Sinan Çetin

Directing

Sinan Çetin

Born

1953-03-01 (73)

Place of birth

Van, Turkey

Known for

Directing

Credits

55 titles

Sinan Çetin 1953 yılında Van'da dünyaya geldi, sanatçı 1970’li yıllarda resim ve fotoğraf alanında amatör çalışmalar yaptı. Sinemaya 1975 yılında Zeki Ökten’in çektiği Hanzo adlı filmde asistanlık yaparak başladı. Daha sonra yönetmen Şerif Gören ve Atıf Yılmaz ile birlikte çalıştı. 1977 yılında Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sanat tarihi bölümünden mezun oldu. Aynı yıl Baskın ve ardından Halı Türküsü adlı belgeselleri yönetti. 1980 yılında ilk uzun metrajlı filmi Bir Günün Hikayesi ni çekti ve bu film 1982 Antalya Film Festivali'nde En iyi yönetmen ödülüne layık görüldü. Daha sonra peş peşe Çiçek Abbas, 14 Numara, Çirkinler de Sever, Berlin in Berlin gibi ödüllü filmleri yönetti. Bu arada reklam fil…

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Pardon poster
7.4

Based on a true event, Pardon tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization. Ibrahim's fear of uniforms makes him runaway whenever he sees one. Because of this, police mistakes him with a terrorist and takes him and his friend Muzo into custody. Fooled by the police during the interrogation they name another friend, Aydin, in hope of saving themselves. As they all end up in prison, they remember the families and lovers they left behind.

Pardon

2005

Mr E. poster
3.0

A television news anchorman, İsmet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car. Trying to track down his wife, the anchorman finds himself trapped in a bizarre world in the midst of murderers, cops and beautiful women.

Mr E.

1995

Mr E. poster
3.0

A television news anchorman, İsmet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car. Trying to track down his wife, the anchorman finds himself trapped in a bizarre world in the midst of murderers, cops and beautiful women.

Mr E.

1995

Mr E. poster
3.0

A television news anchorman, İsmet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car. Trying to track down his wife, the anchorman finds himself trapped in a bizarre world in the midst of murderers, cops and beautiful women.

Mr E.

1995

Abbas in Flower poster
7.3

While working as an assistant to swindling driver Şakir, ingenuous Abbas falls for the same woman his boss loves.

Abbas in Flower

1982

Yıldız Tepe poster
7.0

Due to the war in Bosnia, Sevgi is sent by her family to live with relatives on a desolate hill in Anatolia, where she receives a very cold welcome. There is a strange tension among the inhabitants of the house. Sevgi begins to investigate the cause of the screams she hears at night. Meanwhile, she has fallen secretly in love with the eldest son of the house.

Yıldız Tepe

2000

Propaganda poster
6.6

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.

Propaganda

1999

Propaganda poster
6.6

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.

Propaganda

1999

Propaganda poster
6.6

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.

Propaganda

1999

Commissioner Shakespeare poster
5.7

After fainting in a school rehearsal, little Su is diagnosed with leukemia. As a result she is forced to give up the Snow White role she wanted so badly. Police Chief Cemil decides to stage the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at his oppressive police station. He hopes to win a TV competition in order to save his dying daughter.

Commissioner Shakespeare

2001

Okul poster
4.0

The film revolves around a young group of spoiled teenagers and their struggle to prepare for the standardized test required to get into university. All of a sudden a ghost enters their lives, scares and incites them to misbehave.

Okul

2004

Paper poster
4.9

A moviemaker hands in a script for an arty production in order to receive film funds. Due to political reasons beyond his reach, his film is not provided with a certificate of accreditation. But a true moviemaker never gives up.

Paper

2011

Paper poster
4.9

A moviemaker hands in a script for an arty production in order to receive film funds. Due to political reasons beyond his reach, his film is not provided with a certificate of accreditation. But a true moviemaker never gives up.

