Menderes Samancılar
Birthday: Born in 1954-05-01 in Adana, Türkiye
Deathday: Alive
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Yalı Çapkını
Character: Necip
A young girl is forced to marry a rich groom. The groom is not only rich, but also allows himself to live without any restrictions or obligations. Will married life change his habits? And how will such a man be accepted by a good-hearted wife?...
Hükümsüz
Character: Akil
Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate. One murder will cross the paths of these two different women. But how?...
Magarsus
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Follow the struggle of the Kurak family, who traded in citrus fruits in Sarıbahçe, both with each other and with foreign powers who want to dominate the region....
Bambaşka Biri
Character: Idris Usta
The brutal murder of Hamdi Atilbay in the forest crosses the paths of young prosecutor Leyla, who wants to leave her messy past behind and now establish her new order, and Kenan, an ambitious journalist who has a regular and famous life. However, this murder heralds the destruction of not only their love, but also the truth they know about their lives....
Çoban Yıldızı
Character: Fikret
Fikret Karakaya is a very powerful and feared man, coming from very wealthy family. Being and old man, he has a serious desire to marry young beautiful girl named Zühre. Zuhrs father unfortunately sells her to Fikret and she is forced to marry him. Zuhre has no support from her family or anyone else until she bumps into a young man Seyit. Seyit comes from honorable and respected family. He witnesses the struggle and torture Zuhre is going through and is helpless not to be able to help her proper...
Hayat Devam Ediyor
Character: Hazım
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Bütün Çocuklarim
Character: Ahmet Kıroğlu
The soap that introduced Erica Kane and her many husbands to the masses launched on Jan. 5, 1970, and won a number of Best Drama Emmys along the way. Set in Pine Valley, a fictional East Coast burb, `AMC' was created by the prolific Agnes Nixon and has been a soap with a social conscience, tackling issues like addiction, abortion and homosexuality. In fact, it featured daytime's first lesbian kiss, between Erica's daughter Bianca and con woman Lena Kundera, who later stole her heart....
Sıla
Character: Celil Sönmez
A young woman's forced marriage to the agha of a tribe in Southeastern Turkey leads to tragedy and social change....
Cahide
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Kayıp
Character: Hasan Deliorman
A young boy Karim suddenly gets kidnapped by falko his dad's unknown enemy in order to get even with his dad for snatching his girlfriend away from him....
Kış Masalı
Character: Mamuk
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Urfalıyam Ezelden
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Asmalı Konak
Character: Bekir
Asmalı Konak was a Turkish TV series directed by Çağan Irmak and written by Mahinur Ergun and Meral Okay. It was shown on ATV for a total of 54 episodes. The finale of the series was released as a feature film titled Asmalı Konak: Hayat....
Güvercin
Character: Bedir
The series tells the story of Zulf, who was thrown into a well in a deserted place where there are not even birds flying .. While she was waiting for her death, she was rescued by a young man named Kinan who appeared in front of her as a miracle, but when she discovers who Kanan is, she will be shocked by the shock of her life .. Kinan who saw Zalf The one who talks about her beauty being thrown into the well will turn his world ... The crime that was committed fifteen years ago will return, and...
Kuvvetli Bir Alkış
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Struggling with existential angst and longing for his past life in an orange, a man navigates his quirky family in this decades-spanning drama....
Çember
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A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders....
Altın Koza
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Mesela Muzaffer
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What's Fatmagül's Fault
Character: Rahmi Hasırcı
Story of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life....
Ah Nalan Ah
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The Blue Exile
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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 pa...
Yaban
Character: Süleyman
Ahmet Celal, who was injured during the war, is in great pain and a young woman named Emine helps him and saves him and heals him. A stormy love breaks out in those scenes and the intrigued life of that love is worked out....
On Fertile Lands
Character: Irgat
The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova....
