Best Turkish crime movies

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

  • Poster for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

    Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011

    A group of men lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about everyday life, which ultimately leads to conversations about their deepest existential concerns and secrets.

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  • Poster for The Bandit

    The Bandit 1996

    Baran the Bandit, released from prison after serving 35 years, searches for vengeance against his former best friend who betrayed him and stole his lover, teaming up with a young punk with his own demons along the way.

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  • Poster for Mortal World

    Mortal World 2018

    Mermer family, who has been managing a restaurant called “Anatolian flavors” in Haydarpasa train station for generations, consist of 8 members. Even though this family leads a quiet simple life, they will end up finding themselves in complicated situations. Moreover, this family has been keeping a secret for a long time and it just can’t come out at any cost..

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  • Poster for Hunting Season

    Hunting Season 2010

    Veteran homicide cop Fermanand his hot-headed partner İdris team up with rookie cop and anthropology major Hasan to investigate the murder of a young woman. The suspects include her conservative family, who might have killed her for honor, her drug-dealing boyfriend and aged billionaire Battal who had taken the victim as his second wife.

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  • Poster for You've Got Murder

    You've Got Murder 2019

    Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any clues. Day by day, tempers flare and the police chiefs grow annoyed.As the murders keep piling up, the public’s interest rises. The pressure on Emin and his colleagues get intense. At last, the chief of police assigns “crime expert” Dizdar Koşu, who has recently come back from the US, to the team.Overwhelmed with panic, pressure and disdain, Emin and his friends try to solve the strangest series of murders with the most unusual methods.This fast race against time immediately turns into a tragicomedy.

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  • Poster for Money Trap

    Money Trap 2019

    Asim Noyan swindles people with his lies and games. Asim Noyan and his gang, who no one else has been able to catch, get into a ruse again.

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  • Poster for For Love and Honor

    For Love and Honor 2007

    Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events.

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  • Poster for On Board

    On Board 1998

    Sailors want to remain in their small world, which is warm and cozy and full of lies, but their routine life turns upside down when one of them gets mugged and badly beaten.

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  • Poster for Let's Sin

    Let's Sin 2014

    Selman is a former boxer who once was interested in anthropology, an extraordinary imam who now works in a mosque. One day, while praying in the mosque, gunshots are echoed. One of the people inside collapses and dies. The police come to the scene and collect the first evidence and start the investigation process. He takes action after this event and decides to resolve the case through some people and circumstances he suspects. Every clue leads to an unexpected point and the events become increasingly mysterious.

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  • Poster for 10 Days of a Good Man

    10 Days of a Good Man 2023

    A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest.

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  • Poster for At the Bar

    At the Bar 2007

    A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center where they do not belong, where they are excluded. They adopted a brutal method to seize rights that were not granted to them. Unaware of what will happen to them, cheerful and well-to-do university students are helpless in the face of this gun-wielding mob that suddenly raids the bar where they are having fun.

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  • Poster for Mortal World 2

    Mortal World 2 2023

    Mortal World 2 tells the story of the Mermer family, who now continues their lives as outlaws, struggles with their own problems. Serhan has difficulty adjusting Begüm, who is pregnant, to their new life. While Serhat is now missing a woman in his life, Gazanfer struggles to keep his family together against the organization. However, Zafer's fall into the hands of the organization turns everyone's lives upside down. Looking for a way to reach Zafer, Gazanfer finds the solution by asking for help from an old friend. This time, the Mermer family will have to make one last heist to reunite with their children.

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  • Poster for The Blue Bead

    The Blue Bead 1975

    After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge.

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  • Poster for Dry Summer

    Dry Summer 1963

    A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.

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  • Poster for Cholera Street

    Cholera Street 1997

    Salih is a mechanic and the son of a respected barber named Ali. A woman named Tina arrives at Cholera Street, where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute.

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  • Poster for 10 Days of a Curious Man

    10 Days of a Curious Man 2024

    When a young woman goes missing in Istanbul, a jaded writer gets tangled up in a deadly chain of events as he sets out to find her—and a good story.

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  • Poster for Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart

    Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart 2011

    An aggressive police officer tries to solve the mystery behind consecutive murders. While doing so, he must fight against his inner demons.

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  • Poster for Behzat Ç.: Ankara Is on Fire

    Behzat Ç.: Ankara Is on Fire 2013

    In the absence of Behzat Ç., a superintendent named Himmet gets replaced as the president of the murder Bureau. When the murder of minister of Interior makes a big impact, Himmet decides to take advantage of it and he makes his team help the fight against terrorism bureau.

