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Umut Hep Vardı (1991)
Character: N/A
The struggle of Kiraz, who is a midwife in a poor, backward Anatolian village.
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Yasemin (1987)
Character: Kezban
Yasemin, who lives in a small town with her aunt, dreams of going to Istanbul and becoming famous. After some time, Yasemin begins working as a dancer at a restaurant owned by a woman who runs the establishment and also employs sex workers. During this time, she meets a restaurant customer and flees to Istanbul with him. After various adventures, the young man ends up in prison. Left alone in the big city, Yasemin, encouraged by two female friends, begins working as a prostitute.
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Yolcularin gece sarkisi (2006)
Character: Fortune Teller
The old tailor, Yolan, just released from an Iranian prison, sets out in search of the village in Turkey where he was born. By his side is Ozal, a 9-year old boy. Together they wander through the mountains of Eastern Anatolia and discover a country whose realities are as fabulous as they are simple.
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Güneş Yine Doğacak (1989)
Character: Necla
The film is about a life that lost his mother and father. When Ceylan's child dies, they have financial difficulties with her mother. That's why his mother marries a rich man named Cevdet. After a while, his mother fell ill and dies. Ceylan, who is left alone, will have to live with her stepfather.
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Kızın Adı Fatma (1988)
Character: N/A
The story of a character named Fatma, the difficulties in her life and the family dynamics.
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İki Zarf Bir Hayat (1988)
Character: Oya
One man, two envelopes and big decisions that will change a life! Which envelope will determine the future?
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Tokmak Nuri (1975)
Character: N/A
Nuri, who makes a living as a tomboy, has an excessive weakness for women. For this reason, he always finds himself surrounded by women.
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Güneş Doğarken (1984)
Character: Davut'un karısı
Nalan, who comes to work at a brothel in Konya, begins a love affair with Kara Davut, the city's notorious gangster. Kara Davut, who receives no attention from his wife at home, and Nalan, who has never experienced true love and affection, begin a relationship that soon becomes the talk of Konya, and it isn't long before things start to get complicated.
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Bekçi (1985)
Character: N/A
In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a consequence he is often the unwitting and unknowing brunt of jokes. His wife and daughters are painfully aware of his shortcomings, but they generally suffer in silence. One of the daughters ends up working in the factory to help the family out financially, and when Murtaza finds her sleeping on the job one night he hits her so hard she eventually dies from the blow. Though that is not the end of it, by any means.
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Alın Yazısı (1972)
Character: Şarkıcı Aynur
A retired tough guy's drive to avenging his brother and sister.
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Kara Kentin Çocukları (2000)
Character: Hafize
Newlyweds Mine and Kürşat work at a bar. Their lives change with the presence of Özgür who moves into their apartment next door.
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Karılar Koğuşu (1990)
Character: Eplemeli Ayşe
Murat is a charismatic political prisoner in Malatya. He is well respected by both inmates and prison officers. There he meets two women: Tozey, a famous prostitute, and Hanim, a defenseless woman accused of murdering her husband.
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Yakışıklı (1987)
Character: Mualla
Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married.
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Kuma (1974)
Character: N/A
A peasant woman who cannot bear children for her husband agrees to take in a concubine as a result of pressure from her community and finds the concubine herself. The new woman is also unable to bear children. However, the first woman becomes pregnant in the meantime. The jealous concubine slanders her, and the villagers tie the woman they call a "whore" to a tree to kill her. Her husband arrives in time to rescue her, and they leave the village.
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Bir Yudum Sevgi (1984)
Character: Didar
Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.
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Korkuyorum Anne (2006)
Character: Provadaki Kadın
Reha Erdem’s innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human. The drama revolves around hapless taxi driver Ali, who suffers from amnesia as a result of an accident the cause of which he does not remember. As he struggles to regain his memory, his neighbors—embodying a variety of physical, mental, and emotional states—wrestle with their own difficulties, helping one another along the way.
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Devlerin Ölümü (1990)
Character: Konsomatris/Emine/Rum Kadın/Vekilin Karısı
About a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.
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Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş (1998)
Character: N/A
A famous but unnamed radio announcer encounters with a girl who loves his radio show and starts a love between two of them first with a fight.
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Beyza'nın Kadınları (2006)
Character: Serap'ın Komşusu
As dismembered legs begin appearing across Istanbul, Commissioner Fatih and his partner Doruk—a U.S.-trained forensic psychiatrist—race to catch the killer, even as Doruk’s wife Beyza, haunted by mysterious blackouts, discovers a chilling connection between her missing time and the victims.
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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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Anayurt Oteli (1987)
Character: Theatre Actress
Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.
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Benim Sinemalarım (1990)
Character: N/A
Nesibe lives with her poor family in a slum in Istanbul. Her father, who can't hold down a job, often takes out his anger on his family. Knowing that this is not all there is to life, Nesibe finds solace in movies.
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Ateş Böceği (1988)
Character: N/A
Duygu, who works as a translator at a translation agency, experiences loneliness with her doctor husband Yılmaz, although she does not know the exact reason why. The young woman takes refuge in her childhood to escape her inner conflicts and remembers the days when she and her brother Hâluk used to collect fireflies.
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Fahriye Abla (1984)
Character: N/A
A victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.
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Utanç (1972)
Character: Fazilet
A woman who has been raped disappears.
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