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Plot Summary:
Sükran who works at pay box of Haydarpasa is around 40 ages. She has a son whose name is Veysel. He works in a factory. She suffered from her husband's political actions, so she wants to keep away Veysel from political actions. Veysel get lost. She tried to find him but she did not. She called upon the competent authorities to find him but she was refused.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
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Red Istanbul (2017)
Plot Summary:
Orhan who lived in London for years and did not come back to Turkey agrees to help Deniz -a famous director- edit his first book. Deniz has been living in a mansion with his family which started to lose its old brightness and power. Orhan finds himself in the middle of Deniz's complicated relationships, mysterious friends and stange family members. This is the first movie of Ferzan Ozpetek which is shot in Turkey after a long time. It is also based on his own book which has the same name with the movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crying, visually appealing
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Die Nachrichten (2005)
Plot Summary:
Still missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 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 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
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Feed Me with Your Words (2012)
Plot Summary:
In order to perfect his research, Robert travels to Italy, where he meets an unusual homeless man. Overwhelmed and confused by the unexpected encounter with that mysterious man, Robert begins to follow him and disappears without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, disturbing, contemplative
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Jani gal (2007)
Plot Summary:
An Iraqi Kurdish man is released from jail. He has been arrested by mistake when he went to find a midwife to help his pregnant wife, years ago. As he has been arrested during a demonstration the authorities thought he is one of the opposition group leaders.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Wound (1998)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Yilmaz Arslan.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
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Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cinema verite
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The Familiar Soil (2008)
Plot Summary:
An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sam & Me (1991)
Plot Summary:
23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, intercultural, inter cultural
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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
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Into Thin Air (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mind bending, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Come to My Voice (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale
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Cars of the Revolution (2008)
Plot Summary:
It is just after the military take over of the administration in 1960. The new head of state believes Turkey can only be independent if it is economically strong. After sounding out the weak private sector and most of the senior bureaucrats, it is clear that nobody has a similar view. So, he dares the government sector to see if anyone can design and produce a 100% original car within 4 months... Well, one engineer shares this vision and a small and dedicated team start working in a locomotive factory. Time is short and resources are limited. Many believe this can not be achieved. This is the story of a team of idealist engineers working on this vision.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, educational, art house
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Journey to the Sun (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, sad, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, biting, suspense
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On the Way (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, Yolda is the story of Yilmaz Guney, at the time the most celebrated filmmaker in Turkey, and the final years of his life in prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes field recordings of artists who practice rare and unusual forms. Sumru is struggling with loneliness after the disappearance of her Kurdish boyfriend, and for her latest project, she sets out on a lengthy road trip recording the stories of Kurdish women who have survived the murder of their Turkish husbands or lovers, hoping she might track down her man in her travels. After making her first stop in the city of Diyarbaki, Sumru meets Ahmet, who makes a living selling black market goods and shares her love of music and history. The two become fast friends, and as Ahmet joins Sumru on her travels, their relationship grows deeper, though she also becomes more aware of the tragedy that has gripped her country and the consequences of the civil war.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, realistic, contemplative, captivating, art house, sincere, bleak, serious, gloomy
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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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Fratricide (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing
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The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter's daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey,where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, lyrical, psychological, contemplative, breathtaking, political, independent film, realistic, social
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Nobody's Home (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of four people who cannot manage to become a family again after a loss and who destroy themselves with each passing day.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, depressing, bleak, serious, emotional, sad, realistic, surreal, disturbing
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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Plot Summary:
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: philosophical, melancholic, thought provoking, touching, serious, contemplative, art house, cerebral, compassionate, slow cinema
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Red Dust (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, political, cult classic
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A World Apart (1988)
Plot Summary:
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Zimbabwe
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, political, cult classic, independent film, tense, uplifting, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional
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Black Like Me (1964)
Plot Summary:
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: deep, independent film
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Bliss (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, surprise ending, sweet
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The Road (1982)
Plot Summary:
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, political, art house, black and white, psychological, sincere, uplifting, bleak, serious, emotional
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The Wall (1983)
Plot Summary:
Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: political, art house, tense, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing