Ümit Çırak

Acting

Ümit Çırak

Born

1969-01-01 (57)

Place of birth

Izmir, Turkey

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Family Secrets poster
8.7

Ceylin is a fierce, rule-bending defence attorney whose father was wrongly imprisoned — for her, justice always comes before the law. Ilgaz is a by-the-book prosecutor who believes the two are the same thing. When his brother is accused of murder, he has no choice but to go to her for help. What follows is a gripping cat-and-mouse legal thriller built on brilliant opposing chemistry — winner of the International Emmy for Best Telenovela in 2023.

Family Secrets

2021

Halef poster
7.4

A successful Istanbul surgeon who escaped his traditional Urfa roots is forced to return home when his family demands he assume leadership as agha and marry Yildiz to end a decades-long feud. Already secretly married to Melek, he becomes trapped between two women, two worlds, and a web of family obligations. As buried secrets surface, love, duty, and revenge collide inside a deeply divided and tradition-bound family.

Halef

2025

Wounded Love poster
8.0

Azize finds herself with her 3 children and mother-in-law in a difficult fight. She raises her children while fighting the difficulties of the war period and her husband's absence whom she loves more than anything. It's about war, love, greed, treason and sacrifice.

Wounded Love

2016

Shahmaran poster
6.7

In this fantasy drama series, a lonely young woman finds her soul mate and discovers they are both part of an ancient legend.

Shahmaran

2023

Super Dad poster
8.5

A family father struggles in maintaining lifelong relationships with three of his growing children ,after he divorced with his wife. In the unique Çengelköy district Fikret struggles with life, beside love, pain, hope.

Super Dad

1993

Yeditepe Istanbul poster
8.7

When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay starts to look for a job. Without any degree or experience, she tries to survive doing all sorts of odd jobs. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are completely different from the people in Olcay's old world, begin to get to like the mother and daughter. Some even fall in love.

Yeditepe Istanbul

2001

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

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

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

Hayalet: 3 Yaşam poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hayalet: 3 Yaşam

2020

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

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

Uncle: The Story of a Man poster
5.9

Sent away by his exasperated family to work for the village coffeehouse owner Seyfi in Istanbul, the brave, compassionate, and justice-driven young hero is drawn into the city’s underworld of toughs.

Uncle: The Story of a Man

2021

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

Roza poster
NR

Follows a family who migrates to Mersin as seasonal workers.

Roza

2023

Sacrifice poster
NR

There have been intense clashes between security forces and separatist terrorist elements on the southeastern border of our country for years. İbrahim’s only son İsmail, in his late forties, is doing his compulsory military service in this region and has 20 days left until his military service ends. Under these conditions, İbrahim, an asthmatic, lives in an old, dilapidated village house with his father İsmail. While he is dealing with a wild animal that is haunting his chickens and eggs, his only source of income, he also wants to hospitalize his father for treatment. Lack of money has caused a rift between him and his wife, and has left him unable to even buy a school notebook for his daughter.

Sacrifice

2023

2010s · 12 titles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O Kul: Hayal Bile Etme poster
NR

Selim is a cruel father with a bigoted personality, whose occupation is unknown. He cannot accept his own daughter because she was born a girl. Ayşe was kept under house arrest by her cruel father until she reached school age. When her backward-thinking father refused to send her to school, Ayşe's misfortune reached a new level. Even when she starts school, her father's beatings leave her unable to breathe. Ayşe's life is now a living hell. Although finishing elementary school and starting high school triggers the same negative reactions from her father Selim, Ayşe continues her education at a school near her home. Finally, the university entrance exams come around. During this process, Ayşe's father, Selim, believes that Ayşe has studied enough. According to Selim, the time for marriage has long passed. Therefore, he believes that she should marry a suitable young man as soon as possible and is also calculating the dowry.

O Kul: Hayal Bile Etme

2010

Taş Mektep poster
5.2

Symbolizing the turning point occurred in the Battle of Sakarya in Turkish-Greek War, tells one of the most moving stories.

Taş Mektep

2012

Bir Şey Değilim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bir Şey Değilim

2016

2000s · 12 titles

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

Where's Firuze? poster
7.2

Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to promote Ferhat's debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always what they seem...

Where's Firuze?

2004

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

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

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

Elephants and Grass poster
6.6

Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.

Elephants and Grass

2000

Babam Büfe poster
NR

Salim, a doorman with two children, plans a scam with Korcan, a news cameraman who lives in the apartment building, in order to provide a better life for his wife Türkan, whom he loves so much that he still writes poetry for her. They will shoot fake action news stories with Salim in the "lead role" and pass them off as real on television, pocketing the money they earn. The plan works, and the operation begins to grow. Salim becomes a shoplifter at the grocery store and a pickpocket on the street, while Korcan films and sells the footage. However, Türkan’s pregnancy and a vigilant channel manager begin to disrupt the flow of life.

Babam Büfe

2009

Mud poster
6.4

Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager. He would like to confess about the bodies buried in the muddy patch of a dried-up salt lake, but fear holds him back from even going there. Ali participates in Temel's UN projects aimed at defusing tension between Cyprus' Greek and Turkish communities....

