oyun yazmak zorunda kaldığını açıklamakla kalmıyor, aynı zamanda kahramanının da kimliğini ele veriyor.
A depiction of social satire, Talihli Amele [The Lucky Worker] (1980) shows the transformation of a young man who immigrated to Istanbul to provide a better life for his family. With hopes to become a successful mason, he suddenly finds himself the star of a TV commercial. Drawing attention to the rising consumerism culture and its effects on individuals in Turkey, the film was allowed to be shown with a State Council verdict.
'Tek Maç' Erdem, pirate movie seller Settar, mugger Şahin, painter Nadir, Bekir Ali, Levent, and Genco are all cellmates with different personalities who have been imprisoned for different crimes. Each of these inmates, who are all in their own worlds, live according to their own rules. One day, a new and sexy warden named Kamuran is assigned to the prison. Warden Kamuran orders a play to be performed in the cell block. The inmates, who come together for a common purpose through this plan, do not realize that they are part of a play that will lead to their own downfall!
Yüksel güvercin dreams about becoming a pilot, but is stuck as a bus driver. When the father of his true love does not allow him to marry due to his poor prospects, he starts flight training with a crazy Korean War veteran.
Randıman tells the story of a young woman who travels to Ordu to prepare a presentation. Filiz, a young woman, works at an advertising company owned by a man named Ferhat. Ferhat, who is trying to keep his clients, asks Filiz to prepare a good presentation about chocolate. The young woman decides to start her research in Ordu, the land of hazelnuts and the place where she spent her childhood. While in Ordu, Filiz is overwhelmed with research, but Eşref, whom she spent time with as a child, and his family are very helpful to her during this process. However, mysterious events in the village hinder Filiz's work. When her colleagues from Istanbul also come to the village, Filiz finds herself caught up in a series of intriguing events.
In a typical western Anatolian town with two-story wooden houses, a square, and narrow streets, Liberation Day is approaching. A group of locals has formed a choir and begun preparations for a classical music concert for Liberation Day. The choir is nearing the end of its rehearsals. Although the choir is not entirely harmonious, they have managed to achieve a certain unity and are now in their final rehearsals before Independence Day. They are all working together on Sadettin Kaynak's piece titled "Spring Is Over, Autumn Is Over." Everyone is filled with excitement for the upcoming concert. When the town wakes up the next day, everything seems to be the same as before, until two large black jeeps appear at the town limits and stop in front of the town hall. From the moment the three or four Chinese men who emerge from the jeeps, accompanied by a Turkish businessman, head toward the town hall steps, nothing in the town will ever be the same again.
A mother's plan to find her bachelor son a match derails when a new prospect turns up and sinister schemes unfold.
Büre Bey's son Bamsı Beyrek and Bican Bey's daughter Banuçiçek are betrothed, but they do not know each other. They meet while hunting separately and engage in a wrestling match. As a result of Bamsı Beyrek being taken prisoner, they are separated for many years.
In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Will Salur be able to rescue his loved ones who have been taken captive by the bad guys? Will the captive tribe be able to defeat the bad guys? In Salur Kazan: The Reluctant Hero, the fairy tales we all know are presented to us again in a humorous and modern language.
A family man, driven to the edge by his inability to financially support his family, is found running about on the street naked. Suddenly, he turns into a nationwide celebrity and an inspiration for millions of people in poverty.
A groom kissed in front of a wedding room with a bride who had met and fell in love for years. Both of them are on the same day of marriage, while others in the same building are married in different halls. Things do not go as expected, of course. The two weddings enter each other, the secrets emerge.
The film is a love story. However, it is not a story about the love between two people, but rather a story about the love and affection that a group of people feel for life and for each other. The film depicts all kinds of love, from east to west, from schoolchildren to villagers, from young to old, in both an emotional and humorous way.
Deli Dumrul is an epic character in Turkish literature. Dumrul fell in love with "Guncicek", one day Dumrul heard the Reaper took her soul. Dumrul wondered, who is the Reaper, then he challenged The Reaper.
Umut has been a thief since he was a kid. He constantly seeks the opportunity of his life and his family. He can't find either. Gülüm is a young girl who has no problems in her life, who has completed her schooling on time and is only a step away from her dreams. But before she takes that step towards her dreams, she hangs and falls. It is understood that Gülüm has liver failure. She'll die if she doesn't have a liver transplant. The fate of Umut and Gülüm merge at this point. Umut found the opportunity he had waited for the rest of his life. But this opportunity drags Umut into very difficult situations, and finds itself in a position that risks the lives of all loved ones. For Umut to come out of this vortex, he has to make very serious decisions. And love is worth everything? Is this love?
Esra leads two parallel lives. In her daily life the vivacious and spirited Esra adores her family but feels caged in her relationships. In her dream life, she yearns to discover the identity of the man who visits her dreams. While in waking life she struggles in vain, in her dream life she evolves in secret. But what if waking and dreaming were never separate and the real secret is shored by all?
A struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.
Yılmaz Erdoğan's lauded stage play traces the life of wunderkind Gülseren as she navigates social and political change.
One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the participation of the Prime Minister and a Russian delegation, the statue gets stolen. Two police investigators from Ankara are assigned to find Lenin in twelve hours. Townspeople give an unexpected answer to the question «Where is Lenin?».
Temel, who wants to win Fadime's father's favor, makes a "hamsirone" to support Trabzonspor. However, while he thinks that this will lead to something good, an unfortunate accident causes the "hamsirone" to hit the Trabzonspor bus and things get complicated. While Temel tries to fix the situation with his partner Dursun, he finds himself in the middle of tragicomic events.
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.