Çağan Irmak

Directing

Çağan Irmak

Born

1970-04-04 (56)

Place of birth

Seferihisar, İzmir, Turkey

Known for

Directing

Credits

45 titles

Çagan Irmak is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya (2004-2005) and Asmali Konak (2002-2004), and for the hit films Alone (2008) and My Father and My Son (2005), for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers Association Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director. - IMDb Mini Biography By: yusufpiskin

Known for

Alone poster
6.2

Alper is a renowned chef in his 30s at his own luxury restaurant. He lives an isolated life and spends his nights with one-night stands and paid intercourses. One day, his life changes utterly when his path crosses with Ada and gets enamored by her casual and modest outlook at life. As they start to get romantically involved, Alper must also overcome his chronic feeling of desolateness.

Alone

2008

My Father and My Son poster
7.4

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

My Father and My Son

2005

A Unique Life poster
5.8

A widowed housewife returns to college to complete her studies and embarks on a journey that gives her life new meaning.

A Unique Life

2015

The Messenger poster
5.6

In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

The Messenger

2008

Whisper If I Forget poster
7.3

An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.

Whisper If I Forget

2014

In Darkness poster
6.8

A 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

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 1 titles

Behind the camera

Alone poster
6.2

Alper is a renowned chef in his 30s at his own luxury restaurant. He lives an isolated life and spends his nights with one-night stands and paid intercourses. One day, his life changes utterly when his path crosses with Ada and gets enamored by her casual and modest outlook at life. As they start to get romantically involved, Alper must also overcome his chronic feeling of desolateness.

Alone

2008

Alone poster
6.2

Alper is a renowned chef in his 30s at his own luxury restaurant. He lives an isolated life and spends his nights with one-night stands and paid intercourses. One day, his life changes utterly when his path crosses with Ada and gets enamored by her casual and modest outlook at life. As they start to get romantically involved, Alper must also overcome his chronic feeling of desolateness.

Alone

2008

My Father and My Son poster
7.4

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

My Father and My Son

2005

My Father and My Son poster
7.4

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

My Father and My Son

2005

A Unique Life poster
5.8

A widowed housewife returns to college to complete her studies and embarks on a journey that gives her life new meaning.

A Unique Life

2015

The Messenger poster
5.6

In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

The Messenger

2008

The Messenger poster
5.6

In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

The Messenger

2008

Whisper If I Forget poster
7.3

An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.

Whisper If I Forget

2014

Whisper If I Forget poster
7.3

An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.

Whisper If I Forget

2014

In Darkness poster
6.8

A 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

In Darkness poster
6.8

A 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

My Grandfather's People poster
7.4

A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

My Grandfather's People

2011

My Grandfather's People poster
7.4

A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

My Grandfather's People

2011

Everything About Mustafa poster
6.7

A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.

Everything About Mustafa

2004

Everything About Mustafa poster
6.7

A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.

Everything About Mustafa

2004

Bana Şans Dile poster
6.1

Bahadır, an introverted, uncommunicative, clumsy high school student, wakes up one morning and decides to change the world. That morning, on his way to school, Bahadır takes his classmates hostage with a gun he has strapped to his waist, causing them to experience moments of fear. He asks them to recount the memories that have hurt them the most in their lives.

Bana Şans Dile

2002

Bana Şans Dile poster
6.1

Bahadır, an introverted, uncommunicative, clumsy high school student, wakes up one morning and decides to change the world. That morning, on his way to school, Bahadır takes his classmates hostage with a gun he has strapped to his waist, causing them to experience moments of fear. He asks them to recount the memories that have hurt them the most in their lives.

Bana Şans Dile

2002

...forever poster
7.3

Peter is a successful chef with an unstable emotional life and Zoi is a romantic girl who sews children's costumes. A passionate love affair begins, but the refusal of the first to commit seems like an insurmountable obstacle.

...forever

2020

Sevda: Mandatory Direction poster
8.0

It is about the journey of a famous actor to complete his unfinished story with his daughter.

Sevda: Mandatory Direction

2023

Sevda: Mandatory Direction poster
8.0

It is about the journey of a famous actor to complete his unfinished story with his daughter.

Sevda: Mandatory Direction

2023

Entrusted poster
5.5

'Çocuklar Sana Emanet' meaning 'Children's Safety to you" The story about an interior architect Kerem recovering from traumatic car accident then spends time with healer woman and people of a village. But It is full of mysteries, suspense & hope.

Entrusted

2018

Entrusted poster
5.5

'Çocuklar Sana Emanet' meaning 'Children's Safety to you" The story about an interior architect Kerem recovering from traumatic car accident then spends time with healer woman and people of a village. But It is full of mysteries, suspense & hope.

