Best Turkish family movies

Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love (1971)

Turkish Pollyanna's story.

Oh Olsun (1973)

A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor of his factory, where one of them falls in love.

Billionaire (1986)

A civil servant in a small town, shunned by his family and his friends due to his lack of ambition, hits the jackpot in the national lottery. Not trusting anybody around him, he gradually starts to lose his mind.

My Mother (2019)

A self sacrificing, selfless mother who makes the impossible "possible" for her daughter - a daughter who is ashamed of her mother and wants to run away from her mother and her life with her. Her journey to the college drives Nazli away from the village she has grown up - but years later, she wants to go back to the village where she was born, back to her mother - after all those years passed by with tons of "I wish". Candan Ercetin performed her song "Annem - Mom" once again for the movie twenty years later.

Expat Şaban (1985)

Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen.

Cold of Kalandar (2016)

Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.

The Visitor (2016)

Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death's door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father's world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.

Mommo: Kız Kardeşim (2009)

A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.

Maide'nin Altın Günü (2017)

When a meticulous homemaker hosts a lavish get-together, her family heirloom gets stolen. She teams with her out-of-towner nephew to find the thief.

Piano Piano Kid (1991)

In 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.

Görevimiz Tatil (2018)

Plane Tree (2018)

Mustafa lives in Kars with his 8 years old disabled son Rıza and his wife Suna.

Bizim Köyün Şarkısı (2018)

The Plane Tree (2011)

A matriarch and her grandson forge a special bond during family picnics every two months, until her health causes a conflict among the relatives.

Gönül Dağı "Kurban" (2021)

Badi (1983)

An alien is stranded on earth and eventually befriends a young boy during his quest to return to his home planet. Badi is a Turkish remake of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

Babamın Ceketi (2018)

Facing pressure to marry immediately, an unemployed man must find a way to pay for a wedding by any means necessary.

Castle of Stories (2019)

While on summer vacation, a young girl stumbles upon a magical key that unlocks the door to a fairy-tale realm and leads to a fantastical adventure.

There is a Lion in Every Heart (1976)

A janitor, caretaker and the other two friends who, despite years of primary school, which is highly overage in order to get the story of their struggle

Yanlış Anlama (2017)

A family who has fallen into a difficult situation in Turkey goes to Azerbaijan for their legacy. The Azerbaijani and Turkish families have to do the items together in the list given to them in order to receive their inheritance.

Küçük Ortak (2017)

Rosinante (2024)

In bustling Istanbul, Salih and Ayşe's world teeters on the edge with their mute son. Salih's job loss throws them into turmoil. In a bold twist, Ayşe secretly takes the helm of their motorcycle taxi, Rosinante, under Salih's guise. As they weave through the city's vibrant chaos, seeking a new, affordable haven, their journey takes a dramatic turn when Rosinante vanishes, catapulting them into a thrilling, unknown chapter of survival and discovery.

Merdiven Baba (2015)

Bücür (2018)

Hidden Lives (2011)

An Alevi family masquerading as Sunni tries to establish relations with its Sunni neighbors.

The Exciled Cow (2014)

The year 1997... In the days when people are exiled for their thoughts, now the tables have turned and the freedom of a cow living in the village of Gomalak is in danger. "The Exiled Cow". inspired from a true story, tells the tale of Sarikiz, with its spectacular cast and now meets the audience as the comedy of the century...

Beyaz Balina (2017)

Özür Dilerim (2013)

El Feneri (2018)

Bal Kaymak (2018)