Öner Erkan

Acting

Öner Erkan

Born 1980-01-04 · Izmir, Turkey

Öner Erkan (born in Izmir) is a Turkish actor. Öner Erkan began acting at the age of 15 and graduated from Department of Theatre, Dokuz Eylül University. Between 2003 and 2004, he acted in various plays by Istanbul City Theatre. He was cast in Avrupa Yakasi and later in comedy series Iki Aile as Ferit Pamukçuoglu. Erkan has also appeared in movies such as Organize Isler, Son Osmanli Yandim Ali, Hirsiz Var; and enacted leading roles in Kagit and 7 Kocali Hürmüz. He won the Golden Orange prize for Best Leading Actor for his role in Bornova Bornova. He is cast as Bora Alsancak in acclaimed TV series Yalan Dünya written by Gülse Birsel. In 2017 he played in the TV series "Çukur".

Acting credits

Paper poster
4.9

A moviemaker hands in a script for an arty production in order to receive film funds. Due to political reasons beyond his reach, his film is not provided with a certificate of accreditation. But a true moviemaker never gives up.

Paper

2011

The Wild Pear Tree poster
7.5

Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him grave difficulties.

The Wild Pear Tree

2018

The Bank of Broken Hearts poster
6.2

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.

The Bank of Broken Hearts

2017

Magic Carpet Ride poster
6.9

A struggling, suicidal young comedian meets a car thief who is willing to teach him a few things about his profession.

Magic Carpet Ride

2005

Flight Mode poster
6.0

A man sees his world turned upside down when a baby, found in front of his door, redefines the laws of time.

Flight Mode

2024

But poster
2.0

A sarcastic, erotic, and tense gaze into the private, professional and social lives of Istanbulite artists whose lives intertwine with fiction.

But

2022

Ladybug poster
6.2

Uğur and Barış are childhood friends. They run a DVD store opened by Barış's uncle Engin, who is a motorcycle manufacturer. Uğur is in love with Leyla, Barış's cousin and Engin's sister. Leyla is not indifferent to Uğur either; they occasionally meet in secret without her brother's knowledge. Leyla's greatest wish is to escape her brother's control and start a new life with Uğur. However, Uğur is not much help to Leyla in this endeavor. How can he face Engin and ask for Leyla's hand in marriage? He hasn't even managed to get his own life in order. The solution comes from Barış. They will shoot a film starring Uğur and Leyla. However, when they watch what they have filmed, they realize that this task is not as easy as they thought. While seeking help, they come across a director.

Ladybug

2013

Bornova Bornova poster
7.0

A story from Bornova, a neighborhood in Izmir. Two good friends Salih and Hakan spend their days in front of a grocery store waiting for a chance to do something with their lives.

Bornova Bornova

2009

Suddenly poster
5.5

Reyhan realizes that she has lost her sense of smell during a short vacation. Although the possibility of a serious illness worries her, she will follow her instincts to regain her sense of smell instead of undergoing further tests.

Suddenly

2023

The Seagull poster
8.9

The boring lives of a small chicken farm's caretaker and his younger wife intersect with the seemingly fun lives of the new farmhand and his wife.

The Seagull

2018

Stuck Apart poster
6.0

Entrenched in a midlife crisis, Aziz seeks solace from his mundane job, lonesome friends and rowdy family while pretending to have his act together.

Stuck Apart

2021

Put to the Things poster
3.8

The already complex connections of a group of artists living in İstanbul’s Cihangir district are becoming bizarre because of a camcorder entering their lives. A narcissistic director in which all the women are in love, two roommates connected by cable, a theater scene that can turn into a morgue concurrently, a nurse who resurrects the dead people, and a drug dealer who has no arms, sometimes the right, sometimes the left, sometimes both arms; these are protagonists of the experimental narrative that Onur Ünlü plays with time and space.

Put to the Things

2018

Killing the Shadows poster
7.1

Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and died by their sense of humour.

Killing the Shadows

2006

Made In Europe poster
6.5

Stories of Turkish people living in three European cities Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. Most are illegal immigrants, and while seeking for permits or living in hide outs they go through life dealing with humiliation, insecurities, betrayals, self-pity. The stories reflect the schizophrenic nature of the immigrant world, which turns the movie into something more than life in Europe.

Made In Europe

2007

Squashed poster
4.0

In the bustling chaos of Istanbul, as Yağmur waits at the bus stop, she witnesses a giant seagull snatch the woman beside her and vanish behind skyscrapers. Shaken, she joins her friends; soon, the shock fades into everyday chatter, and life resumes its usual flow.

Squashed

2024

Happy Family Journal poster
6.1

Children of a retired colonel come together after their father falls from the rooftop. This constrained togetherness reveals their lies day by day.

Happy Family Journal

2013

The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali poster
6.4

After the First World War, the Allies occupy Istanbul. The protagonist, Yandim Ali is a rogue, discharged from the navy, who doesn't believe that the country can be saved, until he meets Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), who plans to start a resistance in Anatolia against the occupying Allies, as well as the collaborators of an Ottoman government, that exists only on paper.

The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali

2007

7 Husbands for Hurmuz poster
6.0

Remake of a well-known Turkish musical comedy loved by generations, the film is about the adventures of flirtatious Hurmuz in late 1800's Istanbul. Hurmuz who lives in Taskasap, Istanbul has six husbands in a plot to solve her economic problems. She arranges to meet each of her husbands one day of the week. However, suddenly, she falls in love with the town's doctor whom she meets at her husband's barber shop. The doctor falls in love with her too... But, one night all six husbands come home at the same time, and Hurmuz and Safinaz - Hurmuz's "go-between/accomplice/friend" - find themselves in a series of very awkward yet funny situations.

7 Husbands for Hurmuz

2009

Gerçek Kesit: Manyak poster
5.2

Riza, a garbage man becomes obsessed in her old mother when he finds a woman's corpse in a garbage can. But someday he meets with his new neighbor,a beautiful widow and starts to lose track of reality, stuck between his love and her mother.

Gerçek Kesit: Manyak

2018

Robbery Alla Turca poster
4.8

With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared to be sold at an auction, two Turkish thieves from Germany are hired to steal valuable paintings from the art collection. Meanwhile, Seckin the fashioner designer - also the brother of Binnur, wife of the late billionaire - prepares for a fashion show in the same hotel that the robbery is going to take place. With the intervention of police, the beautiful model and her ex-lover, a hip papparazi, the two "Laz" mafia bosses seeking revenge, and the getaway driver straight out of Selcuk Erdem caricatures, the robbery is bound to go wrong. Prepare for a twist at the end as the plot unfolds towards a climactic ending...

Robbery Alla Turca

2005

Making of The Wild Pear Tree poster
8.3

A documentary about the filming session of the film “The Wild Pear Tree” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan… ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ had been shot in about 14 weeks in Western Anatolia.

Making of The Wild Pear Tree

2018

The Yellow, The Cat, The Kayakers and The Host poster
2.8

The Host is a woman living alone in the middle of a vast land. The visitors that she has long waited for finally arrive. They mingle with the Host's life, both interfering with her daily routines and helping her to take a decision.

The Yellow, The Cat, The Kayakers and The Host

2020

Let's Sin poster
7.0

Selman is a former boxer who once was interested in anthropology, an extraordinary imam who now works in a mosque. One day, while praying in the mosque, gunshots are echoed. One of the people inside collapses and dies. The police come to the scene and collect the first evidence and start the investigation process. He takes action after this event and decides to resolve the case through some people and circumstances he suspects. Every clue leads to an unexpected point and the events become increasingly mysterious.

Let's Sin

2014