# The best Haluk Bilginer movies

From Innocence to Winter Sleep, from Killing the Shadows to Noah Land: Haluk Bilginer's best films according to lists by Posta and Neoldu.

- 14 votes · 13 items
- May 12, 2026 · filmbuff_istanbul
- https://even.best/en/l/4473/the-best-haluk-bilginer-movies

## Top 13

1. **Güneşin Oğlu (2008)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Onur Ünlü. Fikri Şemsigil, who believes he is the son of the sun.
2. **Güle Güle (2000)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Zeki Ökten. Lifelong friends on one last journey.
3. **Winter Sleep (2014)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Aydın, a hotel owner in Cappadocia. Palme d'Or at Cannes.
4. **Innocence (1997)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Zeki Demirkubuz. Bekir, a man obsessed with Uğur.
5. **Killing the Shadows (2006)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ezel Akay. Karagöz of the shadow play.
6. **Noah Land (2019)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cenk Ertürk. Ömer, back in his village for his father's funeral.
7. **Where's Firuze? (2004)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ezel Akay. A comedy about the music business in the cassette era.
8. **Elephants and Grass (2001)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Derviş Zaim. A political thriller echoing the Susurluk scandal.
9. **Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mustafa Altıoklar. Hezarfen, who tries to fly in 17th-century Istanbul.
10. **Polis (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Onur Ünlü. A darkly comic police story.
11. **Cars of the Revolution (2008)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Tolga Örnek. The engineers who built Turkey's first domestic car in 1961.
12. **Rosewater (2014)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Jon Stewart. Journalist Maziar Bahari's detention in Iran.
13. **Buffalo Soldiers (2001)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A black comedy set on a US Army base, with Joaquin Phoenix and Ed Harris.

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