Geçim Otobüsü
Character: Destan
The film depicts the events that unfold among the candidates in the mayoral elections. A town called Örenyurt becomes a district. Upon this, Zühtü and Tarık, two wealthy residents of the region, decide to run for mayor. The two candidates set off for the town in their campaign buses. During the journey, they travel alongside a public bus called the Geçim Otobüsü, which is also heading to the same town. While the Geçim Otobüsü transports the townspeople, the election buses will be in competition ...
Ölüm Savaşı
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Bekçi
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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 consequence he is often the unwitting and unknowing brunt of jokes. His wife and daughters are painfully aware of his shortcomings, but they generally suffer in silence. One of the daughters ends up working in the factory to help the family out financially, ...
Yedi Uyuyanlar
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Güneşli Bataklık
Character: Devrimci Kerim
Workers' struggle for justice triggers the political tensions of the period....
Riza
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Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he desparately tries to drum up the money for the repairs. And this includes being prepared to commit a brutal crime....
Piano Piano Kid
Character: Tevfik
In 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child....
Watchtower
Character: The boss
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own....
Robert's Movie
Character: Hırsız
Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives him the erotic charge of his life. He begins taking film of their bedroom encounters and says some pretty excessive things about how marvelous she is to him. Meanwhile, his local friends don't trust or l...
Halkalı Köle
Character: Şehmus Öz
The couple, who are married and have two children, are in the process of divorcing. Problems that have accumulated throughout their marriage have led them to decide to separate. During the divorce proceedings, they will reevaluate their relationship and marriage....
Winter Flowers
Character: Mehmet
After 17 years as a laborer in Germany, Mehmet is deported and his wife and son remain in Germany. Unable to come back legally, Mehmet embarks on a long and dangerous journey to return to Germany illegally....
Children of Secret
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Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang which Cemil takes refuge in Haydarpasa, tries to send him back to his home by putting his pocket money. While the gang gather money for Cemil, they, at the same time, suffer from harsh living conditions. In the mean time Cemil's mother Münevver comes to Istanbul in the hope of finding her son....
Bu Talihimin Canına Okuyacağım
Character: Yusuf
Ferdi, who went to Germany with his father years ago, now wants to return to his homeland. He marries his girlfriend Ayten and returns to his country. He begins living with his mother and uncle, who have been waiting for him for years. However, his relationship with his uncle, to whom he has been sending money for years, deteriorates. Because he did not marry his uncle's daughter, his uncle and cousins become hostile toward Ferdi. While Ferdi and Ayten try to establish a new life together, his c...
Siyabend and Xece
Character: Siyabend's Uncle
The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth....
Seyyid
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The film tells the story of Seyyid, who is trying to build a new life after being released from prison. Seyyid has just been released from prison, where he was sent because of a blood feud. His enemies are waiting for an opportunity to kill him. Having escaped his enemies, Seyyid comes to Istanbul and starts working as a carpenter. He leads a quiet and solitary life. One day, he meets Sedef at a nightclub. This encounter quickly turns into love. The couple will fight to leave their enemies behin...
Sıcak Tatlı Yaz
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The film is about the life of a gigolo. Bekir, a gigolo, is with a rich woman named Oya. One day, Oya hits a woman with her car. Bekir helps the woman who was in the accident. At the hospital, he meets Esra, the woman's roommate. A friendship develops between Bekir and Esra, who is a sex worker. They fall in love with each other. Bekir wants to build a life with Esra. For this reason, he decides to rob Oya's house with his brother. However, things will not go as Bekir planned....
Derdim Dünyadan Büyük
Character: Kerim
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Dil Yarası
Character: Arif
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Time of Love
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Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men....
Bir Avuç Gökyüzü
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Ahmet, who was arrested some time ago for a political crime, has been unable to escape the effects of those painful days. Except for his girlfriend Neşe, he views everyone and everything with suspicion and lives in a state of strange fear. He cannot share all his fears with his wife Ayşe because there is a fundamental incompatibility in their relationship. Moreover, he is constantly accused by his wife....
