Movies: Ali Özgentürk

Asya, a peasant girl, marries İlyas, a truck driver. The couple, who love each other very much, are separated when İlyas cheats on her, and their epic love story comes to an unexpected end. After that, Asya takes her son and wanders away, not knowing...

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpe...

In 1961, the young writer Onat Kutlar goes to Paris to study philosophy. After discovering his passion for cinema at the Cinémathèque Française he decides to found a Cinematheque in Istanbul to bring the world of art cinema to Turkey. Although the Tu...

A man researches the death of his political activist father while in police custody....

On a misty morning, an old bus leaves Batum to go to Istanbul. As the bus stops at various places on the way, Russian women of all ages and professions, each with a unique tale, board. In this bus full of women, there are three Turkish men. Three bro...

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Story of daydreaming rebellious Rosa searching for love from her teenage years to her deathbed....

In this lush police mystery, the love of three different men for one woman spans five decades and results in one man's death....

A father and son come to grips with external hardships and their own human frailties as they attempt to earn enough money to send the boy to school....

Yengeç Oyunu (Crab Play) tells the story of women from a small city, trying to survive. Asya (Ayça İnci) who is a History assistant professor at Istanbul University moves to a town taking her 5-year old daughter İpek, hoping to build a new life. in a...

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The story of two couples, Ayla and Yadigar and Seher and Hüseyin, who know each other on a journey through the secret history of nudity. This journey begins with two women starting nude modeling in an art academy, beyond the husbands' knowledge. But ...

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In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a conseque...

The son of a wealthy, respected family seeks the hand of Hazal; unexpectedly, soon after her marriage, her husband dies. According to custom, as the deceased family had paid dowry for Hazal, she must marry the next male sibling—which in this case, ha...

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