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Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.
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A young boy and a director of a movie theater bond over their love of cinema during the trying times of 1950's Turkey.
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A young boy and a director of a movie theater bond over their love of cinema during the trying times of 1950's Turkey.
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Bardaki Adam
A dwarf and a travesty, 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.
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A dwarf and a travesty, 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.
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Ali
Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.
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Nil spends years in jail and is being tortured during September 12 junta period and alienates the new life after she is released.
Tiyatro Hocası
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The story of a young man who loves Crime Fiction Books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.
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Emniyet Müdürü
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Producer
An ex-con musician returns to Istanbul to take a sweet and silent revenge from the ingenue with whom he once was in love, insensibly to her extramarital affairs.
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A prostitute is hired for a boy by his father to convince him to leave his lover.
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Meryem, who opposes male domination and behaves very strictly to her hired lovers, falls in love with Ismail, who works as a waitress at an invitation she attends.
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Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and funny events.
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Producer
Davut is in love with Zeynep, one of the beautiful girls of the village. However, Zeynep's heart is with Haydar Aga's son, Mustafa.
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Davut is in love with Zeynep, one of the beautiful girls of the village. However, Zeynep's heart is with Haydar Aga's son, Mustafa.
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Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.
Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.
Writer
The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.
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The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.
Doctor
The struggle of a devoted mother for her children.
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The struggle of a devoted mother for her children.
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Huzur Partisi Milletvekili
This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him.
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This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elements -like most Kemal Sunal films- but generally tells its story as well. The story is familiar to Turkish audience: A young man loves young girl. In most Turkish love films one of the partners is rich or poor according to the other but in this movie both sides are poor and they have many difficulties to reach happy end. In my opinion, these kind of movies always gives hope to people to get over it.
Ercanın Babası
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The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior.
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After two families being at loggerheads for years, it is now Hasip and Nasip's turn. They fight to win the mayor election, and to marry their common love interest, Perihan.
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Taxi driver Mehmet and shop attendant Sibel is preparing for marriage. The taxi's owner is the father of İbrahim, Mehmet's close friend who is secretly in love with Sibel. After his father passes away, he starts living a rich life from his fathers heritage. A love triangle begins to fold between Mehmet, İbrahim and Sibel.
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Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.
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Two rebels battle an evil king in a fantasy medieval Turkish kingdom. Identifying tattoos, galley slavery, stoning, beheadings, sword fights abound. A disneyesque fantasy history yarn, except for the rather extreme violence.
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Cellat, the Turkish version of Death Wish, sticks fairly close plot wise to the template of the American film, with some scenes and bits of dialogue being almost identical. However, it also deviates from its inspiration at times and is at its most interesting and valuable in these little moments, providing lurid snapshots of a place and a culture.
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Cellat, the Turkish version of Death Wish, sticks fairly close plot wise to the template of the American film, with some scenes and bits of dialogue being almost identical. However, it also deviates from its inspiration at times and is at its most interesting and valuable in these little moments, providing lurid snapshots of a place and a culture.
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Greek Spies are trying to give bad image about turkey, Metin a young police man who decides to go rogue and achieve justice after the murder of his partner and his family on the hands of Greek spies.
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Cuando el Rey Salomón es asesinado, su hijo y heredero al trono es ocultado en la selva, donde es secuestrado y criado por una manada de leones. De adulto usará su fuerza animal y sus garras de león para vengarse del nuevo rey y sus aliados.
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When Battal Gazi is killed by Byzantine Prince, his son swears to take revenge.
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After his family is killed in front of his eyes, a little boy grows up to be the nightmare of Byzantine's Black Knighthood.
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Feyzi Tuna's 1973 adaptation (the first in color) of the famous legend of Ezo the Bride, a real person who lived in the south eastern part of Turkey, close to Syrian border, in early 20th century.
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When Kazim, a cruel village headman, tricks Zeliha and her family and owns more than half of their yearly farming income, her son Murat is left with nothing but an extreme craving for vengeance.
