Memduh Ün

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

A young boy and a director of a movie theater bond over their love of cinema during the trying times of 1950's Turkey.

A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

The film tells the story of a mother who has lost her child. After losing her husband in a traffic accident, Güzin is left alone with her physically and mentally disabled son Sedat. She spends a long time looking for a caregiver to look after Sedat. All the caregivers she finds refuse to work because Sedat is disabled. Güzin locks Sedat in his room and leaves him alone at home while she goes to work. However, one day when she is called to the hospital for an emergency, she forgets to lock the door. When she returns, she finds her son’s lifeless body. All investigations determine that the death was the result of negligence. Therefore, Güzin is found guilty. However, Güzin, who does not believe the verdict, begins searching for her son’s killer.

The film tells the story of two police officers' fight against a drug gang. Cemil is one of the successful commissioners of the public order department. All important operations bear the signatures of his assistant Faruk and Cemil. Although he loves his job, he is counting down the days until retirement. This will allow him to spend as much time as he wants with his wife and three children. When an old acquaintance enters his life, he will have to make a change to his plans. Tahir Kara is a chemist who has been working with the drug cartel for some time. The mafia responds to his decision to return to an honest life by killing his daughter. The case is assigned to his old friend, Commissioner Cemil. However, Tahir, who wants to protect his other daughter, is forced to keep the police out of the matter.

Tahsin is a respected police officer who lives a happy life with his wife and daughter Gamze. Despite earning little money and struggling to make ends meet, this does not hinder his happiness or his love for his job. He will retire soon. His assistant Aydın, who is as successful a police officer as he is, has a romantic relationship with Gamze. One day, the experienced commissioner finds himself pursuing drug dealers on orders from his superiors. Tahir, the leader of the drug gang Tahsin had previously arrested, devises a revenge plan with his associate Naci. Naci makes Gamze fall in love with him. He takes her to a house under the pretext of introducing her to his mother. The woman he introduces as his mother, Nalan, is actually Tahir's associate. They give Gamze drugs.

An ex-con musician returns to Istanbul to take a sweet and silent revenge from the ingenue with whom he once was in love, insensibly to her extramarital affairs.

Kemal is a successful journalist. He has a happy family with his wife Aynur and son Cengiz. Cengiz is known for his diligence at school. His classmates, however, are irresponsible, lazy, and fond of partying. He is in a romantic relationship with his classmate Sevil. At Sevil's birthday party, his friends force Cengiz to smoke marijuana. Cengiz becomes addicted to drugs.

Meryem, who opposes male domination and behaves very strictly to her hired lovers, falls in love with Ismail, who works as a waitress at an invitation she attends.