Classic Yeşilçam Movies Everyone Should See

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   The Girl with the Red Scarf(1977)

   Movie· ★ 8.5

   İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.
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   King of the Doormen(1977)

   Movie· ★ 8.4

   Seyit, a resourceful doorman of a middle class apartment in Istanbul, finds himself in a struggle for power when the new superintendent decides to crack down on his slack attitude.
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   Mr. Muhsin(1987)

   Movie· ★ 8.4

   An ingenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Mr. Muhsin to have his first album.

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   The Herd

   (1978)

   Movie· ★ 8.2

   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 ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
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   The Honest One

   (1984)

   Movie· ★ 8.1

   When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
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   The Road

   (1982)

   Movie· ★ 8.0

   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 their families, the culture, and the government.
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   Hope

   (1970)

   Movie· ★ 8.0

   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.
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   Time to Love

   (1965)

   Movie· ★ 7.9

   On the Princes’ Islands to the south of Istanbul, the days are rainy and full of longing. Poor but proud painter Halil gets a job in one of the island’s villas, where he encounters the photograph of a beautiful woman and falls in love with her image.
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   My Prostitute Love

   (1968)

   Movie· ★ 7.9

   Halil the greengrocer goes to a nightclub with his friends one day to break the monotony of his life. There he meets Sabiha, one of the women working at the club. They fall in love at first sight and begin living together. While Sabiha is making plans for the future with Halil, she learns a truth about him that she didn't know, and the forbidden love that began at the nightclub turns into a dead end filled with lies.
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   Oh, Beautiful Istanbul

   (1966)

   Movie· ★ 7.9

   The lovely Ayşe moves from her country village to Istanbul in the hope of becoming an actress. One day she meets Haşmet, a grumpy, world-weary street photographer. He takes it upon himself to cure Ayşe of what he sees as her blind optimism, but some of it begins to rub off on the old cynic.
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   Dry Summer

   (1963)

   Movie· ★ 7.8

   A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
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   The Bride

   (1973)

   Movie· ★ 7.7

   The struggles of a migrant Anatolian family to adapt to and survive in the very different conditions of urban Istanbul. A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. The family refuses to help her because they can't see anything wrong with the boy. What happens on a Eid morning becomes a breaking point for the family.
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    Yusuf and Kenan

    (1979)

    Movie· ★ 7.6

    When their father is killed in a blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with the streetboys, and Yusuf turns to crime although Kenan wants to learn a trade.
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    The Wedding

    (1973)

    Movie· ★ 7.6

    A family migrates to Istanbul from the rural parts of Anatolia, and they bring their traditions with them. The men of the family are giving away the girls of the family in return for a hefty bride-price. Zelha, one of the girls, revolts against this attitude and tries to save her sisters.
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    Motherland Hotel

    (1987)

    Movie· ★ 7.5

    Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.
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    The Well

    (1968)

    Movie· ★ 7.5

    Fatma is kidnapped several times by a wild man because she cannot be persuaded to marry. A third attempt at forced submission ends tragically for both, due to the young girl's fatal rebellion.
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    Salako

    (1974)

    Movie· ★ 7.4

    A man falls hopelessly in love with a village leader's daughter, who herself has feelings for an outlaw.
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    A Sip of Love

    (1984)

    Movie· ★ 6.9

    Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.
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    Law of the Border

    (1966)

    Movie· ★ 6.7

    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 illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.
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    What's Fatmagül's Fault

    (1986)

    Movie· ★ 5.1

    Story of a village girl who transforms into a courageous and independent woman and fights against the men who destroyed her life.