74%User score 74 percent
Midnight Express
1978 · Drama · Crime
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365 votes
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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CinemaSerf
April 2, 2026
This is quite a powerful full-circle drama that starts with a young but uninspired college professor “Nejat” (Baki Davrak) who disapproves of his widowed father (Tuncel Kurtis) inviting his prostitute friend to be his live-in lover. “Yeter” (Nursel Köse) isn’t just on the game for drugs and her pimp, she is determined that her daughter back home in Turkey will get the education she was denied and so have better prosp…
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