Nihal Koldaş

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Seniha lives with her brother Halit and his wife Mükerrem. When Nüzhet, the handsome son of the richest family in town, sets his eyes on the married Mükerrem, she is at first disgusted with Nüzhet’s overt sexual innuendo. However, it isn’t long before Mükerrem yields to her lust and thus they embark on an affair. When Seniha finally reveals her sister-in-law’s un-virtuousness to her brother, Seniha has no idea what the consequences will be and how cruelly her destiny will change.

Nesrin is an urban, middle-class woman recovering from a divorce. She’s quit her office job, abandoned her house in Istanbul, and come to the village house of her deceased grandmother to finish a novel and live out her childhood dream of being a writer. When her conservative and increasingly unhinged mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter as the two are forced to confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds.

Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…

Fatma is around 50, a housewife with six children. She lives in Vienna but grew up in Turkey and clings stubbornly to the traditions and values of the old country. Ayse is 19, and the film begins with her wedding in rural Turkey, to Fatma’s son Hasan. However, when the family takes Ayse to Vienna this is revealed as a charade, for Ayse is to be the kuma (second wife) of Fatma’s husband Mustafa.

Retired criminal court judge Sezgin loses his faith in justice and his profession after his daughter Belgin, who was his lifeline, is murdered and his son-in-law İlker, who was tried as the defendant, is acquitted. He moves away from the city he lives in and settles in a coastal town. Although İlker was acquitted in court, Sezgin believes that his son-in-law killed his daughter. Determined to seek justice in his own way, Sezgin kidnaps İlker and imprisons him in a cell he had built in the basement of his villa. He decides that his son-in-law will remain there until he dies. His retired judge friends Fuat, Nedim, Erdal, and his wife, prosecutor Nazan, visit him a few times a month to keep him company. Sezgin's decision to close his daughter's case file, his sudden move from Istanbul, and his son-in-law's disappearance around the same time raise suspicions among his friends.

The story follows Güven, who works as a manager at an accounting firm in Kavşak. Güven, who has a happy marriage, sees his routine life begin to unravel when the new department manager, Arzu, moves into his office. Meanwhile, the landlord's son is trying to reach an agreement with a contractor to demolish the house they are living in, and accounting clerk Haydar is embezzling company funds. A small slip-up in Güven's life, combined with Arzu's uncontrollable curiosity, causes events to unfold like a snowball effect, leaving Güven cornered.

One morning, a girl who lives with her mother in a small-town notices that the rubble is being removed from the field outside her window. This realization prompts her to reassess her life and the environment she lives in, as she spends most of her time in her room.

Seventeen-year-old Yusuf comes home after spending four years at a detention center. His return to the family circle freshly recalls the act that his loved ones, bound by rigid tradition, forced Yusuf to commit.

A man lives alone in Istanbul. He makes a living doing odd jobs for several people, but dreams of being a singer.

Onur is sacked from his job as manager of a pharmaceutical company. He’s not too bothered about being unemployed, but the same cannot be said of his wife Bahar. Onur doesn’t listen to her and becomes indifferent not only to her anxieties but also to the world around him. He’d rather be surrounded by more zebras. A drama with dashes of absurd comedy about events that are no laughing matter: a personal crisis that impacts their marriage.

A reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. In her rare trips to the city, she chats with an oarswoman haunted by the devils. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city. In this journey in which time and space are out of joint, a same dream is recounted time after time.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons.

This 2015 documentary by Amine Mestari delves deep into Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s film MUSTANG, featuring extensive interviews with the director and cast, as well as exploring the film in the context of the politically volatile situation in Turkey.

Dogan is a successful surgeon in Izmir. When he was young, a shocking incident with his father, Tahir Hancıoglu, caused him to break away from his family. Now devoted to saving lives, Dogan has almost no connection with his family except his younger sister, Melek. At Melek’s insistence, Dogan returns to Istanbul for his sister Gulusan’s wedding. His return brings back long-buried traumas and hidden crimes. Dogan meets Cagla, a strong, determined lawyer. Their painful pasts create a deep connection. The family’s enemy, Behram, watches from the shadows, waiting for the right moment to confront the past. An attempted murder on the wedding night changes everything. Old secrets surface and members of his family appear among the suspects. Dogan must make a choice: leave and return to his old life, or stay and face the truth by uncovering the secrets at the heart of his family.

Even though two brothers are completely separated from each other after the imprisoning of their father and the kidnapping of their twin brother, they meet by coincidence years after when both choose to enter the police academy.

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years.

Firat is a successful prosecutor convicted of murdering his wife and child. He wakes up one day with amnesia and doesn't know why he's in prison. He is seeking to regain his memory and clear his name. He has to escape from prison to reveal the truth.

Zemheri (2020) is a Turkish romantic drama starring Ayça Ayşin Turan and Alperen Duymaz. Firuze and Ayaz fall deeply in love, but fate tears them apart when her father is falsely accused in a deadly elevator accident that kills thirteen construction workers. Unknowingly entangled in the very conspiracy framing him, Ayaz is forced to sacrifice his love for family duty. Their painful journey to find each other again drives this emotionally charged, bittersweet 10-episode series.

A group of unique characters from dramatically different socio-cultural backgrounds meet in startling circumstances in the vibrant and colorful city of Istanbul, some by chance and some by force of will.

Alev becomes pregnant that night and does not want to have the child. The young people around the event hear the name of the young Alev's son in order to kill the killer.

The series tells the story of a final-year student in the Turkish Language Department who enters the world of the mafia and changes everything, and whose paths intersect with journalist Sahar at university.

Azra and Kerem is a couple who meets Sebnem, however Sebnem doesn't know they're together. Sebnem has cancer, the doctor said she will die soon. Sebnem is in love with Kerem. Kerem and Azra decides to get Kerem in a relationship with Sebnem.

Deniz is a small boy who lives in a town with her father and is loved by all. But he feels bad that he grew up without a mother. Deniz's father, Hakan, had a love affair with Zeynep, but life somehow parted them. Therefore, Deniz was left without mother. One day Zeynep comes to this town with her husband Semih and becomes happy when she meets Deniz. After this encounter, nothing's going to be the same.

It will tell the story of three women who have nothing in common except working at the same workplace, and who hold on to each other to survive after the roles they assigned to themselves in their marriage are taken away from them.