Acting
Şevval Sam
Born November 11, 1973 · İstanbul, Türkiye (age 52)
No biography available.
Known For
Yan Yana · 2025Yan Yana
★ 6.92025
MovieDramaComedy
A wealthy man, paralysed after an accident, hires a caregiver from a completely different background. The unlikely relationship between these two opposite characters soon transforms into an extraordinary and powerful friendship that changes both of their lives.
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz · 2025All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
★ 5.52025
MovieDocumentary
Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.
Kafe · 2010Kafe
★ 4.52010
MovieDrama
You always tried, always failed; try again, fail again, this time fail better.
The Smell of Money · 2018The Smell of Money
★ 3.52018
MovieDrama
A cab driver, a teahouse owner and an out-of-work journalist live in a down-at-heel suburb of Ankara. When the driver tells his friends tales of the murky and unlawful dealings of his passengers, they install a camera to record the passengers.
Heartsong · 2022Heartsong
★ 6.62022
MovieComedyDrama
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
Ask Your Heart · 2010Ask Your Heart
★ 7.52010
MovieDrama
A love affair threatened by a barrier as great as itself... Can differences of faith stand in the way of an innocent love affair? Two young people, Esma and Mustafa, fall in love. For them, the future only has meaning if they are together. Failing this, life is meaningless. However, overhanging their love is a barrier unique to the period and location: Mustafa is a clandestine Christian, when everyone including Esma thinks he is Muslim. In the meantime, the Ottoman Empire introduces a series of reforms giving Christians the same rights as Muslims. From this point on, the Church urges secret Christians to reveal their faith. This poses a dilemma for Mustafa: he is caught between his love and the Church.
Black Horse Memories · 2015Black Horse Memories
★ 4.22015
MovieDrama
A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One of the girls in the group, Aseke, is killed on a mission and her friends decide to carry out the final request she made in her will. She had been brought up with a black horse, now in the remote Anatolian mountains, and her request is to bring the horse back so that they might meet one last time before she is buried. The arrival of the horse leads to some unexpected events.
Black and White · 2010Black and White
★ 5.62010
MovieDrama
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a life style. These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk... Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.
Movies
Yan Yana · 2025Yan Yana
★ 6.92025
MovieDramaComedy
A wealthy man, paralysed after an accident, hires a caregiver from a completely different background. The unlikely relationship between these two opposite characters soon transforms into an extraordinary and powerful friendship that changes both of their lives.
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz · 2025All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
★ 5.52025
MovieDocumentary
Tuncel Kurtiz is an international actor who has worked in various countries such as Turkey, Germany, and Sweden throughout his fifty-year career. He has starred in countless works in cinema, stage and television and has received many awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He has directed two documentaries and a feature-length fiction film. Kurtiz's acting performance ranges from popular melodramas to major plays such as Mahabharata (Peter Brook), encompassing many different genres and styles. As an actor, Kurtiz believes in the creative power of chaos: 'Chaos is the most difficult to create / Not a false chaos / Many things come out of chaos'. Through testimonies, film excerpts, and archive footage, this documentary reflects Tuncel Kurtiz's diverse body of artistic work in all its dimensions for the first time. In the background of this detailed portrait are Turkey's turbulent years and the reality of exile.
Kafe · 2010Kafe
★ 4.52010
MovieDrama
You always tried, always failed; try again, fail again, this time fail better.
The Smell of Money · 2018The Smell of Money
★ 3.52018
MovieDrama
A cab driver, a teahouse owner and an out-of-work journalist live in a down-at-heel suburb of Ankara. When the driver tells his friends tales of the murky and unlawful dealings of his passengers, they install a camera to record the passengers.
Heartsong · 2022Heartsong
★ 6.62022
MovieComedyDrama
While serenading a wedding that quickly implodes, a nomadic musician falls for the bride, who runs afoul of her family. Now he has to save her life.
