Best Turkish fantasy movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch fantasy films from Turkey, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for A.R.O.G

    A.R.O.G 2008

    Commander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today.

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  • Poster for Thou Gild'st the Even

    Thou Gild'st the Even 2013

    In a small town in Anatolia, whose inhabitants possess various supernatural powers but still have to deal with ordinary problems, Cemal helps out in his father’s barbershop and, in his free time, acts as a football referee.

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  • Poster for Kutsal Damacana

    Kutsal Damacana 2007

    Former sailor Fikret is having trouble settling into his new life in Istanbul and has begun to make use of the local church's facilities. When priest Artin goes on a trip to Vatican, Fikret starts selling off the church's cellar of expensive wines and stays in the priest's room at night. Fikret spends most of his remaining time gambling on horse races and lecturing Asim, a naïve young boy working at the car wash located next door to the church who perceives him as a surrogate as a father figure. Fikret and Asim learn of a rich widowed businesswoman, Deniz, who thinks that her sister, Selen, has had a spell put upon her and is prepared to pay anything to have it lifted. Fikret decides to go to Deniz's house disguised as a priest but gets more than he bargained for.

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  • Poster for Ashes

    Ashes 2024

    From an intoxicating fantasy to a dangerous affair, a wealthy married woman finds her life irreversibly shattered after picking up an unpublished novel.

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  • Poster for Arabesque

    Arabesque 1989

    This is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together.

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  • Poster for The Man Who Saved the World

    The Man Who Saved the World 1982

    Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Although the movie borrows some background footage from Star Wars, the plot is mostly unrelated.

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  • Poster for You're My Home

    You're My Home 2012

    After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...

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  • Poster for Aaahh Belinda

    Aaahh Belinda 1986

    Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role of a traditional housewife in a shampoo commercial. However, she is unaware that this commercial will turn into her worst nightmare.

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  • Poster for The Shadow Play

    The Shadow Play 1992

    Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club.

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  • Poster for Oh Belinda

    Oh Belinda 2023

    A young actor's perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial — and suddenly gets transported to her character's world.

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  • Poster for The Messenger

    The Messenger 2008

    In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

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  • Poster for Kutsal Damacana 2: İtmen

    Kutsal Damacana 2: İtmen 2010

    Fikret returns to Istanbul to tangle with Somali pirates and sojourns in a Budhist monastery to battle a werewolf.

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  • Poster for Tarkan and the Blood of the Vikings

    Tarkan and the Blood of the Vikings 1971

    Features a mustached villain, who is the leader of a Viking clan that worships an octopus god-monster. The Vikings wish to kidnap a beautiful girl to sacrifice her to their demigod, but the heroic Tarkan, aided by his dog, Kurt, is there to save the day.

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  • Poster for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1972

    The Classical story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, starring Sadri Alışık as Ali Baba.

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  • Poster for Tarkan

    Tarkan 1969

    Tarkan who is a fearless and loyal warrior of Attila the Hun enters into a bloody struggle to capture the sword of God Mars which is believed to promote ownership of whole world whom possess.

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  • Poster for Her Name Is Vasfiye

    Her Name Is Vasfiye 1985

    The story of a provincial woman named Vasfiye, whose life passed changing hands and drifting between men in Aegean towns, is told by different narrators. The story changes every time the narrator changes. However, it is not known which story is the truth.

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  • Poster for The Little Apocalypse

    The Little Apocalypse 2006

    Having lost her mother in the 1999 earthquake, Bilge and her family go on a vacation to the south. On the way to their rented house, she sees a series of visions. Things get worse when a small earthquake occurs, bringing back memories of her loss and releasing her inner demons.

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  • Poster for Tarkan: The Golden Medallion

    Tarkan: The Golden Medallion 1973

    Vandal king Attila's trying to save his son kidnapped by Tarkan and stories of friends.

