Tarık Akan Movies

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from...

Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this...

A group of affluent private school slackers enjoy a prankster lifestyle until a tough new disciplinarian headmaster arrives.

Reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's 1985 production, After Hours, this film narrates the events of a night in the chaotic backstreets of Beyoğlu in...

The injustice that people suffer in the workplace and the weight of working conditions cause them to act.

A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.

Based on real events, this story traces a young district governor’s moral awakening as he confronts a powerful landowner in rural Adana. What...

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

The fight of the striking railroad workers.

When Zeynel goes away to work, her lover Elif is adopted by a rich aga. After a while, it is heard that Elif is pregnant.

About a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.

The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.

In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the...

Seyit Ağa, who attends a wedding to which he was not invited, starts an endless blood feud. A film adaptation of Osman Şahin's short story...

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...

A factory owners son falls in love with a worker who works at the factory.

In the early days of the September 12 military coup, five-year-old Metin waits for his mother, singing to himself as he looks out the window. But his...

A young bride wows to take revenge on her father's killers.