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89
8.3
/338735/
80
/5429/
79
/3315/
4.4
/319779/
93
/132/
93
/5604/
100
/8/
cc age 13+

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
poster
86
7.6
/124615/
76
/4633/
77
/1732/
4.2
/1428304/
96
/246/
81
/312/
95
/46/
cc age 14+

Aftersun (2022)
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
poster
Kanopy
86
7.9
/83153/
78
/1491/
78
/1458/
4.3
/176424/
95
/65/
93
/2056/
79
/9/

Wings of Desire (1987)
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
poster
Netflix
85
7.5
/493550/
75
/12079/
72
/6010/
3.8
/304632/
96
/288/
84
/13782/
95
/37/
cc age 17+

The Hurt Locker (2008)
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/12015/
74
/219/
75
/251/
4.1
/22919/
97
/36/
90
/154/

The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
poster
YouTube Premium
84
7.6
/16684/
76
/955/
75
/353/
4.0
/34111/
98
/133/
85
/127/
cc age 8+

Kedi (2017)
A profile of Istanbul and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat.
poster
Kanopy
84
8.0
/20358/
78
/801/
78
/294/
4.0
/35258/
100
/128/
86
/104/
85
/27/

Honeyland (2019)
When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
poster
Kanopy
84
8.0
/58548/
76
/904/
75
/605/
4.2
/50829/
87
/85/
84
/102/
88
/27/

Winter Sleep (2014)
Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.
poster
83
7.9
/1087/
66
/18/
82
/12/
3.9
/1399/
100
/23/
100
/6/
79
/6/

Aurora's Sunrise (2023)
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.7
/19066/
74
/355/
76
/154/
4.0
/54954/
92
/74/
84
/12/
88
/26/

About Dry Grasses (2023)
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.6
/42695/
75
/1470/
77
/1430/
4.2
/119442/
97
/156/
88
/159/
83
/29/
cc age 14+

Mustang (2015)
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.6
/6241/
76
/389/
74
/346/
4.1
/84408/
100
/62/
83
/16/

Souleymane's Story (2024)
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.2
/5093/
72
/165/
68
/122/
3.9
/20498/
99
/110/
77
/9/
93
/29/

No Bears (2022)
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/35286/
72
/408/
72
/345/
3.9
/22715/
90
/78/
89
/1274/
85
/26/

The Edge of Heaven (2007)
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
poster
82
8.0
/30419/
77
/498/
74
/297/
4.1
/39460/
94
/81/
83
/23/
86
/22/

The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties.
poster
82
7.6
/275843/
74
/5640/
73
/3610/
3.9
/211821/
90
/200/
83
/20491/
83
/35/
cc age 18+

Eastern Promises (2007)
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
poster
MUBI
81
7.4
/6315/
73
/198/
74
/88/
4.0
/43514/
97
/66/
84
/9/
83
/17/

Crossing (2024)
Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.8
/31019/
76
/617/
72
/117/
3.8
/7517/
96
/98/
82
/34/
81
/18/
cc age 15+

The Dissident (2020)
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
poster
Netflix
81
8.2
/61595/
83
/1942/
82
/4512/
3.8
/111959/
85
/52/

Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
poster
Kanopy
81
8.2
/99936/
77
/577/
74
/368/
3.9
/40215/
96
/219/

My Father and My Son (2005)
A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.
poster
80
7.8
/60415/
76
/750/
75
/610/
4.1
/55871/
91
/86/
93
/749/
78
/33/

Head-On (2004)
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
poster
Kanopy
80
7.8
/53387/
75
/748/
74
/521/
4.2
/56813/
92
/76/
74
/276/
82
/21/

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
A group of men lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's location. As the group continues looking and the night begins dragging on, its members can't help but chat with each other about everyday life, as the conversations turn more and more serious, revealing their deeper secrets and profound stories.
poster
Netflix
79
7.3
/156362/
73
/6351/
71
/3252/
3.6
/158187/
97
/63/
84
/3275/
83
/18/
cc age 12+

From Russia with Love (1963)
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.2
/2895/
76
/139/
68
/71/
3.7
/3650/
91
/117/
81
/22/
77
/22/

Human Flow (2017)
More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.6
/8401/
69
/185/
73
/113/
3.7
/5954/
98
/42/
76
/18/
84
/17/

Aferim! (2015)
Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
poster
83
79
9.2
/45736/
83
/281/
79
/162/
4.0
/18161/

