Kadir İnanır

Acting

Kadir İnanır

Born — Died

1949-04-15 — 2026-06-26

Place of birth

Fatsa, Ordu, Türkiye

Known for

Acting

Credits

78 titles

Kadir İnanır (15 April 1949 - 26 June 2026) was a Turkish film actor and director. İnanır was born on 15 April 1949 in Fatsa, a town in Ordu province of Turkey. He acted in 43 films since 1967 and appeared on television in Bütün Çocuklarım as Ali Yahya Kiroglu in 2004. In the Turkish movie industry (Yeşilçam) he has often portrayed the tough, macho guy, fighting against injustice. Kadir İnanır and Türkan Şoray are one of the most famous partners of Yeşilçam Turkish cinema. During a 2013 visit to Kosovo, İnanır had a meeting with the Kosovan Minister of Culture Memli Krasniqi who was encouraging cultural and cinematographical cooperation between Kosovo and Turkey. İnanır said that he encour…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Opening the Door poster
5.4

Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, whom they lost twenty-five years ago. All the suffering of the family is refreshed. Yakup and Şemsa go to Mardin with their grandchildren, Nardin, who do not want to leave them alone. This trip will be the beginning of all their personal journeys. When the craftsman Yakup, who had not come for years, abandoned his village and saw his house looted; He will go after his house door. On his journey of finding the door, he will be accompanied by her granddaughter Nardin and the smuggler Remzi.

Opening the Door

2019

We Hit The Road poster
9.0

Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

We Hit The Road

2014

Ünye de Fatsa Arası poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ünye de Fatsa Arası

2011

Farewell Katya poster
6.6

When Katya leaves the orphanage in Batumi learns that she is the daughter of a sailor named Yunus who lives in a conservative neighborhood in Trabzon. Yunus, who had been unaware that he had a daughter.

Farewell Katya

2012

1990s · 6 titles

Aldatacağım poster
9.0

Savaş is a wealthy businessman who takes from the rich and gives to the poor, distinguishing between the righteous and the unjust. The extent of his wealth and land holdings is unknown. However, this power makes his enemies salivate, which is why he stands out so much in the underworld. But Savaş does not compromise on this and helps every oppressed person who seeks refuge with him, fighting against the mafia.

Aldatacağım

1991

Fight poster
6.0

Kemal, a well-known bully, confronts Kasif, who manages the drug traffic and wants to do business in Turkey, and others, who want to do cocaine business with him.

Fight

1990

Umut Hep Vardı poster
7.0

The struggle of Kiraz, who is a midwife in a poor, backward Anatolian village.

Umut Hep Vardı

1991

Eskici ve Oğulları poster
NR

The film depicts the struggles of a poor family. A father who repairs shoes works alongside his two sons. The father wants his eldest son, Mehmet, to find another job. Mehmet decides to work as a cotton picker with his wife and children. Ali, the younger son who cannot get along with his father, also begins working with them. The father suggests that they all work together to pool their money and then renovate the shop. Upon this, the entire family goes to pick cotton. However, things will not go as planned for the family embarking on this new venture.

Eskici ve Oğulları

1990

Women's Ward poster
6.9

Murat 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

Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde poster
8.2

In the sequel to Tatar Ramazan, the events begin with Ramazan's arrival at the Adana closed prison. Abdurrahman Çavuş, who has established a feudal system in prison for years, and his right-hand man Akseli Bey have oppressed the prisoners. When Tatar Ramazan's reputation reaches the prison, the two worry that the cycle of robbery will come to an end. Their fears are justified. The oppressed prisoners, however, see Ramazan as their savior.

Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde

1992

1980s · 18 titles

Revenge of the Snakes poster
8.2

Kara Bayram is a poor farmer living in a Turkish village with his wife, 3 kids (4th on the way) and his old mother Irazca Ana. They live on their own until another villager, Haceli who is backed up by the Mukhtar (local administrator of the Village) starts to build a new house right in front of their's. Kara Bayram and Irazca Ana do not accept these uninvited neighboors from the first day and unwanted events start right away.

Revenge of the Snakes

1985

Acılar Paylaşılmaz poster
3.8

This Turkish movie introduces a father who tries to discourage his homosexual son and associates homosexuality with paternal issues.

Acılar Paylaşılmaz

1989

A Broken Love Story poster
6.1

Fuat is forced into an "advantegeous" marriage to a rich girl due to his family financial lowness. He, however loves another, Aysel. After he loses his best friend, Bedri, to suicide, he rebels against the system with heartbreaking results.

A Broken Love Story

1982

Yarın Ağlayacağım poster
NR

A man whose life is in difficulties becomes a prosecutor, but he has problems with his wife due to a wrong marriage, and in the meantime he gets close to a journalist.

