Birthday:
12-24-1965
(59 years)
Birthplace:
Nevşehir, Turkey
Biography
Mehmet Cengiz Bozkurt (born 24 December 1965) is a Turkish actor. He is best known for his role as Erdal Bakkal in the hit surreal comedy series Leyla ile Mecnun. A graduate of Ankara Atatürk Lisesi, in 1984 he enrolled in Middle East Technical University to study physics but changed his major to stage acting in 1990. He then moved to England, where he lived for 14 years. In 1996, he graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a degree in "Media and Communication" studies. He the briefly shot documentaries for some channels and directed short movies. He returned to acting with the encouragement of Mehmet Ergen and worked at Arcola Theatre. Upon returning to Turkey, he continued his career by appearing in various movies and TV series.
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Can
event2012 star_border 6.9
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Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to illegal means to procure a baby. This wild grab at a more perfect life proves their undoing, leading the couple to spiral toward separate futures. The couple's estrangement is intertwined with the film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant and neglectful single mom is raising her little boy, Can.
3 Apples Fell from the Sky
Act like Kadri
event2008 star_border 8.6
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Recep, a retired soldier, is left alone after losing his wife. He lives a routine life every day. She cannot get along with her upper neighbor Nilgün, who is a prostitute. He tries to kick Nilgün out of the apartment because he is the manager. One day, his grandson Ali comes to stay for a while. He advises Ali to stay away from Nilgün.
The Net 2.0
Act like Police Officer
event2006 star_border 5.1
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The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem.
Egg
Act like Cevdet
event2007 star_border 5.9
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Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return...
The Market: A Tale of Trade
Act like Hasan
event2008 star_border 6.4
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A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
For a Moment, Freedom
Act like Chief of hotel
event2008 star_border 5.7
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Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
A Long Story
Act like Şükrü
event2012 star_border 6.9
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A long story that started and ended at the station.
Eyyvah Eyvah 3
Act like Halit
event2014 star_border 5.3
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Thid part of the popular turkish comedy film series.
About Dry Grasses
Act like Nail
event2023 star_border 7.7
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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.
Together, We Shall Die
Act like Hasta
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.
Body
Act like Yılmaz
event2012 star_border 4.6
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Leyla and her boyfriend Yilmaz are in the porn film sector for 25 years in Germany. A while ago, they moved to Istanbul and Yilmaz left her for another woman. Although they are separated, Yilmaz comes up with a last minute request: one last movie where Leyla meets 20 year old handsome but quite traumatic character Izzet. The age difference between Leyla and Izzet, unsolved problems of Izzet's chubby mother and sister, Yilmaz's passion to his work and its results all crash into each other in an unexpected way.
Thou Gild'st the Even
Act like Nazım
event2013 star_border 7.4
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In a small town in Anatolia, whose inhabitants possess various supernatural powers but still have to deal with ordinary problems, Cemal helps out in his father’s barbershop and, in his free time, acts as a football referee.
Losers' Club
Act like Çakal Yılmaz
event2011 star_border 6.6
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Kaan and Mete, co-hosts of a mid 1990s radio show called Kaybedenler Kulübü (Losers' Club), struggle to deal with their daily lives after their show becomes an instant hit. Kaan meets Zeynep, the girl of his dreams, but their relationship comes under pressure as the show continues to stir controversy and attract fans from every segment of Istanbul society.
Coming Soon
Act like Suat
event2014 star_border 6.7
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Pirated DVD seller Zafer who is formerly an extra in movies, swore to give up illegal works when his wife wanted to get divorce. To win his family back, he and his old-fashioned crew decided to make a movie called "Summit - The End Of Evil" which is a fantastic science fiction movie and couldn't be shot since 1977. A funny, entertaining and emotional journey awaits him who waded into this adventure with his unqualified crew.
Legend
Act like Faruk
event2024 star_border 5.2
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Main character and his family, who live in Çorum, they make yoghurt as a family tradition dating back thousands of years, and they are known for the taste and healing properties of their yoghurt. The secret of this legendary yoghurt is kept by the grandfather, the eldest of the family, and he makes the yoghurt. However, when snow falls on the roof of your grandfather's house on a summer day, everything will change... According to legend, if it snows on the roof of the person who has the secret on a summer day, that secret should be transferred to someone else and given to someone else in the family. If it is not given, great disasters will befall the family and they will be destroyed. All members of the family should come together to lend a helping hand as soon as possible.
