Ercan Kesal

Ercan Kesal

Born: January 1, 1959
in Avanos, Nevsehir, Turkey

Movies for Ercan Kesal...

The Reeds
Title: The Reeds
Released: September 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in a village in Anatolia at the foothills of the mountains, portraying the story of the resistance of a young man, Ali, against the domination of landlords and local gangs, striving to win back his wife’s love and affection.
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Title: Magarsus
Character: Halil Kurak
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: TV
Magarsus tells about the struggle of the Kurak family, who traded in citrus fruits in Sarıbahçe, both with each other and with foreign powers who want to dominate the region.
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Hopeful Dark Journey
Title: Hopeful Dark Journey
Character: Yılmaz
Released: December 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Yılmaz is a civil servant. There are two months until his retirement. His only dream is to build a house on his ‘little piece of land’. However, will the trouble his son Fırat who suddenly turned up without notice in the middle of the night, got himself in take away Yılmaz’s dream?
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Paperflower
Title: Paperflower
Character: Remzi
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Remzi, a controlling and powerful businessman, is in disagreement with his son, Baha, about their family business. During their arguments, their differences surface up, and Remzi is not willing to solve these differences by talking.
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Title: To Betray
Character: Ali Sezai Okuyan
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: TV
He is a distinguished, respected family court judge. She is an honest and principled woman who has saved many marriages from destruction, made sure that many children receive the affection and love they deserve, and has always been on the side of justice.
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The Criminals
Title: The Criminals
Character: Hôtelier 2
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together. They are rejected from all hotels for not having a marriage certificate. Once they believe they’ve found a trick to use, the situation gets out of hand.
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Love Me Instead
Title: Love Me Instead
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
Accompanied by a ward, a prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his daughter and make amends, but a tragic truth mars his journey.
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Title: The Bad Penny
Character: Halit
Released: November 1, 2021
Type: TV
When a serial killer stalks a Romani neighborhood, a hardboiled police captain teams up with a Gypsy crime boss to bring the killer to justice.
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You Know Him
Title: You Know Him
Character: Dr. Kemal Güner
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for mayor of the Beyoglu district – in his opinion. An opinion not shared by his sceptical ex-wife; nor by the voters who come to eat and drink at his expense; nor the party leader, who even after several meetings still thinks he's an architect rather than a doctor; not even his faithful chauffeur. The slogan 'the doctor has the cure' might be catchy, but the doctor has little clue how sick the climate of political nepotism really is.
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Kısmet
Title: Kısmet
Character: Necati
Released: October 29, 2020
Type: Movie
A young girl's bargaining with her father to marry whoever she wants will cause her family to reveal their hidden dirty laundry.
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9,75 Santimetrekare
Title: 9,75 Santimetrekare
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
During his military service in 1990's Southeast Turkey, Ahmet experiences something that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In 2013, when the chaotic days of Gezi Park protests in Istanbul start, Ahmet learns he has a brain tumor. Just as the lines between truth and fiction, the dream and the reality start to get blurred for him, he meets Serap; the love of his life. But time is ticking and his painful past weighs down on him every day, suffocating him with the same question: Who is the child that plays hide and seek with him?
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Title: The Agency
Character: Self
Released: August 25, 2020
Type: TV
Dicle finds herself in an agency when she comes to Istanbul dreaming of becoming a filmmaker. There’s only place for stars, ego wars, greed, fame, money, hope and disappointment here. As Dicle struggles to exist in this glamorous world without losing her way... Her broken family ties start to bleed again. Her father who abandoned them before she was born is now one of the sharks of the industry and they are working in the same agency. And the magical lights of cinema start to shed light on Dicle’s first love.
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Title: Aleph
Released: April 10, 2020
Type: TV
When close-to-retirement homicide detective Settar Öztürk is assigned a final case with his case partner Kemal McAllister, they discover a series of ruthless and operose murders. They soon discover they are dealing with a serial killer whose motives are connected with Islamic heresy and sufism. As the case disentangles, the detectives find out solving the case is not their only role in this picture.
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Passed by Censor
Title: Passed by Censor
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the letters, in which appears Selma, an inmate's wife. More than an inspiration, she becomes an obsession for Zakir. He observes her, makes up stories, and imagines the worst to the extent that he puts himself at great risk.
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Black Sun
Title: Black Sun
Released: August 12, 2019
Type: Movie
A coming storm after dog days dawns during a road trip to an island for a funeral. The deceased is buried in haste and a man makes a detour through Aegean Turkey. The funeral is eclipsed by a last wish.
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The Smell of Money
Title: The Smell of Money
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A cab driver, a teahouse owner and an out-of-work journalist live in a down-at-heel suburb of Ankara. When the driver tells his friends tales of the murky and unlawful dealings of his passengers, they install a camera to record the passengers.
