# The best Turkish films of all time

Turkish films with the highest IMDb ratings, the most mentions in Habertürk and similar lists, and international festival awards: from Yeşilçam classics to Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

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- Feb 13, 2026 · Damla
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## Top 22

1. **The Girl with the Red Scarf** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Atıf Yılmaz, 1977. Türkan Şoray and Kadir İnanır; a love story adapted from Chingiz Aitmatov.
2. **Yol (The Way)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney, 1982. Five prisoners on leave; Palme d'Or at Cannes.
3. **My Father and My Son** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Çağan Irmak, 2005. Çetin Tekindor and Fikret Kuşkan; rated 8.3 on IMDb, one of the best-loved Turkish films.
4. **Hababam Class** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ertem Eğilmez, 1975. Naughty high-school students with Kemal Sunal and Tarık Akan; a Turkish comedy classic.
5. **The Bandit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yavuz Turgul, 1996. Şener Şen as Baran, a bandit who reaches Istanbul after 35 years in prison.
6. **Winter Sleep** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014. A hotel owner in Cappadocia and those around him; Palme d'Or.
7. **Once Upon a Time in Anatolia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011. A night-long search for a body on the steppe; Grand Prix at Cannes.
8. **Vizontele** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yılmaz Erdoğan and Ömer Faruk Sorak, 2001. The first television arrives in a village in Hakkâri.
9. **Dry Summer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Metin Erksan, 1963. A water feud in a village; the first Turkish film to win the Golden Bear in Berlin.
10. **Hope** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yılmaz Güney, 1970. A carriage driver whose horse dies and his desperate treasure hunt; a turning point in Turkish cinema.
11. **Honey** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2010. Little Yusuf searches for his beekeeper father; Golden Bear in Berlin.
12. **Ayla: The Daughter of War** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Can Ulkay, 2017. A Turkish soldier and an orphan girl in the Korean War; a true story.
13. **Miracle in Cell No. 7** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mehmet Ada Öztekin, 2019. A father wrongly sentenced to death and his daughter; watched worldwide on Netflix.
14. **Tosun Pasha** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kartal Tibet, 1976. A Yeşilçam comedy set in Egypt with Kemal Sunal and Şener Şen.
15. **Milk Brothers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ertem Eğilmez, 1976. Kemal Sunal and Şener Şen's village-wedding comedy.
16. **Mr. Muhsin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yavuz Turgul, 1987. Şener Şen as an old-school music promoter; a lament for traditional Turkish music.
17. **The Wild Pear Tree** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018. Young Sinan, who wants to be a writer, and his indebted father.
18. **Happy Days** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Orhan Aksoy, 1978. Twins trying to reunite their separated parents; a Yeşilçam family classic.
19. **G.O.R.A.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ömer Faruk Sorak, 2004. Cem Yılmaz as Arif, a carpet seller abducted by aliens; a box-office record at the time.
20. **About Dry Grasses** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023. A teacher in eastern Anatolia; Merve Dizdar won Best Actress at Cannes.
21. **Kibar Feyzo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Atıf Yılmaz, 1978. A village comedy with Kemal Sunal satirising the feudal landlords.
22. **Distant** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002. A photographer in wintry Istanbul and his relative from the village; Grand Prix at Cannes.
23. **Heartache** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yavuz Turgul's 2005 film, starring Şener Şen as a retired teacher.
24. **Herd** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1978 film directed by Zeki Ökten, written by Yılmaz Güney.
25. **There is Life** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Reha Erdem's 2008 film is the story of a young girl on the shores of the Bosphorus.
26. **innocence** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zeki Demirkubuz's 1997 film is a dark drama that was shown in Venice.

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