Best Turkish family movies

Üşütük (1984)

Nuri has a low salary job and can't convince his wife to live with it, so the wife (her name Nuriye) tries to go out and work with her brother at a disco and this makes Nuri become crazy.

Badi (1983)

An alien is stranded on earth and eventually befriends a young boy during his quest to return to his home planet. Badi is a Turkish remake of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

Poor (1986)

Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.

Sultan (1978)

A portrait of a young, depressed Turkish widow in the slums whose infinite dignity alone looks after her orphan kids is depicted by the son of the town sheriff, who is in love with her.

Rauf (2016)

Rauf hopes to win over his big crush, the older Zana, with the help of the colour pink. But what does pink really look like anyways, and will he even be able to find it in his snowy little Kurdish village up in the mountains? Meanwhile, disturbing rumours sweep in from the outside world.

Sûret (2013)

Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love (1971)

Turkish Pollyanna's story.

Peş Peşe (2010)

Wind (2018)

At the age of 35, Ece is the assistant general manager of a company that produces baby diapers. There is a happy relationship with her lover Alper. Because of Ece, they can not get married. At this very moment, the 10-year-old Ruzgar, a snatching gang member who unexpectedly enters their lives, will change everything. The heroes who try to beat the street gang are thrown into an adventure that will make them a great family.

The Visitor (2016)

Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death's door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father's world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.

Plane Tree (2018)

Mustafa lives in Kars with his 8 years old disabled son Rıza and his wife Suna.

Hazreti Eyüb'ün Sabrı (1965)

Yaşamak Ne Güzel Şey (1969)

Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli (1967)

Castle of Stories (2019)

While on summer vacation, a young girl stumbles upon a magical key that unlocks the door to a fairy-tale realm and leads to a fantastical adventure.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1971)

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

The Kid (2008)

Make a Wish (2022)

In one parallel coming-of-age story, Kaan is faced with being uprooted from home; in the other, Berke is faced with bullying. Both demonstrate that when you know and choose what you want - Make a Wish - you can change your life.

Oh Olsun (1973)

A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor of his factory, where one of them falls in love.

Billionaire (1986)

A civil servant in a small town, shunned by his family and his friends due to his lack of ambition, hits the jackpot in the national lottery. Not trusting anybody around him, he gradually starts to lose his mind.

My Mother (2019)

A self sacrificing, selfless mother who makes the impossible "possible" for her daughter - a daughter who is ashamed of her mother and wants to run away from her mother and her life with her. Her journey to the college drives Nazli away from the village she has grown up - but years later, she wants to go back to the village where she was born, back to her mother - after all those years passed by with tons of "I wish". Candan Ercetin performed her song "Annem - Mom" once again for the movie twenty years later.

Expat Şaban (1985)

Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen.

Cold of Kalandar (2016)

Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.

Mommo: Kız Kardeşim (2009)

A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.

Maide'nin Altın Günü (2017)

When a meticulous homemaker hosts a lavish get-together, her family heirloom gets stolen. She teams with her out-of-towner nephew to find the thief.

Piano Piano Kid (1991)

In 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.

Görevimiz Tatil (2018)

Bizim Köyün Şarkısı (2018)

The Plane Tree (2011)

A matriarch and her grandson forge a special bond during family picnics every two months, until her health causes a conflict among the relatives.

Gönül Dağı "Kurban" (2021)