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Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)
Character: Ilter Hamul
Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.
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Takiye: Allah Yolunda (2010)
Character: Anne Aksu
The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin invested all his money in one such company, JIMPA, and even convinced his close friends and family to do the same. This company, JIMPA, which had made grand promises, goes bankrupt after collecting the money, and its managers disappear. Many people who invested their money demand accountability from Metin. Like hundreds of thousands of other families who believed in such Islamic investment companies and invested their money, Metin's family has also lost all their savings in an instant. The journey Metin embarked on to resolve the situation would confront him with realities he never anticipated. Metin’s father-in-law, the Imam, warned him. In fact, the Imam seemed to know more than he was letting on.
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Auslandstournee (2000)
Character: Çiçek
Senay is a willful eleven year old girl in Hamburg who's Turkish father has just died. The only friend responding to the news about her father is a gay Turkish cabaret singer, Zeki. Together they travel through Europe in search of the orphan girl's mother, Cicek, who left at childbirth and whom Zeki represents as Senay's aunt.
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Brudermord (2005)
Character: Zeki's mother
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.
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Mavi Sürgün (1993)
Character: N/A
Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, Bodrum. In fact he is considered by some to be the first ecologist. The film concentrates on this latter aspect of his character and through flashbacks portrays the inner turmoil of a man who is trying to come to terms with his past. The slow pace is somewhat of a drawback, the flashbacks are often confusing and the protagonist is not always very convincing. But the photography of the country side is exceptional Kenan Ormanlar and the short appearance by a very theatrical Hanna Schygulla of Fassbinder fame adds a little spice to the drama.
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40 qm Deutschland (1986)
Character: Turna
Turna is brought from Turkey to Germany by her husband Dursun to start a new life. She soon realizes that he keeps her locked up in their flat every time he leaves for work in order to save her from immoral influences of the Western society. The dream of a better life becomes an inner fight between her culture and her freedom.
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Jenseits von Blau (1989)
Character: N/A
Blue is the dominant color in the cold, sterile world of adults. 12-year-old Maria dreams of other colors beyond blue. In her dreams, she repeatedly sees a boy in a castle who asks her to play a piece on the piano for him. When she fails, the castle goes up in flames. On her explorations in the real world, Maria finds the castle and the boy from her dreams again. He is lying in a coma in the intensive care unit of a clinic. Maria tries to bring him back to life through her music.
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Yara (1998)
Character: Tante
Hulya is a young Turkish woman torn between two cultures. Forced to live with her uncle in Turkey, she leaves this house: she wants to return to Germany where she lived with her father and went to school, not so long ago.
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Kriegsbilder (1996)
Character: N/A
A war photographer in different theatres of conflict, Belfast, Beirut, Mogadishu begins to suspect that his uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time to get the perfect shot is making him an agent of the action that is more causal of the conflict than reactive to it. This takes the argument about whether a war correspondent is a recorder or instigator of drama to an interesting new level.
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Cataracte (2021)
Character: Nicky Ayline
Nicky, a non-conformist, eccentric woman, decides to end it all after losing her remaining welfare benefits. She entrusts her dog Robby to her neighbor, but when she brings him back, a race against time begins for Nicky in the middle of an overdose.
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Making of The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Character: Herself
A documentary about the filming session of the film “The Wild Pear Tree” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan… ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ had been shot in about 14 weeks in Western Anatolia.
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Ich Chef, Du Turnschuh (1998)
Character: Nina
Asylum seeker Dudie lives in a shabby hostel for asylum seekers. Dudie is plagued by bad luck: His girlfriend lets herself be bought as a wife, a couple of beefy men want to get their hands on him and it looks like he won't be getting a job any time soon. One evening, when he is hanging out with a couple of Africans from the home, one of the men gives him an address in Berlin where he can get help. Dudi sets off for Berlin and meets Cuffi Bugudubugu. Cuffi offers him a place to live and gets him a job on a building site. His boss treats him unfairly and his co-workers despise him. But Dudi doesn't let this get him down and all sorts of crazy things happen to him: First he marries a German woman for money, then he slaughters a sheep on the building site and soon gets a job in a kebab shop...
