Ezel Akay

Directing

Ezel Akay

Born 1961-10-01 · Kastamonu, Türkiye

Acting credits

Toprağın Çocukları poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Toprağın Çocukları

2012

Anadolu Masalları poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anadolu Masalları

2015

July 14 poster
3.8

Turkey, after the 1980 military coup. In the notorious Diyarbakır prison, the prisoners decide to resist the torture. 14 July 1982 is the day when the biggest resistance starts.

July 14

2017

What a Wonderful World poster
3.0

A secret organization called the "Ancients" builds a futuristic hotel-style shelter to protect 100 chosen individuals from a deadly viral epidemic that will destroy the world. Taxi driver Noah, who stumbles upon this hotel-like shelter, finds himself in an unexpected situation.

What a Wonderful World

2024

4 FACES poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

4 FACES

Hicran Sokağı poster
1.5

A neighborhood story with loves and fights.

Hicran Sokağı

2007

The Net 2.0 poster
5.1

The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem.

The Net 2.0

2006

Kötüler Konağı poster
NR

Despite being old and neglected, Emine, the elderly maid of an expensive antique mansion, is mistaken for the owner of the mansion and murdered. The suspects are the two families who are the heirs. The murderer will be found through a letter sent to these two families.

Kötüler Konağı

2007

Eve Giden Yol 1914 poster
4.4

During the years when World War I began to turn the Ottoman Empire's territories into a war zone, the pain of a great love story that unfolded in southeastern Anatolia and present-day Syria burned as fiercely as the war itself in the hearts of those involved. Mahmut leaves his home, abandoning everything—including the person he loves—because he refuses to commit murder. After being caught up in the relentless war raging across Anatolian lands and fighting for years in the struggle for liberation, he sets out to return home. His sole desire is to reunite with the one he was forced to leave behind and to seek revenge for the injustice he suffered years ago.

Eve Giden Yol 1914

2006

Beginner poster
6.1

Retired taxi driver Faruk is still working into his 60s. Having lost his wife ten years earlier, he leads a monotonous life. His only wish is to learn English, for which he is sometimes ridiculed and sometimes appreciated. His life will change a lot as he meets people throughout that difficult process, as learning a new language brings new experiences.

Beginner

2017

Aşk mı Para mı? poster
NR

Despite all the obstacles between them, Alya and Sinan fall deeply in love. However, Alya's pregnancy becomes a tragic turning point due to the interference of Sinan's powerful and ruthless father, Haldun. On one hand, the intrigues of their enemies Mehmet and Melisa, who want to seize their company, and on the other hand, long-hidden family secrets, turn the couple's lives upside down. As the dark truths of the past are revealed, Alya and Sinan will have to fight to protect both their love and their future.

Aşk mı Para mı?

2025

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

Where's Firuze? poster
7.2

Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to promote Ferhat's debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always what they seem...

Where's Firuze?

2004

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

Elephants and Grass poster
6.6

Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 5, 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.

Elephants and Grass

2000

Adam and the Devil poster
5.6

Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town during the holy month of Ramadan. His unusual behavior towards his wife and little daughter arrests the attention of the townsfolk. Meanwhile Adem, the son of the stationmaster who is crazy for trains begins to learn about and get into a world he has never heard of before in the lessons given by Hasan: trains, sin, good deeds, heaven and hell.. everything gets jumbled. Condemned of being harsh and merciless towards his family, Hasan one day finds himself obliged to reveal the "secret" about himself and his family and this changes everything in the eyes of people. Yet there has remained another secret of which anyone, even Hasan is hardly aware. The people of the town, including Adem, will remember this Ramadan throughout their lives.

Adam and the Devil

2007

The Lord of the Seagull poster
5.3

The Lord of the Seagull (MEF) is a man living a calm life on the seashore in Istanbul. There is someone he has been waiting for years. Finally the guest he waits will come out. In white, a woman who shoots on the shore like a tale will change the whole life of the MEF.

The Lord of the Seagull

2017

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

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema poster
7.1

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema

2019

Sözün Bittiği Yer poster
5.8

Turgut is an actor who performs in school shows to support his son Umut, earning a living by clowning around at parties. Umut's mother, Simay, left him and started living with someone else, enjoying her life. One day, in the middle of a show, he receives a phone call informing him that Umut has fallen ill at school and been taken to the hospital. Umut is diagnosed with leukemia. Now Turgut has only one goal: to find the money needed for his son's treatment. Meanwhile, years later, Umut's mother Simay reappears, complicating matters further for Turgut.

Sözün Bittiği Yer

2007

Yeşil Işık poster
4.3

The legendary love story of Ali and Elif. Ali, who lost everything due to the impact of September 11 on the stock market, dies of a heart attack and goes to the other side. However, he is not accepted on the other side because his time is not up. He cannot return to the world either because his liver has been transplanted into someone else. Ali's angel, Yakup, tells him that his only chance is to find the person who received his liver and kill them.

Yeşil Işık

2002

Flirting with Danger poster
6.0

A failing band plans a bank robbery in order to make it big with a record deal.

Flirting with Danger

2015

F Tipi Film poster
7.0

Nine stories of resistance against solitary confinement of political prisoners in Turkey.

F Tipi Film

2012

Lal poster
2.5

Cemal and Süleyman are two good friends living in a small village near Antakya in the Çukurova region in the 1970s. Their biggest commonality is that instead of playing ordinary neighborhood games, they are drawn to new adventures. To prove themselves to the other kids in the neighborhood, they embark on a journey that requires courage. They set their sights on photographing Yılmaz Güney, who is in Adana filming his movie "Endişe" (Anxiety)! These two young friends, traveling on foot and with a stolen camera in hand, continue their journey through the valleys between Antakya and Adana, meeting new people along the way. As their paths cross with new lives and faces, their adventures take on a new dimension.

Lal

2013

Behind the camera

Somersault in a Coffin poster
7.4

Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.

Somersault in a Coffin

1996

Little Black Fishes poster
6.0

A documentary about children in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey.

Little Black Fishes

2014

Osman Sekiz poster
7.0

Osman suffers from agoraphobia. Osman, who lives in an old mansion far from the city, avoids meeting people. Osman, who wants a more peaceful life, decides to leave the mansion. However, in order for him to move from the mansion, he must first fight with the five cute monsters and Nazli that he lives with in the mansion.

Osman Sekiz

2022

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

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

Leyla Everlasting poster
3.8

A resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.

Leyla Everlasting

2020

Where's Firuze? poster
7.2

Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to promote Ferhat's debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always what they seem...

Where's Firuze?

2004

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

F Tipi Film poster
7.0

Nine stories of resistance against solitary confinement of political prisoners in Turkey.

F Tipi Film

2012