
Birthday:
02-18-1929
Deathday:
09-21-1989 (60 years)
Birthplace:
Trabzon, Türkiye
Biography
Ertem Eğilmez was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known as the name behind some of the most popular films in Turkish film history. Many of these were produced by his production company Arzu Film.
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class
Director
event1975 star_border 7.9
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A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.
The Great Hate
Co-Producer
event1967 star_border 5
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A man tracks down the thugs that killed his son and family.
Arabesque
Director
event1989 star_border 7.2
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This is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together.
Smiling Eyes
Director
event1977 star_border 8.1
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A couple who dreamed of having a son had five daughters in a row. When girls reach the age of marriage, there are moments that make them laugh and sometimes make them sad.
The Blue Bead
Director
event1974 star_border 7.5
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After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge.
My Dear Brother
Director
event1973 star_border 8.3
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Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
The Chaos Class
Director
event1975 star_border 8
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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.
The Chaos Class: Bye Bye
Director
event1981 star_border 5.9
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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. Especially, the new teacher for literature receives his share.
Billionaire
Producer
event1986 star_border 7.3
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A civil servant in a small town, shunned by his family and his friends due to his lack of ambition, hits the jackpot in the national lottery. Not trusting anybody around him, he gradually starts to lose his mind.
Neşeli Günler
Producer
event1978 star_border 8.2
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Years after a divorce divides their family in half, six siblings encounter each other by chance and try to get their parents back together.
Bilo the Banker
Director
event1980 star_border 7.1
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Bilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money he needs.
Our Family
Producer
event1975 star_border 7.7
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A love story between a poor man and a rich girl. The rich girl's father tries to prevent their marriage and he declares a war against the poor boy's family.
Handsome Poor Bilo
Director
event1979 star_border 6.4
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Bilo is released from prison..
I Feel in Love
Director
event1985 star_border 5.8
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Şakir is instantly infatuated with Sibel in a red dress whom he meets in the parking lot of the advertising agency where he works, and he is desperate to win this fascinating woman. But there is one obstacle; Şakir is married! Despite this, Şakir is determined to pursue Sibel and will try various ways to achieve his goal.
A Nation Awakens
Director
event1966 star_border 5.7
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Ertem Egilmez's period drama about National Forces in the Turkish War of Independence.
Oh Olsun
Director
event1973 star_border 6.8
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A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor of his factory, where one of them falls in love.
Sweet Talker
Director
event1972 star_border 6.6
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Tarik is the best scorer basketball player of his team and is very popular. One day he comes to a village with his team to do entreman. There, he met the village teacher, Emine. He loves her very much and they get married immediately. But, some days after he had to return to istanbul. He wants Emine to go to istanbul with him but she says that she can't leave the village and her students.
The Chaos Class Is on Vacation
Director
event1977 star_border 7.6
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Lazy, uneducated male 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. Because of the financial crisis, the headmaster agrees to enroll female students. As the new students try to fit in, a struggle between both parties start, trying to prank the other part away. The prank war continues until PE-Teacher decides to take the class out on a trip for a becoming scouts.
Streetwalker
Director
event1970 star_border 5.8
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A roughneck music hall owner grooms a charmnig yet haggard belly dancer to be his new star headliner, but she falls in love with a pianist also in his employ.
Tosun Pasha
Producer
event1976 star_border 8.1
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Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, who has a beautiful young daughter, Leyla. Both families try to arrange a marriage between a man from their family and Leyla, so that Daver Bey will be inclined to give the green valley to his "relatives". Tellioglus, who are behind in the race, desperately find a final solution: They will fake their idiotic butler, Saban, as the highest ranked Ottoman soldier in Egypt: Tosun Pasha.
The Honest One
Director
event1984 star_border 7.8
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When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
Sev Kardeşim
Director
event1972 star_border 6.5
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A factory owners son falls in love with a worker who works at the factory.
I Am a Whore
Director
event1966
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The life of belly dancer Funda changes when she falls in love with Ferdi.
Yaman Gazeteci
Producer
event1961
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About the robbery attempt of a journalist known for his clumsiness. Yaman, despite being clumsy, is a courageous journalist. No one takes her seriously except Gül in the newspaper she works for. Everybody makes fun of him. Gül is in love with him.
Beş Kardeştiler
Producer
event1962
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Murat goes to another city with his five sons to escape the blood feud. but his eldest son falls for an impossible love.
The River
Producer
event1977 star_border 6.2
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A group of young people living a luxurious life in Istanbul go to a village for a rafting adventure on the Euphrates.
Kalbimin Efendisi
Director
event1970 star_border 5.5
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A man who has very enjoy life with his uncle. Some day he met a girl who is pretty and they fell in love each other. The girl has sister who commit a crime and all things are changed in her sister's life
Saban, Son of Saban
Director
event1977 star_border 7.9
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Clumsy soldiers Şaban and Ramazan fall for a singer-dancer and accidentally become secret policemen tracking down a missing diamond.
The Chaos Class Is Waking Up
Director
event1976 star_border 7.8
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A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks.
Salak Milyoner
Director
event1974 star_border 7.5
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The funny treasure hunt of 4 rural brothers in Istanbul, after the recent death of their father who left them a treasure map as heritage.
The Empty Frame
Director
event1969 star_border 8.3
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Beginning growing parting longing reuniting breaking and ending of the nostalgic forbidden love between a humble backwoodsman and a naive family girl is told through their secret letters and most private memories in narrative format.
Delisin
Producer
event1975 star_border 6.4
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A shy introvert falls for the photographer who took her pictures during high school. Confused and worried, she doubts that love will elapse and can never open up to her lover. Yet she cannot runaway from love.
From the Village to the City
Director
event1974 star_border 8
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After they find buried treasure, four hapless brothers from the countryside discover that changing their fortunes will take more than gold.
Once a Year
Director
event1971 star_border 7.8
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A young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they are forced to negate patriotism and dependability to their families and nations, for a length of a lifetime before during and after the war.
Two Ships Side by Side
Producer
event1963 star_border 7.5
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After the release, Iki Gemi Yanyana (Two Ships Side by Side) stirred controversy over its treatment of lesbians, showing two women kissing each other on the lips (later, in Dul BirKadın (A Widow), director Atıf Yılmaz took up the same theme again). This scene creates a moment of interest in this otherwise conventional film.
Oh Where
Producer
event1975 star_border 6.9
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Three boys are having their higher education in Istanbul (!). In fact, they are messing around and dealing with radical politics, girls and gamble. However the oldest discovers love, and the three realize it is time for change.
The Foster Brothers
Director
event1976 star_border 8.1
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Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamettin's aide Ramazan, Saban who is foster son of Hüsamettin's sister and Bayram who is married to Hüsamettin's niece stays at Hüsamettin's family residence. Hüsamettin's sister thinks Ramazan is her foster son Saban when she realizes her mistake she introduces Ramazan to her brother as her son in law Bayram since she was afraid of Hüsamettin's short-tempered character. Things get complicated when real Saban and Bayram come to the residence. Now Saban has to be Ramazan and Bayram has to be Saban. Meanwhile, a gulyabani (a ghoul from Turkish folklore) haunts the residence.
Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love
Co-Producer
event1971 star_border 5.8
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Turkish Pollyanna's story.
Once a Year
Director
event1965 star_border 6
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A young hapless couple's devotion for each other is tested through harsh times of war as they are forced to negate patriotism and dependability to their families and nations, for a length of a lifetime before during and after the war. This movie is not a colorfull. About 5 years later, this movie was shot again wtih same actors and actresses (except for Selda Alkor).
The King of the Street Cleaners
Producer
event1977 star_border 7.8
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Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his superior officer.
Sugar Pie Lady
Producer
event1983 star_border 7.6
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In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.
Precious Girl
Director
event1967
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A woman involves with the life of two brothers with opposite characters, one is shy and disciplined and the other is irresponsible and a notorious womanizer.
Bitch
Director
event1965
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Naciye sings on the streets to live and one day she is discovered by a famous casino owner. Then Naciye falls into love with her piano teacher Cuneyt. Casino owner Ekrem starts to make a trouble.
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