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Butterflies
Title: Butterflies
Character: Çoban
Released: March 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.
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Title: The Pit
Character: İdris Koçovalı (Sadece Sesi)
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: TV
When a mafia family named Koçovars are in danger of losing control of their neighborhood, “The Pit,” their youngest son must come back home, a place he could never truly escape.
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Title: The Pit
Character: İdris Koçovalı
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: TV
When a mafia family named Koçovars are in danger of losing control of their neighborhood, “The Pit,” their youngest son must come back home, a place he could never truly escape.
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Sideway
Title: Sideway
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday.
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Eksi Bir
Title: Eksi Bir
Released: May 3, 2017
Type: Movie
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Cold Hell
Title: Cold Hell
Character: Gökhan
Released: January 19, 2017
Type: Movie
A young Vienna-based taxi driver of Turkish origin witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The perpetrator, a serial killer, makes eye contact with her; a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
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Nausea
Title: Nausea
Character: Doktor
Released: October 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.
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Yozgat Blues
Title: Yozgat Blues
Character: Yavuz
Released: December 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Sabri, a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle of Anatolia - has an emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who come to the town to sing in a small music hall-bar. This will also affect Neşe and Yavuz. None of their desires will be how they want them to be.
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I Am Not Him
Title: I Am Not Him
Character: Nihat / Necip
Released: November 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner at her house. This is the beginning of a strange and dangerous liaison. When Nihat discovers a picture of the woman’s husband and realizes that he looks astoundingly like him, the relation becomes even more toxic.
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Government Woman 2
Title: Government Woman 2
Character: Aziz Veysel
Released: November 7, 2013
Type: Movie
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Thou Gild'st the Even
Title: Thou Gild'st the Even
Character: İrfan
Released: November 1, 2013
Type: Movie
In a small town in Anatolia, whose inhabitants possess various supernatural powers but still have to deal with ordinary problems, Cemal helps out in his father’s barbershop and, in his free time, acts as a football referee.
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Swing
Title: Swing
Released: May 14, 2013
Type: Movie
The last 12 minutes of a young woman in a house on the edge of the city. The radical decision of a woman whose life was made a prison by tradition, violence and poverty...
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Mold
Title: Mold
Character: Basri
Released: April 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Basri, 55 year old, every day walks for miles along the tracks working as a railroad watchman. His nagging thought is finding his son. Eighteen years ago, while the boy was studying at the university in Istanbul, the police took him into custody for antigovernment activities. Then, he mysteriously disappeared.
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Government Woman
Title: Government Woman
Character: Aziz Veysel Nuroğlu
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, that is, an extraordinary day changes her life - and the lives of everyone else in Midyat. For the illiterate, uneducated Xate becomes Mayor of Midyat! While she takes on her mayoral duties much as she does those in her house, the infantile rivalry between her children in municipal matters leads to adventures that have the Midyat folk howling with laughter.
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Shift 12-48
Title: Shift 12-48
Character: Selim
Released: November 15, 2012
Type: Movie
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Take a Deep Breath
Title: Take a Deep Breath
Character: Doctor
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
A high school student, raised in a modern family, is taken to a gynecologist for a virginity test by her parents. The psychologically and physically traumatizing examination makes her realize she does not have control over her own body. She will do anything she can to take the control back.
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Title: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Character: Muhtar
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.
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Hair
Title: Hair
Released: August 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A wig-maker from Istanbul, who suffers from cancer, becomes obsessed with a woman who enters his shop one day.
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Vavien
Title: Vavien
Character: Süleyman
Released: November 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an electrician shop which doesn't go well. They are in debt. The only fun they have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal's love for Sibel Ceylan who works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal's wife, Sevilay, saves her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact that Celal knows her secret.
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Making of Three Monkeys
Title: Making of Three Monkeys
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Three Monkeys / Üç Maymun" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 'Three Monkeys' had been shot in about 2 months in the summer and autumn of 2007 mostly in Yedikule district of Istanbul.
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Three Monkeys
Title: Three Monkeys
Character: Servet
Released: May 16, 2008
Type: Movie
A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?
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Distant
Title: Distant
Released: December 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little to alleviate their detachment.