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Director: Çağan Irmak Writer: Ali Rıza Bölükbaşı Stars: Çetin Tekindor,  Fikret Kuskan, Hümeyra, Ege Tanman, Serif Sezer, Yetkin Dikinciler, Binnur Kaya Sadık is one of the rebellious youth who has been politically active as a university student and became a left-wing journalist in the 70's, despite his father's expectations of him becoming an agricultural engineer and taking control of their family farm in an Aegean village. On the dawn of September 12, 1980, when a merciless military coup hits the country, they cannot find access to any hospital or a doctor and his wife dies while giving birth to their only child, Deniz. After a long-lasting period of torture, trials, and jail time, Sadık returns to his village with 7-8 years old Deniz, knowing that it will be hard to correct things with his father, Huseyin. Resource Prepared by:  Deniz Kılınç

SEEING By José Saramago The new ailment reveals itself rather gradually. On a rainy election day, practically no one goes to the polls until 4 in the afternoon, and then everybody seems to arrive at once; when the ballots are counted, almost three-quarters turn up blank; after a week of governmental consternation, the elections are held again, on a perfect sunny day, and the results are actually worse -- 83 percent of the voters have not marked their ballots. This communal exercise of what the narrator calls "the simple right not to follow any consensually established opinion" does not sit well with the authorities; one cabinet minister refers to the electoral blank-out as "a depth charge launched against the system." The collective silence of the electorate naturally suggests a conspiracy to the (right-wing) government, yet, maddeningly, no crime has been committed; and the protest movement, if that's what it is, resolutely refuses to turn violent,...

  Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill. Rizzoli follows the puzzling trail of clues all the way to Botswana, where she uncovers the unsolved mystery of a deadly camping safari four years prior. When she realizes the two cases are connected, Rizzoli must track down the sole survivor of the tragic trip to discover who - or what - is behind these gruesome deaths.     “Tess Gerritsen once again proves her masterful dominance in stories delving into the criminal mind and forensic sciences.  Die Again  left me breathless as Rizzoli and Isles investigate a horrific murder, one wit...

Director:   Brad Silberling Writer: Lemony Snicket Stars: Jim Carrey , Meryl Streep , Jude Law ,   Emily Browning , Liam Aiken, Billy Connolly A Series of Unfortunate Events is the story of the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Claus and Sunny. The books are narrated by Lemony Snicket, a mysterious man who follows the story through clues passed on through a secret organization known only as the V.F.D. The series begins with the three children losing their parents in a fire. Consequently, a banker named Mr. Poe takes charge of the children and leaves them with the nearest relative, Count Olaf. The children, however, are dubious to the fact that Olaf is actually a relative. Olaf and his troupe become the villain of the series. During their stay with Count Olaf, the children are forced to perform ridiculous and cruel tasks. Eventually, the children are able to escape, and though the children are not still under Olaf's care, he is still intent on finding them and stea...

Director:    Francis Ford Coppola Writer:  Mario Puzo Stars:  Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall Paramount Pictures  obtained the rights to the novel for the price of $80,000, before it gained popularity. Studio executives had trouble finding a director; their first few candidates turned down the position before Coppola signed on to direct the film. They and Coppola disagreed over the casting for several characters, in particular, Vito and Michael. Filming took place primarily on location around New York and in  Sicily , and was completed ahead of schedule. The musical score was composed principally by  Nino Rota , with additional pieces by  Carmine Coppola . The Godfather is a 1972 American  crime film  directed by  Francis Ford Coppola  and produced by  Albert S. Ruddy , based on  Mario Puzo 's best-selling  novel of the same name . It is the first ...

The Platform David Desola and Pedro Rivero’s screenplay focuses on a brutal experiment in social conditioning and blunt Darwinism. In a vast, vertical prison, each floor consists of a single, small room, inhabited by two cellmates. In the middle of each room, down the center of the building, is a giant hole where a descending meal platform — a kind of mass dumbwaiter — stops once a day, for the briefest interval. It is loaded with food and drink at the beginning of its descent, and “if everyone ate only what they needed,” an administrator explains, “the food would reach the lowest levels.” But this is a 200-story prison, so if those on the higher floors stuff their faces (and they all do), things can get more than a little desperate down below. Into this sky-high hellscape comes Goreng (Ivan Massagué), not a prisoner but a volunteer, who has signed on for six months as a guinea pig in exchange for an accredited diploma. But he’s horrified by the notion of the platform...

Director:Gavin O'Connor Writer:Bill Dubuque Stars:Ben Affleck,Anna Kendrick,J.K Simmons,John Bernthal As a child, Christian Wolff is diagnosed with a  high-functioning form of autism  at Harbor Neuroscience, where he meets the doctor's daughter, Justine. Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.                                      ...