Yarın Ağlayacağım

1986

Seyyid poster
NR

The film tells the story of Seyyid, who is trying to build a new life after being released from prison. Seyyid has just been released from prison, where he was sent because of a blood feud. His enemies are waiting for an opportunity to kill him. Having escaped his enemies, Seyyid comes to Istanbul and starts working as a carpenter. He leads a quiet and solitary life. One day, he meets Sedef at a nightclub. This encounter quickly turns into love. The couple will fight to leave their enemies behind and start a new life together.

Seyyid

1985

Yedi Uyuyanlar poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yedi Uyuyanlar

1988

Filim Bitti poster
NR

At the edge of divorcing each other, two movie stars are asked to star as passionate lovers in the same movie. In their last movie together, they have to experience something that is just the opposite of their real life. Both sides of life displayed: Continuous fighting in real life and a big love story on the film set.

Filim Bitti

1989

Yaz Bitti poster
4.0

Zeneps boyfriend Savas is very interested in sports. He wants to be a coach fot ht volley ball team.

Yaz Bitti

1985

Dikenli Yol poster
NR

The film tells the story of a political criminal after his release from prison. Hüseyin is sent to prison for a crime he committed while he was a university student. His fiancée's brother, Yadigar, is also wanted for the same crime. Hüseyin sends Yadigar to his brother Aziz's house for help. However, while helping Yadigar, Aziz is shot and killed. Years later, a pardon is issued, and Hüseyin is released from prison. Upon returning home, Hüseyin will try to rebuild his life.

Dikenli Yol

1986

You Sing Your Songs poster
6.7

The film tells the story of Hayri's experiences after his release from prison following the September 12 coup. Hayri, who was imprisoned during the coup, is released after serving his sentence. However, he finds that many things have changed since his release. His old friends have lost the values they once fought for, and some have become famous businessmen. Hayri struggles to accept this change in his fellow activists. Unable to adapt to his surroundings, he will go to Konya to serve his exile sentence.

You Sing Your Songs

1986

A Sip of Love poster
6.6

Aygül 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

Ateşdağlı poster
6.0

After he was released from prison, the young man who was exiled to Çeşme fell in love with a girl there. Meanwhile, there is a bully who follows the young man and wants to kill him. the young man was caught between two events.

Ateşdağlı

1985

Küçüğüm poster
6.0

A man suffering from depression after his wife's death gets closer to his daughter's friend.

Küçüğüm

1987

Oh Beautiful Istanbul poster
6.2

Kamil, who earns his living as a long-distance truck driver, falls in love with Cevahir, whom he meets at a brothel he visits with his friends, and rents a house for her. Their goal is to get married. However, their financial situation is not sufficient for such a marriage. Kamil accepts a friend's offer to engage in smuggling in order to build a better life.

Oh Beautiful Istanbul

1981

Aşkların En Güzeli poster
9.0

The marriage of a couple from different economic classes will not work. Years later, the mother will take action to take custody of her child.

Aşkların En Güzeli

1982

72. Koğuş poster
7.2

A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.

72. Koğuş

1987

Scenes of Tide poster
6.5

Two passionate lovers who can neither live together nor apart and who are increasingly consumed by each other allow this toxic relationship to make them lose control of their lives.

Scenes of Tide

1989

Bir Bey'in Oğlu poster
6.0

The film tells the story of a young man who moves to Istanbul and falls in love. Bekir, the son of the richest man in Çukurova, is pro-industrialization. He convinces his father to sell part of their land. He takes his cousin İskender with him and moves to Istanbul. He becomes a partner in his fellow countryman Serhat's factories and wins new contracts. He falls into conflict with Ferit, the factory owner who is his biggest rival in his new business, and Ferit's daughter Leyla. This conflict between the two companies ends when Bekir falls in love with Leyla. However, his clan will try to prevent this relationship.

Bir Bey'in Oğlu

1988

1970s · 25 titles

The Girl with the Red Scarf poster
7.7

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

The Girl with the Red Scarf

1977

Love of Giant poster
6.7

Reunion of two former lovers brings the end to the society they are part of through hate through revenge and through bloodshed, especially when the lovers were obliged to stand against their associates and families.

Love of Giant

1976

The Forgotten Woman poster
9.0

Zeynep, a member of a gang of professional thieves, is tasked with seducing the chosen victims. The new victim of the group is Kenan Hanoglu, a composer.

The Forgotten Woman

1971

No artwork available
NR

No description

Silahlara Veda

1976

The Earthquake poster
7.2

Directed by Serif Gören.

The Earthquake

1976

Kara Gözlüm poster
6.8

Azize, who sells fish with her father, is discovered by a bar owner with her beautiful voice. She becomes a famous singer in a short time with the anonymous compositions and even gets a movie offer from Hollywood. However, nothing goes as planned for Azize. She is forced to choose between her love and her dreams.