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  • Poster for Tarkan and the Armless Hero

    Tarkan and the Armless Hero 1973

    Atilla the Hun, Tarkan its power in order to bring the sword to the floor at the pursuit of the enemy's appointed.

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  • Poster for Tozkoparan: İskender - 1071

    Tozkoparan: İskender - 1071 2021

    If Iskender, a 12-year-old archer with extraordinary abilities, does not return from 2020 to the time he lived, the course of history will change.

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  • Poster for Game, Interrupted

    Game, Interrupted 2023

    1979, Turkey: While the mood on the streets of Ankara is charged with tension shortly before the military coup, a young brother and sister lose themselves in imaginative games. When Darth Vader suddenly appears on their doorstep, time and space become blurred.

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  • Poster for Tarkan and the Silver Saddle

    Tarkan and the Silver Saddle 1970

    Atilla the Hun gives a Silver Saddle to Altar as a gift. The intention of Kostok is the get rid of the Huns and seize the valuable saddle. Little Tarkan's foster mother is forced to leave him in a cave. His cry attracts the attention of a wolf, who raises Tarkan like his own cub.

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  • Poster for Devil, My Friend

    Devil, My Friend 1988

    Fatih is a struggling musician whose efforts did not pay. One night disappointed, he talks to his "Plastic Sweetheart" a realistic-looking mannequin in a shop window that, "he could even sell his soul to the Devil for fame"...and then he sees the Devil himself. They make a deal that Fatih will sell his soul to the Devil and the Devil will strike him to fame, using the record executives, venue owners and commercial executives whom he had their souls. However the times had changed, and the human had proved to be more evil and smarter than the Devil himself...

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  • Poster for The Bank of Broken Hearts

    The Bank of Broken Hearts 2017

    Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.

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  • Poster for Alice The Musical

    Alice The Musical 2023

    Feeling stuck in her life, Alice follows the call of a mobile app and plots into a virtual world by following the white rabbit. She finds herself in a fantastic world while she searching for answers to the “Who am I?”. Alice will test her courage in this new universe with her imagination and fears.

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  • Poster for Abuk Sabuk Bir Film

    Abuk Sabuk Bir Film 1990

    A misunderstood villager seeks remedy to protect his late father's settlement in post-modern times, when all of his wicked and proud neighbors lay a snare under each other. The villager soon finds himself trapped in a sociopathic crisis.

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  • Poster for A White Night

    A White Night 2018

    A man who talks with the buildings of the city meets an old woman who is about to die. They spend a magical night together.

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  • Poster for Castle of Stories

    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.

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  • Poster for My Dreams, My Love, and You

    My Dreams, My Love, and You 1987

    Coşkun has been in love with the famous star Derya Altınay since his childhood. So much so that the fictional melodrama film heroines, who have opposite characters, have infiltrated the young man’s life. Coşkun has the opportunity to meet Derya; he pens an imaginary love story with her in mind. This script is eventually made into a film, and Derya plays the lead role, but the resulting film is far from his expectations.

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  • Poster for Hayalet Dayı

    Hayalet Dayı 2015

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  • Poster for The Adventures of Sukran the Lame

    The Adventures of Sukran the Lame 2019

    A none dialogue film about a young woman called Sukran, who has an accident when she is 10 years old and stays crippled for the rest of her life. Throughout the film, she seeks to create a common ground with other people. Despite her hunger to do so, she fails with people of the opposite sex, and so turns to her own gender. Again, she meets with failure; and again, she is knocked sideways. Just like all of us, Şükran keeps looking helplessly for ways to communicate with other people until the bitter end. Her helplessness may not be the exact same to our own helplessness as spectators, but they are indeed in very close proximity.

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  • Poster for A Short Film About Wong Kar Wai

    A Short Film About Wong Kar Wai 2015

    Harun has suddenly been abandoned by his long-time girlfriend whom he would have aimed to marry. Following this heartbreak while wondering around, he came across a street film seller.Film seller is a person who willing to make people happy with his films and change their vision and as well as having his own internal journey.Harun dazzled by Wong Kar Wai's movies and become acting the characters in the movies.

