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According to Edward Said, Orientalism is the set of prejudices, fantasies and images that lead the Western world to dominate Eastern countries. The cultural factors that enable Orientalism to create a tradition based on dominance are philology, history, politics, novelism and poetics. Cinema can also be added to these. The book The Sheltering Sky, written by American author Paul Bowles in 1949, tells the story of Kit and Port's journey to Tangier, Morocco, to escape from the intellectual New York environment and sort out their troubled marriage. The movie Çölde Çay, adapted from the same novel by Italian director Bernardo Bertolocci in 1990, has some differences from the book. The differences between the source text, the novel, and the film have made it necessary to look at these two texts with an orientalist reading through intertextuality. This theory is very suitable for use in terms of cinema. Every movie can be considered as a text. The films are full of references to other films, texts and other forms of art. From this point of view, the aim of the study is to reveal the common and different orientalist discourses between The Sheltering Sky and Çölde Çay with an intertextuality approach. Critical discourse analysis of the Vienna School was preferred as the method of the study. The research will make a general reference to orientalism and critically analyze the two works mentioned in the discussion section, based on the definition of the concept of intertextuality. In the conclusion section, the findings will be presented with the intertextuality approach and the study will be concluded by summarizing the research.