Ercan Karaçaylı

Acting

Ercan Karaçaylı

Born

1967-08-15 (59)

Place of birth

Istanbul, Turkey

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Elbow poster
6.2

Hazal is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish: to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But an incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee.

Elbow

2024

22 Lengths poster
6.7

Tilda's days are strictly structured: she studies, works at the supermarket checkout and looks after her little sister Ida - on some days she also has to look after her alcoholic mother. But this summer brings a change: Tilda receives a promising job offer for a doctorate in Berlin. Viktor also turns up, who, like her, always swims 22 laps in the swimming pool. When Tilda begins to believe that everything could be better, the situation at home spirals out of control.

22 Lengths

2025

Servus Eddie - Spätes Glück poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Servus Eddie - Spätes Glück

2026

Triumph of the Actor poster
10.0

Ercan is fed up with clichés of migrant roles. Instead of playing a terrorist on television, the Turkish actor is trying to get a role as Hitler in a new movie.

Triumph of the Actor

2022

Gefahrengebiet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gefahrengebiet

2026

Alone In A Strange World poster
NR

The story revolves around seven-year-old Londri Mingolo's flight from the Congo to Germany and his problems settling into German society.

Alone In A Strange World

2021

Heir of the Galaxy poster
NR

The film follows two days in the life of a former child star who rose to fame nearly 20 years ago in a major sci-fi blockbuster. Overwhelmed by media attention and school issues, he quit acting. Now, he's trying to redefine himself amidst hate comments, public recognition, journalists, and constant comparisons to a colleague from the film set.

Heir of the Galaxy

2023

Morin poster
0.5

A near-future film about our education and value system and the question of what our children are worth to us.

Morin

2023

Zurück aufs Eis poster
6.0

Divorced policewoman Maren and her daughter Amelie live together in Bad Tölz and are a close-knit team. Not just mother and daughter, but best friends. But then Amelie starts to study, falls head over heels in love with her fellow student Erik and moves in with him in a shared student flat in Munich. Without Amelie, Maren not only feels very alone in the apartment, but also in life. She has to realize that she has been hiding behind Amelie for the last eight years after the divorce and hasn't had a life of her own. So she slowly goes "back on the ice". On the uncertain, slippery and sometimes painful ice that is called "life".

Zurück aufs Eis

2022

2010s · 9 titles

Almanya: Welcome to Germany poster
6.6

After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.

Almanya: Welcome to Germany

2011

Three Quarter Moon poster
5.7

Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.

Three Quarter Moon

2011

Brothers poster
NR

Cengiz and Savaş are two unlike brothers. Cengiz is an associate in a respected law firm and Savaş is serving a prison sentence because of several violent offences. After their father’s death Cengiz gets his brother out for one day. Savaş doesn’t know that his brother is heavily in debt.

Brothers

2012

Meine Beschneidung poster
NR

The German-Turkish search for identity by 9-year old Ümit.

Meine Beschneidung

2013

Was machen Frauen morgens um halb vier? poster
6.0

About Franzi Schwanthaler the sky collapses. She is a single mother and baker in a Bavarian village, and here the branch of an internationally operating back chain with dumping prices snatches her away. Her boss and father suffers from a heart attack, which in turn leaves her older sister arrive from Berlin, and chronically knows everything better and distributes good advice. But should Franzi really seek a new livelihood in the city and let her father down with the competition and crushing bank debts? No. She does not give up so fast.

Was machen Frauen morgens um halb vier?

2012

My Life in Orange poster
5.4

A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult.

My Life in Orange

2011

Zwei allein poster
4.5

Henriette is terminally ill with cancer. Since her diagnosis, contact with her sister Gerlinde has fizzled out. It is only when she talks to the open-minded pastor Linus Gobert that she begins to accept her fate and gets closer to her sister again. But before she can tell Gerlinde about her illness, she is shot dead in the street. Gerlinde, the only witness to the crime, doubts that it was a robbery.

Zwei allein

2014

Invention of Trust poster
NR

Young high school teacher Michael Gewa receives a mysterious message - a novel company has bought his internet and cell phone data and issues him a rating based on his digital footprint. After he turns down the offer to keep the rating private in exchange for a monthly fee, things escalate quickly. He finds himself having to fight for his reputation and the damaged trust in him among friends, colleagues and students.

Invention of Trust

2016

Save 2.0 poster
NR

Night falls, a dog how breaks the night.

Save 2.0

2019

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

Die Rosenheim-Cops poster
6.2

A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

Die Rosenheim-Cops

2002

Die Rosenheim-Cops poster
6.2

A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

Die Rosenheim-Cops

2002

Die Rosenheim-Cops poster
6.2

A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

Die Rosenheim-Cops

2002

Polizeiruf 110 poster
6.2

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Polizeiruf 110

1971

SOKO München poster
5.9

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

SOKO München

1978

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police poster
6.6

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

1996

Küstenwache poster
5.8

Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

Küstenwache

1997

Hubert ohne Staller poster
6.4

A show about two Bavarian police officers, Franz Hubert and Johannes Staller, who sometimes work a bit differently. Where Franz wants to follow regulations, Johannes likes to do things his own way.

Hubert ohne Staller

2011

Der Bergdoktor poster
5.8

A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.

Der Bergdoktor

2008

Letzte Spur Berlin poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Letzte Spur Berlin

2012

München 7 poster
7.5

München 7 is a German police drama series from Franz Xaver Bogner. The show is set in Munich, Germany and features the fictive police station "München 7" or "Munich 7". The main characters are the "Sheriff from Marienplatz" Xaver Bartl and his new colleague Felix Kandler. München 7 is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".

München 7

2004

München Mord poster
4.7

Chief Inspector Schaller and his team solve the most unusual cases in beautiful Munich with wit and charm.

München Mord

2014

Hindafing poster
6.9

Alfons Zischl, mayor of Hindafing, tries to give his community a new image by building a mall for organic food. Soon enough the whole village is taking part in his corrupt games, entangling Zischl in growing debt and dubious obligations.

Hindafing

2017

Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinan Toprak ist der Unbestechliche

2001

Franzi poster
NR

Franzi is a German television series.

Franzi

2009

No artwork available
NR

Just like in the original "Saturday Night Live" to greet the audience in every week a changing celebrity guest. Then there are introductory films, skits and live performances of the ensemble to see in which repeatedly subjects and events around the celebrity guest to be told.

Die unwahrscheinlichen Ereignisse im Leben von ...

2014

Behind the camera