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Yurda Dönüş

The film depicts a romance set against the backdrop of the Korean War.

The Jail Bride

Murat has to marry someone if he is to collect his inheritance. So his lawyer decides to marry him to an inmate on death row. Naciye, who is sentenced to death, accepts the marriage proposal. They perform the wedding ceremony at the prison. But things don’t go as planned.

Cilveli Kız

Kiraz is a street vendor, trying to gather enough money for her father's operation. Rich Hayrullah Bey's son Aydin is in love with Oksan, the bar singer. Hayrullah opposing their marriage, meets Kiraz on the ship and asks her help to prevent his son's marriage. Kiraz has to attract Aydin and she will get the money for the surgery in turn. Aydin doesn't give up Oksan, on their wedding day Kiraz gets disguised as the bride and Aydin gets puzzled as he opens the veil. Oksan is after Aydin's money only. Kiraz and Aydin fall in love, but now Hayr...

The Land

The film deals with the harsh realities of village life and the problems of landholding The film, in an almost documentary style.

Şahane Kadın

Streetwalker

A roughneck music hall owner grooms a charmnig yet haggard belly dancer to be his new star headliner, but she falls in love with a pianist also in his employ.

The Father

"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. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.

Vagabond

Kazım earns his living by fishing and selling books on the street. The lonely life he has been leading for many years in his small hut, has made him despise all humans and himself. But a new encounter reminds him that he is human again.

Krallar Ölmez

Loosely based on "The Girl Hunters" written by Mickey Spillane. After many years on a drunken binge over the disappearance of his love, Murat (Ayhan Isik) is picked up out of the gutter by the police and dropped smack-dab in the middle of a political bombshell.

Üvey Ana

Story of an old man who is in love with a young girl.

Meyhanecinin Kızı

The Liar

Abandoned by her future husband at the wedding table, Zeynep vows to find a rich husband and save her womanhood pride.

Yaşamak Ne Güzel Şey

Loving You is My Destiny

Lale's father, once a respectable man, is found guilty in the court. Lale holds other party's attorney Murat responsible for her father's demise and seeks revenge.

Movies by Faik Coşkun