Cinematic background from Three Monkeys 2008 - A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?

Three Monkeys

2008

Drama

Directors:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers:
Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – An older woman standing next to a stack of boxes in a kitchen; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man's face with wet hair; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A young man with a bruised face is posing for a picture; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person in a bathroom near a shower; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with a beard; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting on top of a bench near a train platform; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man's face with his hand under his chin; Extreme Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man standing on top of a sandy beach near a body of water under a cloudy sky; Extreme Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman's face at night; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man with a beard wearing a jacket and a white shirt; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man's eyes and face; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man in a suit sitting on top of a wooden bench; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman in a leopard print shirt standing in a bush; Medium shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A group of people working in a restaurant kitchen preparing food; Medium shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with curly hair; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman in a red shirt is walking down the street; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a black t - shirt; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with a beard; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man kneeling on the ground in a mosque; Extreme Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a suit; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man wearing a suit and tie in a dark room; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting in the driver's seat of a car; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a black shirt; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man with a beard is behind a fence; Extreme Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with a mustache; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man standing on top of a building near a lake; Extreme Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting on the floor of a room; Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person behind a fence; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person walking down a street at night; Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person behind a fence; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting on a wall looking out at the ocean; Extreme Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a suit; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man looking through the bars of a jail cell; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person looking through a cage; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person smiling for the camera; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman's face in the dark; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A group of people sitting at a table in a restaurant; Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a shirt; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman's face in the dark; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with a beard; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting at a table with a knife in front of him; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man with a hat is looking out a window; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person behind a fence; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man in a white dress shirt and a white tie; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman wearing a headscarf is standing in a dark room; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – An older man sitting at a table in front of a book; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Two men in the back seat of a car looking at each other; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man standing in front of a window looking at himself; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man and a woman are sitting at a table; Medium shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a white shirt; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person sitting on a couch; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person's face in a dark room; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man standing next to a white car on the side of the road; Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person looking down at the ground; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman sitting on top of a building at night; Medium shot, Overhead angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person in a car with trees in the background; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A room with a table and a window with a view of the ocean; Extreme Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting on the floor in front of a table; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person wearing a shirt and tie; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man sitting on top of a rock looking out at the ocean; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man's face in the dark; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man walking up some stairs in the dark; Extreme Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with their hand on the wall; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman standing in front of an open door in a room; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman sitting at a table in front of a plant; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man's face as he stands in front of a building; Extreme Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man drinking a glass of wine at a party; Extreme Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person sitting on a bench near a street sign; Extreme Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man standing in front of a window looking out of the blinds; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman standing on a bridge looking at the ocean; Extreme Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man in a white tank top is sitting in a dark room; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person standing in a kitchen preparing a meal; Medium shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person's eye in the dark; Extreme Close Up shot, Overhead angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man and a woman sitting in a living room; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A van parked on the side of the road at night; Wide shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person holding something in his hand; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man laying on a bed in a room; Medium shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman's face in the dark; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man with a bald head wearing a white shirt; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man in a white tank top holding a glass of water; Medium shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Two men are looking into the camera with their eyes wide open; Extreme Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman sitting in a chair looking out a window; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person walking down a street near a tall building; Extreme Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman sitting on top of a couch talking on the phone; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A person with his head down; Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A young boy is crying with tears coming from his eyes; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man reading a newspaper while sitting in a train station; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman sitting on a couch in a living room; Wide shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A shirtless man leaning against a wall with his hand on the wall; Close Up shot, Overhead angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman's face with a man in the background; Close Up shot, Over the shoulder angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man laying on a bed in the dark; Close Up shot, High angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A woman's face in the dark; Extreme Close Up shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man in a white shirt and black pants standing in front of a train; Wide shot, Low angle
Movie still from “Three Monkeys” (2008), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan – A man standing in front of a large window; Medium shot, Over the shoulder angle