Tarık Akan
Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan.
He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3104 |
| Birthday | 1949-12-13 |
| Place of Birth | İstanbul, Türkiye |
| Also Known As | Tarik Akan, Tarık Tahsin Üregül, |
1975
The Chaos Class Failed the Class
7.716/146
A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class
2017
The Legend of the Ugly King
7/7
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed t...
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The Legend of the Ugly King
1988
El Kapıları
7/1
When Zeynel goes away to work, her lover Elif is adopted by a rich aga. After a while, it is heard that Elif is pregnant.
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El Kapıları
2009
Piano Girl
7.1/15
The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.
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Piano Girl
1987
Su da Yanar
8/1
It is the story of the dilemmas and struggles in the life of a film director during a period when fear and despair reigned, people were imprisoned, to...
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Su da Yanar
1973
My Dear Brother
8.338/80
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
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My Dear Brother
1974
The Blue Bead
7.505/94
After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Em...
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The Blue Bead
2003
Abdulhamid Falling
6.667/5
Şefik, a successful soldier, is one of the leading figures of the Committee of Union and Progress. When Abdulhamid II declares a constitutional monarc...
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Abdulhamid Falling
1995
Aşk Üzerine Söylenmemiş Her Şey
10/1
Five short films by five directors based on themes of love and tolerance, each independent of the other. Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Efes...
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Aşk Üzerine Söylenmemiş Her Şey
1975
The Chaos Class
7.994/168
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where the...
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The Chaos Class
2004
Vizontele Tuuba
6.15/107
Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolat...
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Vizontele Tuuba
1999
After the Fall
5.25/4
In the early days of the September 12 military coup, five-year-old Metin waits for his mother, singing to himself as he looks out the window. But his...
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After the Fall
1985
Son Darbe
0/0
Nazmi is a young man who works as a doctor in Mardin. One day, he learns that there has been a mass poisoning in a nearby village, so he goes there to...
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Son Darbe
1983
White Death
10/1
Meral is a show girl and drug addict and Yilmaz is a handsome police chief who fights against drug dealers. The tragic reality of the glamorous show w...
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White Death
1972
Sweet Talker
6.515/33
Ferit is a basketball player from Istanbul. One day, at a camp he attends, he meets Emine, a village teacher. They fall in love at first sight and get...
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Sweet Talker
1973
Oh Olsun
6.854/48
A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor of his factory, where one of them falls in love.
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Oh Olsun
1973
Yalancı Yarim
6.694/31
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Yalancı Yarim
1989
Layla, Ma Raison
9/1
Since childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, crying it out joyously far and wide - just the sort...
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Layla, Ma Raison
1991
Bir Kadın Düşmanı
7/1
Ziya's passion for his partner's wife Zuhal and his past mistakes have made his life miserable. On top of that, when his partner Nejdet died of kidney...
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Bir Kadın Düşmanı
1979
Seninle Son Defa
8/1
The film tells the story of a married woman who falls in love with a younger man. Nesrin is a middle-aged woman who is having problems with her husban...
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Seninle Son Defa
1986
Halkalı Köle
0/0
The couple, who are married and have two children, are in the process of divorcing. Problems that have accumulated throughout their marriage have led...
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Halkalı Köle
1985
Blood
7/1
Seyit Ağa, who attends a wedding to which he was not invited, starts an endless blood feud. A film adaptation of Osman Şahin's short story "Kanın Masa...
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Blood
1975
Oh Where
6.938/48
Three boys are having their higher education in Istanbul. In fact, they are messing around and dealing with radical politics, girls and gamble. Howeve...
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Oh Where
1984
Kayıp Kızlar
1/2
Young, beautiful, and innocent girls from different economic and social backgrounds, who share similar problems, fall into the hands of the prostituti...
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Kayıp Kızlar
1975
Our Family
7.765/83
A love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their marriage and he declares a war against the poor boy's f...
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Our Family
1991
Siyabend and Xece
8/1
The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.
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Siyabend and Xece
1975
Evcilik Oyunu
5.8/5
A young woman, Süreyya, distrustful of men, enters a sham marriage with Necmi Gökmen to escape rumors and guard her heart, only to discover he was her...
