Türkan Soray
Date of Birth: 28 Jun 1945
Country: Turkey
Biography: Stepping into the acting world at the tender age of 15, Şoray rose to prominence in late 60s. Belonging to the group of four major female leads, (others being Filiz Akın, Fatma Girik and Hülya Koçyiğit), Türkan Şoray has been dubbed "the sultan" of Turkish cinema. She's acted well over 200 movies over 40 years, and winning several awards, including the best actress award four times in Antalya Film Festival Awards (Turkish counterpart of 'the oscars'). She still acts in tv se
Total Credits at Criticker: 193 (Actor), 5 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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This is a sad love story of a lorry driver who fell in love with a beautiful, young village girl... (IMDB Comments)
Tells the love story of "the woman of the city" who works in a cabaret in Istanbul and a fruit seller from rural background who lives on the fringe of the city. (utopianstudieseurope.org)
About a friendship between two different sorts of guys, the business that they build together and the love and jealousy which arises when one marries the other's ex.
A peasent borrows money to buy some land.he can't pay his debt so he has to go to germany to work leaving his wife back home.
The story is about a man(Erol) who cannot help himself thinking his late mother..Erol (Haluk Bilginer)always calls her mother, but one day she returns, and the story begins. (imdb)
Daughter of a private eye falls in love with father's playboy client. Pretending to have a busy love life, she makes him jealous and he also starts to love her. When father discovers the affair he asks the Playboy to leave his daughter not knowing she's pregnant. (imdb)
New bride Sultan, witnesses her husband's dead on their wedding night. So her parents-in-law tells her to wait for her 5 year old brother in law to grow and become her husband.
A story of a woman, who has just broke up with her husband, gets 11 million liras after her uncle has passed away. But in one condition she could get the money; that she has to be married.
A story of a love triangle between two brothers and a girl. True love will gain again?
Nazım refuses the marriage of Nevin to save his father's life. And Nevin came back to take revenge. But all of her hate destroy only herself!
A young female judge gets appointed to the southwestern Turkish town of Bodrum and meets the town's powerful and rich landowner.
Coskun is a naive budding young scriptwriter who is haunted by the ghosts of two characters created by a filmstar. A script he has written is accepted when his favourite actress intervenes, but when the film becomes a commercial stereotype, he is disappointed. (BFI)
Young and beautiful actress Azize (Turkan Soray) who performs in tent theatre, meets with snob guy Tarik (Kartal Tibet) by chance...
Two childhood friends grow up in a same city and when they became adults they keep their friendships till the fate seperates their ways...
A girl is brought up in mountainous area by his father. And when she grows up, she meets a guy, who is from Town to decided to live in same place. But then, he changes his mind and turns back to the city. Meanwhile, girl's father has been wounded... And before he dies he asks guy to take care his daughter and marry her.
A poor woman (Ayşe) has to work in a factory to feed her two children... Someday, a friend of her starts a fire in factory, kills the boss and accuse Ayşe with fire and murder...
After his father's death Ahmet returns the village to sell his properties. He quickly falls in love with Zeynep. However she accepts Riza's proposal, because of Ahmet's spoiled behaviors. Ahmet, can't accepts this and kidnaps Zeynep at her wedding night.
A sportman and an engineer's struggle to get married to a teacher who recently came to the district.
A man dies in a fishing boat, and the family shares his fortune. But in dead man's testament someone (Osman) is mentioned as an inheritance.
Kemal and Turkan meets by a traffic accident and they fall in love... As time goes, Türkan discovers that Kemal has his own secrets!
A sad love story woven with dead ends, dilemmas and broken hearts...Cem sets out to see his father in his deathbed and returns to Amasra, which he fled 20 years ago. However, he can not even use his own name, he has to assume his dead brother Cemal's identity. When he reaches Amasra, Cem has to attend his father's funeral. Cem's mother finds him responsible for Cemal's death, and her silence is too painful for him to bare. (tulumba.com)
Mine, is the young wife of the station master in a little town and the object of desire among the men of town. Still she lives an unhappy and reserved life. A young author will change her life and also create a lot of controversy in the town.
Hürmüz is a very beautiful young and married woman. She loves her husband very much, but her husband in prison. One day she goes to the prison to see her dear. But there is surprise is waiting for her, his husband has six wives too. Hürmüz is a different woman after that. She will marry six men too...
According to myth, Sahmaran who is the Queen of snakes live under the tunnels of Istanbul where is suitable geographically for her and one day a Bey (turkish title:Bey=Lord) who is cheated by his enemies, fell into a deep well. Somehow he can find a way underground and he meets Sahmaran by chance. Sahmaran who has prejudices about human beings and hates them, finds some common features about that man who has told her how he cheated by his enemies... (imdb)
The young but well-established professional singer in this story had a romantic relationship with her lutenist. Now he has died, and she meets his sister and has a long conversation with her. As a result of that conversation, she recapitulates her relationship with the man in her memory, from their first acquaintance, through to their attraction and romance, and on to his eventual death. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)
Berdel means a kind of exchange between two families. One family gives a girl to be bride as the dowry payment of the bride they're taking from another family. This "tradition" was used in South-eastern Anatolia, mostly young girls were being given. The film focuses on the drama of this situation with another suppresion on women. It was that giving birth to a baby boy instead of girls was accepted as the main duty of women in Anatolia.
