Movies: Mustafa Kirantepe

A Turkish taxi driver tells stories which are almost unbelievable....

One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the ...

Barber Adnan is the neighborhood gossip. He knows everything about his customers in the neighborhood. When Adnan learns he's about to be fired, he clings to his job. Aykut, who is trying to become an internet sensation through his daughter's social m...

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner....

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu....

Selman is a former boxer who once was interested in anthropology, an extraordinary imam who now works in a mosque. One day, while praying in the mosque, gunshots are echoed. One of the people inside collapses and dies. The police come to the scene an...

A group of high school seniors want to relieve the stress of their upcoming exams. With a month to go before the exam, they decide to do one last crazy thing. Taking advantage of the fact that no one is around in the evening, they decide to drink and...

Sebahattin is known around town as a magnet for misfortune. But to win over the woman of his dreams, he changes his ways to change his luck....

Kalender Pide is about the events that happen to two men who accidentally enter each other's lives. Kalender, who runs the restaurant he inherited from his father, has not been doing very well lately. In the meantime, Kalender learns that his restaur...

A middle-aged man emerges from a pandemic slump with a new job at a quiet hotel, until some eccentric guests turn his first night into a wild adventure....

With Istanbul mired in political violence, Kadir is offered release after 15 years in prison if he’ll work as an informant. In a shantytown he stumbles upon his brother Ahmet, working for the city rounding up stray dogs and shutting himself in his ho...

Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood....

Mermer family, who has been managing a restaurant called “Anatolian flavors” in Haydarpasa train station for generations, consist of 8 members. Even though this family leads a quiet simple life, they will end up finding themselves in complicated situ...

Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the futur...

Stories of Turkish people living in three European cities Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. Most are illegal immigrants, and while seeking for permits or living in hide outs they go through life dealing with humiliation, insecurities, betrayals, self-pity. ...

A story from Bornova, a neighborhood in Izmir. Two good friends Salih and Hakan spend their days in front of a grocery store waiting for a chance to do something with their lives....

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other....

The movie takes place in the kitchen of Cankaya Mansion on Sunday night, October 28, 1923, a day before the proclamation of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and formally marking the end of the Ottoman Empire....

Besim, who set out on a long interprovincial journey with the truck escrowed to him, is stuck in the middle of a deserted road in the heart of Anatolia because of an engine breakdown. His efforts to find a mechanic for the truck, fearing that it will...

Veysel has never slept in his life. He sees this ability as a deficiency. Therefore, he hides this situation from everyone. He works at a luxury hotel to spend his free time at night. One night, one of the customers staying at the hotel notices Veyse...