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1. A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975)

Unrated | 81 min | Horror

A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner's wife.

Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Stars: Naomi Tani, Misa Ohara, Taiji Tonoyama, Tomoko Mayama

Votes: 309

2. Michael the Brave (1971)

203 min | Action, Biography, Drama

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu

Votes: 6,566

3. Out of Reach (2004 Video)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A retired covert agent turned survivalist discovers that the foster program he is using to help a young orphan is actually a human trafficking network. He travels overseas to find the girl and shut down the operation.

Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Steven Seagal, Ida Nowakowska, Agnieszka Wagner, Matt Schulze

Votes: 5,225

4. Turkse chick (2006)

10 min | Short, Comedy

A young skater boy get seduced by a Turkish Chick after he bumped his head.

Director: Lodewijk Crijns | Stars: Julian Wolf, Yolanthe Cabau, Luigi Jansen, Urvin Elshot

Votes: 336

5. Vlad Tepes (1979)

114 min | Drama, History

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Directors: Dumitru Fernoaga, Doru Nastase | Stars: Stefan Sileanu, Ernest Maftei, Emanoil Petrut, Teofil Vâlcu

Votes: 1,280

6. The Lustful Turk (1968)

X | 71 min | Drama, Romance

Two English women and their female servant are kidnapped by pirates and sold to an Arab sheik. However, they all fall for the captain of the pirate ship that captured them.

Director: Byron Mabe | Stars: Abbe Rentz, Linda Stiles, Gee Gentell, Harvey Shain

Votes: 64

7. Kingdoms of Fire (2019– )

50 min | Drama, History, War

A dynamic war of two worlds as the Ottoman's strive to Occupy Cairo. Sultan Selim I is faced with the opposition of the people of Cairo led by the knight turned Mamluk leader Tuman.

Stars: Mahmoud Nasr, Mahmoud Nasr, Khaled Nabawy, Mohamed Hatem

Votes: 1,908

8. The Stone Merchant (2006)

R | 119 min | Drama, Thriller

Ludovico is a precious stone merchant who trades between Europe and the Middle East. He is also an Islam convert, with Jihad as his highest religious duty, plotting a terrorist attack on an epic scale that will bring the West to its knees.

Director: Renzo Martinelli | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Jane March, Jordi Mollà, F. Murray Abraham

Votes: 1,029

9. Der lüsterne Türke (1971)

81 min | Comedy

A blonde European girl is kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery in North Africa.

Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Claus Tinney, Arnold Marquis, Eva Curtis

Votes: 110

10. Stephen the Great - Vaslui 1475 (1975)

137 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Gheorghe Cozorici, Gheorghe Dinica, Violeta Andrei, Toma Dimitriu

Votes: 747

11. Büyük Sürgün Kafkasya (2015–2016)

60 min | Drama, History

Firat Sunel's the "Shadow of the Willow Bunch" and Gürsel Balci's "Border Secrets" is loosely adapted from the novel Great Banishment the Caucasus, Stalin's orders in 1944, which tells the ... See full summary »

Stars: Tolga Saritas, Elif Atakan, Melis Birkan, Nilüfer Açikalin

Votes: 217

12. Eastern Plays (2009)

83 min | Drama

Through Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.

Director: Kamen Kalev | Stars: Christo Christov, Ovanes Torosian, Saadet Aksoy, Nikolina Iancheva

Votes: 3,192

13. Solunski atentatori (1961)

106 min | Drama, History

The story of a famous group of Macedonian freedom fighters that opposed Ottoman repression at the beginning of 20th century.

Director: Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic | Stars: Aleksandar Gavric, Dragan Ocokoljic, Darko Damevski, Istref Begolli

Votes: 125

14. Näsimi (1973)

96 min | Biography, Drama

Imadaddin Nasimi, well-known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society.

Director: Hasan Seyidbayli | Stars: Rasim Balayev, Ismayil Osmanli, Khalida Kasumova, Kamal Xudaverdiyev

Votes: 485

15. Un turco napoletano (1953)

90 min | Comedy

A petty criminal poses as a Turkish eunuch hired by a wealthy merchant to guard the women of his house.

Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Totò, Ignazio Balsamo, Isa Barzizza, Primarosa Battistella

Votes: 654

16. The Virgin of Stamboul (1920)

70 min | Drama

Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Wallace Beery, Clyde Benson

Votes: 84

17. Rage (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Züli Aladag's critically acclaimed, but controversial movie deals with the conflict of Can, son of Turkish immigrants, and the Laubs, a supposedly liberal middle class family. Simon Laub, ... See full summary »

Director: Züli Aladag | Stars: Oktay Özdemir, Robert Höller, August Zirner, Corinna Harfouch

Votes: 771

18. Turkkiosken (2017)

7 min | Short, Drama

Film that deals with exactly this situation. The film that looks at political correctness, kindness and covert racism; is inspired by the events of the director's life.

Director: Bahar Pars | Stars: Astrid Bävertun, Emil T. Jonsson, Jonas Malmsjö, Fanni Metelius

Votes: 84

19. The Hollywood Turk (2019)

93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Romantic Comedy about Alper, an unsuccessful Turkish actor from Berlin, Germany, who has to pretend to be an Italian to win his first role and the heart of a German girl who doesn't like Turkish guys.

Director: Murat Ünal | Stars: Murat Ünal, Jennifer Bischof, Ilkan Aydin, Baris Simsek

Votes: 250

20. Trotting Through Turkey (1920)

Short, Comedy

Snub invades a harem in Turkey, where they teach the harem ladies how to dance the shimmy, with sad results.

Director: Charley Chase | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Ernest Morrison

21. The Janissary (1953)

73 min | Adventure, Drama

During the turbulent and dangerous years of the Turkish Occupation of Greece, the oppressive Ottomans systematically abducted Christian boys, to raise and educate them according to the strict Muhammadan standards.

Director: Kostas Dritsas | Stars: Michalis Nikolinakos, Hristina Apostolou, Soso Kandyli, Elektra Attikou

22. Decapitation in Turkey (1904)

Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come... See full summary »

Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès

Votes: 510

23. Tirante el Blanco (1987 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama

A television filming of the stage play Tirante el Blanco written by Francisco Nieva and based on the Catalan classic Tirant lo Blanc, 1465, by Joanot Martorell. A mediaeval knight goes on an adventure.

Stars: María Asquerino, Pilar Ruiz, María Luisa San José

Votes: 9

24. Die türkischen Gurken (1962)

96 min | Comedy

Oskar Schnabel is a wholesaler of fruits from the Arabian region. One day his oriental trading partner passes on a twelve-piece of harem ladies to him.

Director: Rolf Olsen | Stars: Gunther Philipp, Oskar Sima, Susi Nicoletti, Ruth Stephan

25. Chine: le drame ouïghour (2022 TV Movie)

105 min | Documentary

Torture in huge internment camps, disappearances, forced labour, "re-education" of children and adults, mass sterilizations, generalized surveillance and destruction of memorial sites, ... See full summary »

Director: François Reinhardt | Stars: Alexis Victor, Markus Pfeiffer, Silvia Conti, Antoine Fleury

Votes: 56

26. On a Tightrope (2006)

TV-14 | 74 min | Documentary

A documentary on the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China, under strict control by the Chinese government.

Director: Petr Lom | Stars: Hoji Abdullah, Abliz, Aijamal, Jumakhun

Votes: 67

27. Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd (2014)

99 min | Documentary

The incredible odyssey of a group of men from China's persecuted Uyghur minority, detained in Guantánamo as terrorists. Exposing the cold logic of post-September 11 geopolitical gamemasters... See full summary »

Director: Patricio Henríquez

Votes: 34

28. Abdul the Damned (1935)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, History

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.

Director: Karl Grune | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, John Stuart, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 106

29. Insulting the Sultan (1920)

Short, Comedy

Somewhere in Turkey, Snub attempts to steal the Sultan's favorite damsel.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Ernest Morrison, Hughie Mack

30. Insultin' the Sultan (1934)

7 min | Animation, Short

Willie Whopper tells a tall tale of his girlfriend being carried off by a Sultan and his efforts to rescue her.

Director: Ub Iwerks

Votes: 84

31. Armenian Revolt (2006 Video)

57 min | Documentary, History

A balanced view of the struggle between the Ottoman Empire and the Armenians in the Eastern Anatolia during the late 19th century what is considered by some today, a genocide. This in-depth... See full summary »

Director: Marty Callaghan | Stars: Seçil Karal Akgün, Aram Arkun, David Fromkin, Justin McCarthy

Votes: 118

32. Charlie in Turkey (II) (1919)

10 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Wandering figure of Charlie (known from the Chaplin films). After visiting a second-hand bookshop, Charlie dreams that he has kidnapped the Queen of Sheba. Yet there is no beautiful woman behind the veil of this Turkish lady.