Adapted from Yasar Kemal's book, Yılanı Öldürseler is about Esme(Soray) who is heavenly beautiful and his son Hasan(Sezer). Esme's husband Halil(Mekin) is killed by a bandit(Cevher) who is in love with Esme. Although the bandit was killed, Halil's mother(Rona) and brothers start to instigate Hasan to avenge his father by killing Esme, his mother. Soon, Hasan slowly loses his mind and thinks about murdering his beloved mother.
Kumcular and Kumcuogullari are two families from the Black Sea region of Turkey and they have a blood feud between them for long years. Güllü (Türkan Soray) comes to Istanbul with his gun to kill Ali (Ediz Hun) from the other family.
A bus driver falls in love with a female university student. One of the first social realist movies in Turkey
Famous bellydancer Cemile lives in a small town, but she dreams about moving to a big city for a better life. One day, coach driver Murat falls in love with her and commits a murder because of her.
Selma - married to a rich and ruthless man - finds love with a poor contractor.
It is a love story of a man who became disabled by an accident and a woman who is rich and living a colourful life. (imdb)
Feride is the orphaned daughter of an army officer, and as a teenager attends Lycee Notre Dame de Sion in the winter, and stays with one of her late mother's sisters during the summer holidays. She is given the nickname "the Wren" during her time at school for her vivacity and mischief, two characteristics considered unusual and even a bit inappropriate for Muslim girls at that time. She gets engaged to her charming cousin, Kamran. She remains desperately in love with Kamran. (en.wikipedia.org)
From the famous novel "Huzur Sokagi", this melodrama is about two lovers from different lifestyles.
A poor and young woman is left by his lover after being pregnant. And she begins to work as a taxi driver.
Love story between a successful, middle-aged bank manager Yuksel (Türkan Şoray) and retired biology teacher Adnan (Rutkay Aziz).
Aysel (Türkan Soray) is working brothel in Bursa and Nazim Usta (Nasser Malekmotei) is an engineer in Antalya. They send mail each other and he send Orhan's (Tarik Akan) photo in stead of himself. She comes to Antalya and three people starts to play with love in lies...
The story of the struggle of a family claiming right to lands which belongs to farmers
It lives in a Bosphorus neighborhood , medium gain or poor ... but always hopeful , loving each other , even in anger and fight sober people is the story of ...
Ahmet falls in love with a prostitute; kidnaps her in order to save her from this wicked life of hers.
A woman tries to get revenge of her murdered husband on the day of their marriage
The story of two gypsy lovers who hesitate to express their feelings to one another
Ten women from different segments of society, involve in crimes. All profiles are acted by Türkan Şoray
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.
A woman saves herself from punishment by accepting to marry a wealthy man
In a Kurdish village a young widow is the newlywed of a 12 year old boy. The situation spirals into a dramatic end.
Tatlı Hayat (2001) - TV Series
A Turkish remake of "The Jeffersons". With Ihsan Yildirim's cleaning business booming, he insists his family leave the "plain folks" and move up to Etiler with the "fancy folks." It is Ihsan's hope that relocation and his newly acquired wealth will mean the end of his problems in general and his troubles with neighbors in specific. But life in a luxurious high rise holds some unexpected pitfalls for the Yildirims.
Ikinci Bahar (1998) - TV Series
One day, a mother of two children, Hanim starts to work in "Antep Sofrasi"; a Turkish kebab restaurant which a father of three girls Ali Haydar owns. While he is thickheaded, a bit angry, but kind, honest and generous; she is quick tempered but so sentimental and fragile also. They fell in love; to live their "Second Chance"s in life.
Woman is unhappily married with a businessman. She encounters a painter at holiday and a love affair develops between them
Feridun begins to live in the same house with Hatice and her daughter, who are distant relatives, in order to fulfill his father's will. (imdb)
The sad story of a rural mother who goes to big city in order to find cure to his ill child
Events take place during WWII. Türkan Şoray plays an unhappily married woman who one day meets with an army major and gets confused between two men
Turkan's father sells her to agha because of his debts. At the wedding day, she escapes with her lover.
The story of a girl working as a coffee maker in a hotel and a man sent to the Korean War.
Apti marries another woman after his wife, Melike, dies at a plane crash. But it appears at the wedding day that Melike actually survived the accident. Comical events occur thereafter.
One of the most poignant films of Ülkü Erakalın, the prolific "director of romance films." The opening credits run down from Türkan Şoray's eyes, who plays Leyla, a girl who works for a scoundrel named Turgut. She reluctantly accepts to work for him one last time to con Suat, a rich and famous pianist. As she mock seduces Suat, the two genuinely fall in love and get married. Turgut causes trouble for the lovers and Leyla's secret past turns things into a nightmare. (İKSV)
The love story of Fosforlu and Kemal who know each other through chance.
Two film school graduates intimidated by the gender stereotypes that pervade film industry decide to make a documentary to explore the issue. The two women spend two years shooting, make 5000 kilometers, talk to established women directors and record every moment of this journey of discovery and self-discovery. But the real journey is just about to begin. (imdb)
Bir zamanlar Osmanlı: Kıyam (2012) - TV Series
One of the most important revolts in the Ottoman Empire is the 1729 Patrona Halil Rebellion. It is at a time when Sultan 3. Ahmet was on the throne and his efforts to shift Ottoman relations with Europe from the battlefields to the field of diplomacy were experienced. (imdb)
Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.
Türkan is a young woman who wants to be a famous artist. Taking music lessons from her mother, who is a sound art, Türkan approaches her dream step by step. One day, Türkan's mother decides to go on stage no matter what happens. However, when he gets worse on the stage, he is taken to the hospital. Türkan's mother, whose condition worsens in the hospital, passes away after a while. In this process, Fikret, one of the casino's customers, helps Türkan, who is all alone in the world. Türkan,
Altın Kızlar (2009) - TV Series
Portrait of three women living in the same house and the events that happened to Safiye (Fatma Girik), mother of İsmet (Hülya Koçyiğit).
Cemile (2006) - TV Series
A mother who falls victim to a forensic mistake tries to rebuild her life.
Aşk Yeniden (2007) - TV Series
The story of Lale and Mete, who cannot be separated for their daughters.
Mürüvvetsiz Mürüvvet (2004) - TV Movie
The story of Mürüvvet, a beautiful woman whose marriage ended in unfortunate events.
A couple who broke up years ago come together for their daughter. A showdown begins between them.
The movie is based on a book of the same name by Orhan Kemal. The story of Güllü (Türkan Soray) and Muzaffer (Kartal Tibet).
Türkan is tormented by thoughts of her turbulent family past that has been blighted by family rivalries and intrigues. (imdb)
A young man who grew up with an orphan girl and realizes that one day he is in love with her, but he cannot express his love. The young girl also loves her, but she can't even say it to herself. (imdb)
Selma Günes (Neriman Köksal) works in the pavilion, but her daughter Türkan (Türkan Soray) does not know this.
Young girls are excited to hear that Iskender will come to the school as a teacher. Students affected by Iskender look for ways to impress him. (imdb) Ediz Hun's first movie.
The love story of a man working in the same house with a young girl who marries an old man. (imdb)
Adapted from the same named novel by Muazzez Tahsin Berkant. The story of Zeynep Gökalp.
The story of Murat, who is torn between Türkan, who works at the factory, and Nazan, his uncle's daughter.
A melodrama set in a huge villa most of the time, the beautiful young son has his face atrociously disfigured, his dominant mother tries to find him a bride, lots of music and opulent cinematography too. (imdb)
The story of three men doing dirty work to get the farm they work. (imdb.com) Türkan Şoray's first movie.
Living among the poor and friendly fairground entertainers, a young woman has to accept a businessman's offer to act as a double of his disappeared daughter, in order to raise money for the sick and old mentor of entertainer friends. (imdb)
Zeynep, a member of a gang of professional thieves, is tasked with seducing the chosen victims. The new victim of the group is Kenan Hanoglu, a composer. (imdb)
Adapted from the same named novel by Esat Mahmut Karakurt. The story of Selma (Türkan Şoray) and Necmi (Ekrem Bora).
Adapted from Yaşar Kemal's story "Ağır Akan Su". The story of Kerem (Sven Wolter) and Neriman (Türkan Şoray) in the village.
The love story of Ahmet (Murat Soydan), a composer and Ayşe (Türkan Şoray). Ahmet is married to Hale (Suzan Avcı).
The movie is in two parts: I. The love story of Nazan and Şevki (1890). II. The love story of Leyla and Suat (1960).
Escaping from home, Ulker meets and marries a blind composer in the hotel where she is staying, but suffering does not leave Ulker in her new life. (imdb)
Her mother (Aliye Rona) wants Sevim (Türkan Soray) to be famous. She became a singer.
The story of two lovers who had to leave their ways as a result of the painful events they experienced. (imdb)
Bir Yudum Insan - Ayhan Isik (1998) - TV Movie
The documentary follows the life and career of Ayhan Isik.
The story of Abbase Sultan, who ruled the country in the Abbasid Caliph. (imdb)
Set during the War of Independence, the film is the story of a group of people trying to smuggle weapons to Anatolia. (imdb)