Acting
Selçuk Yöntem
Born
1953-07-13 (73)
Place of birth
Istanbul, Turkey
Known for
Acting
Credits
48 titles
Selçuk Yöntem (born 13 July 1953) is a Turkish actor and TV presenter.
Known for
7.2One of Turkey's most iconic and influential dramas, Valley of the Wolves follows Polat Alemdar, an undercover agent who infiltrates Istanbul's most dangerous crime organisation after years of preparation. Combining organised crime, covert operations and sharp political commentary, the series fearlessly tackles Turkey's shadowy relationship between the state, the mafia and power — and became a cultural phenomenon that spawned multiple films and spin-offs.
Valley of the Wolves
2003
8.3As a child, Leyla suffers a blow from her stepmother and sees her world turned upside down. She loses everything - except the thirst for revenge. In search of justice, Leyla transforms into someone else and returns determined to settle accounts with the woman who destroyed her life and left her in a garbage dump. However, her revenge falters when she discovers the relationship between her ex-stepmother and the man, with whom she shared an innocent and unforgettable love affair
Leyla
2024
6.7Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his children's nanny, meets Bihter who is also a socialite couple's daughter she is very elegant and beautiful, everyone who meets her get stunned and jealous of her, and he falls in love with her. While searching for peace, safety and happiness in Adnan's mansion, Bihter meets passion. Behlül and Bihter fall completely into each other and become drowned by their infatuation with each other. Their secret love affair will soon affect every member of the family.
Forbidden Love
2008
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Golden Butterfly Awards
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan ile Empati
2022
7.6Güneş finds her prince charming at the age of 35, after raising 3 daughters and completely giving up hope on love. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Istanbul businessman Haluk Mertoğlu, Güneş and her troublesome daughters fall like a bomb into the middle of the Mertoğlu family's life. All of them have different wishes and expectations from their new lives, but the life of the Mertoğlu family is not as perfect as it seems. With the arrival of Güneş and her daughters, the secrets of the past will begin to be revealed one by one.
Sun's Daughters
2015
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
7.3A quirky receptionist in a hotel in Istanbul welcomes guests as they tumble upon their daily struggles, all to end up in a mix of chaos and dread after the arrival of a mysterious man who declares that he is their patron Saint.
Reflection
2022
6.3Throughout his impressive acting career, Haldun Dormen inspired and encouraged his theater students to work hard and follow their dreams.
You Can Do It, My Dear!
2022
8.0It is about the journey of a famous actor to complete his unfinished story with his daughter.
Sevda: Mandatory Direction
2023
2010s · 3 titles
6.0Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she falls for the titular military man, Ismail, just as the war is about to erupt.
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
5.3Ayhan Hanim tells the dramatic story of a family during the 1980 Coup that sadly marks Turkey’s recent history. Ayhan Hanım is a housewife who is not involved with politics. She has four sons. Her husband, Ahmet Bey is a retired sergeant. Ayhan Hanım, her husband and their youngest son stay out of the political turbulences, however, their three other sons are personally involved with the incidents in the chaotic days of 1977. After the coup in 1980, the family’s disintegration begins.
Ayhan Hanım
2014
5.5Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.
The Extreme Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family
2011
2000s · 11 titles
7.0Yusuf Miroğlu and Zeynep travel to Diyarbakır in southeast Turkey to attend his best friend Cemal's wedding. While performing the traditional halay dance at the wedding, Cemal is killed by an assassin. Cemal's widowed wife Leyla pleads Yusuf to find the people behind the murder and bring them to justice. Yusuf finds himself caught in a struggle against the PKK and other terrorist groups in the area.
Hell of Boomerang
2001
7.0Sevda Erses is a singer who has devoted herself to Turkish classical music and strives to be principled in her work. She is careful not to go beyond professional relationships with her boss and listeners, which is why her career has stagnated. As part of her Anatolian tour with a company, Erses also gives concerts in a small town. The singer not only receives great interest from the local people but also unintentionally captivates the town's leader. However, her heart belongs to an engineer she met in the same town.
Şarkıcı
2001
3.9The film takes place in three bathrooms. Two of them are side-by-side and the third sees the two right across the street. In these 3 places, 3 different couples and a young voyeur boy (actually an art student who researches for a project) are described in stories. At the core of these stories there are determinations of the nature of men and women, marriage and betrayal.
Banyo
2005
6.7A naive apolitical young man, who is interrupted by a fundamental religious environment, turns bitter.
Twisted
2008
4.9A story describing Turkish narcotic police team named "Pars" who are trailing the traffic through Afghanistan, Turkey, Europe and USA.
Pars: Operation Cherry
2007
5.5Alia Izzet Rahmanovic is one of the prosperous and career-savvy Bosniaks of the Tito period Yugoslavia. Captain of Yugoslavia, close guard of Tito, army national team captain and Yugoslavia's first world karate champion. The civil war in Yugoslavia also changes a lot in Alia's life with everyday life. Alia, who lost everything but his family in the war, is forced to take refuge with a Bosnian refugee camp under the protection of the United Nations, along with Anna, a Serb-based wife and two young children. The remaining 65 women were murdered by Bosniak Serbs, consisting of children and elderly people. Alia's wife and children are also among those who died and went to court. Written by ahmetkozan
Alia: A Bosniac Rhapsody
2008
4.1A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal love and divine mystery continue to be celebrated more than 700 years after his death.
