Serdar Orçin

Acting

Serdar Orçin

Born 1976-01-21 · Bayburt, Turkey

Serdar Orçin (born 21 January 1976) is a Turkish actor. He is known for Let's Sin (2014), Ali's Eight Days (2009), Barda (2007), and Fate (2001).

Acting credits

Envy poster
5.6

Seniha lives with her brother Halit and his wife Mükerrem. When Nüzhet, the handsome son of the richest family in town, sets his eyes on the married Mükerrem, she is at first disgusted with Nüzhet’s overt sexual innuendo. However, it isn’t long before Mükerrem yields to her lust and thus they embark on an affair. When Seniha finally reveals her sister-in-law’s un-virtuousness to her brother, Seniha has no idea what the consequences will be and how cruelly her destiny will change.

Envy

2009

Can poster
7.0

Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to illegal means to procure a baby. This wild grab at a more perfect life proves their undoing, leading the couple to spiral toward separate futures. The couple's estrangement is intertwined with the film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant and neglectful single mom is raising her little boy, Can.

Can

2012

Fate poster
7.2

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

Fate

2001

Don't Talk poster
4.2

Throughout the movie, we will watch the life of a character whose face will never be seen. We will look at the world through his eyes and will witness the oppression he has experienced. He's only two years old. His excited parents forces him to communicate by saying 'talk'.

Don't Talk

2020

The Trace poster
6.2

Being at death’s door, Seristan, an old woman in her eighties, wants her son to take her back to her homeland, with the last wish to be buried there. Her son, Mirza, is determined to keep his promise no matter what happens, thereby revealing an inconvenient truth about the roots of the family.

The Trace

2011

The Waiting Room poster
6.2

Ahmet, a filmmaker on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', sinks into depression, alienates loved ones, and abandons his film.

The Waiting Room

2004

Debt poster
6.4

Tufan who works at a small print shop lives in Eskişehir with his wife Mukaddes and daughter Simge. Huriye, their lonely neighbour next door falls ill one night. A doctor recommends that she shouldn’t stay on her own. Tufan takes pity on Huriye, who has no family to turn to, and decides to host her at his house.

Debt

2018

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

Silenced Tree poster
4.3

A short while after his dominant wife abandons the wimpy and meek Hayati, who is a literary teacher in a patriarchal town, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake. Hayati wants to state that the body belongs to his wife and to take the blame for the murder that someone else committed.

Silenced Tree

2019

Musa poster
5.5

One day, director Zeki Demirkubuz stumbles upon the counter of Musa, a pirate film seller, and sees that his own films are also being sold. Demirkubuz will make an offer to Musa that can change his life.

Musa

2012

Foreskin poster
NR

In a mid-upper class home in Istanbul, surrounded by disguised pressure from an Islamist society; a postpartum mother in baby blues, dares to question whether circumcision itself is blasphemy against Allah by interrupting perfection of the created body.

Foreskin

2024

Words Fly Away poster
6.0

Three young people enter to a bookshop as out of breath. And the bookseller shows the miracle of books.

Words Fly Away

2017

Not What You Think poster
7.5

Three very different siblings reunite in their hometown Tokat after their father's mysterious death, where shifting alliances, buried memories, and tangled bonds reveal that nothing about their past is as they believed.

Not What You Think

2025

Phoenix poster
5.6

Murat, who lost his family as a result of an accident in his childhood, makes his name known in auto racing while struggling with this trauma over the years.

Phoenix

2022

Ali's Eight Days poster
6.5

Ali is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. Everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the neighbourhood.

Ali's Eight Days

2009

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

Turkish chat poster
NR

A short film with the developed idea of "chat is not made only through the internet the 'Turkish Chat' never..." and by the humorist act of narrating the mixture of the graffiti and recent chat culture. The whole movie is prepared in English with the idea of international film festivals. When a young man goes out of the underground, he wants to go to "the water closet" but all "the water closets" and urinals are busy. After a few minutes, a man goes out of "the water closet". A young man gets into that water closet. After he enters that water closet, he replies to one of the messages written there, and all his world changes from that moment. Afterwards, he has only one aim to look at his place in the water closet. It's a duty like looking at his e-mails. Also, even "the special songs" that he listens to in the underground don't help him to give up on this strange game. But an inevitable end is waiting for him in this game. Every beauty has an end.

Turkish chat

2006

Abdulhamid Falling poster
6.7

Şefik, a successful soldier, is one of the leading figures of the Committee of Union and Progress. When Abdulhamid II declares a constitutional monarchy, Şefik and his friends go to Istanbul. They plan to closely monitor the events unfolding there. However, it is here that Şefik will part ways with the society.

Abdulhamid Falling

2003

At the Bar poster
6.4

A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center where they do not belong, where they are excluded. They adopted a brutal method to seize rights that were not granted to them. Unaware of what will happen to them, cheerful and well-to-do university students are helpless in the face of this gun-wielding mob that suddenly raids the bar where they are having fun.

At the Bar

2007

Children of Secret poster
8.5

Ten years old Cemil runs away from his stepfather who tortures him and his mother and ends up in Istanbul. Veli Firat Tanis, the leader of a gang which Cemil takes refuge in Haydarpasa, tries to send him back to his home by putting his pocket money. While the gang gather money for Cemil, they, at the same time, suffer from harsh living conditions. In the mean time Cemil's mother Münevver comes to Istanbul in the hope of finding her son.

Children of Secret

2002

İki Gözüm Ahmet: Sürgün poster
NR

The story of the legendary musician Ahmet Kaya, who passed away while in exile in Paris, the capital city of France.

İki Gözüm Ahmet: Sürgün

2024

You Me Lenin poster
6.1

One day waves bring a wooden statue of Lenin to a small town by the Black Sea. The statue is erected in the town square by the Municipality with the hope that it would attract tourists to the town. As an official opening ceremony is planned with the participation of the Prime Minister and a Russian delegation, the statue gets stolen. Two police investigators from Ankara are assigned to find Lenin in twelve hours. Townspeople give an unexpected answer to the question «Where is Lenin?».

You Me Lenin

2021

Passed by Censor poster
6.2

In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the letters, in which appears Selma, an inmate's wife. More than an inspiration, she becomes an obsession for Zakir. He observes her, makes up stories, and imagines the worst to the extent that he puts himself at great risk.

Passed by Censor

2019

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