Mud

2003

Adam and the Devil poster
5.6

Imam 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

Lodos poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lodos

2009

House of Nightmares: Sleepwalkers poster
6.0

Tolga is a science-fiction writer who has never been able to achieve the success of his first book. The signature day of his last book also results in a fiasco. Tolga, who has become a depressed soul, also fights with his lover Ebru and is abandoned. Tolga comes to the Nightmare House, which is far from the crowd of the city, hoping to listen to herself and to catch the muse again. Here, when he wakes up in the morning, the fatigue he does not make sense and some strange events he encounters drag Tolga into the chaos he cannot get out of. The fierce struggle confronts a father and son. Are the dream thieves two vampires, or two souls trapped in different universes and sizes, in the words of this father-son Tolga?

House of Nightmares: Sleepwalkers

2007

Martılar Açken poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Martılar Açken

2003

1990s · 4 titles

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 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

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

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

Series credits

Family Secrets poster
8.7

Ceylin is a fierce, rule-bending defence attorney whose father was wrongly imprisoned — for her, justice always comes before the law. Ilgaz is a by-the-book prosecutor who believes the two are the same thing. When his brother is accused of murder, he has no choice but to go to her for help. What follows is a gripping cat-and-mouse legal thriller built on brilliant opposing chemistry — winner of the International Emmy for Best Telenovela in 2023.

Family Secrets

2021

Halef poster
7.4

A successful Istanbul surgeon who escaped his traditional Urfa roots is forced to return home when his family demands he assume leadership as agha and marry Yildiz to end a decades-long feud. Already secretly married to Melek, he becomes trapped between two women, two worlds, and a web of family obligations. As buried secrets surface, love, duty, and revenge collide inside a deeply divided and tradition-bound family.

Halef

2025

Wounded Love poster
8.0

Azize finds herself with her 3 children and mother-in-law in a difficult fight. She raises her children while fighting the difficulties of the war period and her husband's absence whom she loves more than anything. It's about war, love, greed, treason and sacrifice.

Wounded Love

2016

Shahmaran poster
6.7

In this fantasy drama series, a lonely young woman finds her soul mate and discovers they are both part of an ancient legend.

Shahmaran

2023

Super Dad poster
8.5

A family father struggles in maintaining lifelong relationships with three of his growing children ,after he divorced with his wife. In the unique Çengelköy district Fikret struggles with life, beside love, pain, hope.

Super Dad

1993

Yeditepe Istanbul poster
8.7

When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay starts to look for a job. Without any degree or experience, she tries to survive doing all sorts of odd jobs. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are completely different from the people in Olcay's old world, begin to get to like the mother and daughter. Some even fall in love.

Yeditepe Istanbul

2001

Bandits poster
8.8

Kandemir is the head of a gang which conducts robberies. Their main goal is to rob fairly. What connects the members of the gang to one another is friendship. Unfortunately, everything changes after an old friend of Kandemir, Ali Rıza Kaptan’s goes to prison. Kandemir and the gang settle into an old neighborhood which seems quiet and peaceful. However, nothing is as how it seems in the neighborhood. They introduce themselves to their neighbors as the Nevizade family. Protagonists Kandemir, Ferdi, Karlos, Yaren, Bahadır and Derya have had hard times and when they gather under one roof these gang members still carry the traces of those hard times. Kandemir wishes to confront his daughter and show her that he is no longer a man of monkey business, while blood brothers Ferdi and Karlos who ran away from an orphanage still carry the misery of the streets; Yaren who came to İstanbul with the hope of being a famous singer is singing in taverns; Bahadır uses his genius for hacking computers and Derya joins the gang with her acting skills in order to save her father.

Bandits

2014

Barbaroslar poster
8.0

Barbaroslar: Sword of the Mediterranean will take viewers on a historic journey across the Ottoman Empire based on the life of 16th-century Ottoman admiral "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and the adventures of four brothers who become seafarers. The drama series retells this adventure through the stories of four brothers; Ishak, Oruc, Hizir, and Ilyas, fighting high tides and the secrets of the seas. It focuses on their pursuit of a holy secret with the help of Master Suleyman, and during the course of their journey, they make enemies in, Pietro; the Pope's hand reaching out to the Mediterranean who is also pursuing the secret and organizes an attack against their ship. But this doesn't stop the brothers and they continue their original quest to find the holy secret all the while fighting their enemies at high tides.

Barbaroslar

2021

The Rose and the Thorn poster
8.0

Events occurred in Turkey in late seventies and early eighties.

The Rose and the Thorn

2004

Sidika poster
7.9

Sidika 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

Girls Dormitory poster
5.0

Zeynep relatives come to the land of Fikriye and win the love of the girls with purity. Ati, Zafer and Umutcan decide to keep the house overlooking the Girls Dorm. Men are living inside while girls are strolling in the yard. Insurances and electricity are cut off during the downturn. The plumber Ozgur, who is admired by all the girls, is called to dorm.

Girls Dormitory

2006

Başrolde Aşk poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Başrolde Aşk

2011

Dayı poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Dayı

2004

Güneydoğu'dan Öyküler: Önce Vatan poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Güneydoğu'dan Öyküler: Önce Vatan

2010

İbret-i Ailem poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

İbret-i Ailem

2012