"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear...
In order to keep his ailing son alive, an impoverished man agrees to sneak a herd of sheep across the border.
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while ...
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, ...
The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are...
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this dilemma: if the herdsman manages to ...
Seyyit Han is a man with many foes. One day he falls in love with Mürsit's sister, Keje. Mürsit is fine with them marrying, only on one condition: Seyyit Han has to get rid of his enemies ...
Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains. When a rich landowner wants to avenge the death of his father, he hires Memed as a bounty hunter.
A poem may be the only proof of a murder, stated as a suicide, the lines of which stays in a diary of a madman ridiculing prevalent vices in his own paranoiac world of dreams and fantasies.
The forbidden love between a bouncer and a belly dancer both working at the same night club finds hope when they try to escape their individual destinies.
Melahat: "What is your name?" Mustafa: "Mustafa. But I am not sure that Mustafa or not. I remember that one day a woman called me as a Mustafa but i don't know did she called me or someone else."