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Evcilik Oyunu
1978
Lekeli Melek
0/0
The film tells the story of a man trying to save his sister from a life of crime. When Yusuf was young, his parents separated. His mother took his sis...
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Lekeli Melek
1987
Kızımın Kanı
0/0
Cemil is a ski instructor who is divorced from his wife. His daughter Figen lives with her mother. Figen's boyfriend Hakan knocks her unconscious, rap...
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Kızımın Kanı
1977
The River
6.714/7
A group of young people living a luxurious life in Istanbul go to a village for a rafting adventure on the Euphrates.
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The River
1989
İkili Oyunlar
5/1
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İkili Oyunlar
1986
Adem ile Havva
7/2
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Adem ile Havva
1987
Skandal
0/0
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Skandal
1986
The Voice
8/1
Directed by Zeki Ökten.
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The Voice
1997
Antika Talanı: Karun Hazinesi
0/0
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Antika Talanı: Karun Hazinesi
1984
The Wrestler
6.154/13
With good guidance from director Zeki Okten but an uninspired script, this story of a brother and his Turkish family influenced by old and new traditi...
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The Wrestler
1975
Firefly
7.063/32
The road runner movie of two clever cheaters turns to a love story.
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Firefly
1983
Remedy
5.95/10
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 child...
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Remedy
1988
Dönüş
0/0
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Dönüş
1982
The Road
7.342/130
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from th...
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The Road
1994
Çözülmeler
0/1
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Çözülmeler
1990
Blackout Night
8.5/6
In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the governmen...
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Blackout Night
1991
Uzun İnce Bir Yol
9/1
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Uzun İnce Bir Yol
1972
Sev Kardeşim
6.596/26
A factory owners son falls in love with a worker who works at the factory.
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Sev Kardeşim
1979
Kanal
6.25/8
Based on real events, this story traces a young district governor’s moral awakening as he confronts a powerful landowner in rural Adana. What begins a...
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Kanal
1977
The Three Superboys in the Snow
7.286/7
Cafer, bored with his marriage, works as a cashier. One day he is caught embezzling a large sum of money and ends up in prison. Piraeus Mehmet, Fırıld...
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The Three Superboys in the Snow
1997
The Letter
4.75/4
A man researches the death of his political activist father while in police custody.
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The Letter
1983
Gecenin Sonu
0/0
The film is about a father and son, both notorious gangsters, reuniting after many years. Hasan, a notorious gangster, works for Osman, a heroin smugg...
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Gecenin Sonu
1971
Emine
4.667/6
The film tells the story of two brothers who fall in love with the same woman. Murat, who lost his father at a young age, takes on the entire burden o...
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Emine
1978
The Herd
7.523/43
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ri...
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The Herd
1977
My Dear Uncle
6.6/10
Turkish Uncle Buck. A funny slob (Tarik Akan) leaves his village after getting into trouble. He leaves with his friend (Suleyman Turan) who blackmails...
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My Dear Uncle
1973
Umut Dünyası
6/3
A girl later known as an orphan has to be taken care of because of an accusation of her Former employer. She gets fired and lands on the street. Rain...
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Umut Dünyası
1977
Bizim Kız
5.5/10
The lives of Hacer, Ömer, Tayfur, Haydar, and Cevriye take a dramatic turn when they find a baby in the courtyard of a mosque. The group decides to ta...
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Bizim Kız
1975
Delisin
6.485/33
A shy introvert falls for the photographer who took her pictures during high school. Confused and worried, she doubts that love will elapse and can ne...
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Delisin
1978
The Mine
7.133/15
When work accidents in a coal mine start to result in death, İlyas warns his colleagues working in the mine. It starts to collect signatures for the n...
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The Mine
1976
Let It Be
6.636/11
Ferit who works as a reporter on a newspaper, makes fake news about the olive oil king Hulusi. One day he writes that he adds machine oils to his oils...
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Let It Be
1972
Suçlu
5.333/3
A genetic narrator who lovingly loves his friend's wife tells the story.
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Suçlu
1973
Feryat
0/0
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Feryat
1990
Berdel
7.5/4
Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and his first wife gives birth to their forth daughter...
