Movies from Turkey
Movies from Turkey ? Why not ?
Here are some selected movies from Turkey !
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Drama)
by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes: the sense that “something new and different” will spring up behind every hill, but always unerringly similar, tapering, vanishing or lingering monotonous roads.
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VIZONTELE (Comedy,Drama)
by Yılmaz Erdogan
The film is about the introduction of television to a small village in southeast Anatolia in 1974. Employing a tragicomic language, it tells of the efforts of Emin who is the village idiot and Nazmi who is the mayor of the village. Emin and Nazmi attempt to start the broadcasting of television in their village and face various difficulties in this process.
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ESKIYA (Drama)
by Yavuz Turgul
After serving a 35-year jail sentence, Baran, a bandit, is released from prison in a city in Eastern Turkey. After 35 years, it is no surprise that the world has changed dramatically.
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HAMAM (TURKISH BATH) (Drama)
by Ferzan Ozpetek
Francesco and Marta are husband and wife running a small design company in Rome. When Francesco’s long forgotten Aunt Anita dies in Istanbul, he travels there to look after the sale of the hamam (one of a few traditional Turkish baths left) he inherited. There he meets the family running the hamam, gets attracted to a member of it and the whole Turkish atmosphere and decides not to sell the hamam.
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DISTANT (Drama)
by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin’s visit.
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DUGUN DERNEK (WEDDING) (Comedy)
by Selcuk Aydemir
A group of people in an eastern Turkish village are enlisted to throw a big and brash wedding in ten days notice.
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MUSTANG (Drama)
by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
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ORGANIZE ISLER (Organized Works) (Comedy)
by Yılmaz Erdogan
A struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.
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