Best Turkish fantasy movies

Aaahh Belinda (1986)

Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role of a traditional housewife in a shampoo commercial. However, she is unaware that this commercial will turn into her worst nightmare.

The Little Apocalypse (2006)

Having lost her mother in the 1999 earthquake, Bilge and her family go on a vacation to the south. On the way to their rented house, she sees a series of visions. Things get worse when a small earthquake occurs, bringing back memories of her loss and releasing her inner demons.

The Antenna (2020)

In a dystopian Turkey, the Government begins installing new TV antennas to homes throughout the country. Mehmet, a superintendent at a crumbling apartment complex, has to supervise the installation of the new antenna. When the broadcast it transmits begins to menace the residents of the apartment complex. Mehmet must seek out the spiteful entity. The night bulletin reflects the oppressed society of today's Turkey where freedom of speech is in jeopardy.

The Rejected (2019)

A woman is living alone at home, having an abortion want to get rid of her baby in the stomach. But it will not be as easy as she has expected.

Dark Waters (1994)

An American in Istanbul gets entangled in the affairs of a melancholic aristocrat and her son Haldun, leading him slowly into a dangerous web through many secret layers of the city.

You're My Home (2012)

After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...

My Dreams, My Love, and You (1987)

Coşkun has been in love with the famous star Derya Altınay since his childhood. So much so that the fictional melodrama film heroines, who have opposite characters, have infiltrated the young man’s life. Coşkun has the opportunity to meet Derya; he pens an imaginary love story with her in mind. This script is eventually made into a film, and Derya plays the lead role, but the resulting film is far from his expectations.

Minik Cadı (1975)

The Messenger (2008)

In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.

The Shadowless (2009)

A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. One day, he takes the day off and disappears abruptly without warning anyone. He then settles in a far-flung village. Some mysterious events start happening in the village as people disappear one by one.

Kabuslar Evi: Tanıdık Yabancı (2006)

Discharged from the mental institution after a long treatment, Derya (Z.Gencer) returns to her village, where her mother lives (G.Ökten). While trying hard to forget her miserable memories, including her son's tragic demise, her life completely changes due to a job offer by Sema Emlak.

The Stone (2017)

Tas (Rock) is a film that presents a cross-section of the life of a family living a hard life in the countryside. It is a touch of sadness in the life of people living in nature- even as a part of it. And that life is nothing more than the waiting of a woman and man who lost their son. After waiting for many years, the family tries to get rid of the uncertainty by believing that the wounded man they found at the door is Selim (Ahmet Varli), their son.

Alice The Musical (2023)

Feeling stuck in her life, Alice follows the call of a mobile app and plots into a virtual world by following the white rabbit. She finds herself in a fantastic world while she searching for answers to the “Who am I?”. Alice will test her courage in this new universe with her imagination and fears.

The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet (1976)

Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.

Kutsal Damacana 2: İtmen (2010)

Fikret returns to Istanbul to tangle with Somali pirates and sojourns in a Budhist monastery to battle a werewolf.

Kutsal Damacana 4 (2023)

Fikret accidentally becomes a priest, finding himself in an unpredictable position in the priesthood. Unexpectedly rising to the Vatican, Fikret decides to return home.

Dracula in Istanbul (1953)

Azmi is a lawyer from Istanbul. Drakula of Romania has assumed a new title. Azmi travels to Romania for legal matters. He is warned of Drakula but Azmi is a strong believer of goodness. This Turkish-made film sticks fairly close to the original plot of Bram Stoker's novel.

Kutsal Damacana: Dracoola (2011)

Sebo, who was left in the courtyard of the mosque the day he was born and fed with the bait of pigeons and doves, finds himself beside a wealthy businessman when he grows up. Things change when Sebo falls in love but Count Dracula seeks revenge on Sebo because Sebo's great-great-grandfather stole Dracula's lover.

Gulyabani (2014)

Gunes, Duygu, Asli and Yasemin go to a hunting house in the forest to write a film script which is a fantastic subject. Things that they do not anticipate when they try to explore the soul of the place will come back to life. Gulyabani legend they heard from a woman came to them empty at first.

Kutsal Damacana 5: Zombi! (2025)

A family man leads a band of survivors through a zombie apocalypse.

Gomeda (2007)

5 friends take a road trip to visit the caves within the Gomeda valley. Little do they know that these caves are still haunted by memories of torture that took place in the past. As they get closer, one by one, their dreams turn into nightmares, their nightmares turn into hallucinations, and their hallucinations turn into reality until the line between real and surreal exists no more: The valley begins to resemble the mother's womb, and the caves begin to resemble the umbilical cord between the mother and her unborn child. The memories of torture give way to the ever-haunting presence of guilt and regret that could only be felt by a mother.

Love Stories of the Pale Night (1966)

A man living between dream and reality, making the woman he fell in love with as a statue and falling in love with her and then killing her in his dreams.

Abbase Sultan (1968)

The story of Abbase Sultan, who ruled the country in the Abbasid Caliph.

Oh Belinda (2023)

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.

Her Name Is Vasfiye (1985)

The story of a provincial woman named Vasfiye, whose life passed changing hands and drifting between men in Aegean towns, is told by different narrators. The story changes every time the narrator changes. However, it is not known which story is the truth.

Game, Interrupted (2023)

1979, Turkey: While the mood on the streets of Ankara is charged with tension shortly before the military coup, a young brother and sister lose themselves in imaginative games. When Darth Vader suddenly appears on their doorstep, time and space become blurred.

Devil, My Friend (1988)

Fatih is a struggling musician whose efforts did not pay. One night disappointed, he talks to his "Plastic Sweetheart" a realistic-looking mannequin in a shop window that, "he could even sell his soul to the Devil for fame"...and then he sees the Devil himself. They make a deal that Fatih will sell his soul to the Devil and the Devil will strike him to fame, using the record executives, venue owners and commercial executives whom he had their souls. However the times had changed, and the human had proved to be more evil and smarter than the Devil himself...

The Bank of Broken Hearts (2017)

Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sad end in a Shakespearean manner.

Hayalet Dayı (2015)

A White Night (2018)

A man who talks with the buildings of the city meets an old woman who is about to die. They spend a magical night together.