Menderes Samancılar
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1954-05-01
Place of Birth:Adana, Türkiye
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What's Fatmagül's Fault (1986)
Story of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life.

The Blue Exile (1993)
Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote...

Yaban (1996)
Ahmet Celal, who was injured during the war, is in great pain and a young woman named Emine helps him and saves him and heals him. A stormy love...

On Fertile Lands (1980)
The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

Bekçi (1985)
In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for...

Güneşli Bataklık (1978)
Workers' struggle for justice triggers the political tensions of the period.

Riza (2007)
Riza is a truck driver. When his truck breaks down, Riza can’t work and his livelihood is threatened. Using every possible means, he...

Piano Piano Kid (1991)
In 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.

Liberation: Those Crazy Turks (1994)
It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.

Watchtower (2012)
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with...

Robert's Movie (1992)
Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their...

Children of Secret (2002)
Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang...

Siyabend and Xece (1991)
The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.

Time of Love (1991)
Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.

Kara Çarşaflı Gelin (1975)
In "The Bride with the Black Veil" (1975), director Süreyya Duru continues to focus on social issues, exposing problems of the peasants and...

Memories of the Wind (2015)
At the times of World War II, accomplished painter and translator Aram flees Istanbul due to political offenses. When he is trapped at the...

Why Can't I Be Tarkovsky? (2015)
Bahadır, an aspiring 35-year-old director, spends his life making cheap television films inspired by the stories of folk songs. On the other hand,...

The Yellow Mercedes (1993)
The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It...

Wife as Gramophone (1987)
In the 1930s in Konya, Turkey, the famous belly dancer Cemile dreams of going to the big city. Murat falls in love with her.

A Long Night (1987)
The story of a young woman who abandoned her husband and ran away with the man she had been in love with since her childhood.

Blackout Night (1990)
In this biographical drama, the Turkish writer Rifat Ilgaz (Tarik Akan) is forced to go into internal exile after World War Two, because the...

Asmalı Konak: Hayat (2003)
Bahar (Nurgül Yeşilçay) is sent to New York because a serious illness. Treated in hospital Seymen Aga (Özcan Deniz) and Bahar try...

Les clients d'Avrenos (1996)
Istambul, 1967. Two women meet at Avrenos, a tavern in the old city. Nouchi, the brunette, is mourning the death of Bernard de Jonsac, an employee of...

I Saw the Sun (2009)
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily...

If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011)
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track...

My Father's Wings (2016)
Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a...

He's Convict Now (2005)
Sequel of He's in Army Now. The film has received four awards at the Antalya Golden Orange.

Whistle If You Come Back (1993)
A dwarf and a travesty, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes...

Mist (1988)
Two Turkish brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the political fence. When one of the brothers is murdered, the boys' father suspects that...

Cold Nights (1996)
Tomix, Tam-Tam and Mützen-Jacky are children of the street earning their living with music. They travel from one town to the other with their...

72. Koğuş (1987)
A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.

Omar and Us (2019)
Ismet is a Turkish soldier, who was on duty at the border as a Commander of the Coast Guard and recently got retired. Now as a civilian, he struggles...

Fırat'ın Cinleri (1978)
The lives of people crushed by the feudal landowner system.

Chance or Coincidence (1998)
Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.

Opening the Door (2019)
Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to...

9,75 (2020)
During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the...

Ayşe (2024)
Ayşe (47) lives with her brother Rıdvan (38), who has down syndrome, on the outer edge of the ever-growing Istanbul, where the face has begun to...

Golden Boy (2022)
A young girl is forced to marry a rich groom. The groom is not only rich, but also allows himself to live without any restrictions or obligations....

The Void (2021)
Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate....

Magarsus (2023)
Magarsus tells about the struggle of the Kurak family, who traded in citrus fruits in Sarıbahçe, both with each other and with foreign powers...

Another Love (2023)
The brutal murder of Hamdi Atilbay in the forest crosses the paths of young prosecutor Leyla, who wants to leave her messy past behind and now...

Star of the Shepherd (2017)
Fikret Karakaya is a very powerful and feared man, coming from very wealthy family. Being and old man, he has a serious desire to marry young...

All My Children (2004)
The soap that introduced Erica Kane and her many husbands to the masses launched on Jan. 5, 1970, and won a number of Best Drama Emmys along the way....

Sıla (2006)
A young woman's forced marriage to the agha of a tribe in Southeastern Turkey leads to tragedy and social change.

Lost (2013)
A young boy Karim suddenly gets kidnapped by falko his dad's unknown enemy in order to get even with his dad for snatching his girlfriend away from...

Asmalı Konak (2002)
Asmalı Konak was a Turkish TV series directed by Çağan Irmak and written by Mahinur Ergun and Meral Okay. It was shown on ATV for a total of...

The Pigeon (2019)
The series tells the story of Zulf, who was thrown into a well in a deserted place where there are not even birds flying .. While she was waiting for...

A Round of Applause (2024)
Struggling with existential angst and longing for his past life in an orange, a man navigates his quirky family in this decades-spanning drama.

Circle (2017)
A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have...