The Chaos Class (1975)
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. When a new and obviously strict headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
poster
78
7.4
/29205/
72
/1254/
72
/652/
3.8
/115807/
95
/147/
70
/79/
82
/21/

The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.3
/4069/
71
/79/
72
/52/
3.7
/11881/
100
/22/
86
/1/

Brother's Keeper (2021)
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/24520/
73
/260/
71
/253/
3.9
/28172/
87
/46/
82
/243/
84
/18/

Distant (2002)
A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.6
/655/
75
/16/
59
/12/
4.0
/1396/
98
/47/
82
/6/
79
/19/

Midnight Traveler (2019)
In 2015, the Taliban put a price on the head of Hassan, a filmmaker, who was forced to flee Afghanistan with his wife and two young daughters. Using their camera phones, the fugitives show first-hand the many dangers refugees face when seeking asylum in a safe place.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
78
7.4
/19086/
73
/341/
73
/492/
4.0
/43822/
94
/31/
85
/231/

Red Desert (1964)
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.3
/17786/
70
/470/
70
/347/
4.1
/124082/
87
/47/
76
/166/
91
/20/

Beau Travail (2000)
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
poster
83
78
9.0
/48354/
82
/284/
81
/141/
4.0
/11306/

CM101MMXI Fundamentals (2013)
The funny little details of everyday life, simple things that make us laugh. An unforgettable performance from Cem Yilmaz. Yilmaz captures the audience with his hilarious stories about relationships, humankind's struggle with the technology and professional life. Yilmaz proves us that a food delivery or even a funeral might be amusing when considered correctly.
poster
77
8.0
/71027/
76
/587/
73
/359/
3.9
/38516/
78
/57/

G.O.R.A. (2004)
Carpet dealer and UFO photo forger Arif is abducted by aliens and must outwit the evil commander-in-chief of G.O.R.A., the planet where he is being held.
poster
78
77
7.4
/17568/
74
/409/
76
/1040/
3.8
/16210/
80
/15/
91
/198/
7.1
/3140/

Mediterraneo (1991)
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.0
/5380/
72
/142/
67
/146/
3.6
/10065/
98
/104/
69
/8/
78
/18/

3 Faces (2018)
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to protect old traditions.
poster
The Roku Channel
76
7.1
/20701/
70
/474/
69
/365/
3.9
/59893/
84
/64/
82
/551/
75
/14/

Orlando (1992)
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
poster
76
8.1
/74995/
75
/492/
73
/348/
3.8
/22308/

The Bandit (1996)
Baran the Bandit, released from prison after serving 35 years, searches for vengeance against his former best friend who betrayed him and stole his lover, teaming up with a young punk with his own demons along the way.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.4
/44172/
74
/795/
70
/518/
3.8
/26196/
91
/45/
83
/841/
65
/6/

Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
6.8
/35235/
65
/1403/
65
/773/
3.5
/90149/
95
/168/
73
/290/
87
/35/
cc age 18+

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
poster
fuboTV
76
7.5
/93565/
74
/1935/
74
/1839/
3.7
/72936/
90
/31/
88
/1399/
59
/11/
cc age 16+

Midnight Express (1978)
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
poster
Kanopy
76
7.2
/38516/
73
/1654/
70
/1018/
3.7
/27890/
91
/34/
78
/77/

Marshland (2014)
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases.
poster
76
7.2
/114683/
72
/3478/
72
/2343/
3.8
/219911/
86
/205/
75
/892/
79
/41/

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
poster
Hoopla
75
6.6
/1516/
63
/38/
64
/11/
3.5
/8008/
95
/44/
80
/13/

The Things You Kill (2025)
Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.
poster
MUBI
75
6.6
/1233/
66
/75/
68
/82/
3.5
/11178/
97
/34/
75
/11/

Ghost Trail (2024)
After being imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria, Hamid now works undercover as part of a secret group pursuing their leaders, including the guard he suspects was responsible for his torture.
poster
86
75
9.2
/10826/
84
/147/
87
/67/
4.2
/5667/

CMYLMZ (2008)
It contains a copy of Cem Yılmaz's show CMYLMZ, staged between 2001-2007, recorded in Istanbul in March 2007.
poster
77
75
7.6
/23433/
75
/272/
72
/231/
3.6
/9955/
89
/27/
89
/332/
71
/12/

In July (2000)
Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.
poster
75
7.3
/11959/
74
/147/
70
/157/
3.6
/3734/
86
/78/
86
/309/
69
/32/

Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.


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