Last Call for Istanbul is a romantic drama film directed by Gonenc Uyanik, from a screenplay by Nuran Evren Sit. The Netflix film revolves around two married people who have a chance to meet at the New York airport and because of that they spend an unforgettable night full of desire, temptation, and excitement in a city that never sleeps. Last Call for Istanbul stars Kivanç Tatlitug and Beren Saat in the lead roles of Mehmet and Serin. So, if you loved the Netflix film here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Before We Go Credit – RADiUS
Synopsis: Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other’s most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.
Before Sunrise (Max & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Castle Rock Entertainment
Synopsis: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy...
Before We Go Credit – RADiUS
Synopsis: Two strangers stuck in Manhattan for the night grow into each other’s most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.
Before Sunrise (Max & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Castle Rock Entertainment
Synopsis: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy...
- 11/27/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Directed by Gönenç Uyanık, Last Call for Istanbul is an intense love story! The passion that has been portrayed in this film is beyond explanation. The plot revolves around an estranged couple who give their relationship one last shot. Starring beautiful actors Beren Saat and Kivanç Tatlitug, the film attains its utmost goal of making an appeal to the audience. The passion of the characters can be compared to that of Massimo and Laura in 365 Days. Will Mehmet and Serin be able to resolve their rifts and end up together? What plans do they come up with to save their relationship? Let’s find out!
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Ryan meets Samantha at the New York airport as she is standing in the queue to collect her baggage. When she receives the bag, she realizes that it has been interchanged with someone else’s. Ryan comes...
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How Do Ryan And Samantha Meet?
Ryan meets Samantha at the New York airport as she is standing in the queue to collect her baggage. When she receives the bag, she realizes that it has been interchanged with someone else’s. Ryan comes...
- 11/24/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
Exclusive: Artist International Group, the globally minded management and production company founded by David Unger, on Thursday announced its signing of Umut Aral, the award-winning director behind the hit Turkish-language Netflix series, Who Were We Running From?.
“It’s truly exciting to be a part of the internationally focused, dynamic Aig family, and a member of their extraordinary ensemble of talent,” said Aral in a statement to Deadline.
Added Aig CEO Unger, “Umut Aral fits perfectly into the DNA of Artist International Group, where we represent the best of the best of regional talent with global market ambitions.”
When it debuted on Netflix in March, Who Were We Running From? became one of the first Turkish productions to crack the streamer’s Top 10 in the U.S., registering on Top 10 TV charts in a total of 78 countries and spending four weeks on the platform’s Top 10 list for international Non-English series.
“It’s truly exciting to be a part of the internationally focused, dynamic Aig family, and a member of their extraordinary ensemble of talent,” said Aral in a statement to Deadline.
Added Aig CEO Unger, “Umut Aral fits perfectly into the DNA of Artist International Group, where we represent the best of the best of regional talent with global market ambitions.”
When it debuted on Netflix in March, Who Were We Running From? became one of the first Turkish productions to crack the streamer’s Top 10 in the U.S., registering on Top 10 TV charts in a total of 78 countries and spending four weeks on the platform’s Top 10 list for international Non-English series.
- 6/22/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Chokehold is a Turkish film for Netflix directed by Onur Saylak and starring Kivanç Tatlitug and Funda Eryigit.
From the booming Turkish film industry comes this thriller that, without making any noise, we found (at least) quite interesting.
A film with a great virtue: it knows how to carry and create its own narrative rhythm.
Movie Review
You have to get over the first few minutes, in which it seems like one of those rural dramas that apparently, go nowhere: a city couple in a rural environment where everything is elusive and they are not part of the community. Good premise, well developed in terms of images. Then something happens and the film changes, the drama takes shape and the characters, entity.
Just as we have spoken (on other occasions) about characters who are simply carried away by the plot, here it is similar, but well done and balanced. The...
From the booming Turkish film industry comes this thriller that, without making any noise, we found (at least) quite interesting.
A film with a great virtue: it knows how to carry and create its own narrative rhythm.
Movie Review
You have to get over the first few minutes, in which it seems like one of those rural dramas that apparently, go nowhere: a city couple in a rural environment where everything is elusive and they are not part of the community. Good premise, well developed in terms of images. Then something happens and the film changes, the drama takes shape and the characters, entity.
Just as we have spoken (on other occasions) about characters who are simply carried away by the plot, here it is similar, but well done and balanced. The...
