Yakup Yavru

Acting

Yakup Yavru

Born — Died

1952-03-01 — 2018-09-25

Place of birth

Amasya, Türkiye

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Known for

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları poster
5.4

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, is a Turkish comedy drama TV series. Turkish version of Desperate Housewives, is a Turkish television series.

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları

2011

Love Once Again poster
8.3

Zeynep gets married to a man whom her family does not approve and goes to the U.S.A to live there. She gives a birth to a baby boy but when her marriage does not go well she decides to return to Turkey as devastated. Fatih, on the other hand, comes from a rich family and goes to the U.S.A. to study. But, he does not find what he has expected and decides to go back to Turkey. These two people from different backgrounds come across to each other at the same flight to Turkey. They make a marriage agreement on the flight. Fatih wants Zeynep to pretend his wife because his family forces him to get married to Irem. He wants his freedom back. Zeynep, on the other hand, does not want to ask help from her family so, she accepts Fatih’s offer.

Love Once Again

2015

Cennet Mahallesi poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Cennet Mahallesi

2004

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

Papatyam poster
5.0

Two people whose ages are advanced and who have cut their hopes of love meet in the marriage program. Their lives change.

Papatyam

2009

Beautiful Charm poster
5.8

Cazibe, an Azerbaijani immigrant, marries Kemal to become a Turkish citizen. Ms. Gül who deals with illegal marriages arranges this marriage which will last for 3 years according to the agreement. Kemal receives 10,000 Turkish liras from Cazibe. But Kemal has a girlfriend, Simge, who is the daughter of Kemal's boss. Kemal's boss does not know that Kemal and his daughter are in a relationship. Simge thinks that Cazibe is Kemal's maid. However, Ejder is the foreign marriage detective and he is trying to find proof that Cazibe only married Kemal to become a Turkish Citizen. The word "Yahşi" comes from Azerbaijani and means "beautiful, nice, attractive". "Cazibe" means seduction.

Beautiful Charm

2010

Film credits

2010s · 29 titles

All Good 2 Back To Square One poster
4.2

Salim decides to take the coffin of a deserted body to his hometown. But this journey turns into an adventure where Salih and his travel buddy Nihal fight against serial killers and bad guys. When Nihal's mom is taken hostage for revenge, things take an unplanned turn. Now they're wanted as serial killers and have to wear disguise to not get caught.

All Good 2 Back To Square One

2014

My Travel Buddy poster
6.0

Days before Eid, a salesman fired from his job drives to meet his girlfriend's family, but the trip goes astray due to his zany travel buddy.

My Travel Buddy

2017

All Good poster
5.9

While delivering a deceased man's body for burial, a naive village courier encounters a host of eccentrics and implicates himself in dark crimes.

All Good

2012

Yolsuzlar Çetesi poster
NR

Fiko and Kamil are two friends struggling to make ends meet. They mortgaged their families' homes and borrowed money from the bank and loan shark Rıfat to open a snack bar in their neighborhood. When Rıfat suddenly decides to take both their homes and their shop by moving up the payment date on the promissory note he holds, the duo finds themselves in a bind and strikes a deal with Cafer, the neighborhood's sharp-witted student, to get their business back on track and make money. Seeing that the duo is making money, Rıfat sets their shop on fire, putting them in an even more difficult situation. While Fiko and Kamil try to settle their debts with Rıfat, they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between Rıfat and another mafia boss, Süleyman. The duo will try to escape this struggle and save themselves, caught between Fiko's angelic-looking but immoral teenage brother Taki, their families, and Kamil's long-time love interest Gülay.

Yolsuzlar Çetesi

2016

Kiraz Mevsimi poster
8.0

Yılmaz is a young man stuck between his dreams and his father in a small town in Anatolia. His greatest dream is to buy a small tractor (patpat) that will pave the way for him to start his own business. However, both his father and the living conditions in the region stand as major obstacles even to his smallest dream. Yılmaz, along with his close friend who also wanders aimlessly in pursuit of his dreams, chases after new and different opportunities every day.

