Orhan Kemal

Tersine Dünya

The film is set in a world where traditional gender roles between women and men are reversed. Bitirim Leyla and Sarı Leman are the tough, street-smart women of their neighborhood. While Leman works in a factory, Leyla makes a living through small-time scams on the streets. Leyla cheats on her husband with a young man from the neighborhood, while Leman spends her time with male prostitutes. However, the lifestyle they lead eventually draws both women into crime.

The Guard

In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a consequence he is often the unwitting and unknowing brunt of jokes. His wife and daughters are painfully aware of his shortcomings, but they generally suffer in silence. One of the daughters ends up working in the factory to help the family out financially, and when Murtaza finds her sleeping on the job one night he hits her so hard she eventually dies from the blow. Though that is not the end of it, by any means.

Anası Gibi

The Tricycle

Üç tekerlekli bisiklet (Tricycle aka The Three-Wheeled Bicycle, I962) is a love story about a lonely woman with a small child and the man she hides in her house, who is chased and trapped, one of the staple motifs of Lutfi Akad’s cinema.

Sokaklardan Bir Kız

The film tells the story of a young girl struggling to survive in a depraved life. Having grown up alone because her father is in prison, Nuran has taken refuge in her uncle's house. Here, she is forced to endure the torment of her cruel aunt. Her only friend is Ihsan, a kind-hearted pickpocket she knows from the neighbourhood. After her father's death, Nuran is forced to move in with her mother Leyla, who works in bars. When İhsan is caught and sent to prison, she finds herself completely alone in a life that is not her own.

Eskici ve Oğulları

The film depicts the struggles of a poor family. A father who repairs shoes works alongside his two sons. The father wants his eldest son, Mehmet, to find another job. Mehmet decides to work as a cotton picker with his wife and children. Ali, the younger son who cannot get along with his father, also begins working with them. The father suggests that they all work together to pool their money and then renovate the shop. Upon this, the entire family goes to pick cotton. However, things will not go as planned for the family embarking on this new venture.

Altı Ölü Var İpsala Cinayeti

Birds of Exile

Tahir Agha sells all his assets when his business in Maraş deteriorates. He immigrates to Istanbul with his wife Hatice, sons Selim, Murat, Kemal and daughter Fatoş, where he sets his mind to open a repair shop. But in the metropolis, things don't go as planned.

Tersine Dünya

The film is set in a world where traditional gender roles between women and men are reversed. Bitirim Leyla and Sarı Leman are the tough, street-smart women of their neighborhood. While Leman works in a factory, Leyla makes a living through small-time scams on the streets. Leyla cheats on her husband with a young man from the neighborhood, while Leman spends her time with male prostitutes. However, the lifestyle they lead eventually draws both women into crime.

The Guard

In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a consequence he is often the unwitting and unknowing brunt of jokes. His wife and daughters are painfully aware of his shortcomings, but they generally suffer in silence. One of the daughters ends up working in the factory to help the family out financially, and when Murtaza finds her sleeping on the job one night he hits her so hard she eventually dies from the blow. Though that is not the end of it, by any means.

Anası Gibi

The Tricycle

Üç tekerlekli bisiklet (Tricycle aka The Three-Wheeled Bicycle, I962) is a love story about a lonely woman with a small child and the man she hides in her house, who is chased and trapped, one of the staple motifs of Lutfi Akad’s cinema.

Sokaklardan Bir Kız

The film tells the story of a young girl struggling to survive in a depraved life. Having grown up alone because her father is in prison, Nuran has taken refuge in her uncle's house. Here, she is forced to endure the torment of her cruel aunt. Her only friend is Ihsan, a kind-hearted pickpocket she knows from the neighbourhood. After her father's death, Nuran is forced to move in with her mother Leyla, who works in bars. When İhsan is caught and sent to prison, she finds herself completely alone in a life that is not her own.

Eskici ve Oğulları

The film depicts the struggles of a poor family. A father who repairs shoes works alongside his two sons. The father wants his eldest son, Mehmet, to find another job. Mehmet decides to work as a cotton picker with his wife and children. Ali, the younger son who cannot get along with his father, also begins working with them. The father suggests that they all work together to pool their money and then renovate the shop. Upon this, the entire family goes to pick cotton. However, things will not go as planned for the family embarking on this new venture.

Altı Ölü Var İpsala Cinayeti

Birds of Exile

Tahir Agha sells all his assets when his business in Maraş deteriorates. He immigrates to Istanbul with his wife Hatice, sons Selim, Murat, Kemal and daughter Fatoş, where he sets his mind to open a repair shop. But in the metropolis, things don't go as planned.

Windfall

This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elements -like most Kemal Sunal films- but generally tells its story as well. The story is familiar to Turkish audience: A young man loves young girl. In most Turkish love films one of the partners is rich or poor according to the other but in this movie both sides are poor and they have many difficulties to reach happy end. In my opinion, these kind of movies always gives hope to people to get over it.

Suçlu

The Stranger's Daughter

Saime, who does not find Nazan worthy of her son, does her best to separate the young people.

72. Koğuş

A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.

On Fertile Lands

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

72. Ward

A love story of a prisoner in Turkey in the 1940s.

Avare Mustafa

Mustafa is a reckless, unemployed young man. He is in love with his neighbor's daughter, Aynur, and wants to marry her. However, his family pressures him to contribute to the household budget. Everything changes when a wealthy family decides to build an apartment building in their neighborhood. The family's daughter, Hülya, falls in love with Mustafa. Mustafa, caught between Hülya and Aynur and her family, faces difficult days ahead.

Kaçak

The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.

Falling Leaves

Ali Riza, a very respectable man, retires and moves to Istanbul with his wife and five children. His children quickly lose identity in degenerate big city and his family, once close-knit, begins crumbling away.

Vukuat Var

Hayat Kavgası

The film tells the tale of a father who can't get along with his sons. Haci Nuri runs a factory with his sons Erol and Metin. However, he pressures them in many areas of their lives. Unable to stand any more of his father's pestering, Erol moves out. After a while, Metin also leaves home to live with his elder brother. But in response, Haci Nuri disowns the two of them. The two brothers will try to start a business and get by without their father.

Kötü Yol

Lady's Farm

Hanımın Çiftliği is a Turkish drama series. It has been adapted from Orhan Kemal's novel Hanımın Çiftliği. It has been very praised and won numerous awards.

Evlerden Biri

When a mother-daughter moves into the opposite house of a family living with their own problems, the men of the family think the same thing. The tension begins.