Taken in Istanbul
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- DirectorAlain Robbe-GrilletStarsFrançoise BrionJacques Doniol-ValcrozeGuido CelanoA sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to locate her as all the local Turkish people pretend not to remember any such woman. He suddenly finds her again (she finds him?) and before she can explain her disappearance she is killed in a car crash while he is in the passenger seat. He replays the accident over and over in his mind trying to remember how she died if he caused the accident himself by grabbing the wheel.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsValerie HobsonJames MasonFrank VosperThe British agent Larry travels to Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey in order to thwart a revolution.
- DirectorJean-Jacques VierneStarsJean-Pierre TalbotGeorges WilsonGeorges LoriotTintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRichard StapleyRobert ManuelJany ClairA French agent, who is sent to save an atomic scientist, uncovers a plot by terrorists and a secret atomic site in Turkey.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsTony CurtisCharles BronsonMichèle MercierDuring the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriPeter UstinovMaximilian SchellA conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJames MasonDanielle DarrieuxMichael RennieDuring WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryRobert ShawLotte LenyaJames Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAlbert FinneyLauren BacallIngrid BergmanIn December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsErrol FlynnCornell BorchersJohn BentleyA suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
- DirectorElia KazanStarsStathis GiallelisFrank WolffElena KaramA young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.
- DirectorSergio GriecoStarsKen ClarkMargaret LeeFabienne DaliA scientist who has invented a weapon capable of disintegrating solid matter is kidnapped by a criminal gang, which intends to sell the scientist and his weapon to the highest bidder. A secret agent and the scientist's daughter set out to track down the kidnappers and rescue the scientist.
- DirectorRudolf ZehetgruberGianfranco ParoliniStarsTony KendallBrad HarrisOlga SchoberováOne of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs. The scene where Tony hides in a bathtub with a totally naked gorgeous gal is playfully erotic.
- DirectorYves BoissetStarsClaudio BrookMargaret LeeKlaus KinskiIn Istanbul, a young woman is attacked by six thugs and the agent Frank Milland who had set a rendez-vous with her, is outnumbered, and she dies. Frank is menaced later in order to stop his inquiry about the thugs identities. Each clue he follows leads to more and more danger. Then he comes across Eva, a young woman who is the dead girl's spitting image; either she is her twin sister, or the woman who died in his arms. Eventually he encounters a mad sculptor, who is more than he pretends to be. Frank ends up a prisoner is an abandoned castle hidden in Turkey's mountainous hinterland, trying to save his own life and to prevent the development of a mysterious weapon that would put an end to civilization as we know it.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsAndré ReybazThe Golden Horn in Istanbul with its Sultanate palaces lends itself for reflection upon the public and private aspects of Istanbul society.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsAndré ReybazShort film exploring a Turkish man's life via the poems of Nazim Hikmet.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsPierre AssoA short film, forming part of a series of shorts looking at Turkey. This film takes in Istanbul; a city divided by the Bosphorus river and the effect this has on the culture and history of Turkey, Europe and Asia.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsAndré ReybazThe fall and pillaging of the once ancient Greek and later Roman city of Byzantium (also known as Constantinople and later Istanbul) by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsPierre AssoThe modern city of Byzance with its three cities united as one by the Bosphorus river and Galata bridge.
- DirectorCarl MöhnerStarsOrhan GünsirayCarl MöhnerSadri AlisikAn Interpol agent fighting smugglers in Istanbul.