Paper

2011

Plajda poster
3.9

Cem and Ali, two buddies, find themselves in the middle of a mafia showdown at a party where they are DJing. Not knowing what to do, the pair try to escape by putting on women's clothes they find in the costume room. But a perverted member of the mafia takes them to a resort and holds them captive, and the pair suddenly find themselves working as entertainers at a hotel. During their first attempt to escape the hotel, they see 20 girls who have come to the hotel for a beauty pageant and are stunned. They don't want to leave this paradise-like environment. But flirting with girls and living as women is difficult. Even when they try to escape from the hotel a second time, the duo, who have fallen in love with Cansu and Ebru from the TV crew, stay at the hotel. Meanwhile, the mafia also arrives at the hotel.

Plajda

2008

Romantic poster
4.7

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokhan frames his best friend Omer for a murder, subsequently Omer must leave the country.

Romantic

2007

Romantic poster
4.7

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokhan frames his best friend Omer for a murder, subsequently Omer must leave the country.

Romantic

2007

Romantic poster
4.7

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokhan frames his best friend Omer for a murder, subsequently Omer must leave the country.

Romantic

2007

Çanakkale Çocukları poster
2.6

The film, which focuses on the theme of brotherhood and the futility of war, tells the story of two enemy brothers facing each other on two separate fronts. The film, which contains messages aimed at mothers who do not want to lose their children, features Sinan Çetin's children, Orfeo (Osman) and Cemo (James).

Çanakkale Çocukları

2011

Ay Lav Yu poster
5.0

Mukhtar Yusuf Ağa’s unregistered village in eastern Anatolia has been championed through letters to government officials, and his lost son İbrahim, rescued and registered by Father Hana, is finally returning at age 30 with his American love Jessica; the question is whether Tinne can become their true homeland.

Ay Lav Yu

2010

The Kid poster
2.7

The story follows our hero, nicknamed "Child," who was kidnapped at a young age and fell into the hands of a gang of thieves. When he meets "Rüya" (Tuba Ünsal), who hates children but hosts a children's program on a special TV channel, a series of complicated events unfold for both sides. Our child hero is one of the most successful thieves in the gang. The reason for his theft is that for every 30,000 YTL he steals, the gang returns one child to their family.

The Kid

2008

American Girl poster
1.0

A college teenager encounters love while being thrown in the harsh but poetic wind of his dreams. Even though he tries to resist, love has now taken over him. Is his passion for photography and his American love, Jenny, an obstacle to the revolution? Is life strong enough to break down this hard wall? A lament to the lost generation of an era through the great love of Rüzgar.

American Girl

2018

Aşk Beklemez poster
NR

A socialite writer, who has problems with her daughter, meets a handsome man at the resort where she came for a book promotion.

Aşk Beklemez

2006

Story of a Day poster
7.0

Mustafa, has to marry his brother's widowed wife as per the customs. However, the young man is in love with his new wife's sister Zeynep. Mustafa's friend Nizam is also in love with Zeynep.

Story of a Day

1980

Story of a Day poster
7.0

Mustafa, has to marry his brother's widowed wife as per the customs. However, the young man is in love with his new wife's sister Zeynep. Mustafa's friend Nizam is also in love with Zeynep.

Story of a Day

1980

İnanç Odası poster
4.0

4 youngsters in an illegal cell house are in preparation of a huge protest with a suicide bomb. 2 hours before the bombing, they kidnapped a bagel seller suspecting that he was a cop which lead them to quest ionize their own faith.

İnanç Odası

2013

Berlin in Berlin poster
6.0

A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband.

Berlin in Berlin

1993

Berlin in Berlin poster
6.0

A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband.

Berlin in Berlin

1993

Berlin in Berlin poster
6.0

A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the husband.

Berlin in Berlin

1993

Fosforlu Cevriye poster
NR

A lively film about Galata's notorious prostitute, Fosforlu Cevriye, who had endured a life of suffering, taking in a wounded man she met in the boat where she was hiding from the police, nursing him back to health in her home, and then falling in love with him.