Kara Gözlüm

1970

Utanç poster
3.3

A woman who has been raped disappears.

Utanç

1972

Evlidir Ne Yapsa Yeridir poster
7.0

Story of three married couples living in the same apartment.

Evlidir Ne Yapsa Yeridir

1978

Paprika Gaddar'ın Aşkı poster
NR

Kadir is a vagrant gambler. One night, when luck is on his side, he sees Paprika, a gypsy girl, at the casino. He gives Paprika all the money he has won. However, when he gets into a fight with those who are harassing Paprika, the course of the night changes. Kadir is stabbed in the fight. A casino owner finds Kadir by chance and takes him to singer Lale's house to recover. Lale falls in love with Kadir the moment she sees him. But Kadir's heart belongs to Paprika. When Kadir recovers and becomes a partner in the casino, Paprika also starts working with them. However, achieving happiness will not be easy for them.

Paprika Gaddar'ın Aşkı

1973

Doktor poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Doktor

1979

Bir Yabancı poster
NR

A man who goes after the murderers of the woman he loves.

Bir Yabancı

1975

İsyan poster
NR

The chief is the chief of seven villages. He makes a living as a smuggler. Apo's father is the chief's smuggler. One day, he steps on a mine while smuggling and dies. His family is too afraid of the chief to claim his body. Around this time, Apo is having an affair with Ayno, the beautiful daughter of a villager named Şahan; they meet secretly from time to time. Apo goes to the chief to ask him to send him on a smuggling trip, as it is his only option to earn the dowry money...

İsyan

1979

Thirsty for Love: Sex and Murder poster
4.1

An introvert party goer in '60s makes it a habit of kidnapping meretricious female models to hidden spots out to wild nature to rape them, and of returning them to their homes nevermore.

Thirsty for Love: Sex and Murder

1972

Delicesine poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Delicesine

1976

Baldız poster
6.3

The tragicomic story of a man marrying the wrong girl.

Baldız

1975

Ankara Express poster
8.3

During World War II, Germany aims to conquer Turkey with an operation which is Ankara Express. German spy Hilda and Turkish major Seyfi engage in a dangerous relationship while they work for the Ankara Express operation.

Ankara Express

1970

The Return poster
7.5

Gülcan and her husband İbrahim dream of a happy future together in their village. However, they are subjected to the cruelty of the Agha, the local landowner who lords over the entire village. İbrahim is fed up and moves to Germany to find work. On the other hand, Gülcan has to deal with Agha's evils alone.

The Return

1972

Yemen'de Bir Avuç Türk poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yemen'de Bir Avuç Türk

1970

Kara Gün poster
7.0

The experiences of a young man who is in love with the daughter of a prostitute

Kara Gün

1971

Yatak Hikayesi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yatak Hikayesi

1975

If Only Life Would Be Like a Feast poster
6.2

Traditional Romeo and Juliet re-telling with a funny twist. Lovers from two families at loggerheads thrive to find peace between them by bring them into consonance with one another.

If Only Life Would Be Like a Feast

1973

Düzen poster
NR

A story of love and blood feud. A club run by a gangster known as Kemal from Maraş is raided by his enemies. During the raid, Kemal kills the brother of one of his enemies. Kemal meets a young girl in a traffic accident. The girl falls in love with Kemal. However, Kemal does not reveal his feelings to her in order to keep her out of his dirty business.

Düzen

1978

İstanbul 79 poster
7.3

The life story of a family who migrated from a small town in Anatolia to Istanbul. Ömer from the family runs a gas cylinder dealership in the big city. Meanwhile, he gets involved in dirty business with a friend. Having severed ties with his family, Ömer cannot extricate himself from these shady dealings, even if he wanted to. He continues to live his life amidst Istanbul's vibrant and shadowy nightlife.

İstanbul 79

1979

Madam Dilâ poster
7.1

Madam Dila is the grieving widow of a recently deceased Ağa (feudal landowner) who is hell-bent on wreaking revenge on Rıza, the man who murdered her husband. She sends her men to kill him and then ironically, saves his life because she doesn’t know it’s him.

Madam Dilâ

1977

Kanlı Para poster
NR

The film is about Murat, a former criminal who gets back into crime. Murat robs a factory with a gang led by Bekir. Although he is caught after the robbery, he is released due to lack of evidence. On the night of the robbery, Murat's wife Zeynep gives birth to a daughter named Ayşe. Murat then tells Bekir that he is leaving the criminal life behind and starts working as a driver at a factory. However, Bekir's new target is the factory where Murat works. Bekir will resort to various schemes to involve Murat in the plan.

Kanlı Para

1972

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