Muslum (
2018) | IMDb:
7.6
A biopic about the Turkish vocal artist Müslüm Gürses. Born into a poor household, Muslum found his redemption in music from the initial trauma that lingered over his musical and personal life as internalizing the grief. He rose through his ashes of shattered dreams like a phoenix. He walked in darkness, sang songs filled with sorrow which stirred people's souls and created a cult following. They were calling him "Baba" (The Father).
The Edge of Heaven (
2007) | IMDb:
7.7
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Starring:
Nurgül Yeşilçay
,
Baki Davrak
,
Patrycia Ziolkowska
,
Tuncel Kurtiz
,
Nursel Köse
,
Hanna Schygulla
Directed by:
Fatih Akin
Killing the Shadows (
2006) | IMDb:
7.5
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and died by their sense of humour.
Directed by:
Ezel Akay