Fosforlu Cevriye

2000

Number 14 poster
4.5

Yaprak is just one of thousands of young women, who leave their quiet village lives behind them to seek their fortune in Istanbul. But the reality of life in a big city is harsh, and Yaprak is forced to take a job in one of the cities licensed brothels. Her beauty and youth make her popular with the patrons and she is soon the focus of the attention of two men; Necmi, a spineless but well meaning young man, and Arab, a deranged pimp who has recently lost his main source of income, his wife Zargana. Necmi wants to take Yaprak away from her nightmare existence, but soon finds himself forced to separate from her by the viscous Arab. Arab spends all of Yaprak's money, but after a savage attack on her, she comes to her senses. She and Necmi get married and as Yaprak says farewell to her friends in the brothel, Arab returns for the last time to seek his brutal revenge...

Number 14

1985

Number 14 poster
4.5

Yaprak is just one of thousands of young women, who leave their quiet village lives behind them to seek their fortune in Istanbul. But the reality of life in a big city is harsh, and Yaprak is forced to take a job in one of the cities licensed brothels. Her beauty and youth make her popular with the patrons and she is soon the focus of the attention of two men; Necmi, a spineless but well meaning young man, and Arab, a deranged pimp who has recently lost his main source of income, his wife Zargana. Necmi wants to take Yaprak away from her nightmare existence, but soon finds himself forced to separate from her by the viscous Arab. Arab spends all of Yaprak's money, but after a savage attack on her, she comes to her senses. She and Necmi get married and as Yaprak says farewell to her friends in the brothel, Arab returns for the last time to seek his brutal revenge...

Number 14

1985

Gökyüzü poster
7.0

A film director dreams of 2 young people in love. But the girl's father interferes with the director's dream and tries to prevent this love. The director resists the entanglement and does not change the story.

Gökyüzü

1986

Gökyüzü poster
7.0

A film director dreams of 2 young people in love. But the girl's father interferes with the director's dream and tries to prevent this love. The director resists the entanglement and does not change the story.

Gökyüzü

1986

Paris'in Sırrı poster
NR

The film tells the story of Sırrı Derman, who thinks he'll act in a commercial with Paris Hilton. Sırrı Derman, who played in an advertisement directed by Sinan Çetin years ago, learns that Çetin cast him in an commercial he'll shoot with Paris Hilton. The director's assistant made a wrong call and called Sırrı Derman instead of the famous actor Sırrı Ferman. Sırrı Derman thinks that he casted for shooting an commercial with Paris Hilton, and this is a sign that he is destined to marry Paris Hilton. The arrival of both Sırrı to the area where the shootings will take place causes confusion.

Paris'in Sırrı

2019

Prenses poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prenses

1987

Prenses poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prenses

1987

Be Happy, It's an Order! poster
1.0

A humorous parody addressed to the Turkish regime and its attempt to control people’s way of life by imposing standards on how to have a good time and achieve a perfect state of happiness.

Be Happy, It's an Order!

2008

Be Happy, It's an Order! poster
1.0

A humorous parody addressed to the Turkish regime and its attempt to control people’s way of life by imposing standards on how to have a good time and achieve a perfect state of happiness.

Be Happy, It's an Order!

2008

Ölüm Yolculuğu poster
NR

İlkay and Selçuk are an unhappy married couple. While traveling to the Turkish Riviera for a short vacation, they encounter a hitchhiker.

Ölüm Yolculuğu

1995

No artwork available
8.0

Nesrin and Leyla are twins who love the same man. But the two sisters are complete opposites. Leyla is introverted, serious, and keeps her feelings to herself. Nesrin, on the other hand, is the exact opposite; she is outgoing, lively, and wears her heart on her sleeve.

Artık Sevmeyeceğim

2000