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  • Poster for Dracula in Istanbul

    Dracula in Istanbul 1953

    Azmi is a lawyer from Istanbul. Drakula of Romania has assumed a new title. Azmi travels to Romania for legal matters. He is warned of Drakula but Azmi is a strong believer of goodness. This Turkish-made film sticks fairly close to the original plot of Bram Stoker's novel.

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  • Poster for Tut Sözünü

    Tut Sözünü 2015

    Yalçın and Bahadır are two close friends with contrasting personalities. However, Yalçın's unexpected death painfully separates the two friends. One day, Bahadır, who misses Yalçın's crazy antics, hears a knock on his door. He finds himself face to face with the ghost of his crazy friend Yalçın, whose death he mourns deeply! Moreover, he is not alone; he is accompanied by an Italian trapeze artist named Bernardo. Yalçın is stuck in limbo because he failed to keep a promise, and the only person who can help him fulfill that promise is his close friend Bahadır. Yalçın must fulfill his promise within three days, as this is the only way he can find peace. Meanwhile, Bahadır tries to help him but ends up getting into trouble. Additionally, his platonic love for Demet, whom he works with but can’t bring himself to confess his feelings to, adds another layer of complexity to his adventure.

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  • Poster for Kutsal Damacana 4

    Kutsal Damacana 4 2023

    Fikret accidentally becomes a priest, finding himself in an unpredictable position in the priesthood. Unexpectedly rising to the Vatican, Fikret decides to return home.

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  • Poster for The Shadowless

    The Shadowless 2009

    A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.

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  • Poster for hell is empty, all the devils are here

    hell is empty, all the devils are here 2022

    Aspiring actress Gülşah is preparing for the auditions of an acting school. She also volunteers for a theatre and one day she is sexually assaulted by famous actor Levent, who is also a jury member for the audition she is preparing. Daily reality and the reality of the theatre world flow into each other and Gülşah has to fight against several patriarchs in order to fulfill her dreams.

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  • Poster for Girl with No Mouth

    Girl with No Mouth 2019

    A coming-of-age story about Perihan, a girl born without a mouth, who is befriended by a gang of three boys also missing body parts, while on the run from the authorities.

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  • Poster for Minik Cadı

    Minik Cadı 1975

    The film tells the story of the changes that occur in Murat's life after he accidentally encounters Minik Cadı. Murat is a successful businessman. After his wife's death, his son is the only thing keeping him connected to life. One day, he receives news that his son's car has fallen into the sea. Following this tragic accident, he no longer wants to live in this world and decides to take his own life. As the car is about to plunge off a cliff at full speed, he encounters the Little Witch. The Little Witch will be the one to reconnect him to life, marking the beginning of profound changes in his life.

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  • Poster for The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet

    The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet 1976

    Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.

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  • Poster for Lal

    Lal 2020

    Born with a word from nothing, the creature must eat one of its own kind to survive. Even though this word which the creature has managed to pronounce brings him friends, enemies and new prey, it is difficult to maintain the balance. A big fight is inevitable and it will take a long time to get back to the beginning.

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  • Poster for The Antenna

    The Antenna 2020

    In a dystopian Turkey, the Government begins installing new TV antennas to homes throughout the country. Mehmet, a superintendent at a crumbling apartment complex, has to supervise the installation of the new antenna. When the broadcast it transmits begins to menace the residents of the apartment complex. Mehmet must seek out the spiteful entity. The night bulletin reflects the oppressed society of today's Turkey where freedom of speech is in jeopardy.

