Meral Çetinkaya

Acting

Meral Çetinkaya

Born

1945-03-05 (81)

Place of birth

Bursa, Turkey

Known for

Acting

Credits

84 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 16 titles

Oh Belinda poster
6.4

A young actor's perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial — and suddenly gets transported to her character's world.

Oh Belinda

2023

Bloodline poster
7.0

An ancient curse with roots in Egypt resurfaces in a mysterious Istanbul mansion. Summoned to the estate by his dying grandfather, Can and his friends are soon forced to confront the mansion's dark secrets and a supernatural threat.

Bloodline

2026

Etherna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Etherna

2025

Those Who Whistle After Dark poster
NR

A supernatural encounter burdens the recently retired Mr. Melih with an existential awakening. Soon he, his wife, and their daughter are all haunted by the "ghosts" of lost opportunities, abandoned dreams, and alternate possibilities -- literally...

Those Who Whistle After Dark

2025

Iron Woman: Neslican poster
6.0

Demir Kadın Neslican tells the life story of "Iron Woman" Neslican Tay, who gave hope to people with her struggle to cling to life while undergoing cancer treatment. The film recounts the difficult treatment process that began when she was diagnosed with cancer, revealing Neslican's experiences during this period and her struggle to cling to life.

Iron Woman: Neslican

2023

Tete ve Masal: Rüyalar Diyarı poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tete ve Masal: Rüyalar Diyarı

2025

Just Different poster
NR

Fikret works at the library. He is married and has a ten-year-old son. He literally has a routine life. With his wife leaving home, he loses his ability to continue his daily life. His son suddenly finds himself in the position of his father's father. The film tells the story of a father with high functioning autism and his "normal" son.

Just Different

2020

In Algorithm We Trust poster
4.0

Frustrated by failure and public humiliation, Lily, a wannabe YouTuber, finds herself with no other option but to work for a new social media app named ‘Kathartist,’ where users create content using their smart glasses. Little does she know, this app is actually a front for a cult worshiping the almighty Algorithm, brainwashing failed content makers like her for recruitment. As she becomes more involved, Lily becomes successful but grows increasingly vulnerable to Gabe, a worldwide famous influencer known for his reaction videos, particularly those targeting Lily’s original content.

In Algorithm We Trust

2025

Yaren Leylek poster
NR

Adem is not ready for the idea of having a sibling and goes to his grandmother's house with his family. There, he meets his grandfather's stork, Yaren, and they immediately become friends. Ilyas, who builds nests for storks in the village, objects to the children's desire to see the stork's nest up close. One night, Adem rescues an egg that is falling from Yaren's nest and gives it to Ilyas. Ilyas decides to help Adem and gives him a magical astrolabe. Adem believes that this astrolabe shows the location of the water of immortality and tells Kerem and Derya about it. The three friends and Yaren decide to search for the water of immortality. The events they discover in the town during this search will surprise everyone.

Yaren Leylek

2024

Vatikan'ın Şifresi: Bir Temel Macerası poster
NR

The film tells the story of Temel, who tries to overcome an impossible task with his friends in order to be with the girl he loves.

Vatikan'ın Şifresi: Bir Temel Macerası

2023

Tour Guide poster
5.3

Ercüment is a showman but every single time he performs, it ends up being a disaster. After a while of being in between jobs, he finds himself as a tour guide due to his father's illness and he has to deal with senior people that are taking the tour just so they can commit suicide together.

Tour Guide

2025

Tears of Cem Karaca poster
7.2

Against a backdrop of political unrest in Turkey, this biopic charts the life of Anatolian rock singer Cem Karaca, focusing on his revolutionary ideals. Heightened emotions and moments of threat reflect the country's rising tensions.

Tears of Cem Karaca

2024

A Matter of Prestige poster
6.0

The film, which deals with the birth and rise of the Prestige Music generation, tells the passions and life struggles of artists, including Özcan Deniz, Haluk Levent and Mahsun Kırmızıgül, from the 1990s to the present.

