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Plot Summary:
A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 151 min
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Chasing the Wind (2013)
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Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Return to Dust (2022)
Plot Summary:
Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth’s cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags:
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Family Romance, LLC (2019)
Plot Summary:
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Last Reel (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Festival of Troubadours (2022)
Plot Summary:
An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Present Tense (2012)
Plot Summary:
Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a fortune teller who reads the dregs in coffee cups. She discovers she has the ability to offer comfort and insight to the customers who are just as lost in the wilderness as she is.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Home Coming (2006)
Plot Summary:
September 1980. Mustafa 'Mehmet Ali Alabora' and his wife, who're both laborers are married for 5 years. The couple has nothing to do with politics and spend their days happily with their 3 year old daughter and their TV, despite the clamor of guns clashing outside every night. One Friday morning, they wake up and hear the voice of Hasan Mutlucan on radio and observe soldiers marching through the streets, the very confirmation of the military coup that has taken place. Arrests begin instantly in workplace and neighborhood. Yet Mustafa, far from being disturbed, assumes that all apprehensions must have rightful reasons. Until the night he's taken into custody, charged with the crimes of a militant code named "Sehmuz".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house
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The Swaying Waterlily (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Swaying Waterlily.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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The Bank of Broken Hearts (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Hadi Be Oglum (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ali, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears. As Ali tries to bond with his son, he runs into many barriers in communtion with him, and Ali's greatest wish is to know that his son understands him. The plot evolves around a father who loves his son dearly but going thru many struggles to create communication channels with his who carries the burden of the memories of his father, his mother and the woman he loves, will shape the life of both.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, captivating, realistic
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The Death of Richie (1977)
Plot Summary:
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Oh, Moon! (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house
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Big Big World (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that were thrown out of the civilized world would live the entire human story from scratch.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house, crying
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Away from Home (2001)
Plot Summary:
After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010)
Plot Summary:
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Clair Obscur (2016)
Plot Summary:
Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, art house, sexual, sexy
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Love Like You (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl, with a troubled past, and a young boy fall in love in a small but beautiful town.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, emotional, scenic
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Majority (2010)
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Mertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working' as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night. There is no urgency for him to find a meaning to this emptiness. When he meets Gul, a Kurdish girl from Eastern Turkey, putting herself through university by working as a waitress, Mertkan has a chance to change the futility of his life. But his father opposes his connection with 'those people who only want to divide our country' and reminds Mertkan that 'we are all Turkish and we are all Muslims'. Insidiously Mertkan bows to the social values of the 'Majority' when faced with a choice, and becomes the 'proper man' his dad wanted him to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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I Saw the Sun (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war, making their daily life a hellish struggle. As the war continues to intensify, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul. While Haydar and Isa Altun decide to stay in Turkey with their young children, Davut Altun and his family migrate north to Norway, enlisting the help of smugglers. They eventually reach their destination and find work in a supermarket, but life as refugees proves relentless. Back in Istanbul, Haydar watches over the family as his wife undergoes an operation due to pregnancy complications. Their son makes friends with a group of transvestites, helping him to understand why he has felt different all of his life. While liberating, his newfound identity is seen as a disgrace to the rest of his family, leading him to flee from the abuse it produces.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, clever, touching, serious, gloomy, crying
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A Tale of Three Sisters (2019)
Plot Summary:
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Greece
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, crying, entertaining
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About Dry Grasses (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young art teacher hopes to be transfered to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of innapropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, tense, atmospheric, captivating, disturbing, funny, touching, emotional, sad
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The Herd (1978)
Plot Summary:
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: political, art house
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Big Man, Little Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hejar, meaning "Dispossessed", a little Kurdish orphan war victim, educates a Turkish judge!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Hungary
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, suspense, political, islamic, banned, banned film
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Jin (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This dangerous but incredibly beautiful mountainous country is home to 17-year-old Jîn. But she is no longer safe since she secretly stole away from a group of rebels with whom she was fighting. Now she wanders the picturesque landscape alone, caught between two fronts. All of a sudden, the sound of gunfire and explosions rend the air above the untouched natural scenery. Attack is threatened from all sides. Desperate to find peace, Jîn decides to escape to another part of the country – an impossible plan, since the military is omnipresent and there are road blocks everywhere. As a Kurd without identity papers she risks arrest at every turn. In addition, as a woman with no family to shield her, many men will see her as fair game. But her courage is unbroken.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The White Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, gencinden yaşlısına sevginin her türlü motifi hem duygusal hem de esprili bir dille anlatılır.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, serious
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Lovelorn (2005)
Plot Summary:
A retired teacher who returns to Istanbul after years away, Nazim tries to reacquaint himself with his hometown, which has changed significantly. While waiting for his pension to begin, Nazim takes a temporary job as a taxi driver and frequently ends up in the seedier parts of the city. ….
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, contemplative, art house, islamic
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Pretenders (2018)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, art house
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My World (2013)
Plot Summary:
At 2 Ela lost her ability of seeing and hearing because of a severe illness. And then she became a total disappointment of her family due to her untamed behaviors. But everything changed after an unorthodox teacher stepped into their lives to educate Ela while healing himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: uplifting, realistic, emotional, sincere, captivating, touching, educational, sad, serious
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Egg (2007)
Plot Summary:
Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, art house, thought provoking, disturbing, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, offbeat