Kiraz Mevsimi

2018

Facia Üçlü poster
1.5

While seeking to claim his grandfather's land, Emre falls for a local official's daughter and finds himself contending with two other suitors.

Facia Üçlü

2018

Çılgın Kamp poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Çılgın Kamp

2015

Nasıl Yani poster
5.0

Tahir, Osman, and Taci are three brothers living in Samsun. These three brothers, who have completely normal lives, are shocked one morning by the news from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Because the brothers are 6th generation relatives of Leonardo Da Vinci. Moreover, the surprises are not limited to this. Da Vinci's world-famous Mona Lisa painting was inherited by his grandfathers, whom they had not met for a long time, in Carsamba. The trio, who started to plan to find a way to get the painting from their grandfather, soon begin to dream of getting rich. However, things will not be as easy as they think.

Nasıl Yani

2016

Sihirbazlık Okulunda Bir Türk poster
2.3

Mehmet, who lives in one of Istanbul's middle-class neighborhoods, is the only child of his family. Despite being intelligent, he has never been successful in life due to his mischievousness. Realizing that he will not succeed in the university entrance exam, he begins to think of lies to tell his family, fearing their reaction. Shortly before the exam results are announced, his life changes when he receives a letter from Spellcraft School of Magic and Wizardry. Fearing his parents' reaction to the idea of a wizardry school, he lies to them, telling them he has been accepted into a school abroad, and embarks on a magical adventure.

Sihirbazlık Okulunda Bir Türk

2015

Bahtiyar Bahtıkara poster
NR

Bahtiyar Hoca, who has been unable to marry 36 times because of his mother, is a strange medium. However, Bahtiyar Hoca will defy his fate and his mother, and despite the various problems caused by his nephews, he will set his mind on marrying Dul Pakize, a widow who has recently moved to the village and has had two failed marriages. He will stop at nothing to achieve this!

Bahtiyar Bahtıkara

2017

Baş Belası poster
3.0

There are two days left until Asya's wedding, but at her father's request, she has to attend a funeral in Çanakkale. Her return to Istanbul is about to become the most important journey of her life. Because Asya meets the most innocent and clumsy person she could ever know, and the adventure-filled journey they will take together from Çanakkale to Istanbul will cause significant changes in both of their lives.

Baş Belası

2017

Bizum Uşaklar poster
NR

Two fugitives looking for a place to hide become teachers by chance in a village in Araklı. The first task of the fake teachers is to reconcile two cousins living in the same village. To reconcile the cousins, who have been estranged for years due to a border dispute, the villagers and the new teachers devise a plan. The villagers, who plan to bring the two together by claiming there is a buried treasure on their shared land, find themselves facing unforeseen circumstances.

Bizum Uşaklar

2018

Bayram Abi poster
2.2

Bayram, who lives with his mother, father, and grandmother, dreams of meeting Sinem, whom he fell head over heels in love with at his friend's wedding. Sinem, a young and successful businesswoman, is the advertising and marketing director at Koma Kola, one of the country's largest cola companies. Bayram believes that the only way to reach Sinem is to create his own cola brand. His father, Cemal, wants Bayram to take over the family-owned sherbet shop. Bayram refuses his father's request and, with the help of his friends Hamdullah, Talha, and Mehmet Bakkal, whom he considers his older brother, sets out to win the heart of the girl he loves.

Bayram Abi

2016

Yusuf Yusuf poster
3.5

Since his childhood, interested in cars, car races and dreamed to be a rally pilot but became a minibus driver in Ankara. This movie tells Yusuf's story full of action as well as comedy.

