The Hardest Thing

Midnight Express

August 1978 •English

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Leylak

June 2021 •English

In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.

Küçük Balıklar Üzerine Bir Masal

May 1990 •Turkish

Feryal and her husband Sinan have one rule in their relationship. They can have any relationship they want, but they must be honest about it. In a way, this is much more difficult than simply being faithful in marriage.

Şahane Kadın

January 1961 •Turkish

Naim is a famous painter. Naim Bey is working on a painting he has named "Wonderful Woman." However, his wife Leman is bored. The owner of the mansion, famous writer Bülent, arrives at the house.

125 Years Memory

December 2015 •Japanese

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.

My Prostitute Love

May 1968 •Turkish

Halil goes to a bar with his friends and meets Sabiha, a prostitute, and they fall in love. Two lovers want to escape their past and live together. However, Sabiha knows little about Halil's life, and she has to face some facts.

Turkish Delight

February 1973 •Dutch

Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

Clair Obscur

December 2017 •Turkish

Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage that looks flawless on the outside. Elmas, a young woman on the verge of breakdown, opens a new path in her.

Hollywoodtürke

June 2019 •German

Romantic Comedy about Alper, an unsuccessful Turkish actor from Berlin, Germany, who has to pretend to be an Italian to win his first role and the heart of a German girl who doesn't like Turkish guys.

4 FACES

Invalid date •Turkish

Brothers and Sisters

November 1997 •German

Thomas Arslan's second feature film and part of his Berlin trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film depicts the everyday life, domestic conflicts, dreams, and disappointments of three siblings and their aimless, meandering strolls through the Kreuzberg district.

You Have No Idea

Invalid date •English

Leyla and Aksel's friendship is tested with a disagreement that affects them both substantially.

In Between

September 2018 •Kurdish

Osman can understand his mother tongue, Kurdish, but cannot speak it, and he speaks Turkish, which happens to be his second language, but cannot understand it. As a result of this condition of his, Osman starts to fail at handling two concurrent tasks. Just like he cannot respond to his patrons while he is working, he cannot engage in a conversation with his friends whilst they are having coffee together. Even though he wants to get married, he fails at sustaining a long-term relationship with women whom he meets. Osman’s life starts to change after a customer tells him that she could help him with his obsession.

Snails love each other under the rain

Invalid date •French

Kedi

January 2017 •Turkish

A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.

Olağanüstü Türk Süper Kahraman Filmi

May 2024 •Turkish

The movie is about Spiderman and Batman trying to prevent an assassination plan at Balıkesir Social Sciences High School in Turkey.

Sirens in the Aegean

December 2005 •Greek

A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.

The Journey

February 2019 •English

An international operative pursues a mysterious woman to and through Istanbul.

Nobody Comes Nobody Goes...

September 2014 •Turkish

What if an old pal of yours or the person you have been married for years starts to think that you are not "you"? And what if you are no longer "you" at that moment? Or, while all this is happening, what if, you are confronted with the "you" that could not be "you"? "Nobody Comes, Nobody Goes..." is a psychological thriller trying to break the psyche links of reality that people establish with themselves and the life, while endeavors to present a discrete experience to its audience and provide experiment all new stuff with respect to levels of wording, text, emotions, perception, and phenomena.

Troublemakers

October 1974 •Turkish

Turkish remake of George Roy Hill's "The Sting."