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Not What You Think

2025 · 105 min

A quiet, emotionally charged family drama that slowly unravels secrets, keeping you uneasy and reflective as buried truths surface.

Directed by: Vuslat Saraçoğlu
Genres: Drama
Starring: Serdar Orçin, Alican Yücesoy, Hazal Türesan

Overview: Three very different siblings reunite in their hometown Tokat after their father's mysterious death, where shifting alliances, buried memories, and tangled bonds reveal that nothing about their past is as they believed.

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Directed by: Vuslat Saraçoğlu
Genres: Drama
Starring: Serdar Orçin, Alican Yücesoy, Hazal Türesan

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
memory
deception
identity
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Vuslat Saraçoğlu
Written by: Vuslat Saraçoğlu
Starring: Serdar Orçin, Alican Yücesoy, Hazal Türesan, Ozan Çelik, Ünal Yeter, Ayşe Saraçoğlu, Ahmet Sarp Keşkek, Elif Neva Özhan
Cinematography: Meryem Yavuz
Runtime: 105 min
Country: Turkey
Languages: Turkish

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