Halit Refiğ (5 March 1934 – 11 October 2009) was a Turkish film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer. He made around sixty films, including feature films, documentaries and TV serials. He is considered to be the pioneer of the National Cinema movement and the initiator of the production of TV serials in Turkey.
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.
Release Date:2019-04-17
Character:Self
Vote Count:7
Release Date:1998-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:16
The dramatic story of Esref, a journalist who is excluded from his profession and trying to prove himself again, and Sukran, a former film artist who lives with dogs on a deserted island due to loneliness.
Release Date:1997-03-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Directed by Halit Refig.
Release Date:1991-01-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Murat is a charismatic political prisoner in Malatya. He is well respected by both inmates and prison officers. There he meets two women: Tozey, a famous prostitute, and Hanim, a defenseless woman accused of murdering her husband.
Release Date:1990-05-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:7
An elderly piano teacher recently diagnosed with terminal cancer lives in fear of death. But her real fear is who will take care of her cat, her only friend, after her death. As she tries to find someone to take care of her cat, the generational clash of the times and the drastically changing urban identity of Istanbul confront her with an unpleasant prospect.
Release Date:1988-03-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:21
Release Date:1988-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Fatih is a struggling musician whose efforts did not pay. One night disappointed, he talks to his "Plastic Sweetheart" a realistic-looking mannequin in a shop window that, "he could even sell his soul to the Devil for fame"...and then he sees the Devil himself. They make a deal that Fatih will sell his soul to the Devil and the Devil will strike him to fame, using the record executives, venue owners and commercial executives whom he had their souls. However the times had changed, and the human had proved to be more evil and smarter than the Devil himself...
Release Date:1988-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:19
Release Date:1987-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1987-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Üftade has long been the object of men’s fury. Her only hope is to marry the young man she is in love with and escape her traumatic life in the home of her abusive stepfather. However, when her lover suddenly leaves her, Üftade's despair increases exponentially and she begins to lose her mental balance due to the traumas of her childhood.
Release Date:1986-06-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1985-05-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1985-05-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1985-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Recai has raised his daughter Seref like a man. She secretly attends the meetings of the patriots. Seref and her cousin Mujgan take music lessons from the journalist Feyyaz. Seref and Feyyaz fall in love but Mujgan is in love with Feyyaz as well. Feyyaz gets arrested in an assassination attempt against the Sultan.
Release Date:1984-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1984-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Release Date:1983-06-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Meral is a show girl and drug addict and Yilmaz is a handsome police chief who fights against drug dealers. The tragic reality of the glamorous show world is revealed in the film's story. Meral's boss Haci wants her to spy on Yilmaz. However Meral and Yilmaz fall in love with each other. They work cooperatively and in a police operation headed by Yilmaz Haci and his men are caught wounded, but Meral gets shot.
Release Date:1983-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A fortune-teller reveals the Sultan that his daughter will get married to somebody poor, born on the same day with her. So, the Sultan gets all the baby boys born on the same day are killed and only Kadir is saved. Kadir and Leyla grow up together. Leyla wants to marry him but the Sultan refuses this idea. He orders Kadir to be killed, yet Kadir survives fatally wounded. Leyla finds Kadir's place where he is kept as a prisoner. As they escape they get caught. Leyla dies and Kadir who has lost her loved one goes to the desert with the image of Leyla alive in his heart.
Release Date:1983-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
The struggle of a devoted mother for her children.
Release Date:1982-04-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Release Date:1982-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1978-04-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Rich Adnan marries Bihter, who is younger than him. A poisonous forbidden love begins between Adnan's nephew Behlül and Bihter who lives in the same mansion.
Release Date:1975-04-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:2
"Religious Fighter" - In Romania, the idealistic Istanbul teacher, Aliye, communicate activities to a town in Anatolia supporting the idea of National Struggle in the region.
Release Date:1973-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
Release Date:1973-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1973-04-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
Release Date:1972-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Two young members of the Ottoman army officers who showed heroism in the Yemen desert, fall in love with the same woman, the daughter of their commanding officer, she only loves one and when they both go to Yemen again, Murat one of the officers is lost and thought to be dead. Leyla after hearing this agrees to marry the other officer whom is Murat best friend without knowing that Murat is still alive.