Entrusted

2018

Are We Ok? poster
6.3

Temmuz is an openly gay sculptor living at a flat with his dog in Istanbul. He lives a bohemian lifestyle and has a happy go lucky, carefree, eccentric (such as believing in good luck charms) character, frequently distracting him from his work as a children's book illustrator, and eventually leading him to be abandoned by his boyfriend via e-mail. He is given solace and affection by her wealthy mother, who is fully supportive of him, and best friend and co-worker, Beste. In the meantime, he keeps seeing a young man in his dreams, who repeatedly calls him for help and rescue. One day he runs into this guy while getting on the bus, who is accompanied by his mother, and helps them get into their home as the young man was born without limbs. From then on, two lives would collide into each other, starting a brotherhood full of discoveries and mutual help.

Are We Ok?

2013

Are We Ok? poster
6.3

Temmuz is an openly gay sculptor living at a flat with his dog in Istanbul. He lives a bohemian lifestyle and has a happy go lucky, carefree, eccentric (such as believing in good luck charms) character, frequently distracting him from his work as a children's book illustrator, and eventually leading him to be abandoned by his boyfriend via e-mail. He is given solace and affection by her wealthy mother, who is fully supportive of him, and best friend and co-worker, Beste. In the meantime, he keeps seeing a young man in his dreams, who repeatedly calls him for help and rescue. One day he runs into this guy while getting on the bus, who is accompanied by his mother, and helps them get into their home as the young man was born without limbs. From then on, two lives would collide into each other, starting a brotherhood full of discoveries and mutual help.

Are We Ok?

2013

Remember us poster
7.8

Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.

Remember us

2018

Remember us poster
7.8

Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.

Remember us

2018

Kabuslar Evi: Hayal-i Cihan poster
7.5

Cihan, who has been seeking a quiet house far from the city center, finds the mansion he needs at Sema Emlak, the well-known real estate agent of a village. After staying for a short time in the mansion, he realizes he is not alone there; the mansion also contains a specter. Fighting against the specter, he catches him. However, what is even more dreadful than the specter itself is the story of its own.

Kabuslar Evi: Hayal-i Cihan

2006

Kabuslar Evi: Hayal-i Cihan poster
7.5

Cihan, who has been seeking a quiet house far from the city center, finds the mansion he needs at Sema Emlak, the well-known real estate agent of a village. After staying for a short time in the mansion, he realizes he is not alone there; the mansion also contains a specter. Fighting against the specter, he catches him. However, what is even more dreadful than the specter itself is the story of its own.

Kabuslar Evi: Hayal-i Cihan

2006

Strawberry Cake poster
8.7

Onur is a pastry owner who passionately loves making pastries. He makes a strawberry cake everyday but he never sells it. He reserves that cake for the woman whom he will fall in love with. One day, famous actress Burcu Burkan visits his pastry shop for shooting a scene. This meeting gives them an opportunity to cross their paths with each other but Burcu has a secret.

Strawberry Cake

2000

Strawberry Cake poster
8.7

Onur is a pastry owner who passionately loves making pastries. He makes a strawberry cake everyday but he never sells it. He reserves that cake for the woman whom he will fall in love with. One day, famous actress Burcu Burkan visits his pastry shop for shooting a scene. This meeting gives them an opportunity to cross their paths with each other but Burcu has a secret.

Strawberry Cake

2000

Kabuslar Evi: Bir Kış Masalı poster
6.7

The theater actor, Gülseren, is unable to relieve the pain of her husband Hilmi and her daughter Melisa, which she lost as a result of an accident. As a result of the pressures and insistence of his surroundings, he moves away from his house in order to find peace and come to the Nightmares House. A woman in a shady costume, who comes across in unexpected moments while thinking that she is getting away from all her pain, turns her entire balance upside down. While trying to solve the mystery of this woman with the help of Realtor Sema, Gülseren has to confront her daughter and her husband, on the one hand, and to resist the instant loss of time. Is this woman an ambassador, as Gülseren argues, taking the lost souls away and taking them to where they belong? All the answers are hidden in this shady woman and time is decreasing from time to time, autumn leaves its place to a winter fairy tale.

Kabuslar Evi: Bir Kış Masalı

2007

Bana Old and Wise'ı Çal poster
6.8

A 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

Sleeping Princess poster
5.8

Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.

