This is my "most touching" topic I wanted it to be about movies. Here are the movies I find touching:

1) Ağır Roman

2) Duvara Karşı

3) Babam ve Oğlum

4) Gece, Melek ve Bizim Çocuklar

5) Eşkiya

6) Dedemin İnsanları

7) Canım Kardeşim

What do you think about my list. And what are your most touching Turkish movies?

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Thanks for recommending. Gloomy but beautiful.

+1 - It´s the first Turkish movie I´ve watched. Let me add my other two favourite movies:

- "Yaşamın kıyısında", also directed by Fatih Akın.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0880502/

- Uzak

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346094/

I watched "Dedemin İnsanları". It was about Turkish - Greek population exchange. The story had been cheerful in the beginning but it got darker after the millitary coup in Turkey and it ended very dramatically. I barely hold myself not to cry.

I have only seen 2 of your list´s films

- the Turkish classic Babam ve Oğlum (My Father and My Son). Everyone I know who has seen this movie has been teary-eyed by the end. I am surprised that you can´t buy it on DVD for a few years now, but luckily I have a copy.

- the German/Turkish classic, Duvarı Karşı (Gegen die Wand) which translates as Against the Wall, but was released as ´Head-On´ in English.

I really enjoyed both these films, and here are 2 other sad films that I think could be added to your list.

Mutluluk (Happiness) - a film about honour killing and (very obviously from it´s title), finding happiness.

Beyaz Melek (White Angel) - a moving film about the quality of life for the elderly, and care for ageing parents.

If I find your other movies Gokuyum, I will try to watch them. Thanks for making this list. 

I want to help with a small correction. This sentence is understandable but sounds strange in English. I would say "I barely held back the tears (myself)" or "I could barely hold myself back from crying".

Unfortunately I can´t explain the English grammar reasons for this.  

Thanks Henry. You know I think in Turkish. All my comments are translations of my thoughts. So that is why I do this kind of mistakes.

Now I am curious to know how this (I barely hold myself not to cry) is said in Turkish. This might be something I can use in Turkish conversations later. I am trying to improve my poor Turkish conversational skills, and sometimes mimicking common expressions, and learning phrases can help build confidence. 

Ağlamamak için kendimi zor tuttum.

Thanks Gokuyum  

Well said, Henry. I am doing the same. Guess who is making notes when Turks are talking to each other...

According to recent linguistic theories this is exactly the way conversation is learned. Instead of analysing every word from the root we more or less consciously memorize ready units, structures which we can use as such or modify later when our skills improve. It is economy. Using these ready repartees we can keep the conversation flowing and maybe concentrate more on the things where we really want our voice to be heard.

One thing that helps also is to plan the topics beforehand and not just to jump into a conversation ex tempore. This is of course on the presumption that our intention is to learn and not just have a nice time which is important as well.

Mutual caring and friendship in the dark back streets.

Deniz Türkali as Melek couldn´t have been better.

I am happy you like it. I watched it long time ago and only thing I remember is that it was very touching. I guess I should watch it again.

Here is a great soundtrack from the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fajKFUyeIno

Gece üşür meleklerine seslenir
Sarmaş dolaş arka sokak çocukları

Bıçaklar çekilir yüreklerimiz hep tetikte

Bu sokaklar korkulara dar.

Şevhetle biz sığındık birbirimize
Seviştik de öldük de öldürldük bile
Kaybedecek hiçbir şeyimiz kalmadı

Sanki bize bizden başka kim olur yar

Gece melek ve bizim çocuklar
Her uçurumdan sarktık
Anasını sattık babasını ağlattık
Düştük mü yoksa kalktık mı
Karışık işler bunlar
Gece melek ve bizim çocuklar

Back street children feel chilly at night

And hugging eachother they call their angels

Knifes are drawn, our hearts are always on the alert

These streets are narrow for fears.

We relied on each other with desire.

We made love, we died, even we killed

We have nothing to lose.

Who could be our friends other than us?

Night, angel and our buddies

We leant out of every cliff

We didn´t mind anything (literally: we sold its mother and we made its father cry)

Did we fall or get up?

These are complicated things

Night, angel and our buddies

I watched it again. It was very touching. Especially the death of Melek. Did you watch it with subtitles or not Abla?

The way these despised people accepted each other with an open heart and changed that shabby apartment into a home  -  even if it lasted for a short while. That is what I liked the most about Gece, Melek ve bizim çocuklar.

Thanks for bringing the song here, gokuyum, the lyrics quite well reflect the vibes of the movie.

No subtitles. I might have lost some details but was able to follow the story. Besides, it is a strategy: I try to let it flow sometimes, catch what is essential without paying attention to every dot.

Canım Kardeşim (1973)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bcJi5QlJ-o

Great soundtrack of the movie>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJU0VG6S_zM

Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever

Music from the movie - it´s amazing!

Şebnem Ferah - Hoşçakal

(Yavuz Turgul 1996)

I liked the way tragic and humorous elements meet in this movie. A man from the mountains who has been in prison for 35 years comes to Istanbul for the first time in his life. He is both amazed and confused. There is a strange peace and silence around Eşkıya and Şener Şen´s face expresses so much without words.

The contrast between the old bandit and the gang of young backstreet houligans makes you think of the level on which we people meet each other.

Eşkıya grows from a victim into a mythical character who gives everyone what he deserves. Or maybe not. All the killing in the last scenes was not well reasoned in my opinion. Baran saves a young policeman´s life as a gesture of mercy but shoots a man who beats his wife with no pain of conscience. A less fantastic end would have been more to my taste.

Women are presented as patients in this story. But once they make an action of their own things take a new course always. They are like catalysts in a chemical reaction.

Great analysis abla.

Note. Eşkiya is a cult movie now.

(Çağan Irmak, 2005)

Maybe a touching story but not a great movie in my opinion. Too romantic, does not stand against a single prejudice of the audience. Maybe enlightens the Turkish ideal of a big family which opens its arms to its most peculiar members but in my opinion does this in a too obvious way without challenging the watcher. It is the easiest thing in the world to make a sad story about people who die too early.

Hümeyra Akbay´s intensive presence was great.

If I cried it was just because I had something in my eye...

It is because of cold climate

(Çağan Irmak, 2011)

It is important to tell this story. There are many ways to tell it. Irmak´s style is not my favourite: too beautiful scenes, too perfect people, too obvious solutions.

Actually the most touching thing for me in this movie was found on an individual level. How a man can stand for decades as a backbone of his family and community and finally break. You could even blame dede for his decision but the family chose to remember and charish those qualities that the old man had while he was still alive. Çetin Tekindor was of course the hero of this movie.

A learner´s note: listen to all the greetings and wishes, they are a lot in this movie. How naturally they are merged in the middle of the communication and how heartfully they are answered.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Uzak 2002

It took me some time to get used to the slow narration of Uzak. Most of the time more happens in the minds of the characters than at the actual scene. Before the story came to its end it captured my mind completely and I was breathing in the rhythm of the movie.

It is the story of a young boy Yusuf who comes from his village to seach for a job in the city and stays with his relative who is well off. Istanbul looks both rough and beautiful, a place where many dreams die. Yusuf and Mahmut suffer their own pains but it does not make them close to each other (I think this is what the title basically means but I am not sure).

No one dies, the world does not collapse but so sad it is. Can you feel it?

Unfortunately, Gönül yarası (Yavuz Turgul, 2004) is made exactly with the same recipe. What a disappointment.

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