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 look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.

The story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man begins a slow slide into despair.

Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......

In 1930s Antioch during the last days of French Mandate of Syria, Please Don't Leave is the story of Triyandafilis, a fifteen year old mentally disabled daughter of a French merchant named Antoin. Triyandafilis, Not having much freedom because of her situation she spends most of her time locked up in the mansion.

A love story between a singer and a model.

A woman's journey to make a better living by moving to Istanbul from her village

Ramazan, together with his children, migrate to the big city, Istanbul in order to give them a better life. His daughter Fidan begins working as a clerk at a shop. But she could not adapt to the life of big city. She runs away with the son of the shop owner. Ramazan searches for his daughter, but the big city already has corrupted his daughter

It is the story of a worker girl who chooses to stay between two men as a result of unexpected events and eventually choose to escape with her truck driver lover.

The story of a man who learns that his friend, whom he loves more than his life, is the enemy he was looking for to kill.

Kemal a simple teacher arrives in a remote village to start a new school and teach the young ones, when he gets there he faces a strong opposition to his idea by the village master. Kemal with the help of few villagers tries to fight back the ignorance and oppression to give a hope for the poor people of the village.

Hasan, an engineer who returned to the village from America after years with his child, young and beautiful wife, wants to establish a dairy factory to save the peasant who exploited Salih Aga from poverty. The villagers get money for this job.

Directed by Sinan Çetin.

The fight of the striking railroad workers.

A story of two men, fighting over their love for the same woman.

Fikret Hakan is imprisoned, he is visited by his wife and son, he is once taken outside to receive medial treatment from a young woman doctor.

The story of a university lecturer from a poor background, fighting injustice.

A group of men team up against a ruthless mob.

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Ottoman governors, Hizir Pasha in particular and as a result was hung by him.

A father says that whoever wants to marry his daughter must first beat his daughter in a fight.

Depiction of the life of the legendary Muslim Serdar of Malatya, Battal Gazi.

Singer Saziye, who fell in love with Orhan, her university teacher, has not completely forgotten the young man, even though it has been years since she left Orhan. Saziye's path crosses with Orhan again.

Two close friends spend their lives stealing. The mafia unites against them.

A surgeon goes on vacation in Istanbul, taking with him his wife and an assistant. The three of them lay in a villa, whose owner died mysteriously in his time. In the house strange things begin to happen and reality seems to twist in terrifying ways.

Directed by Ülkü Erakalin.

Directed by Ülkü Erakalin.

Turkish adaptation of the tale of Sinbad the Sailor as "Prince Sinbad of the Mountains".

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.

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In Byzantine Empire, a man (hired to repair the caslte) is wrongly accused of killing a young girl and sentenced to death.

A genocide story that falters between a spoiled and rich girl and a poor girl.

As Türkan watches Fikret's way back to Istanbul, she gets bitter news.

After the 60 revolt, the two schizophrenics who had escaped from the mental hospital, who came from an anatolian township, lost their way from snow, explained how they managed the district governor and the gendarmerie and they managed to the township.

The film tells the relationship of a young man working at the shipyard and his girlfriend who gets pregnant.

The film follows the lives of those who immigrate to the city, leaving their families behind. Ahmet and his friends came to the city with great expectations, but soon confront the difficulties of adjusting to life there. After days of job hunting, they finally find employment in the harbor.

A group of paint worker can’t take their salary from the fabricator and they go on strike.

Turkish adventure crime movie.

Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.

Bolu Bey asks his groom Yusuf to find a unique horse for himself. However, Bolu Bey does not like the horse brought to him and to punish his groom, he causes his eyes to be blind.

Two young people fall in love with the same woman.

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.

American Dexter travels to Turkey on behalf of a US client in order to put an end to the drug gang leader Ismail. Dexter brings the beautiful blonde Janet as an erotic bait. Ismail shows great interest in Janet, but Dexter suspects he has been double crossed by his American client.

The story of two lovers who had to leave their ways as a result of the painful events they experienced.

Three men live in an abandoned building and try to eke out a living by pooling their meagre resources. They come upon a lonely blind girl one night, befriend her, and take her in as their guest, pretending they are rich. They learn that 800 lira will cure her blindness. One of the three decides to get the money by any means necessary, because he has fallen in love with her.

The film traces the life of Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe, a Zeybek (active as an outlaw in the region enclosing İzmir, Aydın, Denizli, Muğla and Antalya in modern western Turkey, from 1893 to 1910) whose father, Çakırcalı Koca Ahmet Efe was murdered by an Ottoman sergeant.

The love of Doctor Murat and Menekse in a village.

A man died during the search for the hidden treasure. Upon hearing this news, people left the village in search for gold and all the luxury that came with it.

This film tells the story of who are young people fall in love each other in enemies two villages. There is hostility between Ören village and Alaca village. Even so, no one knows what is problems between two villages. Hasan is from Alaca village, he loves Rüstem's girl which is name Zeliha from other village. These two youngs sometimes meet each other and everyone knows that. But no one tells anything because of Murat, is friend with Hasan and he lives at the Ören village. Elders of Alaca went to Ören village for want to girl from her father. Everyone hope hostilities will end between the two villages through this marriage. But Rüstem be unwilling to this marriage. So it goes...

A 1955 Adventure/epic film following the legend of Battal Gazi, a man from Malatia who really lived and fought the Byzantines.

The film follows the adventures of a gentleman thief, named Cingöz Recai (Turan Seyfioğlu). With the help of his fiance Jale (Neriman Köksal), he steals from the rich.

Sarı Zeybek is a 1953 biopic film written and directed by Münir Hayri Egeli. The film specifically showed the last 300 days of Mustafa Kemal's life and portrayed his ordinary human characteristics rather than his military prowess or political talents.