Kim Bu Aile?
Act like Adem Haberdar
event2022 star_border 5.8
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Adem Haberdar's life takes a completely different turn when he has to leave the police after failing an important operation. Pursuing the gang that caused him to quit his job, Adem has to take over a chicken restaurant in order to follow the gang.
Bana Masal Anlatma
Act like Nafi
event2015 star_border 6.8
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The story of a minibus driver and a fairytale princesss nestling under the wing of timeless friendship in an ordinary neighborhood.
New Year's Eve
Act like Ahmet
event2022 star_border 5.4
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With the hope that the pandemic is coming to an end, Didem has been preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration for over a month. All her loved ones can finally get together and make up for the lost time, but the lockdown announcement has her plans blown off course. Ozan is determined to let his wife have the celebration she deserves. He invites their neighbors to the party, and the fun begins.
A Good Fellow
Act like Mızrap
event2014 star_border 5.6
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Mızrap is a 40-year old man who is deemed "no good". He lives in a small town in the province of Antakya. His father throws him out as a bluff, while scolding him, after Mizrap loses his job. But Mizrap, stung by his father's words, calls him on his bluff and leaves his father, mother, sister and niece to go on a cross-country trip to stay with his old army buddy Salim, who lives in a village near Mersin. Across the hard way he meets a number of representatives of marginalized groups in Turkish society.
The Extreme Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family
Act like Komiser Hakkı
event2011 star_border 5.5
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Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.
Trouble on Wheels
Act like Kudret
event2015 star_border 6.4
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After the death of his wife and father, Kudret, who has always lived by the book, decides to go on a road trip to save a girl.
Locksmith’s Debt
Act like Fahrettin
event2016 star_border 5.4
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After his father’s death, poor Berhudar is left dealing with his father’s huge debt to the mob. In one of his many attempts to find a way out of his problem, he meets Ezel. He hopes she will help him get out of the mess he is in. Little does he know the she’s dealing with a very similar trouble...
Code Name Venus
Act like Adamos
event2012
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The Untold Story of The Tragedy In Cyprus Venus came to find the truth about her parents' disappearance on her childhood home of Cyprus years ago. What begins as a personal journey starts a secret odyssey that will lead her closer and closer to unearthing Cyprus's tragic and hidden history. But in a land so deeply occupied divided, how far will Venus go for a country that is not her own?
Taken 2
Act like Border Guard #1
event2012 star_border 6.4
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In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
You're Everything To Me
Act like Birol
event2016 star_border 6.1
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When an old fling shows up with their infant child, a dallying man-child must take on the role of father and create a fairytale world for his daughter.
Time of Happiness
Act like Tarık
event2017 star_border 5.7
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True love is not about perfection, it is hidden in flaws. The movie 'Mutluluk Zamani' (Time of Happiness) tells the story of Mert (Baris Arduc) who creates his 'perfect' life without facing his past and Ada (Elcin Sangu) who builds her own way of life based on all of her past experiences.
Deli Dumrul
Act like Duha
event2017 star_border 4.7
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Deli Dumrul is an epic character in Turkish literature. Dumrul fell in love with "Guncicek", one day Dumrul heard the Reaper took her soul. Dumrul wondered, who is the Reaper, then he challenged The Reaper.
What a Crush
event2018 star_border 5.6
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Ferhat is a spoiled man who takes over his father's company. Ferhat's right hand is his childhood friend, the company's finance manager, Gökhan. They are not very kind to their employees. One day they will be friends with the restaurant owner. Ferhat falls in love with the restaurant owner's daughter Elif. But Elif is not a delicate and pure young girl. Her career, her hard character, and her witless intelligence, which are full of special trainings and superior services, will make Ferhat much more difficult.
Berlin Kaplanı
Act like Tayyar
event2012 star_border 4.7
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A boxer from berlin gets involved in several schemes. When trouble mounts, he relocates to Turkey.