Yusuf Yusuf

2014

Çam Yarması poster
4.0

A wealthy couple in their 30s living in Istanbul cannot have children. While trying to adopt a child from an orphanage, they end up adopting three children. Thirty years pass, and the family goes bankrupt. The irresponsible children are kicked out of the house by their father, who tells them, "Don't set foot in this house without finding a job." Knowing they cannot return home without finding work, these wayward children are forced to seek employment. Due to certain circumstances, these wayward children are forced to leave Istanbul, and their adventures continue in Çorum.

Çam Yarması

2017

Baba Mirası poster
5.0

A father leaves his children an inheritance. However, in order to receive the inheritance, there are certain conditions that their father has set. In accordance with their father's will, the three siblings move to the village to claim their inheritance. The three siblings, who are quite unfamiliar with village life, witness some hilarious incidents in their new lives. The story of the three siblings, each with different personalities, and the challenges they face as they adapt to village life is brought to the big screen.

Baba Mirası

2016

Papaz Kimde poster
NR

One of Istanbul's old neighborhoods wakes up to the news of Binnaz Hanım's death. Binnaz is the mother of Birol and Şenol. Shocked by her death, Binnaz Hanım regains consciousness after a while. Hilmi, a fake imam, leads the funeral prayer. Upon seeing that Binnaz Hanım has regained consciousness, Hilmi, Birol, and Şenol decide to rob a bank, taking Eda along with them. They hide the stolen money inside the coffin, disguised as funeral decorations, and set off for the cemetery. The fake imam tries to outsmart his friends and take the money for himself. The four friends, with the mafia hot on their heels, face every possible misfortune.

Papaz Kimde

2011

Üç, İki, Bir... Kestik! poster
3.5

Süleyman, an idealistic young man, has one dream: to make a movie and share his village life with the world. Luck smiles on him when he wins a camera in a raffle. He immediately teams up with his best friend Galip and a small crew to start shooting his dream movie. However, this amateur film crew faces countless challenges...

Üç, İki, Bir... Kestik!

2014

Keloğlan: Yeni Masal poster
4.0

After 40 years, Keloglan and his friends act on the call of Cankiz. They are thrown into an adventure in which they fight against the oppressors who try to consume the animal's lineage.

Keloğlan: Yeni Masal

2018

Benzersiz poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Benzersiz

2017

Oldu Mu Şimdi? poster
NR

Yaşar, whose life has always been ruined by misunderstandings, ends up in prison again as a result of another misunderstanding. In prison, he meets Ömer and they become close friends. After their release from prison, the two engage in numerous scams. However, each time things go wrong and they end up back in prison. On their final release, they grow tired of it all and repent. They vow never to engage in such activities again. On the day they go to the mosque to repent, the funeral they attend for the sake of doing good lands on their heads like a stroke of luck. The funeral belongs to a famous and wealthy businessman who said, "Whoever carries my funeral will inherit my wealth." Yaşar and Ömer suddenly find themselves at the helm of a clean international shipping company. But things won't stay that clean...

Oldu Mu Şimdi?

2016

Ceberrut poster
4.5

Four young college students who make interesting video broadcasts on YouTube are beginning to research on the internet to shoot videos on more interesting topics, realizing that they can not reach the result they want with their videos. During the research they encounter interesting stories in a village. They decided to make a video about interesting events in the villages and rent villas with the help of their teachers. Young people who want to take a few test pictures find themselves in horror-filled incidents.

Ceberrut

2016

Semur: Şeytanın Kabilesi poster
1.0

Merve and Ozge are best friends but Ozge loves Ozan who is married with Merve. Ozge does dark magic stuff for killing Merve and being darling of Ozan. Semur (a kind of evil) come from dark to kill Merve.

Semur: Şeytanın Kabilesi

2017

Temel ile Dursun İstanbul'da poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Temel ile Dursun İstanbul'da

2016

Kızım İçin poster
4.0

Tuncer married the woman he fell in love with years ago, but left her while she was pregnant, and is now a middle-aged man living alone. The only child from this marriage, Tuba, has grown accustomed to her father's absence. Living with her mother in a charming rural area, Tuba is actually very bored with her life. As her 18th birthday approaches, she suddenly finds herself face to face with Tuncer, who claims to be her father.