Zamansızlar
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Kara Çarşaflı Gelin
Character: Haydar
In "The Bride with the Black Veil" (1975), director Süreyya Duru continues to focus on social issues, exposing problems of the peasants and feodal relations....
Kaledeki Yalnızlık
Character: İrfan
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Memories of the Wind
Character: Fevzi
At the times of World War II, accomplished painter and translator Aram flees Istanbul due to political offenses. When he is trapped at the USSR-Georgia borders, his flight turns into a remembrance of things past......
İnce Memed Vuruldu
Character: Vurgun
A notorious bandit known as İnce Memed falls in love with club singer Sabah, but when he travels to Istanbul to propose, criminals mistakenly murder her instead, prompting revenge....
Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky?
Character: Yazar
Bahadır, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand, he has a great ambition to make films like his idol, Tarkovsky. He stands between his dreams and the real, tragicomic conditions....
Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma
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The Yellow Mercedes
Character: İbrahim
The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer...
Kaşık Düşmanı
Character: Köylü
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Cheery blossom time
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Zıkkımın Kökü
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Wife as Gramophone
Character: Rıfat Bey
In the 1930s in Konya, Turkey, the famous belly dancer Cemile dreams of going to the big city. Murat falls in love with her....
A Long Night
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The story of a young woman who abandoned her husband and ran away with the man she had been in love with since her childhood....
Blackout Night
Character: Burhan Morkaya
In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the government suspects him of being a communist. Most of the movie follows him while he is on the lam, and during his reunion with his wife, who grows testy from the restrictions that hiding him impose on her. Eventually he turns himself in, and while in prison, suffers some torture. All the same, he endures with the flame of his spirit undiminished....
Eskici ve Oğulları
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The film depicts the struggles of a poor family. A father who repairs shoes works alongside his two sons. The father wants his eldest son, Mehmet, to find another job. Mehmet decides to work as a cotton picker with his wife and children. Ali, the younger son who cannot get along with his father, also begins working with them. The father suggests that they all work together to pool their money and then renovate the shop. Upon this, the entire family goes to pick cotton. However, things will not g...
Kanal
Character: Ahmet
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 as a routine bureaucratic act soon turns into a struggle to shield villagers from exploitation, greed, and the threat of malaria....
Asmalı Konak: Hayat
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Bahar (Nurgül Yeşilçay) is sent to New York because a serious illness. Treated in hospital Seymen Aga (Özcan Deniz) and Bahar try together to overcome this disease. Seymen Aga trying to be as strong as possible and not to give up. In Kapadokya, where their family and friends, they are waiting for the good news from the U.S.....
Toprağın Çocukları
Character: Hanro
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Les clients d'Avrenos
Character: Controller
Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of the French Embassy who recently died. It is Lélia, the blonde, who asked her to come. She wants to understand the ties that bound them both to Jonsac, to understand the strange couple that this desperate dandy formed with Nouchi, the ex-Bulgarian bar girl. Lélia, the middle-class woman from Istanbul, wants to understand at last, ten years after the...
I Saw the Sun
Character: Cuma
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul....
If You Die, I'll Kill You
Character: Cheto
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in P...
My Father's Wings
Character: İbrahim
Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the future after being diagnosed with a malignant tumor. This self-assured debut contemplates the dignity of the individual within the context of modern Turkish society....
Babaların Babası
Character: Nejdet
When Nejdet learns that the other mafia bosses he works with are plotting behind his back, he decides to teach them a lesson. The biggest surprise he has in store is his son, whom he has kept hidden from everyone for many years. However, Berk, a conservatory graduate, is a ballet dancer. The young man, who knows nothing about any of this, dreams of becoming a principal ballet dancer. Berk, who lives a modest life with his ballerina girlfriend, suddenly finds himself caught up in a showdown betwe...
He's Convict Now
Character: Osman
Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange....
Whistle If You Come Back
Character: Pezevenk Adıgüzel
A dwarf and a transvestite, 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....
