Yılmaz Güney
Popularity:0.175
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1937-04-01
Place of Birth:Adana, Turkey
Homepage:https://yilmazguneyofficial.com/
Also Known As:Çirkin Kral, Йылмаз Гюней, یەڵماز گیونەی

The Legend of the Ugly King (2017)
Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

We Called Him the Ugly King (1987)
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's...

The Hungry Wolves (1969)
Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains to avenge the death of his wife. One day he saves a woman from...

Bullets Won't Touch Me (1967)
Yadigar goes to Istanbul from the village to make money. Becomes a famous bully in four years.

Elegy (1972)
Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccesable mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in,...

Law of the Border (1966)
In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of...

Ten Fearless Men (1964)
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.

The Poor (1974)
The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three...

The Fallow Deer (1959)
During a day of deer hunting, Karaca Ali Aga (Talat Gözbak) finds a girl wandering around, and immediately falls in love with her. Some time...

This Land's Children (1958)
During the dark days of the war of independence, Kemal (Ali Ekdal) sneaks his way to deliver the secret letter to Ankara.

Red River, Black Sheep (1967)
The daughter of the lord of the village and a poor herdsman cannot get married for traditional reasons, but the village elders find a way out of this...

I Live When I Die (1965)
Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz...

Sayılı Kabadayılar (1965)
A whole gang of racketeers in Istanbul share their interests in the next amnesty proclamation, for Osman (Yilmaz Güney), lying in prison for...

Both Were Brave (1963)
"İkisi de Cesurdu" (Both Were Brave) produced in 1963, tells the story of a gang leader in exile.

Pain (1971)
Ali grew up as an orphan in a village in Kapadokia and became one of Haceli´s henchmen who is the village´s mafia boss. On his orders Ali...

Friend (1974)
After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a...

The Father (1971)
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany....

Kozanoğlu (1967)
Hüseyin's father, who is a member of the Kozanoglu tribe, dies when he does not pay the fee requested by the Bey. Upon this situation,...

Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney (2016)
In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

Prangasız Mahkumlar (1964)
Yilmaz is released from prison, while trying to talk to the girl he loves, on the other hand, he embarks on a tough struggle against the order...

Autour du mur (1983)
One year after director Yilmaz Guney escaped from a Turkish prison, he started shooting his film the Wall on the injustices of the military regime in...

Live Target (1970)
An old mafia leader tries to quit his old bloody past after getting out of jail but his rivals don't let him realize his plan. Asim Mavzer, played...

Hope (1970)
After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.

Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause (2014)
A documentary that explore the films and eventful life of the Kurdish director, actor, writer and revolutionary Yilmaz Güney, who achieved...

The Ugly King (1966)
The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown.

Bride of the Earth (1968)
In this rural revenge drama, Güney plays Seyyit Han, a poor man in love with a woman from his Anatolian village who returns his affection....

Yedi Belalılar (1970)
The Magnificent Seven, Turksploitation style.

The Hopeless Ones (1971)
O.K. so the serious bad-ass badman Firat can not have this gorgeous blonde with huge hair and equally huge false eyelashes not because he is a...

Tehlikeli Adam (1965)
Turkish thriller inspired by PSYCHO.

Horse, Woman and Gun (1966)
Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik's path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life.

Balatlı Arif (1967)
Arif is a young man who lives with his family in Balat. He supports his family by working as his father's horse carriage driver. Gülşen, the...

My Name Is Kerim (1967)
The story of an undercover cop living with his son.

Nuri the Flea (1968)
Pire Nuri has just been released from prison. However, as soon as he gets out, he gets involved in illegal activities again and ends up at the police...

The Profiteers (1971)
The story of two profiteers, Kont and Cessi, captures a valuable diamond causing the mafia go after them.

Tomorrow is The Last Day (1971)
Gangsters and lovers Black Child (Guney) and Blue Child (Girik) decide to live a quiet and simple life away from crime. But their enemies and police...

Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films (1987)
A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison...

Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası (1964)
Belma is a beautiful and charming woman who makes everyone's head spin. All the men in the village are in love with her.

Sezercik Yavrum Benim (1971)
A fatherless child and his mother struggle to make ends meet meanwhile the fatherless child is not aware that the strange he has met is actually his...

An Ugly Man (1969)
"A Bad Man" - Bino is a contract killer. The owners of a dance hall hires Bino to kill Hayati Hamzaoglu, who collects tribute from their business....

Fugitives (1971)
Osman kidnaps Elif with a focus on his goal, but things will not go as expected. A naive and sensitive bond will be formed between this extremely...

Private Osman (1970)
A photographer who is a well known criminal gets his hands full when an old flame reporter starts throwing him in the headlines.

The Warning (1971)
The story of the murderer nicknamed Doctor who escaped from prison.

Room 666 (1982)
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and...