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Günce (2013)
Character: Kayınvalide
The film, shot in various neighborhoods of Istanbul, focuses on the choice of forgetting to live while planning life instead of living it. Cengiz, who hosts a radio show, has a steady job and a happy family life. One Sunday, he encounters an event that turns his life upside down, and from that day on, all sorts of misfortunes pile up. Cengiz is now left alone with his only daughter, Günce, and has no one else in his life. Years pass, and Günce turns five, but instead of ending, the problems continue to grow. This time, Cengiz faces what may be the biggest nightmare of his life: the risk of losing his daughter, Günce.
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Liebe verlernt man nicht (2009)
Character: Sema
Eva Simon is actually a woman who can not be shaken by anything: Together with the family of her son Theo, she lives contentedly on a former farm in the picturesque Rheingau, where she practically does the housework on her own and takes care of her grandchildren Lilli and Nico, while Theo and his wife Marlene pursue their professions. But that the young, fun-loving photographer Jonathan Wolf is now moving into a side building of the courtyard and setting up his studio precisely where Eva once ran her beloved cabaret - that's too much for the self-confident woman in her mid-fifties.
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Gölgesizler (2009)
Character: Muhtar'ın Karısı
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.
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Ateş (2016)
Character: N/A
Ateş from Cihangir and Yavuz from Tophaneli are two very close friends. Ateş dreams of becoming an actor, while Yavuz is a taxi driver who wants to avenge his brother's death from drugs. Ateş, who stands up against all the injustices he encounters and often gets into trouble because of it, sees his life completely change when he meets Aleyna, who has fled to Istanbul to escape being forced into marriage with someone her family doesn't approve of.
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Un amour de jeunesse (2011)
Character: Sullivan's Mother
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
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Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Mission Zukunft (2020)
Character: Nazan
In the third film in the popular series, "The Three from Garbage Disposal" have to embark on an unusual "Mission to the Future". A 16-year-old environmental activist is sentenced to a one-week student internship with "Captain" Werner Träsch.
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Ahlat Ağacı (2018)
Character: Hayriye
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties.
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Teslimiyet (2010)
Character: Macide
Sanem is a working girl sharing a flat with three transvestites in Istanbul. Every day she dreams of a savior who will take her away. One day a young man named Gokhan moves into the neighborhood, and soon Sanem gets his attention. This will be the beginning of a journey during which both will question each other and their choices in life.
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Meine verrückte türkische Hochzeit (2006)
Character: Melek
Götz, the owner of an record shop in Berlin, Kreuzberg, is in love with Aylin.But Aylin is espoused to an turkey doctor named Tarkan. Götz and Aylin are fallin in love and they want to get married. Their Plans first get strong restistance from the turkish parents-in-law and also from the mother of Götz named Helena. Götz converting to the Islam and tries to get a true turk to marry Aylin at the end. After serveral problems and twists they get finally married.
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Kasap Havası (2016)
Character: N/A
Leyla, a beautiful and feisty middle-aged woman, lives with her mother, whose nagging has become everyday background music. The two women fight shamelessly and cruelly, and in protest against her mother Leyla makes choices that even she herself finds a bit startling. Ahmet is a taxi driver, years younger than Leyla and confused after his father’s death. He still has to report his every step to his mother and obey his uncle who is the head of the family.
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Dreiviertelmond (2011)
Character: Grandmother Nezahat
Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.
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Wo willst du hin, Habibi? (2015)
Character: Aunt Ayfer
Ibrahim, a young German of Turkish descent, leads a double life, living with his tradition-bound family and spending his days looking for a respectable job. But outside his parent's apartment, Ibo (as he's called by his family and friends) is a confident gay man who works in a sex shop and is on the hunt for Mr. Right.
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Kafes (2021)
Character: Ilona
A former police officer struggles to clear his name after being fired from his impudent job. He returns to his job, but struggles to overcome the paranoia and darkness he has grown inside.
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Üç Harfliler 3: Karabüyü (2016)
Character: Kadir's mother
After losing his parents, he gives this house to the rent to avoid staying in the house of the Alev family, who is living a great destruction. But there is a lot that he does not know about the new couple who rents the house. And these mysteries will turn the Alev into a very difficult situation.
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Pizza Colonia (1991)
Character: Ayshe Lochner
Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a " Godfather" makes Zach an offer he can not refuse , the wedding between Francesco's daughter and Zach son bursts , and his wife threatened behind his affair to come up with kiosk owner Hilde , which lasts at least 18 or older to ...
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The Rose Garden (1989)
Character: Mrs. Marques
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
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MC Dandik (2013)
Character: Has Anne
Growing up as an orphan and a child without parents, Dandik has faced various problems throughout his life and managed to solve each one on his own. One day, when he encounters his childhood love Aslı, whom he lost years ago, his life changes. Dandik is determined to pursue his love, but at that moment, he faces an unexpected enemy. While trying to defeat this bad guy, he encounters various difficulties and obstacles, but he never even thinks of giving up on his love for a moment. Dandik’s only wish is to build a happy life, and his only helper on this path will be his best friend Fiko.
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Der mit dem Schlag (2016)
Character: Esra Tuncel
After several strokes of fate ends a rage eruption of the otherwise so quiet power engineering technician Felix Grünler with a criminal complaint for assault. A grateful affair for his sister-in-law Karin, who forges an intrigue to gain the inheritance of her mother-in-law. She succeeds in having Felix admitted to psychiatry as incompetent. He is determined not to get into therapy. For doctors, this confirms the picture of the labile patient. But in the other patients Felix gives his consistent anti-attitude in the long run benevolent recognition.
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Peri: Ağzı Olmayan Kız (2019)
Character: Çavus'un Karisi / Sergant's Wife
A coming-of-age story about Perihan, a girl born without a mouth, who is befriended by a gang of three boys also missing body parts, while on the run from the authorities.
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Evim Sensin (2012)
Character: Zeliha
After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...
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The Stoning (2006)
Character: Sarah Azimi
Young American Catherine Mulligan follows her love to Iran and converts to Islam. After being raped she is sentenced to death by stoning.
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Anduni - Fremde Heimat (2011)
Character: N/A
Armenian Belinda feels at home in Germany, where she was born, lives and studies just like any other German girl her age. But when she loses her father, she is suddenly drawn into the traditional Armenian lifestyle of her migrant relatives. Her aunts require her to work in their seamstress shop and secretly plot to marry her off to one of her kind. While Belinda is becoming increasingly curious about her roots, their traditional ways also threaten her relationship with Manuel, a German. She embarks on a journey into the past and the present to find out who she really is. ANDUNI shows a culture that is exciting and complex, and a love story that reaches beyond family traditions.
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300 Worte Deutsch (2015)
Character: Yücels Mutter
For years, the immigration officer Dr. Ludwig Sarheimer and the chairman of the Turkish community Cengiz Demirkan in Cologne have been fighting a small war. While the one, as a hodja, upholds the traditions of his homeland and brings Anatolian brides to Germany for Turks who are willing to marry, the other wants to prevent exactly that. Cengiz's daughter Lale Demirkan is at the center of these ongoing disputes. At home, the young woman plays the well-behaved Turkish daughter, but as soon as the German studies student leaves the house, she takes off her headscarf and sense of tradition and has fully arrived in German life. In her free time, she practises martial arts fighting techniques. So far, she has successfully fended off potential grooms.
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Deutschlandlieder - Almanya Türküleri (2023)
Character: Self
The 60-year story of Turks and Kurds in Germany through their songs, performed together between 2021 and 2022 on renowned stages in Germany and in Istanbul, by an 85-year-old folk singer to a young feminist rapper.
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Gut zu Vögeln (2016)
Character: Nuris Mutter
After her fiancee cancels the wedding, Merlin's life changes drastically when she moves in with one of her brother's best friends.
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Ein Sommer auf Zypern (2017)
Character: Fatma
Moritz goes to Cyprus with his mother Tina to meet his father Aiven for the first time. At first, Aiven tries to evade any contact with Moritz out of fear that he might ruin his marriage, but Aiven's brother Elyas just takes them to his parents' house anyway where they are introduced as Elyas' girlfriend and her son. Will Aiven finally acknowledge his son?
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Zerre (2012)
Character: Seniha
How much space does Zeynep take up in this vast universe? This is a city brimming with the struggling and the unemployed; aren’t their lives a bit like the infinite, tiny particles flying through the air? Zeynep is already trying hard to make ends meet when she gets fired from her job at a textile mill. The Particle follows her as she searches for a job. We follow her in and out of workspaces. Zeynep’s world – the streets and homes in Tarlabaşı – are dark and suffocating.
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