Hülya Koçyiğit

Hülya Koçyiğit

Birth : 1947-12-12, Istanbul, Turkey

History

Hülya Koçyiğit (born 12 December 1947) is a Turkish actress. A prominent female lead in the Turkish cinema, she received numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Altogether, she has acted in some 180 films. Koçyiğit decided to venture into cinema in 1963 after she was the runner-up in a beauty contest organized by the magazine Ses. Her debut film was the 1964 Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), which went on to win the Golden Bear Award at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. This honour was the first of its kind ever bestowed upon a Turkish movie. Derman, a film she starred in was the first Turkish film that played in five continents. Kurbağalar, another of her famous films was the first Turkish movie that was sold to international televisions. She received the distinction of "Turkish state artist" in 1991. Koçyiğit holds the distinction of being the Turkish actress of having won the most national and international awards and is probably, the most recognised face of the Turkish silver screen. Her movies between 1965 and 1974, her golden period, constantly captivated movie audiences.

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Movies

Hicran Sokağı
A neighborhood story with loves and fights.
Anneler Günü
Handan
Kabuslar Evi: Bir Kış Masalı
Gülseren
The theater actor, Gülseren, is unable to relieve the pain of her husband Hilmi and her daughter Melisa, which she lost as a result of an accident. As a result of the pressures and insistence of his surroundings, he moves away from his house in order to find peace and come to the Nightmares House. A woman in a shady costume, who comes across in unexpected moments while thinking that she is getting away from all her pain, turns her entire balance upside down. While trying to solve the mystery of this woman with the help of Realtor Sema, Gülseren has to confront her daughter and her husband, on the one hand, and to resist the instant loss of time. Is this woman an ambassador, as Gülseren argues, taking the lost souls away and taking them to where they belong? All the answers are hidden in this shady woman and time is decreasing from time to time, autumn leaves its place to a winter fairy tale.
The Chaos Class Welcome
The Waterfall
Semra
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now a famous painter, Cemal goes back to his hometown years later and remembers his childhood. In those days Cemal's father and uncle, member of rival political parties, are in a continious struggle with each other. The film depicts this absurd struggle and the strange stories of people in Harbiye together with the lyric story of the famous waterfall of the town.
A Woman
Karılar Koğuşu
Tözey
Hiçbir Gece
Although Sevda is a successful actress, she feels that her life is not going well. She is both separated from her life partner and bored of acting in the same movies. During this time, she gives herself to drink to escape her life. However, a man she meets will make her feel excited about life again.
Bez Bebek
There is an unexpected close relationship between Ahmet and Melek. Meanwhile, the release of Melek's husband from prison causes things to mess up.
Captives of a night dance
The Frogs
Elmas
In the half-light of dawn, Halil falls down dead, murdered. His wife, Elmas, cries for justice, but, in fact, there will be no investigation. Life goes on for Elmas: during the day she works in the rice paddies with her little boy and, at night, she goes to catch frogs with the other villagers.
The Escape
Details the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations.
Yavrularım
Seher Kaya
Remedy
Mürüvvet
A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.
Gazap Rüzgarı
Selma Ataman
Herhangi Bir Kadın
Yıldız Şahin
Germany, Bitter Home
Follows the life of a Turkish woman living and working in Germany.
Evlidir Ne Yapsa Yeridir
Leyla
I Cannot Live Without You
Ayfer Tezmen
It’s a psychological love story of a woman who’s about to die from cancer and the killer she hired to kill herself.
Station
Yasemin
Directed by Serif Gören.
Şoför
Gülşah Küçük Anne
Selma Akova
Bir Araya Gelemeyiz
One-sided love for Fusun, a famous singer, thanks to the songs that Orhan sent.
Sabıkalı
İşte Hayat
Gülşah
Zeynep
Gülşah is notorious for making nannies run away in a matter of days. When her latest nanny doesn't give up that easy, she comes up with a different plan.
Diriliş
Sokaklardan Bir Kız
Aşkın Zaferi
Oya
An Angel on Earth
Zehra
Tomboy Zehra helps Omer to get with the girl he is madly in love with after saving him from a suicide attempt but finds herself also falling for him.
Blood Money
Hacer
Hacer recently joined a factory where Hasan works and brings hope to her life. The two get married. Hacer is worried about the working conditions in the factory; she has a relationship with Hasan after she establishes a relationship with the union. Because of their disagreements, they are driven towards disaster.
Last House in Istanbul
Selma
Three criminals on the run, breaking into the house of a wealthy doctor and his hot wife ...
The Wedding
Zelha
A family migrates to Istanbul from the rural parts of Anatolia, and they bring their traditions with them. The men of the family are giving away the girls of the family in return for a hefty bride-price. Zelha, one of the girls, revolts against this attitude and tries to save her sisters.
Siyah Gelinlik
The Bride
Meryem
The struggles of a migrant Anatolian family to adapt to and survive in the very different conditions of urban Istanbul. A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. The family refuses to help her because they can't see anything wrong with the boy. What happens on a Eid morning becomes a breaking point for the family.
If Only Life Would Be Like A Feast
Ceylan Atesoglu
Traditional Romeo and Juliet re-telling with a funny twist. Lovers from two families at loggerheads thrive to find peace between them by bring them into consonance with one another.
Rabia: İlk Kadın Evliya
Rabia
Rabia is a young woman who grew up worshiping alongside her religious father. Rabia, who was taken prisoner by the slave trader Ammar, is sold to Emir Hanzade as a concubine. Emir, who fell in love as soon as he saw his concubine, began to torture Rabia when he could not find her love back. Resisting the difficulties she experienced, Rabia's faith gets stronger in this process. As time passed, Rabia became one of the saints of her religion.
İkibin Yılın Sevgilisi
Sezercik Aslan Parçası
Sevim
Sev Kardeşim
Alev Güler
A factory owners son falls in love with a worker who works at the factory.
Kaderimin Oyunu
Thinking that her fiancé, Bülent, is dead, Sema's life will become even more tragic when she loses her family in the earthquake. The paths of the two lovers will cross again.
Vefasız
Sezercik Yavrum Benim
Aynur
A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not aware that the strange he has met is actually his father who abandoned him and his mother years ago.
Yağmur
Gülsen a singer and Fikret a painter meet accidentally and fall in love, but both of them are engaged. They decide to get separated from their fiancées, and they do so. On the way to meeting Fikret, Gülsen has an accident and becomes disabled. She fabricates a story telling Fikret that she is going to get married to her former fiancée Refik. Gülsen goes to Fikret's ex-fiancée Jale and asks her to marry Fikret. Jale agrees but Fikret is still in love with Gülsen and leaves Jale. Fikret paints a portrait of Gülsen, and displays it in his exhibition. Gülsen buys the portrait. Fikret learns about everything Gülsen has experienced and the two lovers reunite.
Azad Kuşu
Melek
The film tells the story of a mother trying to get her sick son operated. Working as a worker in a confection, Melek lives with her son Tayfun. However, Tayfun is sick and needs surgery in Europe. Melek tries to find money for her son's surgery. The hand returns emptyly from all the knobs. As a last resort, Tayfun considers giving adoption to the rich businessman Hakan. By making a plan, he ensures that Hakan adopts Tayfun. A love will begin between Melek and Hakan, who strive for the healing of Tayfun.
I Will Cry Tomorrow
Zehra
Beyoğlu Güzeli
Alev
Son Hıçkırık
Bebek Gibi Maşallah
Leyla
Severek Ayrılalım
Meral Eresen
Bütün Anneler Melektir
Selma
Three Friends
Gül Peri
A blind panhandler girl as an idealist dreamer joins three cronies in a supper, after which the cronies decide to rob a rich man's villa to collect enough money for her to recover from blindness. But they'd never guessed what would happen when her eyes see the daylight.
Adını Anmayacağım
Gül
Gul is a famous singer, married to Captain Engin, who has studied law. Engin goes to Korea during the war. One day Gul is told that he is dead. Her violinist, Cemil fancies her. One day Gul meets Engin again, yet Cemil continues molesting her. Engin takes his daughter while Gul gives becomes an alcoholic and is miserable. Engin learns about her condition and decides to go to her but in a car accident he becomes blind. Gul starts to work in their house under a false name, Seher. In the meantime she gives piano lessons to their daughter Oya. Engin regains his eyesight after a surgery. Cemil attempts to rape Oya, but Gul reaches in time, saves Oya and kills Cemil. Oya finds out that Gul is her mother and asks Engin to defend her in court. A happy future awaits all three.
Once a Year
Nazlı
A young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they are forced to negate patriotism and dependability to their families and nations, for a length of a lifetime before during and after the war.
Hayatım Senindir
Beklenen Şarkı
Gül Deniz
Kezban Paris'te
Kezban
A young girl's adventures in Paris, where she visits after befriending a rich boy.
Zeyno
Zeynep
Kezban in Rome
Kezban
When her father dies, Kezban goes to her Uncle Temel’s home in İstanbul. Her uncle’s wife Emel and his stepdaughter Nazan are annoyed with her arrival. One day, Kezban goes to a ball. She spends time there with Erol, a friend of Nazan. They fall in love. The next day, Erol goes to Rome.
Güller Ve Dikenler
Saadet Güneşi
Semra, who is a mischievous student in boarding school at the tailoring and modeling school, is renowned for his mischievous mischief. Faruk, the doctor of the school, is very handsome and all the girls in the school are in love with him. While Semra Faruk wants to get his attention, he becomes ill and embarrassed, but Faruk Bey becomes interested in Semra.
Streetwalker
A roughneck music hall owner grooms a charmnig yet haggard belly dancer to be his new star headliner, but she falls in love with a pianist also in his employ.
