The best Haluk Bilginer’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Haluk Bilginer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Haluk Bilginer.
Buffalo Soldiers
6.7/10
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Ishtar
4.7/10
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Stuck Apart
6/10
Entrenched in a midlife crisis, Aziz seeks solace from his mundane job, lonesome friends and rowdy family while pretending to have his act together.
Where's Firuze?
7.4/10
Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Ferhat, a gastarbeiter in Germany, and desperately bring him to Istanbul to sign him. As they are struggling to find the necessary funds to promote Ferhat's debut album, a mysterious rich woman named Firuze shows up and starts supporting them. The future now seems bright, but things are not always what they seem...
Robbery Alla Turca
4.4/10
With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared to be sold at an auction, two Turkish thieves from Germany are hired to steal valuable paintings from the art collection. Meanwhile, Seckin the fashioner designer - also the brother of Binnur, wife of the late billionaire - prepares for a fashion show in the same hotel that the robbery is going to take place. With the intervention of police, the beautiful model and her ex-lover, a hip papparazi, the two "Laz" mafia bosses seeking revenge, and the getaway driver straight out of Selcuk Erdem caricatures, the robbery is bound to go wrong. Prepare for a twist at the end as the plot unfolds towards a climactic ending...
Killing the Shadows
7.5/10
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and died by their sense of humour.
Leyla Everlasting
3.7/10
A resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.
Forget About Nick
5.3/10
A German woman in New York is busy redesigning her life from model to designer, but is forced to live with her husband’s ex-wife when he disappears.
The Last Schnitzel
6.8/10
The world is ending, but the president of The Grand Turkish Republic won’t let that happen until he has a chicken schnitzel. Gleefully silly science fiction satire with political bite.
Güneşin Oğlu
7/10
Bütün hayatını bir mucize bekleyerek geçiren Fikri Şemsigil, sonunda bu mucizeyi yaşar ve 'Güneşin Oğlu' olduğunu öğrenir. Fakat yaşadığı mucize, düşündüğünün aksine Fikri Bey'in hayatını alt üst eder. Fikri Bey'in ruhu artık, çevresindeki insanların bedenlerine girip çıkmaktadır. Ve sonunda Fikri Bey, bu kez, yıllarca beklediği mucizeden kurtulmak için, gerçeklerin peşine düşmek zorunda olduğunu anlar. Olaylar çığırından çıkmıştır. Peki, karşı apartmandaki komşusu dünyalar güzeli kız ne olacaktır?
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
6.1/10
Kısık Ateşte 15 Dakika'nın ana mekânı İstanbul'da şık bir Fransız restoranı le chic. Film restoranın sahipleri, çalışanları ve müşterilerini oluşturan çeşitli karakterlerin her birinin bu restoranda geçen 15 dk. yı anlatıyor. 21:00-21-15. Herkesin hayatında bir 15 dk. vardır.
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
6.3/10
Remake of a well-known Turkish musical comedy loved by generations, the film is about the adventures of flirtatious Hurmuz in late 1800's Istanbul. Hurmuz who lives in Taskasap, Istanbul has six husbands in a plot to solve her economic problems. She arranges to meet each of her husbands one day of the week. However, suddenly, she falls in love with the town's doctor whom she meets at her husband's barber shop. The doctor falls in love with her too... But, one night all six husbands come home at the same time, and Hurmuz and Safinaz - Hurmuz's "go-between/accomplice/friend" - find themselves in a series of very awkward yet funny situations.
Beans
7.2/10
The duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax return forms to him. Taking the forms along with the lunchbox full of beans his mother cooked for him, he's underway. But he meets some weird people on the way, who also run into some other weird people, and things start to follow an unexpected path for everyone involved, bringing hillarious moments along.
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
5.2/10