Mist
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Two Turkish brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the political fence. When one of the brothers is murdered, the boys' father suspects that his surviving son was instrumental in the killing. Celebrated film director Elia Kazan returns to his acting roots in a key supporting role....
Cold Nights
Character: Mahmut
Tomix, Tam-Tam and Mützen-Jacky are children of the street earning their living with music. They travel from one town to the other with their instruments to perform in the streets and in restaurants. Making music is the only thing they have ever learned. They are led by old Mahmud, an alcoholic. He is the one who concludes the business and takes in the money....
Tight Dress
Character: Zirak
Mert, who lives in Istanbul with dreams of becoming a big actor but has failed to achieve success, is a fan of Marlon Brando. One day, a great opportunity arises for him. Mert, who is not in good shape for the audition, will he be able to achieve success?...
72. Koğuş
Character: Ali
A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager....
Bu Şehrin Geceleri
Character: Nihat
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Darbe
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Güneşe Köprü
Character: Recep
When water is poured onto the cotton field, Musa, whose crop is ruined, cannot pay his debt. He has only one option to save his field from the loan shark: to work at Captain Tayfur's sand quarry. He leaves his wife in the village and starts working with a group of workers whose lives are as painful as his own....
Gün Akşam Oldu
Character: Selim
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Sevdan Öldürdü Beni
Character: Cabbar
Yusuf is a quiet man who lives in the village with his mother and wife. He has a feud with Seyfettin, who tried to take his wife away from him years ago. When his pregnant wife's labor pains intensify, Yusuf wants to take her to the city by minibus, but Seyfettin sabotages the minibus, and Yusuf's wife dies on the way.Upon learning of the situation, Yusuf shoots Seyfettin, seriously wounding him. Yusuf is sent to prison, where he meets Cabbar. After both are released, the friends begin working a...
Ayrı Dünyalar
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Omar and Us
Character: Sabri
Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles to communicate with his family and people surrounding him. His only son abandoned him and left to the U.S....
Fırat'ın Cinleri
Character: Köylü
The lives of people crushed by the feudal landowner system....
Il derviscio
Character: Izak
The brother of Mevlevi Sheikh Ahmet Nurettin is thrown into prison despite being innocent. Dervish believes that his brother will eventually return because he is innocent. However, his hopes are shattered when the judge sentences his brother to death. The dervish embarks on a great reckoning within himself, decides to confront those responsible, and begins to incite the people to revolt. Over time, he himself will become part of the very power he opposes......
Chance or Coincidence
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Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her....
İçimdeki İnsan
Character: Yüksel
Nuri, whose sole aim is to return to Istanbul by selling a garden left to him by his father, has an interesting encounter with his old friend Sabri in the city. Sabri, however, has just smashed his boss's head in due to sudden psychological trauma he suffered at the government office where he works, and things start to get even more complicated. As Nuri prepares to return to Istanbul, he receives news that his friend Sabri has committed suicide in prison. Now Nuri has a purpose. He decides to un...
Opening the Door
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Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, whom they lost twenty-five years ago. All the suffering of the family is refreshed. Yakup and Şemsa go to Mardin with their grandchildren, Nardin, who do not want to leave them alone. This trip will be the beginning of all their personal journeys. Whe...
9,75
Character: Zinar Dede
During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the chaotic days of Gezi Park protests in Istanbul start, Ahmet learns he has a brain tumor. Just as the lines between truth and fiction, the dream and the reality start to get blurred for him, he meets Serap; the love of his life. But time is ticking and his painful past weighs down on him every day, suffocating him with the same question: Who is the ch...
Der gelbe Satin
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Ayşe
Character: Manager
Ayşe (47) lives with her brother Rıdvan (38), who has down syndrome, on the outer edge of the ever-growing Istanbul, where the face has begun to change. Their father has been waiting for death in a hospital for a long time. When Ayşe receives a marriage proposal from an international truck driver who stops by the gas station where she works, she makes a choice between her destiny and her dreams....
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Character: Self
Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many differe...
İster Darıl İster Sarıl
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