80s-90s Turkish Cinema
After the coup of 1980, Turkish cinema is trying to create its own form, format and language distinguishing itself from 70s Turkish Yeşilçam Cinema. As a result of this independent, brave effort mixed with eras technology and dark mood a unique style occured.
These are the first steps taken towards today's contemporary Turkish Cinema.
These are the first steps taken towards today's contemporary Turkish Cinema.
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- DirectorOrhan OguzStarsFikret KuskanMevlüt DemiryayMenderes SamancilarA 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.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsDerya ArbasDeniz TürkaliUzay HepariSerap is a young woman who works as a prostitute in the bars of Beyoglu and one day she meets Fulya, a transgender woman, and Melek, an obsessive woman. Together all there have ups and downs in the dirty night life. Serap's life changes because she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with another man.
- DirectorOrhan OguzStarsNilüfer AçikalinPeker AçikalinMehmet EsenMine and Kursat is a married young couple. their neighbour is fall in love with Mine and he always follows her. By the way to get rid of Mine's husband, the psycho neighbour makes some plans.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMacit KoperSahika TekandSerra YilmazThe lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMazhar AlansonAli PoyrazogluYaprak ÖzdemirogluStruggling musician sells his soul to the devil for instrumental fame.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArAytaç ArmanYilmaz ZaferVasfiye, her story, tellers of the story, and their listeners change every time the story is told.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArMacit KoperYilmaz ZaferAfter Serap, the theatre actress, acts in an advertisement, she loses her identity and become a housewife with two children. The movie is about dilemma of Serap and Naciye.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMüjde ArAli PoyrazogluHümeyraAsiye is on the verge of entering a bad life. Every decision she makes will reshape the dynamics of her life one step next.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsZuhal OlcayFikret KuskanSevda FerdagA young man, who came to Istanbul to study despite his father's objection, started photography when he was out of money. He takes souvenir photos for people in taverns. One day, a mysterious woman says she wants to see all the photos she took. The young photographer takes the photos he takes every morning to the woman.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsMehmet AslantugSahika TekandTuncel KurtizA Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsAytaç ArmanMacit KoperSahika TekandA confused scriptwriter takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church in a remote village while scouting locations for his next film.
- DirectorÖmer KavurStarsCem DavranTamer ÇelikerHakan TanferWhen their father is killed in blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with the street boys, and Yusuf turns to crime while Kenan wants to learn a trade.
- DirectorBay OkanStarsIlyas SalmanValérie LemoineMicky SébastianThe film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation 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.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenUgur YücelSermin HürmeriçIngenuous countryman Ali Nazik moves to Istanbul, expecting help to become a famous singer, he finds Muhsin Kanadikirik, a fading music producer.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenPitircik AkermanAytaç YörükaslanHasmet, director of love stories, wants to make a film with a "social content". With great difficulties he finally succeeds, but the response is not the one he hoped for.
- DirectorYavuz TurgulStarsSener SenSevket AltugLarissa LitichevskayaMahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. Sulo brings a deaf and dumb girl named Kumru, to working the night club, but the club owner sends her away, she in he sees that Kumru is deaf and dumb.
- DirectorMustafa AltioklarStarsOkan BayülgenMüjde ArSavas DinçelA young car mechanic, while in the middle of an unlikely love affair, tries to protect the people in his poor gypsy neighborhood from a gangster who terrorizes the locals.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAhmet UgurluTuncel KurtizAysen AydemirA homeless man named Mahsun survives in Istanbul's Rumelihisari by stealing cars at night and returning them clean.
- DirectorSerdar AkarStarsErkan CanHaldun BoysanYildiray SahinlerSailors want to remain in their small world, warm and cozy and full of lies, but they kidnap a prostitute from some pimps.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsGüven KiraçHaluk BilginerDerya AlaboraYusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.
- DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerap AksoyFikret KuskanZuhal GencerTulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsTaner BirselBennu YildirimlarZuhal GencerThe monotonous life of Selim,a shirt store owner changes when he finds a suitcase full of American dollars in a taxi.
- DirectorReha ErdemStarsYesim TozanGülsen TuncerNurinisa YildirimA young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
- DirectorIrfan TözümStarsBeklan AlganNurseli IdizAyla AlganA poet discovers an old lighthouse caretaker's story of Hera and Leandros. Seeing a couple, he imagines them as Hera and Leandros. Later, he meets Nesibe, whom he mistakes for Hera. Distinguishing reality from legend becomes challenging.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsMüjde ArYasar AlptekinMehmet Akan7 year old Umur falls in love with his much older aunt in the midst of political upheaval and dysfunctions of his family.