On Board

On Board

1998 · 102 min · TR · 7.2 (108 votes)
Dir. Serdar Akar · Starring Erkan Can, Naci Taşdöğen, Yıldıray Şahinler, Haldun Boysan, Ella Manea, Güven Kıraç · Music Uğur Yücel

“A ship is like a country.”

DramaCrime

Sailors want to remain in their small world, which is warm and cozy and full of lies, but their routine life turns upside down when one of them gets mugged and badly beaten.

VIBE

A suffocating, intimate portrait of men trapped by circumstance and their own choices. It's a slow descent into a world where camaraderie curdles into desperation, all under the oppressive weight of their confined reality.

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