Kızım İçin

2013

Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi

2013

Situations Situations poster
3.0

Haldun Derman as director of religious clips, his primary actor had a scandal and decides to return his family town in Carsamba. He mets mafia leader and takes lead of a newly established local TV channel.

Situations Situations

2016

Aşka Geldik poster
NR

In a village devoid of technology, where everyone knows each other, everything changes when the village headman receives a phone call from the ministry. The phone call announces that a professor and a university delegation from abroad are coming to the village for humanitarian research. The whole village is united and excited to see a professor for the first time. The two, who are father-in-law and son-in-law and who live together after the death of Şükrü's wife, will embark on a fun-filled adventure in the village.

Aşka Geldik

2017

Yav He He poster
2.0

Sabri and Medeni were born and raised in the village of Cırtik in Eastern Anatolia. One day, when their grandmother falls ill, they are forced to sell their three sheep to cover the cost of medicine. However, the customer who responds to their online ad turns out to be from Istanbul! Meanwhile, three football-loving children from the village tag along with them. Upon arriving in the big city, they sell the first two sheep, but the last one has been stolen! The two friends will not return to the village until they find the missing sheep.

Yav He He

2015

2000s · 8 titles

My Father and My Son poster
7.4

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

My Father and My Son

2005

Home Coming poster
6.0

September 1980. Mustafa 'Mehmet Ali Alabora' and his wife, who're both laborers are married for 5 years. The couple has nothing to do with politics and spend their days happily with their 3 year old daughter and their TV, despite the clamor of guns clashing outside every night. One Friday morning, they wake up and hear the voice of Hasan Mutlucan on radio and observe soldiers marching through the streets, the very confirmation of the military coup that has taken place. Arrests begin instantly in workplace and neighborhood. Yet Mustafa, far from being disturbed, assumes that all apprehensions must have rightful reasons. Until the night he's taken into custody, charged with the crimes of a militant code named "Sehmuz".

Home Coming

2006

Big Man, Little Love poster
7.1

An orphaned Kurdish child (Hêjar) and a Turkish pensioner (Rıfat) are thrown together by circumstance. Rıfat, a widowed retired judge, refuses to get involved in politics. He is forced out of his solitude, when Hêjar the only survivor of a police raid on his Kurdish neighbors, takes refuge at his home. Gradually, he warms up to the kid and decides to reunite her with her family.

Big Man, Little Love

2001

Destere poster
4.0

The story of a serial killer from Thrace. The film begins with two Trakyan farmers named Hayrettin and Hayati waking up one day in the basement of a village house. A voice recording from a serial killer who tells his victims, "You don't play the game this way, you play it that way," begins to subject our heroes to various games. Inspired by the Saw series and serving as a parody of it, the film is a blend of comedy and horror.

Destere

2008

Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz poster
4.6

No synopsis available yet.

Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz

2008

Two Lines poster
4.3

Selin is a business woman who is living with her younger boyfriend at a metropole, Istanbul. During the summer time, they decide to go to the south by their car and a long vacation starts.

Two Lines

2008

Kutsal Damacana poster
4.9

Former sailor Fikret is having trouble settling into his new life in Istanbul and has begun to make use of the local church's facilities. When priest Artin goes on a trip to Vatican, Fikret starts selling off the church's cellar of expensive wines and stays in the priest's room at night. Fikret spends most of his remaining time gambling on horse races and lecturing Asim, a naïve young boy working at the car wash located next door to the church who perceives him as a surrogate as a father figure. Fikret and Asim learn of a rich widowed businesswoman, Deniz, who thinks that her sister, Selen, has had a spell put upon her and is prepared to pay anything to have it lifted. Fikret decides to go to Deniz's house disguised as a priest but gets more than he bargained for.

