
Birthday:
01-01-1957
(68 years)
Birthplace:
Istanbul, Turkey
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Whispers of War
Act like Cihan
event2021 star_border 6
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When Khalil, a primary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre, he is forced to question his entire existence in Berlin. His life spirals out of balance as he seems to recognise his long lost sister in the videos – whom he thought long dead. He tries everything to get in contact, to save his sister, to inform the public about this brutal war. And loses himself.
Future Is a Lonely Place
Act like Ibrahim
event2021 star_border 5.7
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Frank, a man without a criminal record, attacks a money transporter and then turns himself in to the police. His behavior is a mystery. In prison he meets the unscrupulous and suspicious Arab Fuad, who is protected by his clan. To get closer to Fuad, Frank intervenes in the drug business within the walls and gets caught between the two rival groups of German and Arab inmates. It is only the prison guard Susanna with whom Frank will be able to build a relationship of trust, not knowing that she is part of Fuad’s business and has a sexual relationship with him. However, they come emotionally close. What only Frank knows is that his wife and his daughter died in a car accident. Fuad was the hit-and-run driver that remained unpunished. Frank seeks revenge.
The Bank of Broken Hearts
Act like Metin Karamanbey
event2017 star_border 6.6
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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.
Together, We Shall Die
Act like Şefik
event2021 star_border 4.5
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After completing his specialty in Canada, Mazhar returned to Istanbul. As he mourns his mother, he falls in love with Ece, who is also the lover of Erman, Mazhar’s best friend. Mazhar and Ece will live a passionate and devastating love in the midst of the vicissitudes of the city.
Singing Women
Act like Doktor
event2013 star_border 5.1
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An island off the coast of Turkey is about to be evacuated due to a possible earthquake but its inhabitants have been stricken with a mysterious illness, consigning them to an uncertain fate.
Hesitation Wound
Act like Judge
event2024 star_border 7.4
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A criminal lawyer Canan, divides her time in the courthouse and mother's hospital bed at night. She has to make a moral choice that will affect lives of her mother, judge and murder suspect client.
Willkommen bei Habib
Act like Habib
event2014 star_border 4.3
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Four men’s destinies slam into each other and intertwine on four balmy summer nights. Old wounds are reopened, new ones appear, unexpectedly there is a new closeness. And, when the sun rises over the city and the striking garbage men, finally ensure German order again, nothing is the same for these four men.
Faraway
Act like Doruk Bilici
event2023 star_border 6.6
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Zeynap Altin is at the end of her tether: she works far too much and is not valued at all by her husband, daughter and father. To make matters worse, the funeral home dressed her beloved late mother in a man's suit instead of her favorite dress. Enough is enough: Zeynep flees from Munich to the previously unknown holiday home on a Croatian island that her mother secretly bought years ago - with the hope of finding quiet, peace and herself there. If only the previous owner Josip, a rough islander, didn't still live on the same property and annoy her with his views and wisdom.
Almanya: Welcome to Germany
Act like Hüseyin, alt
event2011 star_border 6.6
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After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.
Milk Teeth
Act like Kurt
event2024
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Skalde lives in a small rural community, far from a world that may no longer exist. She is an interloper in her own home, having been born to an ‘outsider’ mother and therefore marked by a social stigma she cannot easily erase. Displaying a loyalty to the codes of the community, she has earned the respect of the village elder. However, when she encounters a mysterious girl in the local woods, Skalde risks everything by befriending her, eventually giving the girl a home.
300 Worte Deutsch
Act like Hodscha Cengiz Demirkan
event2015 star_border 5.6
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Culture-Clash-Comedy about Turkish brides importet into Germany.
Not Your Average Family
Act like Osman
event2024
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The life of 35-year-old Murat, who lives with his family in a neighborhood in Istanbul, is turned upside down by the death of his father. The question of whether to bury his father in Istanbul or in the village causes divisions within the family. As the father is about to be buried in a cemetery in Istanbul, the family realizes that the deceased is someone else. Murat, influenced by his cousin Hızır, begins to suspect each member of the family, and his paranoia escalates within this chaotic day. At the end of the night, Murat will be confronted with the truth that he is indeed an integral part of this family that he has always rejected.
A Most Wanted Man
Act like Storekeeper
event2014 star_border 6.5
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A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
Inspector Pascha
event2016 star_border 3.7
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A Turkish man‘s body is found floating in the Isar. A case for the Migra Division headed by Zeki Demirbilek, AKA “Inspector Pascha”. On their first big case, the team quickly manages to get on the wrong side of Munich’s Doner King, Güzeloğlu, who’s about to marry off his daughter. Her future husband and father-in-law just arrived at their house in Munich for Kiz Isteme, a Turkish tradition, to establish the groom’s suitability, when Zeki and his team barge in.