Rumi: The Dance of Love
2008
6.4A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.
The Shadowless
2009
8.0Eastern Anatolia 1983: Rayna is an American university professor. She travels to Eastern Turkey to research the political situation. As part of her research, she visits a village in the company of a politically involved leftist writer. On the way back, their minibus is ambushed by a Kurdish outlaw.
Crescent Heart
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Watercolor-Suluboya
2009
7.8In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days!
Cars of the Revolution
2008
1990s · 6 titles
6.5Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.
Block C
1994
9.0The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.
The 80th Step
1996
While working on his novel, an author discovers a mysterious girl in his garden. Is she real or imaginary? Despite this uncertainty, he delves into the girl's world.
Yaz Yağmuru
1994
NRThe story of the intersecting lives and friendships of two women who are completely unlike each other.
Roofless Women
1999
6.5Nur is a woman who suffers from bipolar depression with psychosis. While she stays in a mental institution she confronts with her life; her childhood, her parents and her marriage...Can she ever learn to love herself?
Diploma of Madness
1998
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Suyun Öte Yanı
1991
Series credits
7.2One of Turkey's most iconic and influential dramas, Valley of the Wolves follows Polat Alemdar, an undercover agent who infiltrates Istanbul's most dangerous crime organisation after years of preparation. Combining organised crime, covert operations and sharp political commentary, the series fearlessly tackles Turkey's shadowy relationship between the state, the mafia and power — and became a cultural phenomenon that spawned multiple films and spin-offs.
Valley of the Wolves
2003
8.3As a child, Leyla suffers a blow from her stepmother and sees her world turned upside down. She loses everything - except the thirst for revenge. In search of justice, Leyla transforms into someone else and returns determined to settle accounts with the woman who destroyed her life and left her in a garbage dump. However, her revenge falters when she discovers the relationship between her ex-stepmother and the man, with whom she shared an innocent and unforgettable love affair
Leyla
2024
6.7Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his children's nanny, meets Bihter who is also a socialite couple's daughter she is very elegant and beautiful, everyone who meets her get stunned and jealous of her, and he falls in love with her. While searching for peace, safety and happiness in Adnan's mansion, Bihter meets passion. Behlül and Bihter fall completely into each other and become drowned by their infatuation with each other. Their secret love affair will soon affect every member of the family.
Forbidden Love
2008
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Golden Butterfly Awards
1973
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Golden Butterfly Awards
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan ile Empati
2022
7.6Güneş finds her prince charming at the age of 35, after raising 3 daughters and completely giving up hope on love. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Istanbul businessman Haluk Mertoğlu, Güneş and her troublesome daughters fall like a bomb into the middle of the Mertoğlu family's life. All of them have different wishes and expectations from their new lives, but the life of the Mertoğlu family is not as perfect as it seems. With the arrival of Güneş and her daughters, the secrets of the past will begin to be revealed one by one.
Sun's Daughters
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arda ile Omuz Omuza
2022
8.5A 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
7.5Crazy Heart is a Turkish action, drama and political television series directed by Osman Sinav. The series, which started on Show TV on October 5, 1998, was released on the fourth season, the last season of the ATV. Crazy Heart , composed of 113 episodes published in 4 seasons, ended on June 24, 2002.
Crazy Heart
1999
7.5This nostalgic series, shedding light on 1990s Turkey, offers a heartwarming family atmosphere. Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı, the main setting for most of the series, is a place filled with people leading simple yet colorful lives, including a grocer, butcher, snack bar owner, and more. Inci, who returned to Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı years after leaving her family, opens a new chapter in her life with the friendly neighborhood residents she's known since childhood. A humorous drama about intimate neighborhood relationships in an old neighborhood in Istanbul.
Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı
1996
7.0The story of Leyla, who starts a new life with her daughter after her husband cheats on her.
Üzgünüm Leyla
2000
6.3No synopsis available yet.
YANLIŞ İÇERİK
2000
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Kuzey Rüzgarı
2007
6.7After disaster strikes the Earth, a marine biologist on a research mission in a submarine must fight to advance the process into a conspiracy.
Yakamoz S-245
2022
8.7The young Doctor Eva leaves her home Moldova to work in Istanbul, together with her sister Felicia. Due to inadvertency they land in the hands of a gang of prostitution but somehow Eva manages to escape and tries to save her sister. Adam, Pinar, Arif and Ulas who become friends to Eva, help her to save Felicia and thus start a fight against the prostitution ring. The serie's title symbolicaly refers to people's life taking place at a cliff's edge.
The Cliff
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kaan Sekban'la Alt Tarafı Bi' Talk Show
2020
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Bird Language
2006
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Mazi Kalbimde Yaradır
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Son Destan
2017
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Bugünün Saraylısı
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sardunya Sokak
2007
No synopsis available yet.
Kız Babası
2006
No synopsis available yet.
Rüzgarlı Bahçe
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ateş Dansı
1998