Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Towards the Sun
TITLE DETAILS

Towards the Sun

1937-10-28 · Runtime unavailable · ★ 6.0

Drama

A young who lost his memory during the occupation of Istanbul and thinks he still lives in that time, finds himself in Turkey of Republic when he's treated after 17 years later.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Nazım Hikmet Ran
Production companies
İpek Film
Countries
Turkey
Status
Released

Top Cast

Arif DinoArif Dino
Ferdi TayfurFerdi TayfurHasan
Mediha Baran
Reşit BaranReşit Baran
Neyzen TevfikNeyzen Tevfik
Güzin DinoGüzin DinoAyşe

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

Paper Lives
★ 8.0
Paper Lives2021Drama

In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.

Ararat
★ 6.1
Ararat2002Drama

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Yellow Letters
★ 7.2
Yellow Letters2026Drama

The marriage of Derya and Aziz is under pressure after losing their jobs because of state arbitrariness and moving to Istanbul to live with Aziz's parents. They and their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi have to redefine their way of life.

Birdy
★ 7.1
Birdy1984Drama

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

Fate
★ 7.2
Fate2001Drama

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

Toss-Up
★ 6.9
Toss-Up2004Drama

Two soldiers return home from their military service in southeastern Turkey with disabilities.

36 Hours
★ 7.1
36 Hours1964Drama

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

The Sense of an Ending
★ 6.3
The Sense of an Ending2017Drama

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Sleep, My Love
★ 6.3
Sleep, My Love1948Drama

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Autumn
★ 7.3
Autumn2008Drama

Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

The Deep End of the Ocean
★ 6.6
The Deep End of the Ocean1999Drama

A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

The Last Rifleman
★ 6.6
The Last Rifleman2023Drama

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

Man with No Past
★ 6.5
Man with No Past2025Drama

Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.

The Girl in the Book
★ 5.8
The Girl in the Book2015Drama

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

I Saw the Sun
★ 6.4
I Saw the Sun2009Drama

In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.

Five Minutes of Heaven
★ 6.1
Five Minutes of Heaven2009Drama

The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Final Score
★ 6.1
Final Score2018Drama

When a stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed criminals during a major sporting event, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save both the daughter of a fallen comrade and the huge crowd unaware of the danger.

Everything About Mustafa
★ 6.7
Everything About Mustafa2004Drama

A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.

About Dry Grasses
★ 7.6
About Dry Grasses2023Drama

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

Charm City Kings
★ 7.8
Charm City Kings2020Drama

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.

Similar titles

By Any Name
★ 5.5
By Any Name2017Drama

An amnesiac man is found running blood stained and half naked through the Brecon Beacons. Hunted by the police and military, is he a homicidal terrorist or innocent pawn?

Days of August
★ 6.0
Days of August2025Drama

In a dystopian America dominated by a tyrannical police state, a stirring revolution clashes with a forbidden romance.

Lenin in Paris
★ 4.7
Lenin in Paris1981Drama

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.

The Red Squirrel
★ 6.5
The Red Squirrel1993Drama

Jota's suicide attempt is interrupted when a motorcyclist crashes off a bridge. After he rescues her, he decides to invent a life story for her — one of love and shared memories — creating a fragile web of deception that intertwines their fates.

if....
★ 7.0
if....1968Drama

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

Empire of the Wolves
★ 5.8
Empire of the Wolves2005Drama

When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.

The Shout
★ 10.0
The Shout1976Drama

Based on the works of Sterjo Spasse. Kujtim Morava goes to work in a remote village. He assists in the destruction of churches and mosques since they spread a regressive mentality.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
★ 8.1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004Drama

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Mulholland Drive
★ 7.8
Mulholland Drive2001Drama

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Look Ahead with Anger
★ 5.6
Look Ahead with Anger1993Drama

After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.

Furrows
★ 8.0
Furrows1973Drama

Marta is a young, energetic girl who wants to become a tractor driver. Her husband, Adem, initially supports her, but then she discovers his true nature.

Poster unavailable
★ 8.1
Echo of Silence2008Drama

In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her father. Life here is very simple, but it is good enough and she is happy enough. Days go on as usual. with some coincidence, she meets this man one day, Wataru Kadokura (Atsuro Watabe) a man who cannot speak. A very peaceful "time" now becomes part of her daily life as this strong emotion suddenly takes place in her simple quiet life.

Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist
★ 6.6
Wolz – Life and Transfiguration of a German Anarchist1973Drama

Soldier Ignaz Wolz returns from WWI with an immeasurable hatred of capitalist war profiteers. He decides to start his own revolution, but tries to stay away from the organized class struggle. He steals from the rich men and divides the wealth among the poor. One day, Wolz is arrested and sentenced to life in prison; seven years later he is released due to mass protests. More than ever, it is hard for him to fit in. He severs ties with his former companions, who reject his ideas, and leaves Germany.

The Majestic
★ 6.8
The Majestic2001Drama

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Mysterious Skin
★ 7.7
Mysterious Skin2005Drama

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Regarding Henry
★ 6.5
Regarding Henry1991Drama

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

A Very Long Engagement
★ 7.3
A Very Long Engagement2004Drama

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

The Bourne Supremacy
★ 7.3
The Bourne Supremacy2004Drama

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

The Sailor's Song
★ 6.2
The Sailor's Song1958Drama

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.

The Battle of Algiers
★ 7.9
The Battle of Algiers1966Drama

Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.