You've Got Murder
Act like Komiser Salih
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any clues. Day by day, tempers flare and the police chiefs grow annoyed.As the murders keep piling up, the public’s interest rises. The pressure on Emin and his colleagues get intense. At last, the chief of police assigns “crime expert” Dizdar Koşu, who has recently come back from the US, to the team.Overwhelmed with panic, pressure and disdain, Emin and his friends try to solve the strangest series of murders with the most unusual methods.This fast race against time immediately turns into a tragicomedy.
Dr. Dilara
Act like Adamos
event2016
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Dr. Dilara 2016. Dr. Dilara Bessano is a Turkish Cypriot, who was born and grew up in Cyprus. She went to Italy to study and there she got married with a writer and researcher, Antonio Bessano. Dr. Dilara is at the end of her 20's and has a 4-year-old daughter, Asia. Dilara's life changed drastically when her husband committed suicide on his birthday. Dilara and her daughter Asia moved back to Cyprus after this tragic incident.She started to work as an instructor at the Faculty of Communication at Near East University. While she is working on the documentary that she was working together with her husband entitled "Mass Graves in Cyprus," she finds herself and her daughter in some issues that make her life more difficult.
Cars of the Revolution
Act like Ender
event2008 star_border 7.7
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In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days!
Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando
Act like Azad
event2008 star_border 5.5
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Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Act like Salesman
event2012 star_border 6.9
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Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
Leyla and Mecnun
Act like Erdal Bakkal (144 ep.)
event2011 star_border 8.2
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Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.
Sevdaluk
Act like Muhtar Ali Kocabaş (20 ep.)
event2013 star_border 4
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The people of northern side of Turkey, struggles the greedy imperialist force to not to give-in the land they grow up with some interior entanglement.. In their stubborn way...
The Blackboard
Act like Arif Kandemir (20 ep.)
event2022 star_border 5.2
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Being bullied by his friends during his high school years, Atlas has to leave his hometown with his mother. Years later, he completes his education and is appointed to his former school in his hometown as a mathematics teacher. Is it a coincidence? Upon his return, Atlas comes face-to-face with his bullies, who nearly caused his death, and his father, who ignored all the bullying he went through. And then there is Irmak, the girl who stole his heart…
Jet Sosyete
Act like Cengiz Özpamuk (59 ep.)
event2018 star_border 5.8
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The story of a middle class family jumps in the high society unexpected.
Parmaklıklar Ardında
Act like Gardiyan Ekrem Demirkan (80 ep.)
event2007 star_border 8
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The lives of women in prison, as well as the adventures of their relatives who came to visit and the aftermath of those who went out.
The Shadow Team
Act like Çetin Erdemsoy (32 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.9
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National Intelligence Organization members are always ready to serve to destroy the enemies of Türkiye.
A Round of Applause
(2 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7
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Struggling with existential angst and longing for his past life in an orange, a man navigates his quirky family in this decades-spanning drama.
Gençliğim Eyvah
Act like Arif Asmalı (17 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.5
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Arif and Zekeriya are two rival kebabs of the same street. The arrival of two Italy, Zola and Çavi, in the neighborhood; Arif's and Zechariah's lives could go down hill. Çavi comes to the neighborhood with a photo taken years ago and starts looking for his father. Zekeriya and Arif become devastated by this child issue that emerged years later. Two enemies have to cooperate. During all these events, Zola falls in love with Azra, the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood. However, Azra has a secret and stormy love with Arif's son Ahmet.
Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman
Act like Erdal Bakkal (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7.7
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Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly basis, the undertone of the story leads to an eventual duel between Behzat Ç. and the rotten department officials and bureaucrats.
50M²
Act like Muhtar (8 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.4
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Seeking to uncover the truth about his past, a henchman betrays someone close to him and assumes a new identity in a small Istanbul neighborhood.
Leyla
Act like Selman (26 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.2
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As a child, Leyla suffers a blow from her stepmother and sees her world turned upside down. She loses everything - except the thirst for revenge. In search of justice, Leyla transforms into someone else and returns determined to settle accounts with the woman who destroyed her life and left her in a garbage dump. However, her revenge falters when she discovers the relationship between her ex-stepmother and the man, with whom she shared an innocent and unforgettable love affair
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