Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema 2019

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

Cholera Street 1997

Salih is a mechanic and the son of a respected barber named Ali. A woman named Tina arrives at Cholera Street, where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute.

Berlin in Berlin 1993

A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband.

Vazife Uğruna 1986

Öksüzler 1986

It is a dramatic story of two boys and a girl who fight for their life when their father dies.

Number 14 1985

Yaprak is just one of thousands of young women, who leave their quiet village lives behind them to seek their fortune in Istanbul. But the reality of life in a big city is harsh, and Yaprak is forced to take a job in one of the cities licensed brothels. Her beauty and youth make her popular with the patrons and she is soon the focus of the attention of two men; Necmi, a spineless but well meaning young man, and Arab, a deranged pimp who has recently lost his main source of income, his wife Zargana. Necmi wants to take Yaprak away from her nightmare existence, but soon finds himself forced to separate from her by the viscous Arab. Arab spends all of Yaprak's money, but after a savage attack on her, she comes to her senses. She and Necmi get married and as Yaprak says farewell to her friends in the brothel, Arab returns for the last time to seek his brutal revenge...

Silahların Kanunu 1966

Üç Korkusuz Arkadaş 1966

Nuh'un Gemisi 1966

A genocide story that falters between a spoiled and rich girl and a poor girl.

Sonsuz Geceler 1965

Four Women in a Harem 1965

Sadık Pasha is a pleasure-loving and pious pasha who lives in a luxurious Ottoman mansion with his three wives. The balance of the mansion, already full of intrigue with three women, is completely disrupted when he wants to take a fourth wife, thinking that he needs to continue his lineage because he has no children.

Canım Sana Feda 1965

A modern triangular melodrama starring Cüneyt Arkin, Nilüfer Aydan, Muzaffer Tema.

Şehrazat 1964

Güneş Doğmasın 1961

Turkish adaptation of Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" (This Gun for Hire).

The Golden Cage 1958

A love story between a chauffeur, a poor girl and a very rich woman.