Director: Pat Sullivan

Votes: 29

33. Harvest of Innocents: Investigating Chinese Organ Murder (2010)

62 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners may be being murdered for their organs in China. The Chinese government denies this, but four years after the allegations surfaced, three ... See full summary »

Director: Jo Burgess | Star: Mark Jackson

34. Turks Brood (2018)

26 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

A mistake that caused the Turkish mob to clash with the Russian mob. An undercover police-officer tries to fit in but eventually fits in a bit too well.

Director: Dirk van Eekelen | Stars: Jan de Jonge, Julian van Ekeren, Jeffrey Bontes, Florent Appert

35. Harems-Mystik (1921)

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Director: Lau Lauritzen | Stars: Aage Bendixen, Else Jørgensen, Jørgen Lund, Walter Nagel

36. The Pasha's Daughter (1911)

Not Rated | 14 min | Drama, Romance, Short

An American in Turkey is mistakenly arrested and thrown in jail. He escapes and is helped by the daughter of the local ruler, called the Pasha.

Stars: William Garwood, William Russell

Votes: 58

37. Fleeing Xinjiang (2022)

Documentary

Shocking accounts of mass detention, digital surveillance and forced sterilization of Muslims in China's Xinjiang province.

38. Too Much Turkey (1911)

Comedy, Short

When Mabel, an impressionable girl, has her fortune told and is advised she will marry a Turk, she casts off Bob, her sweetheart. Bob plots with his friends to give Mabel a good scare and ... See full summary »

Stars: Walter F. Scott, Francis X. Bushman

39. Fear and Oppression in Xinjiang (2019 TV Short)

7 min | Short

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Directors: Steve Fineberg, Paul Manzi

40. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with All the Thanksgivings (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

The gang remember and share with each other their worst Thanksgivings.

Director: Kevin Bright | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 6,621

41. Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1995)
Episode: Tiny Toon Music Television (1991)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Max sings motown, Buster spoofs the Sorcerer's Apprentice and Babs performs "Respect" in this parody of MTV.

Director: Art Vitello | Stars: Charlie Adler, Tress MacNeille, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Bergman

Votes: 98

42. The West Wing (1999–2006)
Episode: King Corn (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama

A day in the lives of presidential candidates Bob Russell, Matt Santos, and Arnold Vinick, who are in Iowa trying to gain support for their campaigns. Iowa is the first state in the nation ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Graves | Stars: Alan Alda, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney

Votes: 690

43. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Mobile Homer (2005)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

After a garage-cleaning accident, Marge wants Homer to get life insurance. Instead, the family gets an RV.

Directors: David Silverman, Raymond S. Persi | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 1,497

44. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: The Shape of Things to Come (2008)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

The team from the ship attacks Locke's camp looking for Ben, with Alex as a hostage. The doctor from the ship washes up on shore at Jack's camp and Faraday provides some distressing news.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin

Votes: 6,387

45. How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014)
Episode: Third Wheel (2007)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ted has a chance for a threesome with two women, but Barney and Lily try to sabotage it. Meanwhile, Robin's date also goes better than expected, if only she can find a razor.

Director: Pamela Fryman | Stars: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris

Votes: 3,842

46. The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1978)
Episode: The Tar Monster (1978)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After an archaeologist discovers an ancient Turkish city, his workers are terrified by the "Tar Monster," a legendary creature that protects the city.

Stars: Michael Bell, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North

Votes: 164

47. WION: Gravitas Plus (2020– )
Episode: Uighur genocide: Speak up, Islamic world (2020)

13 min | Documentary, Short, News

A genocide of Uighur Muslims is underway in Xinjiang, but the Islamic world has chosen China's money over China's Muslims. The principle of 'Muslim brotherhood' is being used based on ... See full summary »

Star: Palki Sharma Upadhyay

48. Scooby's Laff-A Lympics (1977–1979)
Episode: New York/Turkey (1978)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Short, Action

Scooby and characters meet up in New York and Turkey for the event.

Star: Marilyn Schreffler

Votes: 37

49. The Stream (2011– )
Episode: Why Are Muslim Uighurs Being Sent to 'Re-Education' Camps? (2018)

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Stars: Rosebell Kagumire, Lydia Namubiru, Femi Oke, Zubayra Shamseden

50. Listening Post (2006– )
Episode: Xinjiang: The Story Beijing Doesn't Want Reported/The Story of China's Southern Media Group (2018)

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Stars: Emily Feng, Richard Gizbert, Megha Rajagopalan, Alim Seytoff