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When Kazim, a cruel village headman, tricks Zeliha and her family and owns more than half of their yearly farming income, her son Murat is left with nothing but an extreme craving for vengeance.
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Komiser
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Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing this agrees to marry the other officer whom is Murat best friend without knowing that Murat is still alive.
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Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing this agrees to marry the other officer whom is Murat best friend without knowing that Murat is still alive.
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Depiction of the life of the legendary Muslim Serdar of Malatya, Battal Gazi.
O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equally huge false eyelashes not because he is a bad-ass outlaw that she will have to worry about reading his obituary every day. They can not consummate their passions because... now brace yourself, because Firat's badman partners won't allow him (Firat is the top crime dog) to have a girl friend.
Doktor
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.
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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.
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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.
Director
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.
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The showdown of two friends who committed a robbery.
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Producer
Having to bring money to her home after her father's death, Nebahat starts working as a driver, a completely male-dominated job.
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Producer
Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incident, Ahmet's son, Ali, shot the landowner to death. Ali was imprisoned for 12 years before being released and then, in his turn, chased by the landowner's children...
Writer
Despite the intense pressure from the environment and the fact that relatives do not accept the situation, Ali, who loves Fatma very much, is determined not to leave his wife. After years of depression, the couple has a child. But a wild bird that appears during a migration will upset all plans again.
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Despite the intense pressure from the environment and the fact that relatives do not accept the situation, Ali, who loves Fatma very much, is determined not to leave his wife. After years of depression, the couple has a child. But a wild bird that appears during a migration will upset all plans again.
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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.
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Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incident, Ahmet's son, Ali, shot the landowner to death. Ali was imprisoned for 12 years before being released and then, in his turn, chased by the landowner's children...
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The epic tells about the life and heroic deeds of Koroghlu (literally "son of the blind man") as a hero of the people who struggled against unjust rulers, defending his clan or tribe.
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Based on the story of Ezo the Bride, a beautiful young woman with black hair and rosy cheeks. She lived in a small village in southern Turkey. All the men who passed through the village fell in love with her and her family hoped she would find a good match. However, Ezo was not what you’d call ‘lucky in love’. Her first husband loved another woman. Darn. She was allowed to leave the marriage on grounds of maltreatment. Her second husband lived in Syria, and she missed her village.
Lütfü Engin (voice)
Kazim, who has no one in life, makes a living by fishing. One night, he meets a blind woman named Zeynep on the beach.
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A sequel to Refig's highly successful comedy Karakolda Ayna Var.
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"Angry Nazife" - About Nazife, a fishing woman who loves Bahriyeli Ahmet. Nazife cooks and sells fish to support her family. Ahmet and Nazife love each other, but they are to poor to get married.
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Based on THE DEEP by Mickey Spillane, the film tells the story of a tough guy, who returns to his old neighborhood to avenge the murder of his childhood partner in crime.
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Based on THE DEEP by Mickey Spillane, the film tells the story of a tough guy, who returns to his old neighborhood to avenge the murder of his childhood partner in crime.
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Based on THE DEEP by Mickey Spillane, the film tells the story of a tough guy, who returns to his old neighborhood to avenge the murder of his childhood partner in crime.
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Turkish spy Golden Boy takes a London vacation while, back in Istanbul, baddies are running rampant shooting people and thwarted secret messages with wild abandon. Turns out this mayhem is all the handiwork of a nefarious, Blofeld-esque bad baddie (Günbay) who enjoys petting a white kitty cat when he isn't plotting to blow up Turkey with a atomic bomb. Can our Golden Boy stop it in time when he isn't distracted by all the belly dancers and extended fist fights?
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An ordinary couple's marriage life turns into nightmare after the wife gets raped and goes nuts.
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An ordinary couple's marriage life turns into nightmare after the wife gets raped and goes nuts.