- 4/21/2023
- by Martin Cid
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
"Don't get mad at him, no matter what he says." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a Turkish film titled The Festival of Troubadours, from director Özcan Alper. It's streaming on Netflix in September, including in the US for anyone interested in it. The Festival of Troubadours tells the story of a wandering musician who stops by to see his son after 25 years after visiting the grave of his wife. He is one his way to a music festival but when his son learns about his declining health, he accompanies his father. Thus begins a journey that could resolve their past issues. But as he expresses his frustrations and the meaning of being a Father is understood, will the two find peace with themselves before it is too late? The film stars Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Settar Tanrıöğen, and Laçin Ceylan. This looks like a very emotional, very honest story about a father and a son.
- 8/8/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Butterfly's Dream, Turkey's Submission for the Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. U.S. : None Yet. Production Company: Bkm Film
Attempting to decrypt, explain, and capture the complexity of the human experience has been the eternal mission of writers. To translate into words the enormity of what surrounds mankind entails the specific talent of using something as complex and rule-bound as language to makes sense of something as unsystematic,mysterious and messy as life. Of all the brave souls that undertake such task, poets, novelists, and philosophers carry on their shoulders all the existentialism avoided by fact-based scribes in journalism or research. Their literary works are as subjective as can be, and interpret the world from a personal standpoint Perhaps that is why connecting to a poem written in the distant past speaks of the writer’s talent. They, like any artist, have to make their unique perception into something universally comprehensible. The difference is that in their arsenal they have as only tools the fixed meaning of words, which they must mold into poetry. Undeniably, the beauty of poems, and even more the poets themselves, fascinates director Yilmaz Erdoğan, so he decided to create his own visual verses in his epic period drama The Butterfly’s Dream.
Set during World War II in Zonguldak, Turkey, this is the real life story of two young poets forgotten by history whose writing developed through strenuous adversity. Muzaffer (Kivanç Tatlitug), the optimist romantic, and Rüştü (Mert Firat) the pessimist dreamer, are a team of aspiring writers whose brotherly camaraderie is based upon their shared loved for the written word and their mutual misfortune. In a time when compulsory labor was imposed on villagers and tuberculosis was rampant among the impoverished population, the two of them remained cheerful that one day their dreams of being published and their poetic vision would materialize. Living in poverty and ill with the terrible respiratory disease, both men write as a form of therapeutic catharsis in the face of so much misery. Advised by their families to pursue other more productive professions, their only encouragement comes from their supportive teacher, and acclaimed poet, Behcet Necatigil (played by director Erdoğan himself).
After casually meeting beautiful Suzan (Belçim Bilgin) , the daughter of a wealthy and influential man, the poets make a bet. To decide whom she likes the most they each write a poem for her to choose blindly which one she prefers. Visibly more interested in her, Muzaffer strives to get her attention. Once the lighthearted vagabonds befriend her, she agrees to star in a no-budget play Rüştü about a pair of doomed lovebirds in the forced labor hell of the mines. Their short-lived creative happiness comes to an end once Suzan’s father is informed of the boys’ sickness. Still, the separation only pushes Muzaffer to need her more. Because of their debilitated health, and helped by their loyal teacher, the poets are admitted to a sanitarium, where the course of their lives is altered. Falling in love while facing the possibility of never conquering the long-awaited recognition becomes both their inspiration and their death sentence.
Taking its title from a ancient passage by Chinese thinker Chuang Tzu , in which he pondered on a dream he had where he was a butterfly.Erdoğan’s film deals with the same nature of reality and the things, like art, that serve as antidote to mitigate the pain and hardships one must withstand. Tzu couldn’t be certain if he had dreamt to be the flying insect or if he was really a butterfly that dreamt it was human. There is nothing absolute and everything exist in an always shifting transformative state. The poets couldn’t foresee the future, they couldn’t wake up from their destiny - whether this was a dream or a nightmare. However, they could embellish their existential agony with the sheer joy of their passion for writing. They became masters at speaking of sadness with voices cheerful grace. Tatlıtuğ is splendid as boundlessly positive Muzaffer as is his charismatic sidekick played by Firat. Together with the rest of the noticeably invested cast, they present a movie that despite its overall grandeur, is about their individual wandering, suffering, and redemptive motivations along life’s uncertain roads.
Crafted with the splendor of any Western period film, Yılmaz Erdoğan’s historical feature is classically stunning. Its impeccable photography adorns the frames with a delightful color palette and displays the elaborate sets and production design. This is top-notch filmmaking utilized to retell profoundly meaningful material, it is the perfect mix of visual exuberance and delicate storytelling. Irresistibly lyrical from start to finish, The Butterfly’s Dream is ravishingly elegant, and it is propelled by the rapturous aesthetic bestowed onto every aspect of the piece. Like the most uplifting, yet heartbreaking lines ever written about love, the film entrances the viewer and pays respect to its powerful characters, to their sadness, and beautiful unfulfilled hopes.
