Serra Yilmaz
Country: Turkey
Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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A drama about how we find love and passion in our lives in the midst of chaos and disruption. (Sony Pictures Classics)
AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgendered friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life. (imdb)
As the Ottoman Empire comes to an end, an old servant spins a tale to keep the women in the Sultan's harem distracted... (imdb)
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and eventually strangles the maid. (imdb)
5 buddies all of them over 60 unite in their homeplace island where they spent their childhood. (IMDB Comments)
The Karadağs are a wealthy family that owns vast estates in Cappadocia. Their heir Seymen goes to study in New York where he meets Bahar, the daughter of a family from İstanbul. They fall in love, get married and move to the Karadağs' ancestral home, the "Asmalı Konak".
This movie is one of the most spectacular jobs the Turkish movie sector has ever come up with. The movie is semi-musical. However, what you can call funny in this movie is mostly achieved by using different accents of Turkish and maybe the most common cultural patterns, including beautiful classical Turkish music with lyrics changed according to the script. (imdb)
It's about a turkish guy who lives in Germany. Just like lots of other turkish people in Germany. He works as a street cleaner just to get his dream car. A yellow colored mercedes. (imdb/comments)
The story is very realistic and touchy. It is so successful at telling hypocritical morality of a conservative "Turkish family. The pressure implied on women for keeping family honor" whereas conniving mistreatment of those women. Such mistreatment lead Uftade, the youngest daughter of the family and the aunt of the story teller- become schizophrenia over years...
coming of age story of Esma, who is sent to her country relatives to spend the summer.
In Antioch, courtyards are separated from the streets with high walls and their doors are always closed. In Antioch, every courtyard is a world in and of its own. Among its inhabitants are Turks, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Alevites, Sunni Muslims... And a different language is spoken in every courtyard. (imdb)
Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an electrician shop which doesn't go well. They are in debt. The only fun they have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal's love for Sibel Ceylan who works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal's wife, Sevilay, saves her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact that Celal knows her secret... (imdb)
There are two unhappy people. Both of them are married but they don't like their husbands and wives. But they found something when they come together. They found a sip of love...
Kaan and Mete starts to make a radio programme like they are alone and no one listening to them. That programme will change their and listener's lifes briefly. They are keeping going their normal life while their programme was becoming famous. And "one night stand man" Kaan will fall in love with Zeynep...
Penelope is honest and responsible, while her husband Andrea, is an incorrigible cheater. When she discovers another infidelity of his, she leaves him and their three kids and goes to her grandma's sea house, where she tries to rediscover herself through a journey of internal search. Andrea faces the everyday difficulties of keeping a home together and being a true father to his kids. But what shakes him most is a discovery of his wife's secret affair, igniting his jealousy and love for her.
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul, produced by Sevil Demirci and Hüseyin Karabey, who attained international recognition especially with My Marlon and Brando (2008), comprises of six short films made by six internationally acclaimed directors aiming to remind that Istanbul's past does not only belong to the current peoples of Turkey. (IKSV)
"The Pomegranate" tells the story of a woman; seeking her own justice."The Pomegranate" questions the justice of four people with different beliefs in a house, in half a day and in their own realms of faith.Asuman is a fortune-teller with uncanny psychic powers who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul but tells fortunes of the rich at their own luxurious places. (AKSAV)
Traditional roles of men and women are reversed. Leyla, Leman and Hasibe are friends from the same neighborhood. Hasibe's father passed away and her mother is in love with a young man. Meanwhile, Leman is in prison and she finds out that the woman who killed her mother is sentenced in the same prison. Once Leman is released from prison she is going to try to seduce Zekeriya, Nuriye's ex-boyfriend, to hit back at Nuriye. The three friends would meet again. (imdb)
Even though they're happily married and welcomed a baby boy, Hüseyin Badem and Müjgan is having a tough time. In the meantime now a famous singer Firuzan returns to Geyikli with a broken heart.
Two ex-lovers encounter after long years. But they are not the same person as they were. The girl had to be a prostitute while the boy a rich industrialist. He wants to save her.
The love story of a popular lawyer who returns to his town after a military coup and a young girl.
Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean. (imdb)
This Turkish film chronicles a love triangle upon the southern coast of Turkey. Agah, a man in his fifties, has left city life in favor of a more bucolic existence where he can practice calligraphy and be with his young mistress Yıldız. Unfortunately Yıldız is too fiery and the two often fight. Matters are complicated by Agah's wife who moves into a neighbor's house to try to win him back. (allmovie.com)
Tommaso has just left his first wife but he will meet a new person who will change everything in his life. (imdb)
Living abroad for many years, writer, editor Orhan Sahin, the famous director to work on the first book of the sea Generic Istanbul 'to come. Deniz lives in a barn with his family in his last generation of riches. Orhan finds himself in the midst of complex relationships, mysterious friends and family members of the Sea on the first day. Years later, he returned to Istanbul 'u while exploring with new eyes, the feelings will begin to relive forgotten. (Wikipedia)
A principal desperately tries to prevent a common school accident from escalating to total war.
When Annamaria, a longtime friend of Alessandro and Arturo, ask the couple to take care of her children, the relationship between the two men reaches a point of no return. (imdb)
Parmakliklar Ardinda (2007) - TV Series
The lives of women in prison, as well as the adventures of their relatives who came to visit and the aftermath of those who went out. (imdb)
The Ignorant Angels (2022) - TV Series
Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Antonia discovers that he was having an affair with a man named Michele. At first devastated by the news, she finds herself building an unexpected friendship with this man she had never heard of. They both learn to know each other, to accept each other, to understand each other. Antonia thus discovers her husband's other family made up of friends with unusual lifestyles and different sexual identities. (imdb)