Time to Love

1965

Turkish

7.9

♡ 9

Metin Erksan Director

Abdullah Demiryan as

Kemal Ergüvenç as

Osman Karahan as

Hayri Esen as Müsfik Kenter

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.

Kadin Hamlet

1976

Turkish

6.4

♡ 8

1970s

Drama

female hamlet

foreign language adaptation

hamlet

turkey

Metin Erksan Director

Reha Yurdakul as

Önder Güç as

Baki Tamer as

Ahmet Sezerel as Orhan

Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.

Revenge of the Snakes

1962

Turkish

7.7

♡ 7

Drama

Metin Erksan Director

Kadir Savun as Ak Ali

Erol Tas as Haceli

Fikret Hakan as Kara Bayram

Ahmet Danyal Topatan as Muzaffer Osman

The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren. The headman of the village sells a lot from the common land of the village to Haceli. The family does not want a house to be built in front of their house and struggles against the tricks of the headman and Haceli.