Orhan Kemal

72. Ward

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

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.

Bekçi

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.

Kaçak

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

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.

On Fertile Lands

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

The Fall of Leaves

Ali Riza, a very respectable man, retires and moves to Istanbul with his wife and 5 children. His children quickly lose identity in degenerate big city and his family, once close-knit, begins crumbling away.

The Stranger's Daughter

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

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.

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.

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.