Read more about all the 76 Best Foreign Language Film Submission for the 2014 Academy Awards...
Attempting to decrypt, explain, and capture the complexity of the human experience has been the eternal mission of writers. To translate into words the enormity of what surrounds mankind entails the specific talent of using something as complex and rule-bound as language to makes sense of something as unsystematic,mysterious and messy as life. Of all the brave souls that undertake such task, poets, novelists, and philosophers carry on their shoulders all the existentialism avoided by fact-based scribes in journalism or research. Their literary works are as subjective as can be, and interpret the world from a personal standpoint Perhaps that is why connecting to a poem written in the distant past speaks of the writer’s talent. They, like any artist, have to make their unique perception into something universally comprehensible. The difference is that in their arsenal they have as only tools the fixed meaning of words, which they must mold into poetry. Undeniably, the beauty of poems, and even more the poets themselves, fascinates director Yilmaz Erdoğan, so he decided to create his own visual verses in his epic period drama The Butterfly’s Dream.
Set during World War II in Zonguldak, Turkey, this is the real life story of two young poets forgotten by history whose writing developed through strenuous adversity. Muzaffer (Kivanç Tatlitug), the optimist romantic, and Rüştü (Mert Firat) the pessimist dreamer, are a team of aspiring writers whose brotherly camaraderie is based upon their shared loved for the written word and their mutual misfortune. In a time when compulsory labor was imposed on villagers and tuberculosis was rampant among the impoverished population, the two of them remained cheerful that one day their dreams of being published and their poetic vision would materialize. Living in poverty and ill with the terrible respiratory disease, both men write as a form of therapeutic catharsis in the face of so much misery. Advised by their families to pursue other more productive professions, their only encouragement comes from their supportive teacher, and acclaimed poet, Behcet Necatigil (played by director Erdoğan himself).
After casually meeting beautiful Suzan (Belçim Bilgin) , the daughter of a wealthy and influential man, the poets make a bet. To decide whom she likes the most they each write a poem for her to choose blindly which one she prefers. Visibly more interested in her, Muzaffer strives to get her attention. Once the lighthearted vagabonds befriend her, she agrees to star in a no-budget play Rüştü about a pair of doomed lovebirds in the forced labor hell of the mines. Their short-lived creative happiness comes to an end once Suzan’s father is informed of the boys’ sickness. Still, the separation only pushes Muzaffer to need her more. Because of their debilitated health, and helped by their loyal teacher, the poets are admitted to a sanitarium, where the course of their lives is altered. Falling in love while facing the possibility of never conquering the long-awaited recognition becomes both their inspiration and their death sentence.
Taking its title from a ancient passage by Chinese thinker Chuang Tzu , in which he pondered on a dream he had where he was a butterfly.Erdoğan’s film deals with the same nature of reality and the things, like art, that serve as antidote to mitigate the pain and hardships one must withstand. Tzu couldn’t be certain if he had dreamt to be the flying insect or if he was really a butterfly that dreamt it was human. There is nothing absolute and everything exist in an always shifting transformative state. The poets couldn’t foresee the future, they couldn’t wake up from their destiny - whether this was a dream or a nightmare. However, they could embellish their existential agony with the sheer joy of their passion for writing. They became masters at speaking of sadness with voices cheerful grace. Tatlıtuğ is splendid as boundlessly positive Muzaffer as is his charismatic sidekick played by Firat. Together with the rest of the noticeably invested cast, they present a movie that despite its overall grandeur, is about their individual wandering, suffering, and redemptive motivations along life’s uncertain roads.
Crafted with the splendor of any Western period film, Yılmaz Erdoğan’s historical feature is classically stunning. Its impeccable photography adorns the frames with a delightful color palette and displays the elaborate sets and production design. This is top-notch filmmaking utilized to retell profoundly meaningful material, it is the perfect mix of visual exuberance and delicate storytelling. Irresistibly lyrical from start to finish, The Butterfly’s Dream is ravishingly elegant, and it is propelled by the rapturous aesthetic bestowed onto every aspect of the piece. Like the most uplifting, yet heartbreaking lines ever written about love, the film entrances the viewer and pays respect to its powerful characters, to their sadness, and beautiful unfulfilled hopes.
Read more about all the 76 Best Foreign Language Film Submission for the 2014 Academy Awards...
- 12/10/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
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