Orhan Kemal

Mustafa the Vagabond is an early Turkish comedy.

This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. (imdb)

A family that has migrated from an antolian town tries to adapt the life in istanbul.

Adapted from the same named novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin, the film depicts a middle class family during the 1930s and their eventual loss of innocence and demise.

The movie is based on Orhan Kemal's novel with the same title. It narrates the story of daily lives of poor artisans who had to work in farms due to economic hardship.

Tells the story of prisoners in Ward 72 starving to death because of the famine and poverty during WW2, and about power relations between prisoners and the Captain's love for Fatma. The main question: is what does it mean to be a human being?

Tells the story of prisoners in Ward 72 starving to death because of the famine and poverty during WW2, and about power relations between prisoners and the Captain's love for Fatma. The main question is what does it mean to be a human being?

Traditional roles of men and women are reversed. Leyla, Leman and Hasibe are friends from the same neighborhood. Hasibe's father passed away and her mother is in love with a young man. Meanwhile, Leman is in prison and she finds out that the woman who killed her mother is sentenced in the same prison. Once Leman is released from prison she is going to try to seduce Zekeriya, Nuriye's ex-boyfriend, to hit back at Nuriye. The three friends would meet again. (imdb)

Adaptation from Orhan Kemal's novel, the story of a zealot night porter

A fugitive takes refuge in a home of a mother and her son

The movie is based on a book of the same name by Orhan Kemal. The story of Güllü (Türkan Soray) and Muzaffer (Kartal Tibet).

The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him. (imdb)

Adapted from the same named novel by Orhan Kemal. The story of Nazan.

Adapted from the same named novel by Orhan Kemal. The story of Nuran (Hülya Koçyiğit).

The movie is based on a book of the same name by Orhan Kemal. The story of Cevdet, an orphan boy.

Based on Orhan Kemal’s 1961 novel of the same name. A series of 8 episodes.

In her dream her father is there caressing her hair. She wakes to a hard day. Her mother's milk has dried up and her young brother is sick. She needs to go fetch some milk. This is the story of Emine, set somewhere between a village and a town, herself between childhood and womanhood. (imdb)