Türk Sineması

Letters written but not sent over the years.

A neighborhood story with loves and fights.

A young boy and a movie theatre bond over their love of cinema during the trying times of 1950's Turkey.

A trained prosecutor and an ignorant villager have to help each other out in prison conditions.

A biopic about turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses, drama, childhood, his life.

After the Turkish War of Independence, the Republic was declared and Turkish reforms were put into practice one by one under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha.

Yusuf 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.

A homeless man named Mahsun survives in Istanbul's Rumelihisari by stealing cars at night and returning them clean.

The images reflected on the screen come from a camera that Namik is carrying, a camera that is forgotten. The young man running in a hospital corridor is looking for his wife Nurcan, a nurse. He finds her and takes the trigger of his gun. Then he decides on his own life and all this is recorded in the camera.

Tulay, 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.

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.

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten.

Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.

The monotonous life of Selim,a shirt store owner changes when he finds a suitcase full of American dollars in a taxi.

The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.

Muzaffer goes to his parent's house to shoot his film. He is thinking of casting his relatives in the film, but his father struggles with the forest administration of the oaks he grows, and his mother grows ill with diseases brought on by old age.

He second half of 1990s Lady Firuzan is about to give birth to a child whose name will be Ihsan. In 1950s Lady Firuzan adapts a daughter called Fatma about 5- 6 years old and Ihsan and Fatma grows up together as siblings. in 1960s Ihsan who was studying at the Robert College lives a big love with Natalie. In 1970s the death of his mother.

The film is set during the period of the Varlik Vergisi where many non-Muslims were forced to pay higher taxes, often in an arbitrary and unrealistic way. Around 2,000 non-Muslims who could not pay the amount demanded for the tax within the 30-day time limit were arrested and sent to a forced-labor camp in Askale in the Erzurum.

Isa is beaten up after being accused of stealing $50. When his landlord demands the back rent, Isa gets angry and shoots him. The police round up the tenants, but are not suspicious of him. Back in his room, Isa collapses and is helped by his pretty neighbor Meryem, who also pays the $50 when the thugs return.

An elderly couple invite their adult children to visit their country chateau. Among the children are Omer, his undemonstrative wife who knows about Omer's mistress, and Omer's children. The other son brings his seductive lover, and the daughter, a divorcee, brings her child. Mayhem ensues when their daughter's ex-husband makes a surprise appearance at the house.

A deserted drifter settles down on the realization of his platonic calf love for a washed up singer.

The family of a left-wing journalist is torn apart after the military coup of Turkey in 1980.

Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.

In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days.

A single mother with a child meets a retired teacher who tries to keep pace with his new life and to protect them from her ex-husband.