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Güneşe Köprü (1986)
Character: N/A
When water is poured onto the cotton field, Musa, whose crop is ruined, cannot pay his debt. He has only one option to save his field from the loan shark: to work at Captain Tayfur's sand quarry. He leaves his wife in the village and starts working with a group of workers whose lives are as painful as his own.
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Bebek (1979)
Character: N/A
The film tells the story of Apo's difficulties after coming to Istanbul to find his father.
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İş (1995)
Character: N/A
A thought-provoking story that delves deeply into social and personal conflicts.
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Suçumuz İnsan Olmak (1986)
Character: N/A
A married civil servant with children, who is of moderate means, sees a woman at a window one day on his way to work and is attracted to her. The woman is married to a banker who is slightly older than her. The woman and the man gradually get to know each other and talk. After a while, the man has to go to Marmaris for work.
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Gömlek (1988)
Character: N/A
In the film, the struggle between the villagers and a cry is told. Villagers are in a difficult situation due to the drought in the region. Semsettin Aga and Behram Aga, the owners of the surrounding villages, keep the villagers entertained. The villagers then decide to invade the fields. Meanwhile, Mustafa was thrown in prison by shooting Behram Aga.
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Aşkın Kesişme Noktası (1990)
Character: N/A
The urban intellectual man is so overwhelmed that he has isolated himself. The young woman, bored in the countryside, is trying to escape to a different and bigger world. One person's place of escape is the other's place of longing. In this film, which encourages us to keep the world livable, director Olgaç says that friendship between people can only exist through love.
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Kara Kafa (1979)
Character: Cafer
Turkish metalworker Cafer moves his family from a village in Turkey to Germany, viewing it as a land of opportunity. However, their new life brings unexpected challenges. As they adjust, his wife becomes deeply involved in the women’s movement, leading to a profound change in her perspective.
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Çil Horoz (1986)
Character: N/A
The story of three sisters living in a shanty town. The eldest sister is married, while the middle sister is a widowed and unhappy woman. The youngest sister, who is in a relationship with a young man, catches the eye of Hasan, a driver who lives with her widowed sister. The unfortunate girl flees, but Hasan pursues her... Additionally, her father's husband does not leave his sister-in-law alone. He continues his aggressive behavior whenever he gets the chance. Driver Hasan's intentions are serious. He wants to marry her. But he cannot give up on his widowed sister-in-law either.
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Çark (1987)
Character: N/A
The injustice that people suffer in the workplace and the weight of working conditions cause them to act.
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Davacı (1986)
Character: Ahmet
It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because some sheep ate a few cabbages.
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Gizli Yüz (1991)
Character: Town clerk
A woman is searching for a face in photographs taken by a photographer. The face she hopes to meet one day belongs to a watch repairman, but the shop has long since closed.
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Biri ve Diğerleri (1987)
Character: Ferit
A man, while trying to meet a woman from his dreams, finds a restaurant and begins to have a journey both between dreams and reality, others and himself.
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Şellale (2001)
Character: N/A
The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d'etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflected by the both funny and sad story of a family. The story is told from the eyes of Cemal. Now a famous painter, Cemal goes back to his hometown years later and remembers his childhood. In those days Cemal's father and uncle, member of rival political parties, are in a continious struggle with each other. The film depicts this absurd struggle and the strange stories of people in Harbiye together with the lyric story of the famous waterfall of the town.
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Bir Avuç Cennet (1985)
Character: N/A
The story of a family who moved from a village to Istanbul with two children in order to live a better life, but ended up living in an abandoned bus due to poverty and lack of accommodation.
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Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur (1986)
Character: N/A
After receiving a letter from a woman named Asiye asking for help to save her, the President of the Associations Against Prostitution visits the brothel to save Asiye. However, she finds herself in a strange musical show.
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Duruşma (1999)
Character: Raşit
The story revolves around the beautiful Nazan, the neighbor's daughter, who manages to remain a virgin despite marrying two of the neighborhood's handsome men, Selami and Cavit; the fierce competition between Selami and Cavit for Nazan; the schemes orchestrated by Nazan's mother, Necla; and the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and their simple reactions. Nazan's mother Necla's schemes; the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and the sudden media attention their simple lives receive, all told in a humorous tone.
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72. Koğuş (1987)
Character: N/A
A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.
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Yılanların Öcü (1985)
Character: Köy Bekçisi
Kara Bayram is a poor farmer living in a Turkish village with his wife, 3 kids (4th on the way) and his old mother Irazca Ana. They live on their own until another villager, Haceli who is backed up by the Mukhtar (local administrator of the Village) starts to build a new house right in front of their's. Kara Bayram and Irazca Ana do not accept these uninvited neighboors from the first day and unwanted events start right away.
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Sürü (1978)
Character: Sıddık
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.
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80. Adım (1996)
Character: N/A
The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.
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Sarı Mercedes (1993)
Character: Veli
The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.
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