Umit Unal

A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband. With his burdened conscience, he goes out to Berlin's Turkish district to find the woman. He is spotted by her relatives, and while escaping, by strange coincidence he ends up hiding in the man's home whom he has killed... (imdb)

Cops question six people about the rape and murder of a beautiful vagrant (imdb)

Deftly interweaving five contempo vignettes with fairy tale flavors, slick criss-crosser "Istanbul Tales" is both a compulsively watchable entertainment as well as an atmospheric love letter to one of the world's most beautiful cities. (bostonturkishfilmfestival.org)

A Turkish businessman (Sener Sen) becomes rich in America.

A 1986 Turkish comedy starring Sener Sen.

Ara is the story of four people and an empty house. These people are stuck between their past and stormy relationships, between Istanbul and the "homes" they can't get back, between their innermost secrets and the lies they tell, between east and west... (imdb)

Faith (Alanson) is a struggling musician whose efforts did not pay. One night disappointed, he talks to his "Plastic Sweetheart" a realistic-looking mannequin in a shop window (Ozdemiroglu) that, "he could even sell his soul to the Devil for fame"...and then he sees the Devil himself (Poyrazoglu). They make a deal that Faith, will sell his soul to the Devil and the Devil will strike him to fame, using the record executives, venue owners and commercial executives whom he had their souls... (imdb)

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...

Barber comes to village. Somebody kidnapped beautiest girl of the village. Village headman escape from village...Are these so absurd? Why? Isn't life so absurd too?

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)

An Istanbul night event is the backdrop for an unlikely couple to meet and head out to Southern Turkey to get away from it all. Not knowing the car they borrowed contains some critical CD's related to a late bank scandal, they fall in love but the bad guys are after them. (imdb)

"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)

Omar, a Mafia hit man for over 40 years, must learn to deal with the death of his father and the expectations of his six-year-old daughter. (Baseline StudioSystems)

Meet Neslihan. A perfect cook, an expert on Turkish cuisine, strictly loyal to her husband, an impeccable house wife ...and a serial killer. (imdb)

Love, Spells and All That is the story of two women who question their belief in love and the nature of reality. Eren and Reyhan had a romance at the respective ages of 16 and 17. Eren is the daughter of an influential politician, while Reyhan's father is the caretaker at Eren's family summer house on Büyükada, an Istanbul island. Years of not seeing each other follow. Until Eren returns to the island 20 years later... (antalyaff.com)

A series of 8 episodes, based on Aziz Nesin's book.

Summer 1985, Istanbul. Hakan and Gaye want to give back a music tape to their friend Selen before they leave. Things won't go as planned. (imdb)

Fırat and Filiz come to a small hotel called Evcilik on the Aegean coast to add some color to their boring lives, and they disturb the owner of the hotel and his wife by imitating their accents and their love for each other. (imdb)