
Acting
Derya Alabora
Born
1959-08-19 (67)
Place of birth
Istanbul, Turkey
Known for
Acting
Credits
48 titles
Derya Alabora was born on August 19, 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey. She is an actress, known for Innocence (1997), Pandora'nin kutusu (2008) and Adem'in Trenleri (2007). She has been married to Ugur Yücel since 1983. They have one child.
Known for
8.1Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.
Leyla and Mecnun
2011
4.5A therapy-situated series that will explore every day problems of every day people. Based on a book by Dr. Gülseren Buğdayıcıoğlu.
The Red Room
2020
6.5A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
A Most Wanted Man
2014
6.2Reyan and Uzer: twenty years separate them, but an unconventional love brings them together in the small town of Aegean, where their hearts defy the boundaries of age and society and cling to their hope for happiness.
RU
2024
7.5This nostalgic series, shedding light on 1990s Turkey, offers a heartwarming family atmosphere. Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı, the main setting for most of the series, is a place filled with people leading simple yet colorful lives, including a grocer, butcher, snack bar owner, and more. Inci, who returned to Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı years after leaving her family, opens a new chapter in her life with the friendly neighborhood residents she's known since childhood. A humorous drama about intimate neighborhood relationships in an old neighborhood in Istanbul.
Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı
1996
NRUras lives in an Istanbul ghetto with his big brother and mother. He works so hard to get into a university. Even though he is very smart, financial difficulties put him in a hard position. Like this isn’t enough, he has to handle his troublesome brother Aras. Uras gets into a school in Eskişehir and moves there with the help of a college teacher Işık. But Uras’s brother and his past won’t let him go that easily.
Es-Es
2008
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
6.0Ali, a television programmer known for his healthy living advice, faces unexpected changes when he meets nurse Güneş after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Bugün Güzel
2025
NRAfter the sudden loss of her parents, 12-year-old İrem moves in with her estranged grandmother on a semi-industrial dairy farm. As she witnesses the routine separation of newborn calves from their mothers, İrem becomes increasingly troubled by the quiet violence embedded in everyday practice to gain more milk. This unsettling realization leads her to make a small but radical decision: to free the pregnant cows from the farm, with the help of Halid, an orphan apprenticed to the farm’s veterinarian.
The Farm
2026
3.0Despite her intentions to cover more serious news stories, a woman takes the only job in journalism she can get, writing horoscopes. The stakes are raised when she suspects criminal goings-on.
Her Şeyin Başı Merkür
2024
1.0Elya, who lives in Izmir, dreams of getting a master's degree in gastronomy and working in a corporate environment against her mother's pressure to get married and guarantee life. She learns that she has been accepted for a job in Istanbul. Believing that she should get together with he, whom she met online and has been in love with for a few months, she comes to Istanbul with a sudden decision.
Third Day
2024
NRAskin Dünkü Çocuklari, tells a bittersweet love story from the 70s to the present day, blending it with the social issues of the period.
Aşkın Dünkü Çocukları
2025
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Elli Kelimelik Mektuplar
2021
2010s · 11 titles
6.5A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
A Most Wanted Man
2014
5.6A mother's plan to find her bachelor son a match derails when a new prospect turns up and sinister schemes unfold.
Bygones Be Bygones
2017
6.9Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results in a life-threatening situation.
When We Leave
2010
5.2Zeliha is back: Crazy and candid as ever, and she still gets herself into all sorts of trouble. Seeking love in the first film, Zeliha is now after a career in the sequel, as she dreams of becoming a cook and starts working in a luxury restaurant. Will Zeliha's dreams finally come true, or will the real world break her heart and leave her in disappointment? With heartwarming characters and an entertaining story by Gupse Özay, writer of the films Deliha and Görümce, Deliha 2 will once again leave audiences in laughter. The film also marks Özay's directorial debut.
Deliha 2
2018
5.6A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a life style. These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk... Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.
Black and White
2010
4.9On their first night at a new, secluded house, a couple (Esin Harvey, Gorkem Mertsoz) encounter the mysterious woman (Derya Alabora - A Most Wanted Man, When We Leave) who claims it to be her home.
Naciye
2015
1.0What would you do if your daughter is marrying a man against your will and doesn't realize you are right about your reasons? Don't Marry Him tells the story of the taxi driver, Adil, who does everything to no limit to prevent his daughter's marriage to a dangerous guy."
Don't Marry Him
2018
5.0A woman desperately seeking for a man to love. When he finally arrives, she overlooks him.
Deliha
2014
3.8The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for the recovery of the relationship. Hakan, Barker and Serhat who are their twenties live in another district of the same city. They plan a vacation at a resort. They steal money and the car of their parents. Another generation living in this city are 12-year-old friends Mutafa and Emre. Their dream is to make programs at a radio. These three lives knotted together at some point at an unexpected time.
91.1
2016
6.4Arif, who is trying to write his first book, believes that life contains many unanswerable questions, especially about women and relationships. But when Müzeyyen appears unexpectedly, everything he has ever known or tried to learn is suddenly turned upside down.
