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Eşrefpaşalı (1966)
Character: N/A
The film depicts Kudret's struggle against Ali Bey and his men, as he refuses to leave his neighborhood. Ali Bey, who has made a deal with the Americans, wants to build a factory in the Eşrefpaşa neighborhood. To do so, he must first evict the neighborhood's residents. Ali Bey recruits Hasan, the neighborhood's tough guy, to help him achieve his goal. Kudret, who refuses to leave the neighborhood, organizes the people against Ali Bey. However, Ali Bey lures Kudret's inner circle to his side with various promises. Left to fight alone, Kudret will face his friends one last time.
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Kuşatma Altında Aşk (1997)
Character: N/A
The love story of two young people living in the final days of the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire has set its sights on Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire, wanting to take precautions, asks for help from Western countries. The Pope makes the union of the Orthodox and Catholic churches a condition for the unity of the people. Some of the people oppose this situation and revolt. George, who escaped after being taken prisoner by the Ottomans, joins the uprising. George, who is Catholic, meets an Orthodox woman named Anna that day. He falls in love with Anna at first sight. George and Anna, who belong to two different denominations, will experience love during the days when the Ottoman Empire invades Byzantium.
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Süpermenler (1979)
Character: N/A
The German professor tries out his time machine in Turkey. Everybody is after this new invention - Superman Detective Murat, his cheating colleagues Atak and Matrak as well as the mob leader. Agatha, the daughter of the mob leader, steals heroin with her father's man. The mob leader wants to detect their place by the time machine. Murat, Matrak and Atak struggle for the machine, but the machine blows up, the Professor loses his memory. Atak and Matrak kidnap him.
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Sevmek Seni (1965)
Character: N/A
A young man with an organized life and a family suddenly feels that he is all alone in the crowds that surround him. This unhappiness causes him to withdraw from home and leave frequently, and he embarks on an endless search. The only thing he hopes for is a new love that will add color and richness to his life.
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İstanbul Kanatlarımın Altında (1996)
Character: Antonio Ağa
During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought to Istanbul, and a young wounded lady named Francesca, the daughter of the killed Captain, becomes a slave for Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi.
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Karanlık Sular (1994)
Character: Cemetery Officer
An American in Istanbul gets entangled in the affairs of a melancholic aristocrat and her son Haldun, leading him slowly into a dangerous web through many secret layers of the city.
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Remake, Remix, Rip-Off - Kopierkultur und das türkische Pop-Kino (2019)
Character: Self
Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.
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İz (1994)
Character: N/A
Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.
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Şöhretin Sonu (1981)
Character: psychiatrist
A highly accurate autobiographic film that depicts the aftermath of Bülent Ersoy's gender change and how she, her friends and community reacts to it.
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Aşk, Ateş ve Anarşi Günleri: Türk Sinemateki ve Onat Kutlar (2023)
Character: Self (archive footage)
In 1961, the young writer Onat Kutlar goes to Paris to study philosophy. After discovering his passion for cinema at the Cinémathèque Française he decides to found a Cinematheque in Istanbul to bring the world of art cinema to Turkey. Although the Turkish Sinematek came to a tragic end in 1980, it quickly established an intellectual film culture that continues to influence Turkey today.
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