Nachspielzeit
Act like Mahmut Ecevit
event2015 star_border 6
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Cem is mid 20's and is making its voluntary service in the retirement home. There he falls in love with Astrid, which helps as a dance therapist residents to renewed vigor. And Cem loves Berlin-Neukölln. There he grew up, and he wants his neighborhood defend: against Nazis, speculators and displacement. But how to do that anyway? Who are the real enemy here? And how does the fight? a compensation Cem looking at his other great passion, football. In one game he gets violently with Roman together. Roman threatens him. The next day the windows are smashed in the restaurant from Cems parents. An Accident? Cem swears revenge. But the battle is attracting larger circles. When Astrid gets suddenly targeted by novel, the conflict escalates dramatically. Suddenly a matter of life and death.
Macho Man
Act like Herr Denizoglu
event2015 star_border 5.2
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A German man fells in love with a Turkish woman and changes his lifestyle for her family.
Tur Rehberi
event2025 star_border 9
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Ercüment is a showman but something went wrong and now he is a tour guide and he is in a tour with a suicide team made out of old people.
Happy Lambs
Act like Opa
event2015 star_border 6.1
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The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Ein Fisch namens Liebe
Act like Cem
event2015 star_border 7.3
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The German doctor Vicky falls in love with the young Turk Mehmet. His family has lived in Berlin for a long time, and people are open to Germans - including women . But his mother Fatma has a problem with Vicky because she is almost as old as she is . FatmaCiller, who says "Helga" to all German women and "Hans" to all German men , is shocked and determined to get rid of "old Helga" . When Hidir, Fatma 's husband , dies and the family can not afford to transport the body to Turkey , they areCillers suddenly dependent on Vicky . But Mehmet only wants to accept money from Vicky if she gets engaged to him immediately . Vicky dares , happily agrees and travels with the mourners to Turkey , to Fatma 's home village . Here, in the CappadocianDorf, does the hilarious showdown between Fatma and Vicky happen as it must - the beginning of a wonderful friendship?
Lost in Karastan
Act like Intense Mountain Man
event2014 star_border 4.6
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Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an eccentric and corrupt dictator. When down and out Academy award winning British film director Emil Miller receives an invitation to the Embassy of the Autonomous Republic of Karastan, little does he know that he will be embarking on one of the wildest journeys of his already diverse and colourful career.
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Act like Süleyman
event2012 star_border 4.3
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The Dutch supervillain Freek van Dyk is keeping the world on tenterhooks - and the world's best secret services can only stand by and watch. Finally, the Turkish Ayran Secret Service intervenes. However, there is a mix-up, because after two of the ASS men are eliminated, ASS head Süleyman is looking for a "Süper agent" and mistakes the clueless Indian cleaner Ranjid for one. He actually just wants to cure his sick cow, but suddenly has to save the world.
Becks letzter Sommer
Act like Vater Kantas
event2015 star_border 5.2
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Robert Beck failed as a musician and works frustrated as a teacher - until he learns about his gifted student Rauli. A musical genius: He sings and plays guitar like a young god. Beck is motivated to help Rauli to become a successful and published musician to fulfill his own long-held dreams of a music career.
A Quintet
Act like Grandfater
event2014
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A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the modern world. The five segments are : "Polaroid" by Roberto Cuzzillo; "Friend Request" by Elie Lamah; "The Cuddle Workshop" by Mauro Mueller; "The House in the Envelope" by Sanela Salketic; and "The Tourist" by Ariel Shaban.
Weil ich dich liebe
Act like Paulo
event2016
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Felicitas Woll lives through the ups and downs of a relationship: Eva and Luis exchanged only a fleeting glance in hot summer Lisbon and knew - this is the real love! They threw themselves headlong into a passionate liaison, got married and had their first child. Everything was perfect. But now the two are on their way to the divorce lawyer. The big feelings have long since expired - at least that's how it seems ...
Karnaval
Act like Cihan
event2013 star_border 5.3
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36-year-old Alis starts living in his car after his father kicks him out of the house. He shaves on the street, eats the food his mother brings over to his car, and applies to job adverts that his mother marks in the newspaper for him. After a series of rejections, he finds himself working door-to-door marketing Karnaval brand carpet cleaners. An unusual bond forms between Alis and "Karnaval". Karnaval even moves in with Alis occupying the front seat of his car. In this new adventure of his, Alis meets a wedding cake-maker named Demet. She lives with her father ever since her mother's death, and dreams of hopping on her motorbike and moving to Istanbul where she would open up a bakery shop
Auslandseinsatz
Act like Jamil
event2012 star_border 5.7
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Three young soldiers are called up to one of the most dangerous trouble spots in the world - Afghanistan. But it's not just the constant psychological pressure that gets to them, the different cultures and ways of life in the country also pose problems for the young and impetuous men. However, it is precisely the interpersonal aspect that moves them, and so they become friends with Malik Jamil (Omar El-Saeidi) and his children. Life and the situation at the post seem to relax as a result. But then there is a dramatic turn in the life of Malik's daughter, caused by the insurgent Taliban. And in times of battle, one fate affects the lives of others and the soldiers must painfully realize that war is never just.
