Yılmaz Güney 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...

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

Having spent ten years of his life in prisons, Güney escaped from Isparta Semi-Open Prison in 1981 and went to Paris, where he would spend the...

An exploration of the legacy of Yılmaz Güney – political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker – who...

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...

The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy.

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...

The story of four days spent by a hired killer who benefited from the amnesty law with a hired woman.

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the...

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...

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.

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...

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers...

The plot of Death Curtain is incredibly interesting. According to the film, communists are about to blow up Istanbul with a secret bomb hidden in a...

The story of Cevher and his family and their daily struggles as seasonal workers in the cotton fields of Southern Turkey. Cevher depends on the...

Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train...

The story of Halil, who, after his father’s murder, was supposed to take on the blood feud but instead chose to avoid it by wandering the...

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...