The Broken Landlord

The Broken Landlord 1985

8.13

The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everthing starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long drought and provocations of Kekec Salman (big brother of Kiraz), the peasants steal the crops and run away to Istanbul. Without the peasants and crops, Agha is also forced to sell the village and move to Istanbul. But he cannot keep up with the big city life and consumes all his money and belongings. Agha's wife and relatives leave him during this downfall.

1985

Cabaret Balkan

Cabaret Balkan 1998

7.70

20 people's paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

1998

Despite Everything

Despite Everything 1988

4.20

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.

1988

Illicit

Illicit 1983

4.50

It is the story of a worker girl who chooses to stay between two men as a result of unexpected events and eventually choose to escape with her truck driver lover.

1983

Futboliye

Futboliye 1983

1.50

The story of Hüsnü, a football enthusiast who has dreamed of playing the field for years.

1983

A Lonely Woman

A Lonely Woman 1985

5.00

Suna, who attracts attention with her beauty and personality, goes on vacation with her friend Ayla, who has severed her ties with romantic relationships. This vacation brings out their sexual desires and drags them into an unwanted predicament.

1985

One Woman One Life

One Woman One Life 1985

6.00

Learning that her husband is cheating on her with a woman who is her family friend, Nuran starts to struggle to save her marriage even though she is very upset.

1985

In Nowhere Land

In Nowhere Land 2002

6.00

Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate.

2002

Hunting Time

Hunting Time 1988

5.50

During the year of the repressive military regime, a Turkish writer gets disillusioned by the loss of a dear friend and retires to his hometown on a remote island where he feels safe from the political turmoil. There he escapes to the world of memories, having imaginary conversations with his dead friend. However, the news of a new murder alerts him to the dangers lying ahead. Shot in Turkey following the years of military regime, Av Zamani carries autobiographical elements as the director Erden Kiral also had to flee the repressive regime of his country to be an exile in Germany. The weakness of the film is that the director is not able to take enough distance from the events to give the story a more universal appeal. Av Zamani was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival 1988.

1988

Diploma of Madness

Diploma of Madness 1998

6.50

Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?

1998

My Cinemas

My Cinemas 1990

5.00

Nesibe lives with her parents on the outskirts of Istanbul; the family is poor, and her consistently unemployed father often takes out his frustration on the rest of the family. Nesibe knows that there has to be something more to life, and she finds it at the movies. As she recalls her childhood and adolescence, her own memories merge with scenes from the dozens of musicals, melodramas, and romances she saw to fill her days and to escape the desperation of her home life. But as she moves into adulthood, the contradiction between Nesibe’s cinematic dream life and everyday reality starts to affect her in unexpected ways.

1990

Kuyucaklı Yusuf

Kuyucaklı Yusuf 1985

5.20

An idealist district governor, Selahattin Bey, adopts Yusuf, orphaned after his family was killed by thugs. Yusuf falls in love with Muazzez, the daughter of Selahattin. But when Hilmi Bey’s son Şakir also wants to marry Muazzez, a conflict escalates.

1985