Screenplay: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
About Dry Grasses
2023 · Movie · 197 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Merve Dizdar · Deniz Celiloglu · Musab Ekici · Ece Bagci
Plot A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life....
7.6
128 votes
7.6
128 votes
Winter Sleep
2014 · Movie · 195 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Haluk Bilginer · Melisa Sözen · Demet Akbag · Mehmet Ali Nuroglu
Plot Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering...
7.3
4K votes
7.3
4K votes
The Wild Pear Tree
2018 · Movie · 188 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Dogu Demirkol · Murat Cemcir · Hazar Ergüçlü · Bennu Yildirimlar
Plot An aspiring writer returns to her native village in rural Turkey, but becomes overwhelmed by her father's debts.
7.1
977 votes
7.1
977 votes
Uzak (Distant)
2002 · Movie · 110 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Muzaffer Özdemir · Emin Toprak · Zuhal Gencer · Ebru Ceylan
Plot Having lost his job in a provincial town, a twentysomething Turk with limited prospects (Toprak) descends on his photographer cousin (Zdemir) in Istanbul and proceeds not only to disrupt his...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2011 · Movie · 158 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Muhammet Uzuner · Yilmaz Erdogan · Taner Birsel · Ugur Aslanoglu
Plot Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes: the sense that "something new and different" will spring up behind every hill, but always...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Climates (Iklimler)
2006 · Movie · 101 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Ebru Ceylan · Nuri Bilge Ceylan · Nazan Kesal · Mehmet Eryilmaz
Plot Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones......
6.6
905 votes
6.6
905 votes
Clouds of May
1999 · Movie · 130 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Emin Ceylan · Muzaffer Özdemir · Fatma Ceylan · Emin Toprak
Plot This is a movie within movie, which is almost recursive, i.e., the movie inside looks like director Ceylan's previous movie, Kasaba. It is about the movie director, Muzaffer, going back...
6.6
205 votes
6.6
205 votes
The Small Town (Kasaba)
1997 · Movie · 85 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Emin Toprak · Havva Saglam · Cihat Bütün · Emin Ceylan
6.6
256 votes
6.6
256 votes
Three Monkeys
2008 · Movie · 109 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Yavuz Bingöl · Hatice Aslan · Ahmet Rifat Sungar · Ercan Kesal
Plot A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies battles against the odds to stay together by covering up the truth... In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Cocoon (S)
1995 · Movie · 20 min. · Turkey
Direction Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast Emin Ceylan · Fatma Ceylan · Turgut Toprak
5.7
159 votes
5.7
159 votes