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Berdel
1984
Aflame
4.333/9
Handsome yacht captain Murat and beautiful Alev are two lovers preparing for marriage. But being together is difficult because of Murat's boss.
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Aflame
1973
Baby Face
5.5/2
The story of three siblings who lost their parents at a young age and went their separate ways. Known as Baby Face, Murat has been working for a gang...
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Baby Face
1971
Beyoğlu Güzeli
6.286/7
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Beyoğlu Güzeli
1974
Boşver Arkadaş
7.5/6
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Boşver Arkadaş
1976
Kader Bağlayınca
4/1
A devoted portrait photographer Murat and flower-selling entertainer Zeynep, who frequently clash yet deeply love each other while working at the same...
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Kader Bağlayınca
1972
Üç Sevgili
4.5/2
Ali is a flirtatious young man who is managing three girlfriends at the same time. When the three lovers, played by Meral Zeren, Fatma Belgen, and Sun...
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Üç Sevgili
1974
Yaz Bekârı
4.667/6
Orhan, who works at a bank, has an unhappy marriage. His wife, Şermin, drinks constantly, gambles, and neglects her family. Orhan tries to keep his ma...
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Yaz Bekârı
1980
The Sacrifice
8/4
After being released from prison, Müslüm will fulfill his dedication and sacrifice his 2.5-month-old son to God by cutting the throat of him.
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The Sacrifice
1985
Bir Avuç Cennet
8.5/2
The story of a family who moved from a village to Istanbul with two children in order to live a better life, but ended up living in an abandoned bus d...
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Bir Avuç Cennet
1976
Aşk Dediğin Laf Değildir
7/2
The love story of a handsome beach attendant with two young women, one rich and the other disabled.
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Aşk Dediğin Laf Değildir
1977
Baraj
5.444/9
Nazim, a foreman working on a dam construction, falls in love with Aysel, the most beautiful girl of the local brothel. Too shy to identify himself, N...
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Baraj
1986
The Other Side of Beyoğlu
5.1/9
Reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's 1985 production, After Hours, this film narrates the events of a night in the chaotic backstreets of Beyoğlu in Istan...
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The Other Side of Beyoğlu
1990
Devlerin Ölümü
0/0
About a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.
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Devlerin Ölümü
1987
Çark
0/0
The injustice that people suffer in the workplace and the weight of working conditions cause them to act.
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Çark
1975
Çapkın Hırsız
6.8/5
Orhan and Cemal are two thieves who work together abroad. Orhan learns that Cemal's grandfather, whom he has not seen since childhood, has a mansion i...
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Çapkın Hırsız
1983
Çoçuklar Çiçektir
6.833/6
The film depicts the horror of rabies in a small town. World War II is raging. The war affects the lives of people living in a small town in southern...
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Çoçuklar Çiçektir
1986
Acı Dünya
5.833/3
Yusuf, who attacked seven people with a knife in the middle of the street, begins to tell his life story in court. Yusuf, who was orphaned at a young...
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Acı Dünya
1971
Solan Bir Yaprak Gibi
6/2
A young couple meets a child on a day of an invitation. A child tells to her that she is his mother. Actually, she's that child's aunt.
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Solan Bir Yaprak Gibi
1975
Gece Kuşu Zehra
1/1
Ferit wins a large prize in the lottery and buys a car, then goes on vacation with his friends. He is very impressed by Semra, whom he meets at the ho...
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Gece Kuşu Zehra
1972
Aşkların En Güzeli
0/0
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Aşkların En Güzeli
1982
Kaçak
8/1
The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.
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Kaçak
1974
An Angel on Earth
5.75/4
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.
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An Angel on Earth
1972
Vefasız
5.333/3
The film tells the story of the love triangle between Zehra, Ömer, and Meral. Zehra lost her family in a traffic accident and considers the islanders...
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Vefasız
1972
Kaderimin Oyunu
9/1
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...
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Kaderimin Oyunu
1988
Kimlik
0/0
The story of a married couple who searched for identity after the September 12 coup and clashed with each other in this process.
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Kimlik
1977
The Girlfriend
2/2
This awesome and incredibly rare Turkish/Italian co-production, starts out as a Euro crime outing and quickly turns into a dark and sleazy House on th...