Yaralı Ceylan
Cemile
Cemile is a young woman who lost her parents as a child. Raised by a woman who mothered her, Cemile became a seamstress when she became an adult woman. Suat, who he grew up with in the same neighborhood, becomes a doctor. Cemile and Suat, who have loved each other for years, are planning their marriage. However, in the meantime, Cemile's accident changes everything.
Söz Müdafaanın
Selma
Selma works in a factory and looks after her bedfast mother. She is getting ready to marry Dogan the attorney, son of a rich family. Dogan's father is against the marriage, so he asks Despina the brothel keeper, to prepare a trap for Selma. Dogan believes in their plot and leaves Selma, he gets engaged to his cousin. Selma is pregnant, she starts singing in a bar. Haydar reveals her all the truth. Selma kills him as a self-defense as Haydar wants to molest her. Selma gets arrested, however Despina confesses the truth in the court and Selma, Dogan as well as their child get together.
Altın Tabancalı Ajan
Kalbimin Efendisi
Alev
A man who has very enjoy life with his uncle. Some day he met a girl who is pretty and they fell in love each other. The girl has sister who commit a crime and all things are changed in her sister's life
Seven Ne Yapmaz
Sevda
Fikret goes to Istanbul to work in the orchestra founded by his military friends. His first job is to play at the birthday party of Sevda, the fiancée of wealthy shipowner Osman. The unexpected rapprochement between Fikret and Sevda creates tension.
The Empty Frame
Beginning growing parting longing reuniting breaking and ending of the nostalgic forbidden love between a humble backwoodsman and a naive family girl is told through their secret letters and most private memories in narrative format.
Sen Bir Meleksin
Hülya
Uykusuz Geceler
Yarın Başka Bir Gündür
Gül Fatma Kunt
Kınalı Yapıncak
Kınalı Yapıncak
Having lost her entire family in a fire, Kınalı Yapıncak becomes deaf and mute due to the shock. Since she has no one, she takes refuge with her aunt. Her aunt introduces her as a servant girl.
Kızıl Vazo
Ölmüş Bir Kadının Mektupları
Fikret / Nedret
Based on the novel by Güzide Sabri Aygün, the film tells the relationship of a mentally-ill woman and the doctor whom she loved in her youth.
Kezban
Kezban
Kadın Asla Unutmaz
Vahşi Bir Erkek Sevdim
Yalan Yıllar
LALE
Yasemin'in Tatlı Aşkı
Yasemin Birman
While the young couple dreams of marriage, their families oppose them to be together. Determined to marry the girl he loves no matter what, Erol plans to overcome the obstacles he encounters.
Sarmaşık Gülleri
Gülseren
Hicran Gecesi
Ilhan
Three women love the same man. Providing a wealth of variation on the love-hate relationship, the tension between them climbs to a climax in their rivalry.
Hırçın Kadın
Utanç Kapıları
SEVİM
Yağmur Çiselerken
Hülya
Yaralı Kuş
Zeynep
Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu
NÜZHET
Samanyolu
Zülal
Seni affedemem
In order to avenge her father's murder, a girl marries his killer, but soon realizes that she is in fact in love with him.
Dişi Düşman
ASUMAN
Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Denizciler Geliyor
O Kadın
Kumarbazın İntikamı
Leyla
Seni Seviyorum
Damgalı Kadın
Suzan
From the Lips to the Heart
Lamia
Lamia and Kenan love each other. When they turn back from Paris they visit Kenan's uncle. Since then things do not go as expected.
Sigh
Nalan
Kenan is brought up by his foster father, Azmi Bey. As he grows up, he falls in love with Azmi Bey's beautiful daughter Nalan. Nalan is diagnosed by Pleurisy, which leads to a series of tragic event.
If a Woman Wants...
Nadya
Based on the eponymous novel by Esat Mahmut Karakur.
Sevgili Öğretmenim
Hülya
Sevgim ve Gururum
Zerrin
Serseri Aşık
Hülya
Nazar Değmez İnşallah
Belma
Tehlikeli Adımlar
Semra
Aşk ve İntikam
Şermin
Nejat looks for his sister he lost 17 years ago. When he find his sister, she is shooted by her troubled lovers. Since then Nejat chases the revenge.
Uzakta Kal Sevgilim
Hülya
The film tells the relationship of a young man working at the shipyard and his girlfriend who gets pregnant.
Strike the Whore
In Romania, the idealistic Istanbul teacher, Aliye, communicate activities to a town in Anatolia supporting the idea of National Struggle in the region.
Affetmeyen Kadın
Ayşecik Çıtı Pıtı Kız
Aysecik, who comes to Istanbul, is abandoned by her stepfather in the middle of the road. However, Turist Omer will appear and they will participate in the song contest together.
Ayşecik Çıtı Pıtı Kız
Sevim
Aysecik, who comes to Istanbul, is abandoned by her stepfather in the middle of the road. However, Turist Omer will appear and they will participate in the song contest together.
Hepimiz Kardeşiz
A townsman teacher Ahmet builds a school in the village but villagers burn the school because of fear of Aga.
Son Tren
Pelin
Katilin Kızı
Gül
Kavga Var
Ayten
Dry Summer
Bahar
A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
Şaşkın Baba
Leyla
Young Girls
Oya Deren
İskender is a young actor. He cannot turn down the request of an old friend of his who is the school’s manager and starts working there as an elocutionist. All his students are impressed by him; they bet on who will be able to make İskender fall in love with her.
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