
Acting
Ülkü Ülker
Born — Died
1950-12-03 — 2016-01-31
Place of birth
İstanbul, Türkiye
Known for
Acting
Credits
51 titles
Known for
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Emret Komutanım
2005
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
7.9Sidika is the story of Saka family and their young daughter Sidika who live in a poor neighborhood of Istanbul. Sidika was not allowed to go to high school, raised to wait her husband-to-be at her fathers home, not even allowed to leave their house on her own. But she educated herself through books, newspapers and TV. She approaches her life, half-witted older brother, oppressive and alcoholic father and traditionalist mother in a satirical and fun manner along with the current political and sociological events of Turkey and the world. She gazes the world through her window as she hungers for all the intellectual accumulation of the universe.
Sidika
1997
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Marziye
1998
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Hanımın Çiftliği
1989
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Olacak O Kadar
1988
Film credits
2000s · 4 titles
6.8Reha Erdem’s innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human. The drama revolves around hapless taxi driver Ali, who suffers from amnesia as a result of an accident the cause of which he does not remember. As he struggles to regain his memory, his neighbors—embodying a variety of physical, mental, and emotional states—wrestle with their own difficulties, helping one another along the way.
Mommy, I'm Scared
2006
5.8As dismembered legs begin appearing across Istanbul, Commissioner Fatih and his partner Doruk—a U.S.-trained forensic psychiatrist—race to catch the killer, even as Doruk’s wife Beyza, haunted by mysterious blackouts, discovers a chilling connection between her missing time and the victims.
Shattered Soul
2006
8.6Newlyweds Mine and Kürşat work at a bar. Their lives change with the presence of Özgür who moves into their apartment next door.
Losers of the Dark City
2000
NRThe old tailor, Yolan, just released from an Iranian prison, sets out in search of the village in Turkey where he was born. By his side is Ozal, a 9-year old boy. Together they wander through the mountains of Eastern Anatolia and discover a country whose realities are as fabulous as they are simple.
The Nightly Song of the Travellers
2006
1990s · 11 titles
NRAbout a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.
Devlerin Ölümü
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Acı Kader
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Alev Gibi Bir Kız
1990
6.9Murat 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.
Women's Ward
1990
3.0adventures of a problem kid.
Zıpçıktı
1995
7.0The struggle of Kiraz, who is a midwife in a poor, backward Anatolian village.
Umut Hep Vardı
1991
5.0Nesibe lives with her poor family in a slum in Istanbul. Her father, who can't hold down a job, often takes out his anger on his family. Knowing that this is not all there is to life, Nesibe finds solace in movies.
My Cinemas
1990
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Ali / Sakın Arkana Bakma
1996
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bir İçim Su
1990
8.3A famous but unnamed radio announcer encounters with a girl who loves his radio show and starts a love between two of them first with a fight.
Günaydın İstanbul Kardeş
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Muhteşem Enayi
1990
1980s · 18 titles
8.0Duygu, who works as a translator at a translation agency, experiences loneliness with her doctor husband Yılmaz, although she does not know the exact reason why. The young woman takes refuge in her childhood to escape her inner conflicts and remembers the days when she and her brother Hâluk used to collect fireflies.
Ateş Böceği
1988
6.8Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.
Motherland Hotel
1987
6.6Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.
A Sip of Love
1984
7.2A victim of a forced marriage who has stabbed her husband finishes her sentence. When she is released from the prison she starts working at a factory under harsh conditions. Soon a poet falls for her, and gives her a new hope in love.
Sister Fahriye
1984
7.2In this film that wavers unsteadily between a comedy and a tragedy, Murtaza (Mujdat Gezen) is a deluded security guard whose fanatical reverence for "duty" verges on the psychotic. He is incapable of seeing himself for what he is -- and as a consequence he is often the unwitting and unknowing brunt of jokes. His wife and daughters are painfully aware of his shortcomings, but they generally suffer in silence. One of the daughters ends up working in the factory to help the family out financially, and when Murtaza finds her sleeping on the job one night he hits her so hard she eventually dies from the blow. Though that is not the end of it, by any means.
The Guard
1985
NRYasemin, who lives in a small town with her aunt, dreams of going to Istanbul and becoming famous. After some time, Yasemin begins working as a dancer at a restaurant owned by a woman who runs the establishment and also employs sex workers. During this time, she meets a restaurant customer and flees to Istanbul with him. After various adventures, the young man ends up in prison. Left alone in the big city, Yasemin, encouraged by two female friends, begins working as a prostitute.
Yasemin
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Deniz Kızı
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sis
1987
8.0One man, two envelopes and big decisions that will change a life! Which envelope will determine the future?
İki Zarf Bir Hayat
1988
8.0Nalan, who comes to work at a brothel in Konya, begins a love affair with Kara Davut, the city's notorious gangster. Kara Davut, who receives no attention from his wife at home, and Nalan, who has never experienced true love and affection, begin a relationship that soon becomes the talk of Konya, and it isn't long before things start to get complicated.
Güneş Doğarken
1984
8.5The story of a family who moved from a village to Istanbul with two children in order to live a better life, but ended up living in an abandoned bus due to poverty and lack of accommodation.
Bir Avuç Cennet
1985
NRThe story of a character named Fatma, the difficulties in her life and the family dynamics.
Kızın Adı Fatma
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Suskun Duvarlar
1985
NRThe film is about a life that lost his mother and father. When Ceylan's child dies, they have financial difficulties with her mother. That's why his mother marries a rich man named Cevdet. After a while, his mother fell ill and dies. Ceylan, who is left alone, will have to live with her stepfather.
Güneş Yine Doğacak
1989
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Üç Halka 25
1986
5.5Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married.
The Handsome
1987
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kara Zindan
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bir Günah Gibi
1987
1970s · 6 titles
7.5A peasant woman who cannot bear children for her husband agrees to take in a concubine as a result of pressure from her community and finds the concubine herself. The new woman is also unable to bear children. However, the first woman becomes pregnant in the meantime. The jealous concubine slanders her, and the villagers tie the woman they call a "whore" to a tree to kill her. Her husband arrives in time to rescue her, and they leave the village.
The Second Wife
1974
No description
Silahlara Veda
1976
3.3A woman who has been raped disappears.
Utanç
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tear Behçet Apart
1972
6.8A retired tough guy's drive to avenging his brother and sister.
Destiny
1972
NRNuri, who makes a living as a tomboy, has an excessive weakness for women. For this reason, he always finds himself surrounded by women.
Tokmak Nuri
1975
Series credits
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Emret Komutanım
2005
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
7.9Sidika is the story of Saka family and their young daughter Sidika who live in a poor neighborhood of Istanbul. Sidika was not allowed to go to high school, raised to wait her husband-to-be at her fathers home, not even allowed to leave their house on her own. But she educated herself through books, newspapers and TV. She approaches her life, half-witted older brother, oppressive and alcoholic father and traditionalist mother in a satirical and fun manner along with the current political and sociological events of Turkey and the world. She gazes the world through her window as she hungers for all the intellectual accumulation of the universe.
Sidika
1997
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Marziye
1998
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Hanımın Çiftliği
1989
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Olacak O Kadar
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Vaka-i Zaptiye
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sardunya Sokak
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yeşilçam Denizi
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Kumkapı Olayı: Üzgünüm
1997


