25 Political-Daring Turkish Movies
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- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsErol TasHülya KoçyigitUlvi DoganA farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsTanju GürsuFiliz AkinÖzden ÇelikA Family immigrates from suburb to metropolitan to have a better life. Inspired from the Orhan Kemal's same named novel "Abroad birds", published in 1962.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsMüsfik KenterSema ÖzcanSüleyman TekcanA poor painter falls in love with a photograph of a woman while at work in one of the massive villas on Istanbul's Princes' Islands.
- DirectorLütfi Ö. AkadStarsTürkan SorayIzzet GünayAyfer FerayHalil is an honest greengrocer with an ordinary life. One day his friends take him to a local night club where he meets a beautiful hostess, Sabiha. The two fall in love. Little does Sabiha know about Halil's life before they met.
- DirectorErtem EgilmezStarsTarik AkanKahraman KiralHalit AkçatepeTwo poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
- DirectorErden KiralStarsGenco ErkalErkan YücelSerif SezerA urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 YilmazStarsTürkan SorayOguz TunçMüsfik KenterCoskun, who grew up in an orphanage, has been in love with the very famous film star Derya Altinay all of his life. His only purpose in life is to meet her one day and write a film script for her. He is so much in love with her that he believes that he lives with the two film characters which she performed in her old movies.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsHale SoygaziAytaç ArmanTarik TarcanA woman's fight for her identity and freedom as a woman.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsKemal SunalSelma SonatMurat YilmazHusnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a successful teacher in his little town and got a promotion and appointment to Istanbul.
- DirectorHalit RefigStarsYildiz KenterEsref KolçakFatos SezerAn old widower, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, tries to find someone to look after her cat Hanim after she's gone.
- DirectorTunç BasaranStarsOzan BilenNur SürerFüsun DemirelBaris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.
- 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.
- DirectorTunç BasaranStarsRutkay AzizEmin SivasSerap AksoyIn 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.
- 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.
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsKemal SunalNevra SerezliMetin SerezliZübük gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yasar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yasar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people.
- 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.
- DirectorIrfan TözümStarsHale SoygaziUgur PolatMacit KoperCazibe 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 only thing which is private to her is her projector machine, which she keeps in a room at the roof of the house.
- 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.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsAhmet UgurluTuncel KurtizAysen AydemirMahsun is homeless and unemployed. He lives in Rumelihisari (one of the most picturesque and oldest quarters of Istanbul), and tries to stay alive with the help of local fishermen. Mahsun loves cars, he steals at nights and in the mornings he drives them back clean and well kept.
- 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.
- 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.