Ahmet Rıfat Şungar

Acting

Ahmet Rıfat Şungar

Born 1983-07-09 · İstanbul, Türkiye

Ahmet Rıfat Şungar (born 9 July 1983 in Istanbul) is a Turkish cinema and TV series actor. He was born in Kartal district of Istanbul. After graduating from Kartal Süleyman Demirel Anatolian High School, he graduated from Istanbul University State Conservatory Theater Department. He has acted in many serials and films.

Acting credits

Seaburners poster
4.7

Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which he keeps a secret from Denise. When Hamit learns that Denise is being sent back to her home country soon, one final trafficking job takes a dark outcome.

Seaburners

2014

Cold poster
5.5

Three Russian sisters work in a tavern in Kars, a city in the east of Turkiye. Two brothers who live in the same city go to that tavern. Elder of the brothers who is married works as a railway worker; controls rails and allows/stoppes trains to pass. The younger brother is an aggressive man who often causes trouble, he marries a local girl, but he doesnt give up night life. The elder brother falls in love with the youngest of the Russian sisters (Irina) and this situation changes their lives. Focusing on the problems of Turkish uneducated men and hard lives of prostitutes, the film takes its name from the freezing cold of Kars as "Soguk" means "cold" in Turkish.

Cold

2014

The Wild Pear Tree poster
7.5

Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties.

The Wild Pear Tree

2018

Five Cities poster
6.6

Aydın is a policeman recently appointed to a new post in Istanbul. While trying to get used to life in the big city, Aydın stumbles upon Mehtap, a young woman who works at a candy shop in Beyoğlu, and he falls for her. But there is no way that Aydın can make Mehtap realize that he even exists, just as Şevket, a young man who has dropped out of law school before starting to sell toy trains on the streets to make a living, cannot make Dilek, another girl who works at the same store, realize his feelings for her. When Dilek and Aydın meet, Aydın diverts his uncontrollable feelings toward Dilek.

Five Cities

2009

The List of Those Who Love Me poster
6.2

Yılmaz is the dealer and close friends of famous filmmakers and actors. With the increasing drug operations in Istanbul, Yılmaz is getting paranoid about not being loved by them anymore. This paranoia makes him take bigger risks day by day and he will be destroyed by the desire for being loved.

The List of Those Who Love Me

2022

Three Monkeys poster
6.8

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?

Three Monkeys

2008

The Funeral poster
7.0

Cemal drives a hearse for a living. He's entrusted with secretly carrying the body of a young girl at the request of her family. One night, he hears strange groans from the back of the truck, even though the girl hasn't got a pulse.

The Funeral

2024

Janjan poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Janjan

2007

A Night in Four Parts poster
5.7

Two former high school buddies meet on a raki night in Beyoğlu after 17 years. As they drink and talk they realize another life is possible on a land where toxic masculinity does not exist. They represent the great divide in Turkish gay society: The lonely self-declared homosexuals and the married hypocrites.

A Night in Four Parts

2022

Edge of Night poster
5.4

Brothers Kenan and Sinan Yeşilyaprak, both officers in the Turkish army, have been conflicted since birth. Their father was a prominent — later persecuted — general and their mother a member of the oft-discriminated-against Kurdish minority.

Edge of Night

2025

Neandria poster
7.0

Suna is a teenage athlete who lives with her mother in a mountain village much like the world at large: here, things are run by older men who know it all, environmental destruction looms, and greed beats in most hearts.

Neandria

2023

Rising Voices poster
NR

A handful of migrants without papers decide to start a hunger strike. Day by day, overcoming the violence that they inflict upon themselves, they discover the greatness of their true cause. From this realisation they learn to affirm their common humanity.

Rising Voices

2015

Av: The Hunt poster
5.7

Police officer Sedat raids a derelict apartment squatted by a young couple. The man is killed, the young woman, Ayşe, escapes. When her friends and relatives offer no help, Ayşe is forced to steal cash and a car from her father and flee town like an outlaw. The chase goes deeper into the wild. Along with three men he has recruited, Sedat is pursuing her, out to kill in the name of honour. Taking off from the suburbs of Anatolia, Av: The Hunt continues reaching breath-taking natural landscapes, and recounts how a young woman is pulled into spiral of violence while trying to escape the patriarchal society she lives in.

Av: The Hunt

2021

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

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Have You Ever Seen Fireflies? poster
6.3

Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.

Have You Ever Seen Fireflies?

2021

Gamonya: Hayaller Ülkesi poster
10.0

Umut is a child who lives with his grandfather Ahmet and forgot to dream. One day, a misfortune brings him to the people of a fantastic and colorful world he never knew. The name of this magical world is Gamonya.

Gamonya: Hayaller Ülkesi

2020

Words Fly Away poster
6.0

Three young people enter to a bookshop as out of breath. And the bookseller shows the miracle of books.

Words Fly Away

2017

The Museum of Broken Love poster
7.0

The Museum of Broken Love is a museum where items left over from people's ended relationships are exhibited. Ali's job, when he started working at the museum, is to inventory the incoming items and place them in the exhibition areas. Ali's days change when a man who catches his attention leaves a box at the museum.

The Museum of Broken Love

2017

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul poster
6.9

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

2012

Clair Obscur poster
5.6

Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage that looks flawless on the outside. Elmas, a young woman on the verge of breakdown, opens a new path in her.

Clair Obscur

2017

Across the Sea poster
4.7

Damla reluctantly returns to her Turkish summer town with her American husband. Her bitter past is soon to be unveiled.

Across the Sea

2014

Chords of Change poster
6.8

During the Turkish artistic revolution of the 1930s, a group of pioneers staged Özsoy Opera, the first opera in the history of Turkish Republic.

Chords of Change

2024

Gerçek Kesit: Manyak poster
5.2

Riza, a garbage man becomes obsessed in her old mother when he finds a woman's corpse in a garbage can. But someday he meets with his new neighbor,a beautiful widow and starts to lose track of reality, stuck between his love and her mother.

Gerçek Kesit: Manyak

2018

Making of The Wild Pear Tree poster
8.3

A documentary about the filming session of the film “The Wild Pear Tree” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan… ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ had been shot in about 14 weeks in Western Anatolia.

Making of The Wild Pear Tree

2018