Ask Your Heart · 2010Ask Your Heart
★ 7.52010
MovieDrama
A love affair threatened by a barrier as great as itself... Can differences of faith stand in the way of an innocent love affair? Two young people, Esma and Mustafa, fall in love. For them, the future only has meaning if they are together. Failing this, life is meaningless. However, overhanging their love is a barrier unique to the period and location: Mustafa is a clandestine Christian, when everyone including Esma thinks he is Muslim. In the meantime, the Ottoman Empire introduces a series of reforms giving Christians the same rights as Muslims. From this point on, the Church urges secret Christians to reveal their faith. This poses a dilemma for Mustafa: he is caught between his love and the Church.
Black Horse Memories · 2015Black Horse Memories
★ 4.22015
MovieDrama
A group of young people are trying to teach Kurdish in Turkish Kurdistan, a land where the teaching of the language is forbidden by Turkish authorities. Part of their work is to print clandestine schoolbooks in underground schools and distribute them. One of the girls in the group, Aseke, is killed on a mission and her friends decide to carry out the final request she made in her will. She had been brought up with a black horse, now in the remote Anatolian mountains, and her request is to bring the horse back so that they might meet one last time before she is buried. The arrival of the horse leads to some unexpected events.
Black and White · 2010Black and White
★ 5.62010
MovieDrama
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a life style. These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk... Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.
TV Shows
Forbidden Fruit · 2018Forbidden Fruit
★ 6.92018
SeriesFamilyDrama
Two sisters with contrasting values are drawn into Istanbul's glamorous and treacherous high society. Yıldız craves wealth and status, while principled Zeynep falls for her cold, powerful boss Alihan. When Yıldız becomes entangled with married tycoon Halit and his scheming wife Ender, a web of desire, manipulation and betrayal unfolds across Istanbul's elite world. A addictive soap opera that ran for six seasons and 177 episodes, driven by sharp dialogue and constantly escalating drama.
RU · 2024RU
★ 6.22024
SeriesDrama
Ryan and Ozir: twenty years separate them, but an unconventional love brings them together in the small town of Aegean, where their hearts defy the boundaries of age and society and cling to their hope for happiness.
Golden Butterfly Awards · 1973Golden Butterfly Awards
1973
Series
Crossroads · 2016Crossroads
★ 7.02016
SeriesDrama
A drama about a family which the father was in debt. After they lost everything they move in Bodrum where the parents born. They struggle to save the father from the police.
Kral Türkiye Müzik Ödülleri · 1995Kral Türkiye Müzik Ödülleri
1995
Series
Next Room · 2024Next Room
★ 6.72024
SeriesDramaFamily
Sevgi Ersoy, a famous TV presenter whose career is on the decline, suddenly marries Fikret Alabey, one of the country's leading businessmen. This unexpected marriage shocks everyone. Both Sevgi and Fikret have had unhappy marriages in the past. They now want to live out their second chances, but it won't be easy. Their marriage means their very different families will come together. The cohabitation of these two very different families under one roof will create bigger problems than Sevgi and Fikret anticipated, changing the lives of all family members, especially their children, Taylan and Şelale, who are forced to live in adjacent rooms.
Gülbeyaz · 2002Gülbeyaz
★ 7.52002
SeriesFamilyDrama
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan ile Empati · 2022Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan ile Empati
2022
Series
Super Dad · 1993Super Dad
★ 8.41993
SeriesFamilyComedy
A family father struggles in maintaining lifelong relationships with three of his growing children ,after he divorced with his wife. In the unique Çengelköy district Fikret struggles with life, beside love, pain, hope.
Kurşun Yarası · 2003Kurşun Yarası
★ 8.02003
SeriesDrama
Benimle Söyle · 2019Benimle Söyle
★ 5.02019
Series
Kaan Sekban'la Alt Tarafı Bi' Talk Show · 2020Kaan Sekban'la Alt Tarafı Bi' Talk Show
2020
Series
Aşkın Dağlarda Gezer · 1999Aşkın Dağlarda Gezer
★ 10.01999
SeriesFamilyDrama
Müjgan Bey · 2004Müjgan Bey
★ 6.02004
SeriesComedy
Acayip Hikayeler · 2012Acayip Hikayeler
★ 7.22012
SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Yine de Aşığım · 2005Yine de Aşığım
★ 9.02005
SeriesComedy
Alarga · 2024Alarga
2024
Series