Rock My Heart
Act like Samy
event2017 star_border 7.2
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17-year-old Jana has a congenital heart defect. To defy fate, Jana seeks every challenge, plunges into every wild and dangerous adventure. Her parents does not like that and are even more in constant fear of their daughter.
Extraklasse
Act like Gökdal
event2018 star_border 9
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The worn-out ex-journalist Ralph has to work as a substitute teacher at an evening school and in the end learns more than his protegees.
Brothers
Act like Murat
event2012
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Cengiz and Savaş are two unlike brothers. Cengiz is an associate in a respected law firm and Savaş is serving a prison sentence because of several violent offences. After their father’s death Cengiz gets his brother out for one day. Savaş doesn’t know that his brother is heavily in debt.
Faith
event2010 star_border 5.5
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The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted traditions.
Going Blind
event2020 star_border 1
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Sinan is a blind poet. Although he lost his sight at the age of three, he is a person who is at peace with his blindness. Sinan's wife Nilgün wants to gift Sinan the world of vision and convinces him to have surgery. With the successful operation, Sinan begins to see vaguely, but after a while weird adaptation complications emerge. Nilgün believes that chaos is related to blind habits and increases pressure on Sinan to adapt to the world of vision. This tension moves towards a tragic showdown, where they question each other's personalities. Just in this process, the doctor explains that if there is no second surgery, Sinan will be blind as before.
Asphaltgorillas
event2018 star_border 5.8
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Small-time crook Atris is tired of working for Berlin crime lord El Keitar. Yet in order to build his own syndicate, he needs money. When his friend Frank offers him a lucrative deal, Atris thinks his chance has finally come, not knowing that he is about to set in motion a fateful chain of events.
In the Shadows
event2020 star_border 4.5
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It is near future story in Anatolia. There is no indication of time and place, an post-apocalyptic world that ruled over by primitive technology. Zait, a loyal mine worker who works for a mine factory which is managed by unknowns, declares war against the factory.
Ruhe! Hier stirbt Lothar
Act like Manfred Mehnert
event2021 star_border 6.7
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When the misanthropic tile salesman Lothar is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he sells his business and gives his dog and all his money to an animal shelter and checks into a hospice, where it turns out that he was misdiagnosed.
Extraklasse 2+
Act like Gökdal
event2021 star_border 3.5
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Together with his students, Ralph is faced with an unpleasant task: The evening school is moving to an innovative educational center. Ralph thinks this is a bad joke.
You Know Him
Act like Abit Guleryuz
event2020 star_border 6.4
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Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for mayor of the Beyoglu district – in his opinion. An opinion not shared by his sceptical ex-wife; nor by the voters who come to eat and drink at his expense; nor the party leader, who even after several meetings still thinks he's an architect rather than a doctor; not even his faithful chauffeur. The slogan 'the doctor has the cure' might be catchy, but the doctor has little clue how sick the climate of political nepotism really is.
Kuma: The Second Wife
Act like Mustafa
event2012 star_border 6.9
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Fatma is around 50, a housewife with six children. She lives in Vienna but grew up in Turkey and clings stubbornly to the traditions and values of the old country. Ayse is 19, and the film begins with her wedding in rural Turkey, to Fatma’s son Hasan. However, when the family takes Ayse to Vienna this is revealed as a charade, for Ayse is to be the kuma (second wife) of Fatma’s husband Mustafa.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Act like Ismets Vater (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.5
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A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Act like Demir (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.9
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Best buddies Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim can't help to embarrass themselves from time to time. The troublemakers they are they love to test the limits of ethics and political correctness.
The Tailor
Act like Ari (15 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7.3
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A famous tailor begins to sew a wedding dress for his best friend’s fiancée – but all three have dark secrets that will soon upend their lives.
SOKO Leipzig
Act like Baarbad Asir (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 5.9
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SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
Das Verschwinden
Act like Ayhan Karaman (4 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.4
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20-year-old Janine Grabowski disappears in a small Bavarian town near the Czech border. While all evidence indicates that Janine secretly wanted to leave the backcountry, her mother, Michelle, becomes increasingly convinced that there's something amiss. Michelle's missing person's report is quickly filed away by the police. So the single mother is forced to investigate at her own risk. The longer she hunts for an answer to Janine's disappearance, the more she discovers about her daughter and the people with whom she kept company. She begins to doubt whether Janine even wants to be found.
Heartbeat
Act like Ziyanur (28 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.8
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Eylul the stubborn, school girl turns up to be a strong professional doctor by the help of her teacher Ali Asaf. After years of separation they meet up again but not as a teacher and student, instead as surgeons working side by side. Their love is met by many challenges and the inner conflict of the stubborn women who refuse to yield easily to her heart, refusing to repeat the miserable story of her dead mother.
NSU German History X
Act like Ismail Yozgat (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7.3
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After German reunification, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground begins a killing spree while cops fight an uphill battle to catch them.
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