Sent away by his exasperated family to work for the village coffeehouse owner Seyfi in Istanbul, the brave, compassionate, and justice-driven young hero is drawn into the city’s underworld of toughs.
A family forcibly displaced from their village struggles to stay together when Süsen, the daughter of an already broken home, defies her kin to marry her childhood love Yusuf. As her father and brother abandon the family and marriage fails to bring the dreamed-of salvation, Süsen and Yusuf must confront mounting responsibilities and learn to adapt, or risk losing each other entirely.
Selim is a cruel father with a bigoted personality, whose occupation is unknown. He cannot accept his own daughter because she was born a girl. Ayşe was kept under house arrest by her cruel father until she reached school age. When her backward-thinking father refused to send her to school, Ayşe's misfortune reached a new level. Even when she starts school, her father's beatings leave her unable to breathe. Ayşe's life is now a living hell. Although finishing elementary school and starting high school triggers the same negative reactions from her father Selim, Ayşe continues her education at a school near her home. Finally, the university entrance exams come around. During this process, Ayşe's father, Selim, believes that Ayşe has studied enough. According to Selim, the time for marriage has long passed. Therefore, he believes that she should marry a suitable young man as soon as possible and is also calculating the dowry.
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town during the holy month of Ramadan. His unusual behavior towards his wife and little daughter arrests the attention of the townsfolk. Meanwhile Adem, the son of the stationmaster who is crazy for trains begins to learn about and get into a world he has never heard of before in the lessons given by Hasan: trains, sin, good deeds, heaven and hell.. everything gets jumbled. Condemned of being harsh and merciless towards his family, Hasan one day finds himself obliged to reveal the "secret" about himself and his family and this changes everything in the eyes of people. Yet there has remained another secret of which anyone, even Hasan is hardly aware. The people of the town, including Adem, will remember this Ramadan throughout their lives.
Dark Blue Night tells the story of the socio-economic distress of the low-income working class in Turkey. Semih, pursues his dream of becoming a footballer, unlike his friends who become miners. Unable to find a job in a club, he starts having difficulties, falls into deep credit debt. Married and having a daughter, Semih’s only pillar is his father Kazım, a retired miner and union representative. Although his father forbade him due to having been lost his other son in a mine accident, he starts to work as miner. Soon after Semih loses his arm during an accident. The mine owners offer to pay blood money. Semih first leans towards this idea that everybody else accepts, with the death of his father, his mind is changed. His unstable mood also causes conflicts with his wife. She leaves home. On the one hand, Semih pursues his legal struggle and on the other, he works hard to get his family back.
Ahmet is married to Sevgi who runs a hair salon in town and their marriage has not been on track for some time. Ahmet suspects his wife has been cheating on him. Ahmet’s in secure and anxious state reaches its peak when he notices a foreigner in town. One midnight, at an old gas station out of town… Mehmet’s phone rings. Ahmet is at the end of the line, panicked and in fear. Mehmet realizes that he has no choice to help his brother. In this long and dark night, the two siblings unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of a homicide they have committed.
Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager. He would like to confess about the bodies buried in the muddy patch of a dried-up salt lake, but fear holds him back from even going there. Ali participates in Temel's UN projects aimed at defusing tension between Cyprus' Greek and Turkish communities....
Salim, a doorman with two children, plans a scam with Korcan, a news cameraman who lives in the apartment building, in order to provide a better life for his wife Türkan, whom he loves so much that he still writes poetry for her. They will shoot fake action news stories with Salim in the "lead role" and pass them off as real on television, pocketing the money they earn. The plan works, and the operation begins to grow. Salim becomes a shoplifter at the grocery store and a pickpocket on the street, while Korcan films and sells the footage. However, Türkan’s pregnancy and a vigilant channel manager begin to disrupt the flow of life.
Tolga is a science-fiction writer who has never been able to achieve the success of his first book. The signature day of his last book also results in a fiasco. Tolga, who has become a depressed soul, also fights with his lover Ebru and is abandoned. Tolga comes to the Nightmare House, which is far from the crowd of the city, hoping to listen to herself and to catch the muse again. Here, when he wakes up in the morning, the fatigue he does not make sense and some strange events he encounters drag Tolga into the chaos he cannot get out of. The fierce struggle confronts a father and son. Are the dream thieves two vampires, or two souls trapped in different universes and sizes, in the words of this father-son Tolga?
