The Passenger

A journalist campaigns for mayor, and after a beautiful girl asks for a ride in his car – and offers him a drink at her apartment, he forgets about his beautiful wife and his teenager son for the evening. Drugged, implicated in a murder, and with his son kidnapped…

A frigid young housewife cannot reconcile her sado-masochistic imagination with her daily life with her submissive husband. While he is at work, she starts working in the afternoons at a local, first-class brothel.

After being released from prison, Müslüm will fulfill his dedication and sacrifice his 2.5-month-old son to God by cutting the throat of him.

When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.

A group of women in a small village get organized against the macho men of the town.

A family man, driven to the edge by his inability to financially support his family, is found running about on the street naked. Suddenly, he turns into a nationwide celebrity and an inspiration for millions of people in poverty.

Lutfu is a cook in the mansion of the wealthy Kerim. One morning he sees that there is nobody at home. The maid is to get engaged on that day but her fiancée does not show up either. From the brother of their driver, he learns that workers are on strike and their boss Kerim has gone to Europe. Things get back to normal.

A depiction of social satire, Talihli Amele [The Lucky Worker] (1980) shows the transformation of a young man who immigrated to Istanbul to provide a better life for his family. With hopes to become a successful mason, he suddenly finds himself the star of a TV commercial. Drawing attention to the rising consumerism culture and its effects on individuals in Turkey, the film was allowed to be shown with a State Council verdict.

The film tells the story of an old husband Hüsrev and Melek, who was first a servant and then his wife. With this marriage Hüsrev’s subconscious hidden passions are revealed.

A man and woman meet during the identification of their spouses' dead bodies, following a car accident. It turns out that the they had an affair with each other. Feelings like jealousy, shame, wrath that struck them at the beginning, leave their place to understanding. The man and the woman start seeing each other. First, they hesitate to start an affair, yet later they cannot control their feelings. They unite in a love affair, not caring about the values and judgments of the people around them.

During World War II, Şvayk, a seemingly ordinary, hapless dog-seller, finds himself entangled with the Nazi regime.