A Matter of Prestige

2023

The Galactic Plectrum poster
NR

Whenever his plectrum strums the strings of his saz, folk bard Necdet is drifting into strange and wondrous cosmic realms. For years, he has been estranged from his son Metin, a psychedelic rock musician. One day, Shaman Ana — walking across centuries — suddenly appears, determined to reconcile them.

The Galactic Plectrum

2025

Aşkın Dünkü Çocukları poster
NR

Askin Dünkü Çocuklari, tells a bittersweet love story from the 70s to the present day, blending it with the social issues of the period.

Aşkın Dünkü Çocukları

2025

Dalgalar ve İzler poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dalgalar ve İzler

2021

2010s · 15 titles

The Miracle poster
7.1

1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.

The Miracle

2015

Ayla: The Daughter of War poster
8.0

In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.

Ayla: The Daughter of War

2017

Sibel poster
6.7

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.

Sibel

2019

Dust Cloth poster
7.5

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.

Dust Cloth

2015

Miracles Of Love poster
6.9

During the 1960s, a disabled man finds himself in an arranged marriage to the most beautiful girl in the village.

Miracles Of Love

2019

Girls' Robbery poster
4.5

After a mother in debt seeks moral support from her three closest friends, she ends up with a ragtag crew ready to rob a bank.

Girls' Robbery

2014

Murtaza poster
8.0

Sabure and Murtaza live in a mountain village in Malatya. Sabure lost both her eyes years ago. Her husband Murtaza takes care of her. Their children live in Istanbul. One day, Murtaza goes to the village and calls his daughter in Istanbul from the grocery store and learns that she is very ill. He goes to Istanbul without telling Sabure about her daughter's condition. However, his daughter dies that evening. Murtaza hides the news of his daughter's death from Sabure so that she does not become ill or sad. But Sabure becomes increasingly quiet, and over time, her loneliness and despair come to the surface.

Murtaza

2017

Fegere poster
7.0

Arif is a retired family man who has fallen in love with acting. While working as an extra on TV series sets in the hope of being discovered, he is accidentally cast in a two-page role as a doctor. This role will also cause him to experience the most traumatic day of his life.

Fegere

2018

Babaannem poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Babaannem

2016

Benim Babam Bir Melek poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Benim Babam Bir Melek

2017

Cahide Devekuşu'nun Açık Evliliği poster
2.3

No synopsis available yet.

Cahide Devekuşu'nun Açık Evliliği

2016

Vezir Parmağı poster
3.5

In this story set in ancient times, 31 women who lost their husbands, fathers, and children in war rise up against their lack of men after many years and demand that the state send them men to marry and have children. Five single men from different regions and cultures are selected at a porter market in Istanbul to marry these 31 women. The selected men, unaware of what awaits them, believe they are going to war. However, the porters, referred to as "human donkeys," find themselves in a completely different adventure instead of the front lines.

Vezir Parmağı

2017

Tales from Kars poster
6.0

Omnibus of five short films that were shot in the Turkish province of Kars, on the border with Armenia. Among the five directors are three debutants who were chosen to film their stories after winning a scenario contest. The final result is a sympathetic collection of films that remain small and simple: the puppy love between a boy and a girl on their winter trip to school, the memories of a young woman about her mother's response to her first menstruation and bra, and the story of a student who returns to his village, but all too soon flees again for the past that is waiting for him there. The stories take place strikingly often around the cemetery and look at things from the past being revealed. The last contribution to the omnibus film is also significantly called ‘a small truth’.

Tales from Kars

2010

Ve Panayır Köyden Gider poster
5.5

A series of strange events begins in a small village with a dark past when a stranger arrives and questions his own past.

Ve Panayır Köyden Gider

2016

Secrets from the Past poster
7.0

Ali, a young photographer who lives with his family, finds himself in an unusual and sad story in Bosnia and Herzegovina after a genetic disorder. Having never visited Bosnia, he will look for the traces of his own past. Hana, who lives in Bosnia, will not leave him travel alone on this journey.

Secrets from the Past

2017

2000s · 4 titles

Vizontele poster
7.3

The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.

Vizontele

2001

Vizontele Tuuba poster
6.1

Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolated province, virtually an exile since there is no library in the village. The family is warmly welcome, but these are the years of political anarchy and leftist/rightist clashes in big cities and the youth of the village inevitably follow the tides. They arrive in Vizontele, just as the situation is becoming really absurd. Guner brings wisdom; his daughter Tuba brings beauty, innocence and love. Some like the Mayor, Nazmi Dogan and crazy Emin appreciate these things but they are in the minority and confusion continues to reign. The story is based on the memories of writer-director Yılmaz Erdoğan of the last summer of his childhood in Hakkâri, Turkey in 1980.

Vizontele Tuuba

2004

In Darkness poster
6.8

A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.

In Darkness

2009

Bliss poster
7.0

A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.

Bliss

2007

1990s · 13 titles

Duruşma poster
5.8

The story revolves around the beautiful Nazan, the neighbor's daughter, who manages to remain a virgin despite marrying two of the neighborhood's handsome men, Selami and Cavit; the fierce competition between Selami and Cavit for Nazan; the schemes orchestrated by Nazan's mother, Necla; and the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and their simple reactions. Nazan's mother Necla's schemes; the neighbors' curious observation of these intriguing developments, their astonishment, and the sudden media attention their simple lives receive, all told in a humorous tone.

Duruşma

1999

After the Fall poster
5.0

In the early days of the September 12 military coup, five-year-old Metin waits for his mother, singing to himself as he looks out the window. But his mother, Ayten, has been arrested and sent to prison. Since the child is alone at home, they take him to his mother in her cell, but despite all her jokes and games, Metin is aware of what is happening. The next day, Metin's grandfather Hüseyin Efe, who lives on Bozcaada, comes to take him, and Metin's days of freedom on the island begin. His friends exclude him because of the "communist" label his mother has been given. Yet Metin cannot even properly say the word "communist." Metin, affected by the exclusion, has another concern: his father’s photo is also on the “Wanted” posters hanging all over the island.

After the Fall

1999

The Trace poster
6.0

Commissioner Kemal, who is nearing retirement, investigates a suicide case. Cezmi Kara, whose face has become unrecognizable, has been found dead in her home. Kemal suspects that this is a murder and obsesses over the dead man's face.

The Trace

1994

The Nude poster
4.8

The story of two couples, Ayla and Yadigar and Seher and Hüseyin, who know each other on a journey through the secret history of nudity. This journey begins with two women starting nude modeling in an art academy, beyond the husbands' knowledge. But it doesn't take them long to find it out.

The Nude

1991

The 80th Step poster
9.0

The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.

The 80th Step

1996

No artwork available
8.0

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

Piano Piano Kid poster
7.5

In 1940s Turkey, the war is recently over, but the wounds are still fresh, and the WWII is going on next door. A different family lives in each room of a mansion. They all lead a scarce life but hold on to life with hope.

Piano Piano Kid

1991

İki Başlı Dev poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

İki Başlı Dev

1990

A Run for Money poster
7.1

The film is set in present-day Istanbul. Selim is a shop owner in his early forties. He sells clothing for men in his shop situated in one of the back streets of Istanbul. Selim is a family man who has devoted his life to his home and his work. He lives with his wife Ayla, his six-year-old daughter Esma and his old father in a simple flat in and old, modest neighbourhood. He has warm relations with his family. He is an affectionate father. One of his neighbours, a young widow named Nihal tries to seduce Selim, but her flirtation leaves him cold. Selim is known for his honesty and integrity among his family and friends. He is a careful spender. As a little child, he has learned that money is not easily earned. He has no tolerance for petty "trickery" met in daily life. One day, Selim finds a bag full of dollar bills (approximately 500,000$) in a cab. From that day on, Selim finds himself in a bewildered state with a bag full of money on his hands.

A Run for Money

1999

No artwork available
7.0

The story of a young man who spends his entire life trying to heal the wound his stepmother left in his soul.

Solgun Bir Sarı Gül

1996

Robert's Movie poster
9.0

Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives him the erotic charge of his life. He begins taking film of their bedroom encounters and says some pretty excessive things about how marvelous she is to him. Meanwhile, his local friends don't trust or like him enough to help him stay in Istanbul, and it seems that he will have to continue onward in his journey to safety.

Robert's Movie

1992

Denize Hançer Düştü poster
NR

The story of two female theater actors, Deniz and İpek. The events that take place during the rehearsals and staging of Jean Genet's play "The Balcony" are intertwined with love, indifference, passion, sexuality, and the lust for power, just like in the play itself.

Denize Hançer Düştü

1992

Suyun Öte Yanı poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Suyun Öte Yanı

1991

1980s · 9 titles

The Wall poster
7.2

Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal punishments, injurious harrows, tortures and sexual abuses just for taking the responsibility of their destiny on a wrong turn.

The Wall

1983

Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite poster
7.8

Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner.

Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite

1989

No artwork available
NR

The story of how a small child’s life is transformed by the woman his father loves, a cabaret singer, Anjelique. It opens in 1982, when the child is now on eighty-year old retired diplomat, living on his own with only a cat for company.

From Canto to Tango

1989

Despite Everything poster
4.9

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.

Despite Everything

1987

Ponente Lighthouse poster
6.0

Ponente Feneri is about a woman lighthouse keeper who lives on a deserted island with her elderly mother and daughter, and a man who takes refuge on the island. Şahin Gök is in the director's chair and the cast of the movie includes names such as Hülya Koçyiğit, Hakan Balamir, Arzu Aydın, Mine Çayıroğlu, Kazım Kartal.

Ponente Lighthouse

1988

A Sip of Love poster
6.6

Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.

A Sip of Love

1984

The Escape poster
4.7

Details the struggles of an oppressed woman's sexual frustrations.

The Escape

1984

Su da Yanar poster
8.0

It is the story of the dilemmas and struggles in the life of a film director during a period when fear and despair reigned, people were imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The director, who wants to make a film about Nazım Hikmet, is trying to find the money to do so.

Su da Yanar

1987

Scenes of Tide poster
6.5

Two passionate lovers who can neither live together nor apart and who are increasingly consumed by each other allow this toxic relationship to make them lose control of their lives.

Scenes of Tide

1989

Series credits

The Pit poster
7.5

When a mafia family named Koçovars are in danger of losing control of their neighborhood, “The Pit,” their youngest son must come back home, a place he could never truly escape.

The Pit

2017

Mother poster
8.3

Anne (Mother), a 2016–2017 Turkish drama, follows Zeynep, a substitute teacher who discovers her 7-year-old student, Melek, is being severely abused and neglected by her mother, Sule. To save her, Zeynep kidnaps Melek, fakes her death, and attempts to become her adoptive mother, leading to an emotional, high-stakes battle for custody and safety.

Mother

2016

Our People poster
8.2

Bizimkiler (Ours, Our People) was a Turkish drama, represented the lives of the people shared the same neighborhood. It is one of the longest-running series in Turkish television drama history.

Our People

1989

Bride of Istanbul poster
7.5

Faruk is the owner of a bus company and the leader of a powerful family in Bursa which is a metropol in Turkey. Faruk meets a violonist girl and falls in love with her. But the dominant mother of Faruk isn't happy with her son's relationship.

Bride of Istanbul

2017

Time Goes By poster
7.4

Set in the 1960s, the story of the Akarsu family includes Ali, Cemile and their four children: Berrin, a law student, Aylin and Mete, high school students, and 5 year old Osman. Ali begins an affair with Caroline, a Dutch woman, which leads to the disintegration of the family.

Time Goes By

2010

Binbir Gece poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Binbir Gece

2006

One Thousand and One Nights poster
7.1

Sehrazat, a young widow who is financially unable to treat her terminally ill young son, is forced to address to her charming boss, asking for help. The proposal by her boss changes her life forever.