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The Girlfriend
1985
Paramparça
2/1
A car accident brings together Cemil and the young and beautiful doctor Ümran, whose car he crashes into. Cemil quickly falls in love with the young w...
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Paramparça
1981
Herhangi Bir Kadın
6.5/4
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Herhangi Bir Kadın
1988
The Third Eye
5.5/2
Tunç, who is a director, is looking for a location in a small town for his new film. He observes everything around him for his screenplay. However, he...
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The Third Eye
1971
Angel or Devil?
9/1
A young bride wows to take revenge on her father's killers.
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Angel or Devil?
1985
Tele Kızlar
5/2
Şahin is a courageous and aggressive police commissioner who pursues female traffickers. He is the nightmare of the gangs involved in white slavery th...
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Tele Kızlar
1986
Kıskıvrak
0/0
The film tells the story of the relationship between a police officer fighting crime syndicates and a model. Reyhan, who works as a model, is in a rel...
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Kıskıvrak
1979
Demir Yol
0/0
The fight of the striking railroad workers.
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Demir Yol
1984
Yosma
0/0
Kerem, who lives in a small town in Anatolia, goes to Istanbul on a business opportunity. However, things there do not go as planned and he remains un...
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Yosma
1989
İsa, Musa, Meryem
0/0
The film tells the story of two brothers who fall in love with the same woman. Isa grows up with his stepbrother Musa. Musa is in love with a woman na...
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İsa, Musa, Meryem
1990
A Little Cloud
0/0
A young man, his wife, and their child move to Istanbul to start a new life. Since they don't have a home, the family starts staying with the man's un...
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A Little Cloud
1993
The Passenger
8/1
The railway station in a small town in Western Anatolia where no birds or caravans pass, during the most active and critical days of the National War...
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The Passenger
1984
The Stigma
5/1
Tarik Akan plays a man who attempts to get revenge for the rape of his fiancee.
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The Stigma
1972
Azad Kuşu
0/0
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. Howeve...
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Azad Kuşu
1972
Sisli Hatıralar
4.5/2
The movie tells about the experiences of three men who are in love with the same woman. Businessman Atıf and his partner Timur are in love with the fa...
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Sisli Hatıralar
1973
Para
3/1
It tells the story of a man taking revenge on his girlfriend, who cheated on him with his closest friend, and on his friend. Murat and Aysel, who love...
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Para
1974
My Homeland
7.5/4
Leyla has become a stranger to her culture as a result of her family's wrong education. During her musical education in Vienna, she meets Mehmet, who...
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My Homeland
1974
Esir Hayat
9/1
The film tells the story of Aydın and Ayşe, who crossed the roads in Cyprus, for their love. Ayşe starts to work as a designer in the weaving factory...
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Esir Hayat
1974
Mahcup Delikanlı
4/1
The film tells the story of a man who is in love with the brother of a woman with whom he had an affair. Text, returns to Turkey to complete his educa...
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Mahcup Delikanlı
1974
Kanlı Deniz
7/1
The film tells about the struggle between two men who are in love with the same woman. Ahmet and Aziz fish. They both fall in love with Mary, the neph...
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Kanlı Deniz
1982
My Friend
8.333/6
The story of a man who learns that his friend, whom he loves more than his life, is the enemy he was looking for to kill.
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My Friend
1981
Deli Kan
10/1
Sefer, a fisherman from the village of Mitari in Rize, is in love with a girl named Zekiye. Although Zekiye loves him, she refuses to marry Sefer beca...
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Deli Kan
2004
Hayal Kurma Oyunları
10/2
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Hayal Kurma Oyunları
1987
Yağmur Kaçakları
5/4
The film tells the story of a man who flees abroad and his relationship with a foreign woman. The man is in prison for a thought crime. The man's sole...
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Yağmur Kaçakları
2003
Gülüm
9/1
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Gülüm
1977
Şeref Sözü
0/0
Story of two brothers, struggling to build a life after losing their father in a young age.
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Şeref Sözü
1987
We Called Him the Ugly King
10/1
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It...
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We Called Him the Ugly King
1995
Yılmaz Güney: Adana-Paris
10/1
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Yılmaz Güney: Adana-Paris
2014
We Hit The Road
9/1
Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted...
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