Kutsal Damacana

2007

Dark Cloud poster
NR

While fathers usually guide their sons through life crises, things go the other way around in this independent comedy-drama from Turkey. Adnan (Reha Özcan) has been a widower for nearly five years, but he acts as if his wife passed only a few weeks ago; he's been trapped in a deep funk for years and has become emotionally unavailable to his teenage son Burak (Kamer Celenk). Adnan doesn't fare much better with the rest of the world, and a long series of screw-ups leads to him losing his job as a parking lot attendant and being named in a lawsuit. While Burak has already moved out of the house and is living with sympathetic relatives, he decides he needs his father back and sets out to free Adnan from his doldrums, though that's more easily said than done

Dark Cloud

2009

Series credits

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları poster
5.4

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, is a Turkish comedy drama TV series. Turkish version of Desperate Housewives, is a Turkish television series.

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları

2011

Love Once Again poster
8.3

Zeynep gets married to a man whom her family does not approve and goes to the U.S.A to live there. She gives a birth to a baby boy but when her marriage does not go well she decides to return to Turkey as devastated. Fatih, on the other hand, comes from a rich family and goes to the U.S.A. to study. But, he does not find what he has expected and decides to go back to Turkey. These two people from different backgrounds come across to each other at the same flight to Turkey. They make a marriage agreement on the flight. Fatih wants Zeynep to pretend his wife because his family forces him to get married to Irem. He wants his freedom back. Zeynep, on the other hand, does not want to ask help from her family so, she accepts Fatih’s offer.

Love Once Again

2015

Cennet Mahallesi poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Cennet Mahallesi

2004

Cennet Mahallesi poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Cennet Mahallesi

2004

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

Papatyam poster
5.0

Two people whose ages are advanced and who have cut their hopes of love meet in the marriage program. Their lives change.

Papatyam

2009

Beautiful Charm poster
5.8

Cazibe, an Azerbaijani immigrant, marries Kemal to become a Turkish citizen. Ms. Gül who deals with illegal marriages arranges this marriage which will last for 3 years according to the agreement. Kemal receives 10,000 Turkish liras from Cazibe. But Kemal has a girlfriend, Simge, who is the daughter of Kemal's boss. Kemal's boss does not know that Kemal and his daughter are in a relationship. Simge thinks that Cazibe is Kemal's maid. However, Ejder is the foreign marriage detective and he is trying to find proof that Cazibe only married Kemal to become a Turkish Citizen. The word "Yahşi" comes from Azerbaijani and means "beautiful, nice, attractive". "Cazibe" means seduction.

Beautiful Charm

2010

Yamak Ahmet poster
6.5

Yamaga Ahmet works as a servant and helps his master prepare food for Ramadan. They often engage in Ramadan-related discussions.

Yamak Ahmet

2011

Bahtiyar Olmez poster
1.0

Bahtiyar Olmez works in his father's cemetery. Bahtiyar's job is a funeral transport vehicle driver. He does not want to do this until the end of his life. He accepts an old friend's offer. He deposits his father's entire accumulation with great hope. He understands that he is defrauded. While driving the funeral car at the end of his life with the anger of losing his dreams and his father's entire accumulation, he throws out the "the camel bird's egg" given by the old friend as a souvenir. The camel bird's egg hits so many times that the life of Bahtiyar Olmez changes irrevocably. After that, he will have to live the life of Rifat Cakar, the father of famous mafia, who resembles a medicine.

Bahtiyar Olmez

2017

Kınalı Kuzular poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kınalı Kuzular

2006

Bir Yastıkta poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bir Yastıkta

2013

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yasemin

1997

Marziye poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Marziye

1998

Dog poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dog

2005

Kız Takımı poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kız Takımı

2008

Canım Kocacım poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Canım Kocacım

2002

Utanmaz Adam poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Utanmaz Adam

1998

Her Halimle Sev Beni poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Her Halimle Sev Beni

2008

Reyting Hamdi poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Reyting Hamdi

1995