3 Best Turkish TV Shows Movies to Watch

This gorgeous drama-thriller is set in bustling Istanbul where different characters, mostly women, cross paths.

And when I say gorgeous, I mean of the drop-dead variety. The cinematography is reminiscent of the Japanese style of Kazuo Miyagawa or Columbus director Kogonada.

And it’s all matched by the dialogue. The first episode follows a woman who lays bare her life in a first session with a psychologist. The story then moves on to her psychologist seeing her own clinician, mostly discussing how she feels about seeing veiled patients.

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Actor: Öykü Karayel, Alican Yücesoy, Alican Yücesoy, Bige Önal, Bige Önal, Defne Kayalar, Fatih Artman, Funda Eryiğit, Funda Eryiğit, Öykü Karayel, Settar Tanrıöğen, Settar Tanrıöğen, Tülin Özen, Tülin Özen

Director: Berkun Oya

Rating: Not Rated

After a healing workshop leads her best friend to sell her belongings and move to a remote island, Nisan becomes suspicious a cult is indoctrinating outcasts. But when she's diagnosed with cancer and dark memories haunt her dreams, she seeks the island to find hope and happiness. Nisan's suspicions struggle against her desire to face her past. On the pseudo-utopia island, the idea of safe havens and communities is put to the test forcing Nisan to reckon how isolating living in fear and pain is. With a steady pace, Search stretches the concept of a cult, keeping a refreshingly open mind to all the ways a community with freedom, equality, and care remains unfathomable. 

Genre: Drama

Actor: Aslı Enver, Begüm Akkaya, Defne Kayalar, Erol Babaoğlu, Mehmet Günsür, Oral Özer, Yigit Akkaya

Director: Emin Alper

Rating: TV-MA

Yasemin Derin is one of Turkey's most famous actresses. But when she's not onscreen or walking the red carpet, she's murdering evil influential people, which garners her the nickname "Hunter." Her double life is put in jeopardy, however, when a stalker sends her a series of cryptic texts.

Actress plays into the "unlikeable main character"; a sarcastic anti-hero on the verge of having more weaknesses as she takes in a young actress and falls in love with a mysterious man. The series has a nice cinematic finish, and Pinar Deniz as Yasemin delivers a nonchalant charisma that's easy to follow.

Genre: Crime, Drama

Actor: Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Pınar Deniz, Şebnem Hassanisoughi, Serhat Kılıç, Tolga Tekin, Uraz Kaygılaroğlu

Director: Soner Caner