Sleeping Princess

2010

Sleeping Princess poster
5.8

Çağan Irmak's delightful new film is a fairy tale for the waking hour. Aziz works as a clerk in a library and lives in his own quiet and peaceful little world. Then one day he discovers that he has new neighbours: Seçil, the owner of the new opened local beauty shop and her 10 year-old daughter Gizem. Life for Aziz becomes much brighter and livelier but then something unexpected happens and darkness descends once again. A whole new set of events is set in motion as a bunch of memorable characters join together to try to change the course of fate. From the Diary of Aziz: There are those who say that fate cannot be changed, for if it could, it would not be fate. So be it. How hopeless we would feel if we had to live in a world where nothing could change. Don't you think so? It might just be that there will come a day when you will realize that something bad that happened to you happened for a reason and caused something better to come about. You never know.

Sleeping Princess

2010

From The Darkness poster
6.3

Kerem is going on vacation with his mother and sister. Kerem asks them to take a break on the road. When he returns, he cannot find his mother and brother. He waits for some sounds from the forest while he waits for his mother and brother to come. When he follows the voices and enters the forest, he finds himself in the Nightmare House. In the House of Nightmares awaits him from the Dark. Kerem will face his past and will want to correct what he has done.

From The Darkness

2007

Kabuslar Evi: Çarşamba Karısı poster
6.5

Sacide, accompanied by her son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, sets out on a journey. She is unaware that the house they have come to for vacation is the House of Nightmares; more importantly, she is unaware that this house is located in the town where she spent her childhood. A story she recalls during her journey through old memories confronts her with a cruel reality. The Wednesday Wife... But it is too late now... Sacide, trying to protect her family from the wrath of the Wednesday Wife, faces the danger of being lost in the darkness of her mind.

Kabuslar Evi: Çarşamba Karısı

2007

Kabuslar Evi: Çizgisiz Zamanlar poster
7.0

Sevil is one of the actresses of old Turkish movies that are now forgotten. As a result of the surprising offer he received at a time when he was hoping to work, he agreed for a new series of film projects. It is placed in the House of Nightmares in the town where the embankment is located. However, what he sees and sees in this house leads him step by step into the unused pool of the house. Will Sevil continue on her way with the big secret she discovered in the pool, or will she get her soul deserved freedom by listening to the voices coming through at the expense of losing the secret?

Kabuslar Evi: Çizgisiz Zamanlar

2007

Benim Adım Feridun poster
4.7

Ersan, who has been in a long-term relationship, has stopped showing interest in his girlfriend and being romantic. Enjoying the comfort of a long-term relationship, one day he is abandoned by his long-term girlfriend Ayla and is left feeling lost. Although he tries to win back the woman he loves for several weeks, his efforts are in vain. Ayla refuses to return. Realizing that he must accept the breakup, Ersan goes to the house where he spent his childhood in Erdek, hoping that a change of scenery will do him good. However, unable to find the solace he seeks there, Ersan notices a wedding nearby while walking along the beach. Ersan enters the wedding with the intention of leaving, but is mistaken for Feridun, the son of his brother who had fallen out with him years ago and moved to Germany, by the groom's father. At first pleased with this role, Ersan thinks he will escape at the first opportunity, but then he sees Hayal, the groom's cousin…

Benim Adım Feridun

2016

Benim Adım Feridun poster
4.7

Ersan, who has been in a long-term relationship, has stopped showing interest in his girlfriend and being romantic. Enjoying the comfort of a long-term relationship, one day he is abandoned by his long-term girlfriend Ayla and is left feeling lost. Although he tries to win back the woman he loves for several weeks, his efforts are in vain. Ayla refuses to return. Realizing that he must accept the breakup, Ersan goes to the house where he spent his childhood in Erdek, hoping that a change of scenery will do him good. However, unable to find the solace he seeks there, Ersan notices a wedding nearby while walking along the beach. Ersan enters the wedding with the intention of leaving, but is mistaken for Feridun, the son of his brother who had fallen out with him years ago and moved to Germany, by the groom's father. At first pleased with this role, Ersan thinks he will escape at the first opportunity, but then he sees Hayal, the groom's cousin…

Benim Adım Feridun

2016

Kabuslar Evi: Kaçan Fırsatlar Limited poster
6.4

Taner is a successful, wealthy, ambitious, and powerful businessman. His life, built on the pink lies he shares with his wife Filiz, is turned upside down by an advertisement he sees on television and in magazines. "Missed Opportunities Limited: Reclaiming the opportunities you’ve missed is no longer difficult!” Will Taner emerge profitable from the deal he enters into to reclaim the opportunities he’s missed, or will he fall victim to the schemes of Fuat Bey, the owner of Missed Opportunities Limited?

Kabuslar Evi: Kaçan Fırsatlar Limited

2006