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  • Poster for Kutsal Damacana: Dracoola

    Kutsal Damacana: Dracoola 2011

    Sebo, who was left in the courtyard of the mosque the day he was born and fed with the bait of pigeons and doves, finds himself beside a wealthy businessman when he grows up. Things change when Sebo falls in love but Count Dracula seeks revenge on Sebo because Sebo's great-great-grandfather stole Dracula's lover.

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  • Poster for Karamurat: The Sultan's Warrior

    Karamurat: The Sultan's Warrior 1973

    Sultan Khan of Ottoman Empire has fallen in love with Princess Iren of Byzantium. When he asks her father Niktol for her hand he refuses and tries to kill Khan. The Sultan's armies then attack and overtake Constantinople (now renamed Istanbul). Niktol kills Princess Iren and flees with his army to the island of Lesbos. From Lesbos, Niktol launches a series of ruthless attacks on Turkish villages resulting in the death of one of the Sultan's guard's mother. The guard, Murat, is sent by the Sultan on a mission to avenge his mother's death and bring back the head of the man who killed Iren. Murat goes undercover in Lesbos posing as Royal Guard Kostas, seeking the killers.

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  • Poster for Prometheus

    Prometheus 2023

    Prometheus, the titan who rebelled against the Olympian gods, stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans. Fire is the foundation of civilization. Humanity thus emerged from dark caves. They discovered science, writing, enlightenment, heating, various medicines in the field of health, and the domestication of wild animals. In short, Prometheus' act paved the way for humanity's civilization, liberated humanity, and provided the means for humanity to use its intellect. Zeus punished Prometheus for defying the order established by the gods, and Prometheus was subjected to various punishments and tortures for the sake of humanity.

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  • Poster for One and the Others

    One and the Others 1987

    A man, while trying to meet a woman from his dreams, finds a restaurant and begins to have a journey both between dreams and reality, others and himself.

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  • Poster for Daydreams of Miss Cazibe

    Daydreams of Miss Cazibe 1992

    Cazibe is a woman in her late thirties, who has never got married or had a relationship with a man in her life. She lives with her old mother and her uncle who feels an attraction towards her. The lonely woman, whose only existence is her small room, spends all her time in this old room, dreaming and fantasising about her ex-lover.

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  • Poster for Golden Shot

    Golden Shot 2015

    Numerous little robots, each in their own little lighthouse, work on keeping the light alive. This in anticipation of the appearance of a sun that will, literally, give them wings. Finally the moment seems to have arrived...

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  • Poster for Kabuslar Evi: Tanıdık Yabancı

    Kabuslar Evi: Tanıdık Yabancı 2006

    Discharged from the mental institution after a long treatment, Derya (Z.Gencer) returns to her village, where her mother lives (G.Ökten). While trying hard to forget her miserable memories, including her son's tragic demise, her life completely changes due to a job offer by Sema Emlak.

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  • Poster for The Stone

    The Stone 2017

    Tas (Rock) is a film that presents a cross-section of the life of a family living a hard life in the countryside. It is a touch of sadness in the life of people living in nature- even as a part of it. And that life is nothing more than the waiting of a woman and man who lost their son. After waiting for many years, the family tries to get rid of the uncertainty by believing that the wounded man they found at the door is Selim (Ahmet Varli), their son.

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  • Poster for My Cinemas

    My Cinemas 1990

    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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  • Poster for The Mollie Project

    The Mollie Project 2025

    "When Mollie's routine between a real and surreal gets interrupted by an uncalled visitor, the line between reality and dream blurs."

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  • Poster for Mavi Gece

    Mavi Gece 2015

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  • Poster for The Rejected

    The Rejected 2019

    A woman is living alone at home, having an abortion want to get rid of her baby in the stomach. But it will not be as easy as she has expected.

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  • Poster for Foreskin

    Foreskin 2024

    In a mid-upper class home in Istanbul, surrounded by disguised pressure from an Islamist society; a postpartum mother in baby blues, dares to question whether circumcision itself is blasphemy against Allah by interrupting perfection of the created body.

