Yılmaz Güney Movies

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from...

The story of Halil, who, after his father’s murder, was supposed to take on the blood feud but instead chose to avoid it by wandering the...

In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of...

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the...

A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for Osman (Yilmaz Güney), lying in prison for...

After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.

Aslan Bey infiltrates the headquarters disguised as a Russian lieutenant.

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a...

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers...

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to...

Having spent ten years of his life in prisons, Güney escaped from Isparta Semi-Open Prison in 1981 and went to Paris, where he would spend the...

A kind-hearted local tough, haunted by his reputation, struggles to reconcile his violent past with his desire to protect the vulnerable in his...

The story of four days spent by a hired killer who benefited from the amnesty law with a hired woman.

The story of Cevher and his family and their daily struggles as seasonal workers in the cotton fields of Southern Turkey. Cevher depends on the...

The story of a young man who, influenced by a movie he watched, aspires to become a cowboy.

Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali...