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Burdened by troubles and caught between cultures, Riza takes a job as a mall Santa and finds that real life may not be so different from make believe.

Ferhat is a spoiled man who takes over his father's company. Ferhat's right hand is his childhood friend, the company's finance manager, Gökhan. They are not very kind to their employees. One day they will be friends with the restaurant owner. Ferhat falls in love with the restaurant owner's daughter Elif. But Elif is not a delicate and pure young girl. Her career, her hard character, and her witless intelligence, which are full of special trainings and superior services, will make Ferhat much more difficult.

"Çalsin Sazlar" tells the story of two friends, both dreamers and easy going, who fall in love with the same girl and the resulting relationships involving passion, conflict and friendship from a fun yet naively sorrow perspective. Encompassing the tragic lives of three characters and enriched by the various depths in each of their lives, this fiction portrays a love story using a "different" approach for Turkish cinema.

A foul-mouthed cat and its gang cross paths with humans.

After his father’s death, poor Berhudar is left dealing with his father’s huge debt to the mob. In one of his many attempts to find a way out of his problem, he meets Ezel. He hopes she will help him get out of the mess he is in. Little does he know the she’s dealing with a very similar trouble...

1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.

The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.

Mehmet who is an idealist advertising photographer, has just separated from his girlfriend Selin. He deeply suffers from love pain but doesn't lose his hope of regaining her. Then he meets the mysterious Defne, who encourages him to take action before everything is too late. With the other close friends of Mehmet, they make a secret plan to bring back the lost love, Selin who is a very popular singer now, and the hopeful adventure which no one is sure of its ending whether it will be happy or not, begins.

Kutay and Yusuf are two friends who work at a gas station. One evening, they decide to steal a night out on the town, but since they have no money, they take a considerable amount of cash from the gas station's cash register and head to the bars of Beyoğlu! It doesn't take long for the station owner, Ethem Bey, to notice the money missing from the cash register. Kutay and Yusuf, who are trying to find a way to replace the money, are fired when they can’t manage it. But as they leave, they take the car left at the station with them! The friends, whose paths cross with Osman Nuri and Selman, find themselves caught up in an inescapable mafia and hostage-taking/kidnapping adventure!

Necmi, Çetin and Muzo's biggest dream is to shoot a movie. For this they need money. Fortune smiles on their faces and they meet Kerim from Kadırga. Kerim sponsors the film they are going to make. The only requirement is to play the leading role in the movie. Of course, there is a small problem. Kadırgalı Kerim is a mafia.

The film tells the story of a young man who contracts a terminal illness and becomes a commercial star. Zeki supports his family by driving a taxi. After being hit by a car, he is taken to the hospital for examination. His friend Metin learns that Zeki has contracted a terminal illness. The businessman who hit Zeki includes him in an advertising campaign. Believing that everything is for a good cause, Zeki agrees to portray a young man on the brink of death in the advertisements. Despite the advertising campaign gaining significant attention nationwide, things will not unfold as the banker had anticipated.

Orhan, who has spent his entire life striving to be successful in his career, is unexpectedly dismissed from his job. Orhan, who was so devoted to his job that he had no social life and had never considered marriage, regrets all the things he gave up for his career. He had sacrificed everything for his job, but after the company decided to lay him off because they deemed him insufficient, he resolves to find a social activity to alleviate his regrets and decides to join a cooking class to socialize. On the first day of the cooking class, he meets a charming woman named Şirin, and his journey to savor life begins with her.

The story revolves around the beautiful Nazan, the neighbor's daughter, who manages to remain a virgin despite marrying two of the neighborhood's handsome men, Selami and Cavit; the fierce competition between Selami and Cavit for Nazan; the schemes orchestrated by Nazan's mother, Necla; and the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and their simple reactions. Nazan's mother Necla's schemes; the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and the sudden media attention their simple lives receive, all told in a humorous tone.