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  • Poster for The Tragedy of Black and White

    The Tragedy of Black and White 2024

    The tragic conflict between Korkut, a history student working in the library, and a dark shaman of Altai Turkic descent.

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  • Poster for Dresses Of Times Past

    Dresses Of Times Past 1975

    A guy is excited to meet his girlfriend tonight. His friends persuade the man, who does not want to go out until the meeting time, to take him out. However, the night does not progress as expected and dreams and reality are mixed with each other.

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  • Poster for My Name is Batlir, not Butler

    My Name is Batlir, not Butler 2018

    Hello, my name is Batlır, not Butler. I’m not actually overweight, I just have some excess in a certain area…. It is told in Anatolia that a baby looks like whatever the mother craves while pregnant. My mother craved for watermelon. I mostly talk to 52 Hertz, she is the loneliest whale in the world, and she is my best friend.

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  • Poster for Homoti

    Homoti 1987

    Ali is a journalist who conducts unsubstantiated interviews. While taking photographs for a story about aliens, he comes across a flying saucer. Out of it comes Homoti from the planet Homon. Homoti does not want Ali to report on him because he does not want to be recognized in the world. However, when journalists soon learn of his existence, they compete for the news. Homoti will have to use her special powers.

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  • Poster for Aysecik in the Land of the Magic Dwarfs

    Aysecik in the Land of the Magic Dwarfs 1971

    A young girl named Aysecik lives on her parents' farm, when an animated tornado carries her and her dog Banju in their house to Rüyalar Ulkesinde (Dreamland). Seven Cüceler (dwarfs) (dressed like MGM Munchkin soldiers, only red and white) who assist the Good Witch of the North appear at various times to help. She meets a Scarecrow, an Iron Woodman, and a Cowardly Lion, and dances to music from what appears to be an invisible radio. They encounter fighting trees, a river, and a country of China dolls on their way to the Wizard, a ball of fire who sends them after the Wicked Witch who enslaves them. When the Wizard is unable to help Aysecik get home, they must journey again for help, encountering the China Country once more, and a legion of hammer-throwing cavemen.

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  • Poster for Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu

    Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu 2014

    In the words of the ancients, the traveler Evliya Çelebi, who was in pursuit of the Ab-ı Hayat, or Water of Immortality, had only one desire: to live long enough to travel the world. However, in the 1600s, when Evliya Çelebi reached the Water of Immortality on the banks of the Nile River, unpleasant surprises awaited him. The evil queen punishes Evliya Çelebi, and he falls into a long sleep. When he wakes up, he finds himself in modern-day Istanbul! Moreover, his friend the goose, with whom he drank the water 400 years ago, is by his side. However, the evil queen will not let Evliya Çelebi off the hook in Istanbul, even though she has come from centuries ago!

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  • Poster for Lost in Transition

    Lost in Transition 2016

    A family's life changes one morning when they receive a notification that the road will pass through their 15-year-old son's room. This is how the fantastic transformation in the house begins.

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  • Poster for A Terrific Train

    A Terrific Train 1975

    No signs of life. A man at the train station cuts his way through the passengers standing still as if time stopped.

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  • Poster for Ben Bir Garip Keloğlanım

    Ben Bir Garip Keloğlanım 1976

    The devilish sultan tries to impose his tyrannical rule on the people, but since he cannot place the crown on his head, he is not recognized as sultan by the people. Keloğlan finds himself in the middle of events while fleeing from bandits.

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  • Poster for Dark Waters

    Dark Waters 1994

    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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  • Poster for Osman Sekiz

    Osman Sekiz 2022

    Osman suffers from agoraphobia. Osman, who lives in an old mansion far from the city, avoids meeting people. Osman, who wants a more peaceful life, decides to leave the mansion. However, in order for him to move from the mansion, he must first fight with the five cute monsters and Nazli that he lives with in the mansion.

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