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The wedding day of Ekrem, a young man, becomes the worst day of his life. Ekrem loses his wife in a traffic accident. Ekrem, who suffers a great trauma due to the loss of his wife moves away. His mother one day encounters a woman named Türkan, who resembles Ekrem's dead wife. Ekrem's mother tries to persuade Türkan to marry her son. Although the young woman consents to this marriage, she finds Ekrem quite ugly. Deciding to put his life on track, Ekrem goes abroad and gets rid of the scar on his face by surgery. When he returns home, he plans to play a game he will not forget for Türkan, who still finds him ugly.
Talat
Married couple move to a new house. Thanks to this new house they climb the social ladder. At the same time troubles are started.
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Married couple move to a new house. Thanks to this new house they climb the social ladder. At the same time troubles are started.
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A modern triangular melodrama starring Cüneyt Arkin, Nilüfer Aydan, Muzaffer Tema.
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A woman visits her relatives living in a village. Soon she realizes that the house has something strange going on with it.
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A woman visits her relatives living in a village. Soon she realizes that the house has something strange going on with it.
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A woman visits her relatives living in a village. Soon she realizes that the house has something strange going on with it.
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This is the story of a young man who rebels against the Agha class in the east side of Turkey. The story ends with the death of the young man, who remains in the little girl he left an orphan and the young widow who is passionately in love with him.
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Turkish adaptation of Alejandro Casona's classic play Los Árboles Mueren De Pie.
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On a desert island, a young engineer lives like Robinson Crusoe, with his dog called Cuma. One day, a dream woman appears. They make love, but the women is afraid of something unknown. The young man is mesmerized, but by the time they confess they are in love, some strangers kidnap her.
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Turkish adaptation of the novel “Deadline at Dawn” by Cornell Woolrich.
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Turkish adaptation of the novel “Deadline at Dawn” by Cornell Woolrich.
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Turkish adaptation of the novel “Deadline at Dawn” by Cornell Woolrich.
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Üç tekerlekli bisiklet (Tricycle aka The Three-Wheeled Bicycle, I962) is a love story about a lonely woman with a small child and the man she hides in her house, who is chased and trapped, one of the staple motifs of Lutfi Akad’s cinema.
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Üç tekerlekli bisiklet (Tricycle aka The Three-Wheeled Bicycle, I962) is a love story about a lonely woman with a small child and the man she hides in her house, who is chased and trapped, one of the staple motifs of Lutfi Akad’s cinema.
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Cemil
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Turkish adaptation of Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" (This Gun for Hire).
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Sevistigimiz Gunler is a typical socio-economic story of three roommate girls in their early 20s' who are hoping to find their Prince Charmings. With a lot of references to Billy Wilder romance flicks, Things go crazy and wild when they both fall in love with three men. So their lives change dramatically as they forget about the bet, and come on the edge of marriage and pregnancy. But are the men whom they fell in love with, really worth considering as Prince Charmings, or are they just cheaters slickers?
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The story of a love-triangle with a middle-aged husband, a young wife and a young man.
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The story of a love-triangle with a middle-aged husband, a young wife and a young man.
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Directed by Memduh Ün
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Director
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The story of a father thrown into jail while innocent and a little girl who finds the true perpetrator of the murder.
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The story of a father thrown into jail while innocent and a little girl who finds the true perpetrator of the murder.
A young taxi-driver tries to make his newly married wife happy and joyful. But the wife, seduced by luxury and class, thinks otherwise and it leads to bad outcomes.
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Three men live in an abandoned building and try to eke out a living by pooling their meagre resources. They come upon a lonely blind girl one night, befriend her, and take her in as their guest, pretending they are rich. They learn that 800 lira will cure her blindness. One of the three decides to get the money by any means necessary, because he has fallen in love with her.
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Three men live in an abandoned building and try to eke out a living by pooling their meagre resources. They come upon a lonely blind girl one night, befriend her, and take her in as their guest, pretending they are rich. They learn that 800 lira will cure her blindness. One of the three decides to get the money by any means necessary, because he has fallen in love with her.
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Turhan Ün
