Ümit Çırak

Acting

Ümit Çırak

Born 1969-01-01 · Izmir, Turkey

Acting credits

The Storm poster
7.7

Cemal comes to Istanbul from a small Kurdish town after finishing high-school to pursue higher education. He feels isolated and out of place in the crowded city and soon meets a group Kurdish students who are against the repressive Turkish political system.

The Storm

2008

Innocence poster
7.6

Yusuf 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

Tin poster
4.0

A sick musician comes across a homeless boy at the traffic lights. Decides to make a change in his and the boys life.

Tin

2010

Roza poster
NR

Follows a family who migrates to Mersin as seasonal workers.

Roza

2023

Snow poster
5.8

Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her during winter break, everyone's life is tested, each with different consequences.

Snow

2017

Halam Geldi poster
7.2

On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”

Halam Geldi

2014

The Visitor poster
5.8

Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death's door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father's world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.

The Visitor

2016

Red Snow poster
5.0

Yusuf served nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. When he returns home, he sees that his wife, who was pregnant at the time of jail, left home. While searching for his wife and child in the snowy town, he also tracks the events that happened to him. This journey, which alternates between the past and the present and becomes complicated as we ask questions, will reach places that Yusuf could not even imagine, and will change his life irrevocably.

Red Snow

2020

The Bandit poster
7.3

The film tells the story of a group of bandits captured in the Cudi Mountains 35 years ago. All of them have died, either from illness or vendettas; only Baran (Şener Şen) survives. After serving his 35-year sentence, Baran is released from Viranşehir Prison and learns that his birthplace is now submerged under the waters of a dam. Ceren Ana (Zübeyde Erden) tells him about the past. Baran is imprisoned because of the betrayal of his old friend Berfo (Kamran Usluer). Berfo stole the bandits gold, bought his childhood love Keje (Sermin Hürmeriç) from her father, and fled to Istanbul. While Baran is searching for Keje, he encounters a young man named Cumali (Uğur Yücel). These two men find solace in each other to avoid being swept away by the storms of the big city. And in this world where violence, betrayal, passion, boundless love and hatred intertwine, they try to survive.

The Bandit

1996

While Time Flows poster
NR

After coming out of a long relationship, Alper is searching for a fresh start but finds himself in a moral conflict following an unexpected incident at work.

While Time Flows

2024

Secret poster
5.4

Mahir, a musician renowned with his proud personality, has been having a secret romantic relationship with her daughter’s friend Duru. Duru’s father Ali is a traditional, family-oriented man. Mahir and Duru drift apart in their fear while Ali is just about to learn of their secret relationship.

Secret

2015

Dark Blue Night poster
NR

Dark Blue Night tells the story of the socio-economic distress of the low-income working class in Turkey. Semih, pursues his dream of becoming a footballer, unlike his friends who become miners. Unable to find a job in a club, he starts having difficulties, falls into deep credit debt. Married and having a daughter, Semih’s only pillar is his father Kazım, a retired miner and union representative. Although his father forbade him due to having been lost his other son in a mine accident, he starts to work as miner. Soon after Semih loses his arm during an accident. The mine owners offer to pay blood money. Semih first leans towards this idea that everybody else accepts, with the death of his father, his mind is changed. His unstable mood also causes conflicts with his wife. She leaves home. On the one hand, Semih pursues his legal struggle and on the other, he works hard to get his family back.

Dark Blue Night

2021

The Third Page poster
7.0

Isa is blamed for a robbery. He is badly beaten and given twenty four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun.

The Third Page

1999

The Messenger poster
5.7

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

Çakal poster
6.9

Akın's life, who lived with a father he didn't like and a sick mother, changed after he lost his mother. He plans to start a new life with the money he steals from the carpentry workshop where he works. When his girlfriend Deniz dismisses this dream as ridiculous and leaves him, he accepts an offer from his friend İdris. This offer involves working as a foot soldier for a mafia group.

Çakal

2010

Eve Giden Yol 1914 poster
4.4

During the years when World War I began to turn the Ottoman Empire's territories into a war zone, the pain of a great love story that unfolded in southeastern Anatolia and present-day Syria burned as fiercely as the war itself in the hearts of those involved. Mahmut leaves his home, abandoning everything—including the person he loves—because he refuses to commit murder. After being caught up in the relentless war raging across Anatolian lands and fighting for years in the struggle for liberation, he sets out to return home. His sole desire is to reunite with the one he was forced to leave behind and to seek revenge for the injustice he suffered years ago.

Eve Giden Yol 1914

2006

Gece poster
4.0

A family forcibly displaced from their village struggles to stay together when Süsen, the daughter of an already broken home, defies her kin to marry her childhood love Yusuf. As her father and brother abandon the family and marriage fails to bring the dreamed-of salvation, Süsen and Yusuf must confront mounting responsibilities and learn to adapt, or risk losing each other entirely.

Gece

2014

Müsaadenizle Büyükler poster
NR

A group of children decide to do something for the dogs they found in the forest abandoned by their owners. The children start feeding the dogs secretly and try to make a warm home for them. While the children are trying to keep their cute friends alive, people who are evil for them have also taken action. A group of malicious people are trying to destroy animals. Children must stop those who try to harm animals no matter what. The children who come together to prevent them are supported by the site's security manager, Hakan, in their difficult struggle. Will the children, who embark on a challenging and fantastic adventure, be able to protect their cute friends from malicious people?

Müsaadenizle Büyükler

2018

Hain poster
NR

With its intriguing chess-like plot, Hain explores the scheming world of those in power who consider themselves "chosen" in Turkey and around the world. The seemingly unshakeable order of this powerful group is destroyed by female heroes, and the revenge-filled story is brought to the big screen with cinematic magic.

Hain

2024

Hayalet: 3 Yaşam poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hayalet: 3 Yaşam

2020

Long Time Ago poster
4.7

Ahmet is married to Sevgi who runs a hair salon in town and their marriage has not been on track for some time. Ahmet suspects his wife has been cheating on him. Ahmet’s in secure and anxious state reaches its peak when he notices a foreigner in town. One midnight, at an old gas station out of town… Mehmet’s phone rings. Ahmet is at the end of the line, panicked and in fear. Mehmet realizes that he has no choice to help his brother. In this long and dark night, the two siblings unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of a homicide they have committed.

Long Time Ago

2019

Leoparın Kuyruğu poster
9.0

A tense film based on five university students who take refuge in an electrical substation with an American soldier they have kidnapped, and the ensuing shootout between them as a result of mistakes and incompetence, after which events spiral out of control.

Leoparın Kuyruğu

1998

Fog and Night poster
7.2

Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy "family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession, not a big talker or well in expressing his feelings, Sedat is being consumed, going through the hardest time of his life, not able to silence his guilty conscience because he was unsuccessful in solving the murder of his partner, whom he saw as a brother. His faith in his organization is shaken as he witnesses the schemes in machination inside the organization and between the organization and the state. Meanwhile, while trying to find his lover who has disappeared after falling for a former militant, he does not refrain from making use of the filthiest methods of his profession.

Fog and Night

2007

Aşkın Dünkü Çocukları poster
NR

Askin 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