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  • Poster for 10 Days of a Bad Man

    10 Days of a Bad Man 2023

    Battered, broken and bereaved, a private investigator must muscle his way through a tangle of lies to uncover the truth behind a mansion murder.

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  • Poster for Serial Cook

    Serial Cook 2018

    Meet Neslihan. A perfect cook, an expert on Turkish cuisine, strictly loyal to her husband, an impeccable house wife ...and a serial killer.

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  • Poster for Operation Cicero

    Operation Cicero 2019

    Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during WW2. After Bazna starts to work as a German spy he is going to experience a series of unexpected events.

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  • Poster for Frenzy

    Frenzy 2015

    With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, working for the city rounding up stray dogs and shutting himself in his home.

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  • Poster for Motherland Hotel

    Motherland Hotel 1987

    Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.

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  • Poster for More

    More 2017

    Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing. Gaza dreams of escaping this life, but can't help being drawn into a dark world of immorality, exploitation and human suffering. Can you avoid becoming a monster when you've been raised by one? Onur Saylak's debut feature, adapted from the award-winning novel of the same title by Hakan Günday, one of the first novels to document the refugee crisis in Europe, "More" is the gripping story of a boy that gets to grow up in a world where there's no room for innocence.

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  • Poster for Valley of the Wolves Gladio

    Valley of the Wolves Gladio 2009

    Retired security intelligence agent Iskender Buyuk has kept his government's secrets for years but when the men he has sworn to protect suddenly desert him, Iskender finds himself in the defendant's chair with only young and inexperienced lawyer Ayse to represent his interests. Understandably angered by this turn of events, Iskender decides to strike back against his one-time employers by revealing all he knows about covert op missions.

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  • Poster for Sen Kimsin?

    Sen Kimsin? 2012

    Tekin and retired traffic police deputy Ismail, to find a girl who lost their lives at the expense of any kind of danger afford. An ordinary story that started in pursuit of the missing girl case, reckoning, game turns into an adventure game in which the arrival. Who is to blame innocent who is confused. Our sleuth has a single error, then use their own methods.

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  • Poster for Under Construction

    Under Construction 2003

    Two construction workers from Istanbul yearn to escape to sunny Italy and find better jobs. In an attempt to save enough money to move, they unwittingly become involved in their boss's shady criminal dealings. With a little twist of unexpected events their lives turns out to be far from anything they have dreamed of.

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  • Poster for Cingöz Recai

    Cingöz Recai 2017

    An ex-thief returns for the revange of his father's murder makes an intelligent plan to reach the killer, a godfather named as Ghost. During his robbery operations, he plays with the police chief who is trying to stop him. In his final robbery, he finds something different than what he expects, something bigger.

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  • Poster for Dragon Trap

    Dragon Trap 2010

    When a serial killer goes after former convicted pedophiles, it is up to Police Commissioner Abbas and his Chief Celal to stop the killings.

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  • Poster for All the Light We Cannot See

    All the Light We Cannot See 2020

    A father and his son become the hunted ones in a hunt because of their rifles.

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  • Poster for Antidote

    Antidote 2014

    Istanbul cirminal underworld; a place of merciless families and swaggering hitmen afraid of no one. Kadir Korkut, nicknamed the "Demon" is the most fearsome of their kind. When he wants to retire for the love of a blind German pianist, it starts a chain of events which will paint the night red. His boss and foster father, Kara Cemal betrays and coerces Kadir by poisoning him to perform two final hits on the two largest rival families in order to receive the antidote. Outgunned, outmanned and facing impossible odds he has to team up with an outed undercover police mole Cem, and somehow survive his final night of revenge and redemption.

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  • Poster for A Madonna in Laleli

    A Madonna in Laleli 1999

    Pimps want to expand and conquer the world, by abiding the greats and oppressing the losers, but they lose their prostitute to some sailors.

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  • Poster for Crash

    Crash 2005

    Three men. From different corners of the crime world: A hired gun, Musta; a con man, Cem; and a thief, Ali. By a twist of fate their paths crosses at Central Station and start to work as a team. But their past won't let them go too faraway...

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  • Poster for Law of the Border

    Law of the Border 1966

    In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.

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  • Poster for Beans

    Beans 2000

    The duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax return forms to him. Taking the forms along with the lunchbox full of beans his mother cooked for him, he's underway. But he meets some weird people on the way, who also run into some other weird people, and things start to follow an unexpected path for everyone involved, bringing hillarious moments along.

