Yılmaz Güney Movies

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...

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...

The film deals with the hardships of village life, telling of the cruelty of the village chief towards the villagers. Despite these hardships, it...

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

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.

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

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 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....

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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