A tense film based on five university students who take refuge in an electrical substation with an American soldier they have kidnapped, and the ensuing shootout between them as a result of mistakes and incompetence, after which events spiral out of control.
Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her during winter break, everyone's life is tested, each with different consequences.
Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death's door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father's world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.
During the years when World War I began to turn the Ottoman Empire's territories into a war zone, the pain of a great love story that unfolded in southeastern Anatolia and present-day Syria burned as fiercely as the war itself in the hearts of those involved. Mahmut leaves his home, abandoning everything—including the person he loves—because he refuses to commit murder. After being caught up in the relentless war raging across Anatolian lands and fighting for years in the struggle for liberation, he sets out to return home. His sole desire is to reunite with the one he was forced to leave behind and to seek revenge for the injustice he suffered years ago.
Mahir, a musician renowned with his proud personality, has been having a secret romantic relationship with her daughter’s friend Duru. Duru’s father Ali is a traditional, family-oriented man. Mahir and Duru drift apart in their fear while Ali is just about to learn of their secret relationship.
Yusuf served nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. When he returns home, he sees that his wife, who was pregnant at the time of jail, left home. While searching for his wife and child in the snowy town, he also tracks the events that happened to him. This journey, which alternates between the past and the present and becomes complicated as we ask questions, will reach places that Yusuf could not even imagine, and will change his life irrevocably.
In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.
A sick musician comes across a homeless boy at the traffic lights. Decides to make a change in his and the boys life.
Akın's life, who lived with a father he didn't like and a sick mother, changed after he lost his mother. He plans to start a new life with the money he steals from the carpentry workshop where he works. When his girlfriend Deniz dismisses this dream as ridiculous and leaves him, he accepts an offer from his friend İdris. This offer involves working as a foot soldier for a mafia group.
Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or well in expressing his feelings,Sedat is being consumed , going through the hardest time of his life , not able to silence his guilty conscience because he was unsuccessful in solving the murder of his partner , whom he saw a brother .His faith in his organization is shaken as he witness the schemes in machination inside the organization and between the organization and the state.Meanwhile , while trying to find his lover who has disappeared after falling for a former militant , he does not refrain from making use of the filthiest methods of his profession.
Baran the Bandit, released from prison after serving 35 years, searches for vengeance against his former best friend who betrayed him and stole his lover, teaming up with a young punk with his own demons along the way.
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…
Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.
Symbolizing the turning point occurred in the Battle of Sakarya in Turkish-Greek War, tells one of the most moving stories.
Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.
Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to promote Ferhat's debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always what they seem...
On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”
A group of children decide to do something for the dogs they found in the forest abandoned by their owners. The children start feeding the dogs secretly and try to make a warm home for them. While the children are trying to keep their cute friends alive, people who are evil for them have also taken action. A group of malicious people are trying to destroy animals. Children must stop those who try to harm animals no matter what. The children who come together to prevent them are supported by the site's security manager, Hakan, in their difficult struggle. Will the children, who embark on a challenging and fantastic adventure, be able to protect their cute friends from malicious people?
After coming out of a long relationship, Alper is searching for a fresh start but finds himself in a moral conflict following an unexpected incident at work.
There have been intense clashes between security forces and separatist terrorist elements on the southeastern border of our country for years. İbrahim’s only son İsmail, in his late forties, is doing his compulsory military service in this region and has 20 days left until his military service ends. Under these conditions, İbrahim, an asthmatic, lives in an old, dilapidated village house with his father İsmail. While he is dealing with a wild animal that is haunting his chickens and eggs, his only source of income, he also wants to hospitalize his father for treatment. Lack of money has caused a rift between him and his wife, and has left him unable to even buy a school notebook for his daughter.
With its intriguing chess-like plot, Hain explores the scheming world of those in power who consider themselves "chosen" in Turkey and around the world. The seemingly unshakeable order of this powerful group is destroyed by female heroes, and the revenge-filled story is brought to the big screen with cinematic magic.
Askin Dünkü Çocuklari, tells a bittersweet love story from the 70s to the present day, blending it with the social issues of the period.