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  • Poster for Revenge of the Snakes

    Revenge of the Snakes 1962

    The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren. The headman of the village sells a lot from the common land of the village to Haceli. The family does not want a house to be built in front of their house and struggles against the tricks of the headman and Haceli.

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  • Poster for Valley of the Wolves: Homeland

    Valley of the Wolves: Homeland 2017

    Polat Alemdar Erhan and Cahit are yet again on the front lines only to discover a military coup attempt in Turkey.

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  • Poster for Zehir Hafiye

    Zehir Hafiye 1989

    The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.

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  • Poster for Consequences

    Consequences 2014

    Cenk has just arrived back to Istanbul from the United States. Suppressed love slowly begins to resurface after he encounters Ece, a woman whom he had a romantic relationship with in the past. Suddenly, there is a robbery attempt in a quiet and gloomy house, which results in a crime being committed.

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  • Poster for Black Night

    Black Night 2023

    Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago comes back to haunt him as he returns to his town to say farewell to his dying mother. Facing the other five perpetrators--his childhood friends—as well as the community and government officials supporting them, Ishak struggles with the guilt weighing upon him. However, the bigger the crime is, the stronger the silence gets since everyone has blood on their hands.

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  • Poster for Shattered Soul

    Shattered Soul 2006

    As dismembered legs begin appearing across Istanbul, Commissioner Fatih and his partner Doruk—a U.S.-trained forensic psychiatrist—race to catch the killer, even as Doruk’s wife Beyza, haunted by mysterious blackouts, discovers a chilling connection between her missing time and the victims.

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  • Poster for Treasure

    Treasure 2022

    Mesut, a civil servant who returns his hometown to bury his mother, is dragged into by his younger brother Musa to a treasure hunt and finds himself tangled up with a murder.

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  • Poster for Patlak Sokaklar: Gerzomat

    Patlak Sokaklar: Gerzomat 2012

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  • Poster for Robbery Alla Turca

    Robbery Alla Turca 2005

    With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared to be sold at an auction, two Turkish thieves from Germany are hired to steal valuable paintings from the art collection. Meanwhile, Seckin the fashioner designer - also the brother of Binnur, wife of the late billionaire - prepares for a fashion show in the same hotel that the robbery is going to take place. With the intervention of police, the beautiful model and her ex-lover, a hip papparazi, the two "Laz" mafia bosses seeking revenge, and the getaway driver straight out of Selcuk Erdem caricatures, the robbery is bound to go wrong. Prepare for a twist at the end as the plot unfolds towards a climactic ending...

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  • Poster for The Resistance

    The Resistance 2022

    Ecem and Rahmi, who are at the very beginning of their relationship, live in the basement of an apartment in Istanbul. Their life takes a different turn one night when Ecem's ex-boyfriend Kazim comes to their doorstep. The anger of Rahmi, who is very jealous, causes a night full of regrets.

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  • Poster for Scream

    Scream 1949

    Scream, called the first Turkish horror/thriller film, deals with the story of a doctor who takes refuge in a mansion on a stormy night and meets a young girl who has been driven crazy by her uncle because of an inheritance issue there. Unfortunately, there is no extant copy of the film.

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  • Poster for Hep Yek

    Hep Yek 2016

    Cevat is the son of a famous mafia leader. He falls in love with a super model and he decides to kidnap her. The famous mafia boss has his men do this for his son. They kidnap her and plan how they will bring her to Cevat safely. On their way, the worker will get in trouble and lose the car with the model in it. He will experience the worst 48 hours of his life when he has to find her in order to bring her to Cevat.

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  • Poster for Çakal

    Çakal 2010

    Akın's life, who lived with a father he didn't like and a sick mother, changed after he lost his mother. He plans to start a new life with the money he steals from the carpentry workshop where he works. When his girlfriend Deniz dismisses this dream as ridiculous and leaves him, he accepts an offer from his friend İdris. This offer involves working as a foot soldier for a mafia group.

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  • Poster for Children of the Otherside

    Children of the Otherside 2008

    Semih, who was discharged from the army a month early for his "heroism" in operations in the southeast, encounters his brother's funeral on the day he returns from the army. When he sets out to find his brother's killer, Semih is drawn into another battle filled with difficult questions. As he searches for the truth, he will realize that what was lost was not just his brother's life, but also the harsh reality of lives doomed to be lost in "The Other Istanbul," fueled by anger and helplessness.

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  • Poster for Wolves

    Wolves 2024

    District Governor Behçet and his screenwriter wife Ilgın settle in a village where the villagers are pressuring them to drain a water canal into which their children have fallen and drowned. Behçet denies his responsibility for the incident and blames the villagers for the deaths of the children, while Ilgın stays out of everything and sees what happened as the material for a screenplay. The villagers are determined to avenge their children.

