Yılmaz Güney
Popularity:0.2669
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1937-04-01
Place of Birth:Adana, Turkey
Homepage:https://yilmazguneyofficial.com/
Also Known As:Çirkin Kral, Йылмаз Гюней, یەڵماز گیونەی

The Legend of the Ugly King (2017)
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

We Called Him the Ugly King (1987)
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's...

Kahreden Kurşun (1965)
Yılmaz and a friend go to a bar called Maça Kızı. Yılmaz meets a girl there. The girl's mysterious demeanor suggests that she knows...

Gönül Kuşu (1965)
A wealthy businessman places an advertisement in the newspaper to marry off his college student daughter. The intriguing marriage ad catches the...

Mor Defter (1964)
The film tells the story of how Suphi brings together the people around him in the imaginary world he has created. Suphi's girlfriend İffet dies in...

The Hungry Wolves (1969)
Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife. One day he saves a woman from...

Çirkin ve Cesur (1971)
The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers. Despite these hardships, it...

Bullets Won't Touch Me (1967)
Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.

Kurbanlık Katil (1967)
Mustafa, known by the nickname "Ipsiz," is a drunkard and a wine lover. He spends the 3-5 kuruş he earns in taverns and is despised by everyone...

Elegy (1972)
Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in,...

Law of the Border (1966)
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of...

Ten Fearless Men (1964)
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.

The Poor (1975)
The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to...

The Fallow Deer (1959)
During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time...

This Land's Children (1958)
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.

Red River, Black Sheep (1967)
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this...

I Live When I Die (1965)
Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz...

Sayılı Kabadayılar (1965)
A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for Osman (Yilmaz Güney), lying in prison for...

Both Were Brave (1963)
The film is about two gangsters facing each other. Yalçın is the most notorious gangster in the city. He plans to leave the city with Figen...

Pain (1971)
Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali...

Friend (1974)
After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a...

The Father (1971)
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany....

Kozanoğlu (1967)
Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation,...

İnce Memed Vuruldu (1975)
A notorious bandit known as İnce Memed falls in love with club singer Sabah, but when he travels to Istanbul to propose, criminals mistakenly...

Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney (2016)
In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

Prangasız Mahkumlar (1964)
Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order...

Silahların Kanunu (1966)
The film is about a cop who switches places with a criminal who robbed a bank. Yılmaz Ali stole a bunch of gold from the bank. He left the gold with...

Autour du mur (1983)
One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the Wall on the injustices of the military regime in...

Live Target (1970)
An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played...

Hope (1970)
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.

Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause (2014)
A documentary that explore the films and eventful life of the Kurdish director, actor, writer and revolutionary Yilmaz Güney, who achieved...

The Ugly King (1966)
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.

Son Kızgın Adam (1970)
During a robbery, Yılmaz is caught by the police. He hides the stolen money for later and flees to a village, wounded. He falls in love with Selma,...

Bride of the Earth (1968)
In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatolian village who returns his affection....

Yedi Belalılar (1970)
The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

Zeyno (1970)
Murat and Zeynep are deeply in love, but there is a major obstacle standing in the way of their love. The two lovers have been defeated by a blood...

The Hopeless Ones (1971)
O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equally huge false eyelashes not because he is a...

Tehlikeli Adam (1965)
The film tells the story of a man trying to find his wife's killer. Returning from a business trip, Yılmaz finds his wife Gülsüm dead. The...

Kovboy Ali (1966)
The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy.

Silah ve Namus (1971)
A man who earns his living as a driver is forced to become a hired killer as a result of unexpected events that befall him. And his struggle to...

Aslan Bey (1968)
Aslan Bey infiltrates the headquarters disguised as a Russian lieutenant.

Horse, Woman and Gun (1966)
Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life.

Belanın Yedi Türlüsü (1969)
The story follows Zaza Seyhmus, whose life is upended when his father is murdered. Driven by the need for revenge, he ventures into Istanbul’s...

Eşrefpaşalı (1966)
The film depicts Kudret's struggle against Ali Bey and his men, as he refuses to leave his neighborhood. Ali Bey, who has made a deal with the...

Büyük Cellatlar (1967)
Kerim Şamil, the head of a notorious executioner syndicate, finds himself in a deadly confrontation when his own organization turns against him.

The Profiteers (1971)
The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.

Azrail Benim (1968)
A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with his desire to protect the vulnerable in his...

Nuri the Flea (1968)
Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in illegal activities again and ends up at the police...

Yiğit Yaralı Olur (1966)
The film tells the story of Yusuf and Gül, who are planning to get married, and their lives that are turned upside down. Yusuf is a worker at an...

My Name Is Kerim (1967)
The story of an undercover cop living with his son.

Balatlı Arif (1967)
Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his father's horse carriage driver. Gülşen, the...

Tomorrow is The Last Day (1971)
Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police...

Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films (1987)
A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison...

Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası (1964)
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.

Sezercik Yavrum Benim (1971)
A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not aware that the strange he has met is actually his...

An Ugly Man (1969)
Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who collects tribute from their business. Bino is paid by...

Kuduz Recep (1967)
The film tells the story of a gang leader who helps in the national struggle. Paşa receives gold from foreign powers in order to neutralize the...

Banus, the Horse Thief (1967)
The film tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman he kidnapped for someone else. Sadık Ağa wants Rasim Ağa's daughter Zeynep....

Fugitives (1971)
Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely...

Private Osman (1970)
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.

Tütün Zamanı (1959)
Zeliş and Cemal are neighbors. The two young people, who are in love with each other, dream of getting married. However, Zeliş's father, Recep,...

Tatlı Bela (1961)
The film tells the story of a young man who starts working for a wealthy family. Osman works for a gardener. He begins working at the mansion of a...

Sokakta Kan Vardı (1965)
The story of a journalist and a prostitution ring that leads young girls astray. Faruk, who is married to the daughter of a media mogul and has one...

Kara Şahin (1964)
The film tells the story of Kara Şahin, a brave hero who fights against injustice and also searches for love.

Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü (1965)
The film is about two friends trying to take down a crime gang. Metin, who was recently suspended from his job as a police officer, is making a...

Krallar Kralı (1965)
It tells the story of how Murat's life changed when he was caught committing a robbery. While searching for a way out of his poverty, Murat gets...

Kibar Haydut (1966)
A man who has been wanted by the police for a long time disguises himself as a stowaway and hides on a passenger ship. The owner of the passenger...

The Warning (1971)
The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.

Room 666 (1982)
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera...