Atıf Yılmaz

Directing

Atıf Yılmaz

Born — Died

1925-12-09 — 2006-05-05

Place of birth

Turkey

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki (9 December 1925 – 5 May 2006) was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in most every period of the Turkish film industry. After finishing high school in Mersin, he attended the Law School of Istanbul University. Because of his interest in arts, he dropped out of Law School and entered the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. After graduating from the Academy, he did some painting works in workshops. His education in painting helped him when he was directing …

Known for

Laf Lafı Açıyor poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Laf Lafı Açıyor

1991

Altın Koza poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Altın Koza

1969

Borrowed Bride poster
6.3

Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......

Borrowed Bride

2005

The Lake poster
6.3

Nalan reminds Murat of his wife who died in the lake. After a while, Murat convinces himself that Nalan is his dead wife, Sabiha. Murat loses his sense of reality when a new man gets involved.

The Lake

1982

Walking After Midnight poster
4.2

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

Walking After Midnight

1992

The Girl with the Red Scarf poster
7.7

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

The Girl with the Red Scarf

1977

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Borrowed Bride poster
6.3

Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......

Borrowed Bride

2005

The Lake poster
6.3

Nalan reminds Murat of his wife who died in the lake. After a while, Murat convinces himself that Nalan is his dead wife, Sabiha. Murat loses his sense of reality when a new man gets involved.

The Lake

1982

Walking After Midnight poster
4.2

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

Walking After Midnight

1992

Walking After Midnight poster
4.2

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

Walking After Midnight

1992

The Girl with the Red Scarf poster
7.7

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

The Girl with the Red Scarf

1977

I Love You poster
NR

As a coincidence, Murat founds his ex-love Selma after several years in his town. He would like to make up and regain her trust and love. However Selma already have a different life style.

I Love You

1983

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

Köroğlu poster
6.8

The epic tells about the life and heroic deeds of Koroghlu (literally "son of the blind man") as a hero of the people who struggled against unjust rulers, defending his clan or tribe.

Köroğlu

1968

Feyzo, The Polite One poster
7.9

To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father.

Feyzo, The Polite One

1978

İbo and Güllüşah poster
5.7

A poor villager who cannot marry the girl he loves because he cannot afford a bride-price, follows her to Istanbul. But he is unable to raise the money and appear in front of his father. Meanwhile, his friendship with a little girl he meets by chance complicates everything. Seeking attention from her family, the girl tells the young man to kidnap her for ransom. In this way, both she will test whether she is loved or not, and the poor boy will get the girl he loves and wants to marry thanks to the ransom. But things turn into a tangle in an instant.

İbo and Güllüşah

1977

İbo and Güllüşah poster
5.7

A poor villager who cannot marry the girl he loves because he cannot afford a bride-price, follows her to Istanbul. But he is unable to raise the money and appear in front of his father. Meanwhile, his friendship with a little girl he meets by chance complicates everything. Seeking attention from her family, the girl tells the young man to kidnap her for ransom. In this way, both she will test whether she is loved or not, and the poor boy will get the girl he loves and wants to marry thanks to the ransom. But things turn into a tangle in an instant.

İbo and Güllüşah

1977

Battı Balık poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Battı Balık

1962

Deli Yusuf poster
6.0

A wealthy man named Abbas, the lord of Bolu, exploited the poor people in his region for many years. The people rose up against him under the leadership of a brave young man named Deli Yusuf. The lord asked an honest blacksmith who had worked for him for years but had never strayed from justice and truth to build a carriage for him. The old man and his son worked hard for a long time to build the carriage. However, when the cruel lord learns that the cart will be used as a weapon against the poor people who have risen up against him, things change. Despite all the difficulties, Yusuf stands with the people against the lord and begins the fight.

Deli Yusuf

1975

Deli Yusuf poster
6.0

A wealthy man named Abbas, the lord of Bolu, exploited the poor people in his region for many years. The people rose up against him under the leadership of a brave young man named Deli Yusuf. The lord asked an honest blacksmith who had worked for him for years but had never strayed from justice and truth to build a carriage for him. The old man and his son worked hard for a long time to build the carriage. However, when the cruel lord learns that the cart will be used as a weapon against the poor people who have risen up against him, things change. Despite all the difficulties, Yusuf stands with the people against the lord and begins the fight.

Deli Yusuf

1975

The Windmill poster
7.2

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.

The Windmill

1986

Mill Horse poster
7.0

Ali, an honest and honorable man, moves to Istanbul when he is transferred there. He moves in with his sister Hacer and brother-in-law Yakup. Yakup's niece Ayşe also lives in the same house. From the day he starts his job as a civil servant, Ali reacts against the swindlers and bribe-takers around him. As a result, his boss and other civil servants become uncomfortable with the situation. When Yakup runs away with the money he collected to build a mosque, Ali and Ayşe are left alone. Not wanting to leave each other, the two get married. Ali is fired from his job for preventing the civil servants from taking bribes and goes to the village with Ayşe. Yakup, who has fled to Istanbul, calls Ali and Ayşe to join him at his insistence. Ali and his family, who go to Yakup's side out of desperation, will never be able to escape their troubles.

Mill Horse

1982

Mill Horse poster
7.0

Ali, an honest and honorable man, moves to Istanbul when he is transferred there. He moves in with his sister Hacer and brother-in-law Yakup. Yakup's niece Ayşe also lives in the same house. From the day he starts his job as a civil servant, Ali reacts against the swindlers and bribe-takers around him. As a result, his boss and other civil servants become uncomfortable with the situation. When Yakup runs away with the money he collected to build a mosque, Ali and Ayşe are left alone. Not wanting to leave each other, the two get married. Ali is fired from his job for preventing the civil servants from taking bribes and goes to the village with Ayşe. Yakup, who has fled to Istanbul, calls Ali and Ayşe to join him at his insistence. Ali and his family, who go to Yakup's side out of desperation, will never be able to escape their troubles.

Mill Horse

1982

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

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

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

İşte Hayat poster
7.0

The film tells the love story of a girl who wants to be famous and the television presenter she kidnaps. Ayşe is a poor girl who wants to be an actress. She and her mother Makbule make a plan to kidnap television presenter Uğur Dündar. Their goal is for Uğur to cast Ayşe in a film. To this end, they take inappropriate photos of Ayşe and use them to threaten Uğur. When the photographer who develops the films Makbule took recognizes Uğur, the police find him. Uğur also tries to make Ayşe an actress. However, as time goes on, Ayşe begins to realize she has no talent for it.

İşte Hayat

1975

Berdel poster
7.0

Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and his first wife gives birth to their forth daughter.

Berdel

1990

Günahsızlar poster
NR

The film tells the story of a young man whose life is turned upside down after committing a murder. Kemal is a successful architect. He discovers that his girlfriend has been cheating on him with Ökkeş, the owner of a casino. Kemal is brutally beaten by Ökkeş's men, but he takes his revenge by killing Ökkeş. Although the young man is acquitted in court, his conscience is not at ease. He takes in Ökkeş's young daughter, who is left behind. However, the crime he committed in the past will not leave Kemal alone.

Günahsızlar

1972

Sugar Pie Lady poster
7.5

In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.

Sugar Pie Lady

1983

Utanç poster
3.3

A woman who has been raped disappears.

Utanç

1972

Şimal Yıldızı poster
8.0

The film tells the story of a Turkish platoon serving in the Korean War. First Lieutenant Kemal is sent to Korea on a mission to learn the enemy's routes of operation. He sets out with a group of soldiers. They take up position at the farm of Can Bey, who lives in the area they have arrived at. The reconnaissance team discovers that the enemy is preparing for an operation. Lieutenant Kemal and his soldiers will attempt to thwart the enemy by making the necessary plans.

Şimal Yıldızı

1954

The Poor poster
6.0

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have no one, no jobs... Apart from Haci and Arap, everything will be the same for Abuzer, who doesn't know where to go. He will still be alone, starving on the streets of the big city.

The Poor

1975

The Poor poster
6.0

The semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are released. What are Abuzer, Haci and Arap going to do when they will be out? They have no one, no jobs... Apart from Haci and Arap, everything will be the same for Abuzer, who doesn't know where to go. He will still be alone, starving on the streets of the big city.

The Poor

1975

Unmade Bed poster
4.0

Meryem, who opposes male domination and behaves very strictly to her hired lovers, falls in love with Ismail, who works as a waitress at an invitation she attends.

Unmade Bed

1984

Oh, Beautiful Istanbul poster
6.8

The lovely Ayşe moves from her country village to Istanbul in the hope of becoming an actress. One day she meets Haşmet, a grumpy, world-weary street photographer. He takes it upon himself to cure Ayşe of what he sees as her blind optimism, but some of it begins to rub off on the old cynic.

Oh, Beautiful Istanbul

1966

Nihavend Mucize poster
4.9

Suzan died 25 years ago. But after seeing his son's loneliness and despair in the world, he had to return to the world at the end of these 25 years. The world he left is completely different from the world he finds. Suzan suffers from a deep adaptation to this change. After a while, he realizes that he must adopt such a fit.

Nihavend Mucize

1997

The Bloody Cry poster
9.0

The story of a young man who took refuge in a sheikhs farm, then slandered by his wife.

The Bloody Cry

1951

Tuzak poster
9.0

A young man, who is a doctor, returns home when he hears that his father, the mayor, has been murdered. He begins to investigate who killed his father, his only thought was to avenge.

Tuzak

1976

The Second Wife poster
7.5

A peasant woman who cannot bear children for her husband agrees to take in a concubine as a result of pressure from her community and finds the concubine herself. The new woman is also unable to bear children. However, the first woman becomes pregnant in the meantime. The jealous concubine slanders her, and the villagers tie the woman they call a "whore" to a tree to kill her. Her husband arrives in time to rescue her, and they leave the village.

The Second Wife

1974

The Second Wife poster
7.5

A peasant woman who cannot bear children for her husband agrees to take in a concubine as a result of pressure from her community and finds the concubine herself. The new woman is also unable to bear children. However, the first woman becomes pregnant in the meantime. The jealous concubine slanders her, and the villagers tie the woman they call a "whore" to a tree to kill her. Her husband arrives in time to rescue her, and they leave the village.

The Second Wife

1974

The Man Who Strikes Gold poster
6.6

Adem is working as a waiter and he gets fired at that moment he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle in USA. Women start to throw themselves at him, people try to use him, everyone acts nicer to him while he is try to manage his new life.

The Man Who Strikes Gold

1978

Fire Piece poster
6.3

Azize is a singer in a tent theater. Tarik, on the other hand, is the son of a high society family, famous for his debauchery. Tarik takes Azize, who is on the road, in his car on a stormy day. Their friendship, which started with fights, soon turns into love.

Fire Piece

1971

The Messenger of Death poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Messenger of Death

1963

Ölüm Tarlası poster
10.0

The film deals with the bleeding wound of smuggling in the Southeast.

Ölüm Tarlası

1966

Güllü poster
6.1

A peasant woman rescues a rich playboy from a car crash. Playboy sets up a fake marriage to get her and leaves. Peasant woman chases him to take revenge.

Güllü

1971