One Thousand and One Nights

2006

The Gift poster
7.4

A painter in Istanbul embarks on a personal journey as she unearths universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past.

The Gift

2019

Yazlıkçılar poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Yazlıkçılar

1993

Aziz poster
6.7

Aziz Payidar, the son of the Payidar family, the largest and only carpet manufacturer in Antakya, leads a prosperous and wealthy life. Aziz's fate changes when he kills the French delegate Monsieur Pierre's son, Lieutenant Andre. He is forced to leave behind the land of his birth, his only love, in short, everything he has. Two years later, when he is thought to be dead, his return is unexpected for everyone. Nothing is the same anymore. Not only did Aziz lose everything he owned, but Antakya, which is now under French occupation, became worse than before he left. Moreover, his first love Dilruba is engaged to his uncle Galip Payidar's son Adem. He will be in a dilemma emotionally when Efnan, a simple peasant girl, unexpectedly enters his life, and after the intense emotional turmoil he experiences, he will find both himself and his true love over time.

Aziz

2021

The Late Offices poster
8.0

A Turkish mortician in his 30s, Baki is an introverted man content with his isolation from society. However, when he comes up against death at close range, a troubling question strikes him: who would wash his body after he dies? This realization pushes him to venture out into the world, hoping to connect with people and perhaps even find a spouse. Yet, his life-changing decision proves difficult to go through with, leading to a series of awkwardly humorous and sometimes bizarre situations.

The Late Offices

2024

Ariza poster
7.0

The series tells an incredibly gripping story of a regular man and taxi driver named Ali Rıza, whose life changes forever upon encountering a breathtaking customer named Halide, the precious daughter of a known mob boss

Ariza

2020

Mehmed: The Conqueror poster
6.3

Fatih series will be about the life of Ottoman sultan Fatih Sultan Mehmet.

Mehmed: The Conqueror

2018

Darmaduman poster
5.8

The Servet family moves from Eskişehir to Istanbul for family reasons and find themselves in a totally different environment. As the twins Kerem and Ece try to blend in with the environment in the private college they just started, they will meet completely different people. While taking the path towards adulthood step-by-step suffering from growing pains, they will go on a long journey called youth where they will discover themselves while being scattered with mistakes and the excitements of first love.As the twins are tested with growing pains, the confrontation between their father Harun and his father who he hasn’t seen for 25 years will challenge the whole family. On the other hand, their mother Beliz is going to enter a new era where she will discover herself. When Asaf and Ayla start to live under the same roof with their son and their grandchildren after 25 years, their conflicts will make them understand that growth and maturity spread out over a lifetime.

Darmaduman

2022

Sizi Dinliyorum poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sizi Dinliyorum

2022

Sizi Dinliyorum poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sizi Dinliyorum

2022

Another Day poster
5.5

The original series tells the story of a small-town Welsh lawyer, wife and mother, Faith, whose maternity leave is cut short when her husband and business partner, Evan, suddenly goes missing. As Faith sets about searching for the truth behind Evan's disappearance, she discovers that her seemingly idyllic home town hides many dark secrets that pose a danger to her and her beloved family and make her question how well she knows the man who is her husband.

Another Day

2025

Saklı Kalan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saklı Kalan

2013

Urfalıyam Ezelden poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Urfalıyam Ezelden

2014

Gülbeyaz poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Gülbeyaz

2002

The Devil's in the Details poster
8.5

The adventures of Captain Nevzat and his assistant Ali. The series that have been adapted from Ahmet Umit's stories.

The Devil's in the Details

2004

Some Interesting Events poster
6.0

What kind of life would İbo have if he did not follow his dreams and continued to stay with his family in Bursa? Abandoned by his fiance and living with his family, 37-year-old İbo will follow the path his family drew or will he make his own way?

Some Interesting Events

2021

Bir Mucize Olsun poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Bir Mucize Olsun

2018

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keşanlı Ali Destanı

1988