Release Date:1972-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1972-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1972-01-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1972-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1971-07-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Unlike all other films of Cuneyt Arkin, this film picture is taken by a highly skilled team with quite a lot of preparations. The scenario is a fairy tale which is pleasantly supported by some high quality visual effects (prepared in a visual lab in England). The scenes are all supported with high quality decorations of the old times of the tale. Cuneyt Arkin with his athletic capabilities enables the hero of this tale to be brought to life in his act. It is really unlucky for the film team to prepare such a good film after a series of junk films which directly reduced the interest to this high quality film.
Release Date:1970-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
I Lost My Heart to a Turk is the story of a German woman Eva Bender, who is deserted by a Turkish worker in Germany five years earlier and left alone with a child Zafer. Eva's father refuses his illegitimate grandson from a Turkish worker. She comes to Kayseri, Turkey with her illegitimate child to seek her lover, Ismail Acar. Ismail is now working at Sümer Cotton Cloth factory as a mechanic and establishing a small private business. Eva finds her ex-lover Ismail who now lives with his wife and children. Humiliated by her ex-lover, the German woman receives assistance by another Turkish worker, Mustafa.
Release Date:1969-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1969-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A sequel to Refig's highly successful comedy Karakolda Ayna Var.
Release Date:1967-11-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Ali Riza, a very respectable man, retires and moves to Istanbul with his wife and 5 children. His children quickly lose identity in degenerate big city and his family, once close-knit, begins crumbling away.
Release Date:1967-06-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1967-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Scenario Writer
Vote Count:2
Based on THE DEEP by Mickey Spillane, the film tells the story of a tough guy, who returns to his old neighborhood to avenge the murder of his childhood partner in crime.
Release Date:1967-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1966-11-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1966-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1966-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1965-06-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Release Date:1965-02-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A modern triangular melodrama starring Cüneyt Arkin, Nilüfer Aydan, Muzaffer Tema.
Release Date:1965-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Sadık Pasha is a pleasure-loving and pious pasha who lives in a luxurious Ottoman mansion with his three wives. The balance of the mansion, already full of intrigue with three women, is completely disrupted when he wants to take a fourth wife, thinking that he needs to continue his lineage because he has no children.
Release Date:1965-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Married couple move to a new house. Thanks to this new house they climb the social ladder. At the same time troubles are started.
Release Date:1965-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Tahir Agha sells all his assets when his business in Maraş deteriorates. He immigrates to Istanbul with his wife Hatice, sons Selim, Murat, Kemal and daughter Fatoş, where he sets his mind to open a repair shop. But in the metropolis, things don't go as planned.
Release Date:1964-04-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
Release Date:1964-02-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1964-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Scenario Writer
Release Date:1964-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Watchmen of the Dawn is about the lives of pilots in the Turkish air force based in the mid-Anatolian town Eskisehir. Göksel is a young pilot with Faruk as his best friend and Aydan, a female lieutenant in the air base, as his platonic love interest. After his plane crashes, Göksel takes a 15-day leave of absence and visits his parents in Istanbul.
Release Date:1963-10-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
A young engineer Aydin comes back to his hometown after years of education as a mining engineer in London. Selami, the owner of a local wood company, paid for Aydin's tuition and expenses. Selami has been the employer of Aydin's father in the past and he acts like an elder brother for Aydin, offers him to stay in his house. Aydin starts to work as the chief engineer in one of the mining companies. From the first day onwards Aydin opposes the mining practices imposed by Rahmi Bey, the owner of the company. He orders to stop mining and deals with the wood sellers who sell low-quality wood used to support the thrusts in the mines.
Release Date:1963-09-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Youth Dreams
Release Date:1962-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1961-12-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The story of a love-triangle with a middle-aged husband, a young wife and a young man.
Release Date:1961-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Sevistigimiz Gunler is a typical socio-economic story of three roommate girls in their early 20s' who are hoping to find their Prince Charmings. With a lot of references to Billy Wilder romance flicks, Things go crazy and wild when they both fall in love with three men. So their lives change dramatically as they forget about the bet, and come on the edge of marriage and pregnancy. But are the men whom they fell in love with, really worth considering as Prince Charmings, or are they just cheaters slickers?
Release Date:1961-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Turkish adaptation of Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" (This Gun for Hire).
Release Date:1961-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Directed by Memduh Ün
Release Date:1961-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:5
Release Date:1960-12-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Directed by Atif Yilmaz.
Release Date:1959-01-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time later, when Aga goes back to marry her, he instructs his men to eliminate the obstacle, namely Halil (Yilmaz Güney)...
Release Date:1959-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1958-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Release Date:1955-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
The role played by the regular army in the Turkish War of Independence. This film's footage was burned by the military junta in 1983.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1