The film tells the story of Bulut and Müjde, who are forced to work together to get rid of a murder crime they did not commit, and find themselves in the middle of an adventure they never expected.

Bahri and Merve, who live in the same town, have been in love with each other since childhood. The young couple, who grew up together, now want to crown their relationship with marriage. Their goal is to get married and settle in Istanbul to live the life they have been dreaming of for years. However, there is a major obstacle standing in the way of their marriage.

Crazy lover Ahmet kidnaps the bride from the wedding, but there is a small mistake, or rather a surprise: he has kidnapped his old love Gül, the bride, along with the groom! While many surprises await Gül, who has been kidnapped in the wedding car, it turns out that Ahmet doesn't actually have a good plan. He wants to take Gül to her grandfather in the village, and at this point, his brother steps in. On the way to her grandfather's village, they will encounter one hilarious adventure after another...

Eyeing another shot at soccer club presidency, Ahmet draws up a plan that mires him in complicated nuptial agreements and a clumsy kidnapping scheme.

Since the death of his wife, Oflu Hoca has been living a bachelor's life. Saddened by his situation, his friends decide to marry him off. However, in the process, they find themselves on an unexpected adventure.

This is the Black Sea, where love, hate, joy, and passion are experienced in the most absurd way. The efforts of women, each of whom is a stubborn goat, to bring men to their knees, and the efforts of men to besiege women and break their resistance.

Bizum Hoca is a Black Sea native who, despite not completing his education, is self-taught. He learned everything he knows about religious scholarship from his father, Ahmet Fevzi Hoca, an Islamic scholar. After losing his wife Makbule, Bizum Hoca has not let anyone into his life and is a person whom everyone consults for advice. A cheerful and jovial individual, the teacher also focuses on the spirituality of the Islamic faith. He teaches his congregation that being a moral and conscientious person is as important and universal a value as worship. However, there are those in the congregation who do not agree with what Bizum Hoca says.

Leyla, a beautiful and feisty middle-aged woman, lives with her mother, whose nagging has become everyday background music. The two women fight shamelessly and cruelly, and in protest against her mother Leyla makes choices that even she herself finds a bit startling. Ahmet is a taxi driver, years younger than Leyla and confused after his father’s death. He still has to report his every step to his mother and obey his uncle who is the head of the family.

Mother Elif is known to be philanthropic and wise. She shares deep spiritual values such as love, peace, equality, sharing, tolerance, and compassion with all life she comes into contact with. This film shows her eventful life.

Ali and Meryem are an ordinary family on the face of it. Meryem has a child from a previous relationship with Ferit. When Ferit reappears years later, Ali puts his wife to a test of trust. While Meryem is caught between her sense of gratitude and the agony of love, Ali's self-esteem begins to crumble. Ferit's murder fans the flames of distrust between them. They are too suspicious of one another to talk. During the police questioning, they cling to one another once again. Complicity becomes the glue of trust between them. Now they are a proper family.

After losing her parents during a police raid at an early age, Grace is pledged to become a suicide bomber, but she falls in love.

The passionate love between a former boxer and a beautiful blind woman.

In a poor neighbourhood of Istanbul, a young homeless girl has been found dead. Six people from the neighbourhood are being interrogated. While the police camera is recording, these six witnesses find themselves caught in manipulation and abuse, forcing them to give away their innermost secrets.

The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.

This is the story of Durmuş and Dudu, who live in a remote mountain village. Durmuş, who is blind in one eye and has difficulty walking, dreams of escaping the village and starting a new life. While searching for treasure, he also writes letters to his childhood sweetheart, Cennet. Durmuş's elderly and ill mother, who wants to marry him off out of concern for the future, has chosen Dudu as his bride: Dudu, who was born deaf, mute, and unable to speak. Though Dudu is Durmuş's only companion after his mother's sudden death, things become complicated when Cennet suddenly appears. Cennet's courage to embrace life despite her impending death will serve as a beacon for Durmuş and Dudu.

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu.

Meryem, a young woman of 18, has been married for 18 months. But after six days of marriage, her husband left for Istanbul and hasn't reappeared since. As the days turn into weeks and months, Meryem longs for Mustafa and a settled married life, but she doesn't give up hope.

The life of Afife Jale, the first Turkish female theater artist, is recounted. Since childhood, Afife has been a free-spirited girl who loves her freedom. However, she lives in a conservative family environment. When she turned twelve, she was forced to wear a veil despite her objections. With the support of her family elders, her father allowed her to study painting at the School of Fine Arts. However, Afife's heart was set on theater. Initially, she staged plays for her friends on a small stage she had set up inside her home, performing the plays of the Afife Company. Her greatest obstacle was her father. With the support of her grandfather, the Pasha, and her childhood friend and lover, Dr. Ziya, Afife stood up to her father. She could not suppress her desire for much longer.

Cemil is a feisty young man from Trabzon who played for Trabzonspor in the mid-1990s. He transferred to Beşiktaş during the same period and changed greatly in character after moving to Istanbul. During a Beşiktaş-Trabzonspor match, he scored three goals against his former team, Trabzonspor, and then did three somersaults, earning him the nickname "Somersaulting Cemil" and turning all his old friends and fellow Trabzon natives against him. He left his fiancée Zeynep and settled in Istanbul, never returning to his hometown for 20 years. Now in his 40s, Cemil is forced to return to Trabzon when he hears that his father has had a heart attack. However, he is too late—his father has already passed away. He wants to return to Istanbul immediately after the funeral, but he is forced to change his mind after hearing the words of his closest friend, Kemal.

Four veterans who fought together on the Plevna front during the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War lose their commander in Plevna during a raid. Years later, in 1915, they learn that their commander's nephew, Lieutenant Yusuf, has been taken prisoner in the Battle of Gallipoli. The four elderly men and a disabled young man embark on a prisoner rescue operation.

Love and Revolution is a story that puts the years of youth at its center. These are the years in which humankind feels the sense of belonging, the urge to take root in life in the strongest way. This is a period in which the existing identities are not adequate and all kinds of thirst (intellectual, sexual, psychological, political, etc.) disturb the existence. The kernel of the sense of youth, which gives the movie its spirit, is desire. The desire for Love and Revolution.

Nora, who finds her own solutions to save her mother Roza, who is facing death due to a tumor in her brain, by having her bitten by a vampire and becoming immortal herself, is completely unaware of what she has gotten herself into. Kenan, who is trying to escape his dark past and build a new life for himself, has only one dream: to take his mother, who is in a nursing home, and move far away. Caught between the little girl who believes herself to be a vampire and the past that refuses to let go, Kenan must make a decision.

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, Bodrum. In fact he is considered by some to be the first ecologist. The film concentrates on this latter aspect of his character and through flashbacks portrays the inner turmoil of a man who is trying to come to terms with his past. The slow pace is somewhat of a drawback, the flashbacks are often confusing and the protagonist is not always very convincing. But the photography of the country side is exceptional Kenan Ormanlar and the short appearance by a very theatrical Hanna Schygulla of Fassbinder fame adds a little spice to the drama.

The most famous thing about Bitlis, as evoked by the song "Bitlis'te 5 minare" (Five Minarets in Bitlis), is the unique atmosphere of this small city, famous for its parched lands, historical fabric, and tobacco. Medine is an elderly woman living with her three adult children—one an imam at a mosque, one a worker at a cigarette factory, and the other a student at a tutoring center—and is overwhelmed by their troubles. The unexpected return of her fourth child, who was involved in pirated CD sales in Istanbul, escalates the problems and pushes the family into an even more untenable situation. In this distant and suffocating city, everyone—from the wounded cow roaming the hills to the imam at the mosque—has an issue related to pride. As the camera draws closer to its characters and events, it reveals that things are not as they seem, sparking our curiosity to understand the truth.