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  • Poster for Belonging

    Belonging 2019

    A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.

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  • Poster for Press

    Press 2010

    The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.

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  • Poster for Hep Yek 2

    Hep Yek 2 2017

    Gürkan and Altan have fallen into the hands of Cevat Bakır. Cevat Bakır, who killed Şahin for betraying him in the first film, spares the lives of Şahin’s accomplices, Altan and Gürkan, on the condition that they dispose of Şahin’s body. However, the two buddies mess up this task as well, bringing countless troubles upon themselves, just like in the first film, and manage to get the country’s most psychopathic men on their trail.

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  • Poster for Elegy

    Elegy 1972

    Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.

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  • Poster for Comme Il Faut

    Comme Il Faut 2024

    A rigged boxing match that goes wrong connects the fates of three unaccomplished men. Ferit Kamaci is an ambitious amateur boxer who has passed the age of going pro. One night, Ferit secretly decides to get on the ring at the opening night of Rita, a nightclub in the ghettos, instead of driving his brother's taxi in that night's shift. Ilyas Kargi, a middle-aged man who is a mafia in the ghettos, owns the nightclub. He is trying to strengthen his relationship with his son through organizing an opening night match, where a discreet bet is placed. Babür Taha Öner, Ferit's cousin, bets all the money that he stole from his uncle on Ferit, trusting that he'll hit the jackpot. When Ferit knocks out his professional opponent in the ring, a series of events unfolds that lead to the death of his brother Ali.

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  • Poster for The Hopeless Ones

    The Hopeless Ones 1971

    O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equally huge false eyelashes not because he is a bad-ass outlaw that she will have to worry about reading his obituary every day. They can not consummate their passions because... now brace yourself, because Firat's badman partners won't allow him (Firat is the top crime dog) to have a girl friend.

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  • Poster for Pars: Operation Cherry

    Pars: Operation Cherry 2007

    A story describing Turkish narcotic police team named "Pars" who are trailing the traffic through Afghanistan, Turkey, Europe and USA.

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  • Poster for Trust

    Trust 2018

    Ali and Meryem are an ordinary family on the face of it. Meryem has a child from a previous relationship with Ferit. When Ferit reappears years later, Ali puts his wife to a test of trust. While Meryem is caught between her sense of gratitude and the agony of love, Ali's self-esteem begins to crumble. Ferit's murder fans the flames of distrust between them. They are too suspicious of one another to talk. During the police questioning, they cling to one another once again. Complicity becomes the glue of trust between them. Now they are a proper family.

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  • Poster for A Suicide

    A Suicide 1975

    The man wants to die and the woman wants to be famous. According to the man, there could not be a better plan than the woman killing him. This way the man will get his wish to die and the woman will become famous.

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  • Poster for The Man Without Tomorrow

    The Man Without Tomorrow 1976

    After Murat is released from prison, he will do illegal deeds to help street kids.

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  • Poster for Fog and Night

    Fog and Night 2007

    Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or well in expressing his feelings,Sedat is being consumed , going through the hardest time of his life , not able to silence his guilty conscience because he was unsuccessful in solving the murder of his partner , whom he saw a brother .His faith in his organization is shaken as he witness the schemes in machination inside the organization and between the organization and the state.Meanwhile , while trying to find his lover who has disappeared after falling for a former militant , he does not refrain from making use of the filthiest methods of his profession.

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  • Poster for Beyond the Nights

    Beyond the Nights 1960

    A group of young man from suburban, unite and make some trouble to achieve their different purposes.

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  • Poster for İnsan Avcısı

    İnsan Avcısı 1975

    Greek Spies are trying to give bad image about turkey, Metin a young police man who decides to go rogue and achieve justice after the murder of his partner and his family on the hands of Greek spies.

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  • Poster for The Guilty Are Among Us

    The Guilty Are Among Us 1964

    In the mansion of a rich family living in Istanbul, a very valuable necklace is stolen. Suspecting that the thief is someone from inside the house, the owners start to approach the people working in the house with class differences and prejudices. The thieves realize that the necklace is fake.

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  • Poster for Hostage

    Hostage 2005

    Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion.

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  • Poster for Mask: With a Polite Smile

    Mask: With a Polite Smile 2023

    Baris is a young man who finds various deception methods to continue his life. The reason for this situation is seen as a reflection of the traumas he has experienced at past. However, there are bigger mysteries than thought.

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