But Muzeyyen That's the Deepest Desire
2014
7.3In 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.
Thou Gild'st the Even
2013
2000s · 3 titles
6.8A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
In Darkness
2009
6.4When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Pandora's Box
2008
5.6Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town during the holy month of Ramadan. His unusual behavior towards his wife and little daughter arrests the attention of the townsfolk. Meanwhile Adem, the son of the stationmaster who is crazy for trains begins to learn about and get into a world he has never heard of before in the lessons given by Hasan: trains, sin, good deeds, heaven and hell.. everything gets jumbled. Condemned of being harsh and merciless towards his family, Hasan one day finds himself obliged to reveal the "secret" about himself and his family and this changes everything in the eyes of people. Yet there has remained another secret of which anyone, even Hasan is hardly aware. The people of the town, including Adem, will remember this Ramadan throughout their lives.
Adam and the Devil
2007
1990s · 8 titles
6.0Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.
The Trace
1994
9.0The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.
The 80th Step
1996
6.4A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.
Whistle If You Come Back
1993
5.3During the period of the Wealth Tax, where many non-Muslims in Turkey were forced to pay higher taxes, often in an arbitrary and unrealistic way. Nimet and Durmuş migrate from Niğde to Istanbul and take shelter with Durmuş's friend Bekir, who finds Durmuş a job at the inn. However, making a living by serving as a porter is not in line with Durmuş's ambitions. He wants everything Halit Bey has, the inn owner. Halit Bey begins to dispose of his property in order to pay the tax stipulated to his beloved wife Nora, who was treated in a nursing home. Wealth Tax has begun to affect everyone's destiny.
Mrs. Salkim's Diamonds
1999
6.8A man named Onur, connects to a Radio programme presented by Oguz and requests the song Old and Wise from The Alan Parsons Project. A day later Eda, for whom Onur requested the song, calls in to tell it was a special song for Eda and Oğuz but there is something myterious going on...
Bana Old and Wise'ı Çal
1998
7.6Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…
Innocence
1997
The story of a young man who spends his entire life trying to heal the wound his stepmother left in his soul.
Solgun Bir Sarı Gül
1996
6.6An elderly couple invite their adult children to visit their country chateau. Among the children are Omer, his undemonstrative wife who knows about Omer's mistress, and Omer's children. The other son brings his seductive lover, and the daughter, a divorcee, brings her child. Mayhem ensues when their daughter's ex-husband makes a surprise appearance at the house.
Lobster Pot
1994
Series credits
8.1Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.
Leyla and Mecnun
2011
4.5A therapy-situated series that will explore every day problems of every day people. Based on a book by Dr. Gülseren Buğdayıcıoğlu.
The Red Room
2020
6.2Reyan and Uzer: twenty years separate them, but an unconventional love brings them together in the small town of Aegean, where their hearts defy the boundaries of age and society and cling to their hope for happiness.
RU
2024
7.5This nostalgic series, shedding light on 1990s Turkey, offers a heartwarming family atmosphere. Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı, the main setting for most of the series, is a place filled with people leading simple yet colorful lives, including a grocer, butcher, snack bar owner, and more. Inci, who returned to Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı years after leaving her family, opens a new chapter in her life with the friendly neighborhood residents she's known since childhood. A humorous drama about intimate neighborhood relationships in an old neighborhood in Istanbul.
Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı
1996
NRUras lives in an Istanbul ghetto with his big brother and mother. He works so hard to get into a university. Even though he is very smart, financial difficulties put him in a hard position. Like this isn’t enough, he has to handle his troublesome brother Aras. Uras gets into a school in Eskişehir and moves there with the help of a college teacher Işık. But Uras’s brother and his past won’t let him go that easily.
Es-Es
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
İstanbul Sokakları
2016
6.4A divorce lawyer who feels that there is nothing left to surprise him in life meets a beautiful young girl who work as a taxi driver to help her family. When the pair cross paths their lives will change forever.
Ateşböceği
2017
8.9Unlucky Leyla rebuilds her life as a wedding planner after Sarp abandons her at their nuptials, but the emotional turmoil floods back when she must organize Sarp’s wedding to his new girlfriend.
Happily Ever After
2020
9.0The story of the advertising agency employees and their confused president trying to cope with the capricious customers, troubled celebrities and the crises they face every day.
Acans
2021
NRAdam and Havva have grown up worlds apart. He is the son of an Irish Catholic pastor, she the daughter of a Muslim family that adheres strongly to its traditions. And yet, though their lives seem to be poles apart, fate brings them together, both working as research assistants at a top university.
One of Us
2021
6.8Ah Nerede – Ferit, whose whole life is women, spends his days flirting and having fun like a spoiled child, and with all the attention he gets in return, he never settles for just one. He fools around with three different girls in different lanes and manages all of them skillfully. Until he meets Zehra.
Oh Where
2022
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Küçük Hanımefendi
2011
No synopsis available yet.
Aşk Meydan Savaşı
2002
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Paşa Gönlüm
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dantel
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sedef Kabaş ile Portreler
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Aşk Her Yaşta
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Omuz Omuza
2024

