Love in a Jail Cell 1983
A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.
A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.
Ommi Traki is an elderly woman who is active and involved in everything, organizing everything in her family and neighborhood. Surrounding her are her husband Salah, who contentedly observes the results of his wife's interventions with a mocking air; her spoiled son Ali, a young man she still considers a child; the maid Zouzou; and others. The film is inspired by the famous Tunisian television series of the same name from the 1970s.
A young Palestinian woman reunites with her long lost brother in Tel Aviv, but her hopes of a happy reunion are shattered when she discovers the truth behind his exiled existence.
A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only to find her living with a black boyfriend..
Failed entrepreneur and struggling dad Sattam finds himself tangled in a madcap scheme when he decides to repay his debts — by kidnapping his own father.
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.
Seeking a change, history teacher Allam transfers to a school in the desert, but his new life comes with more obstacles than he bargained for.
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
Hamid Kanfoudi, an orchestra conductor, wins the lottery. Contrary to his beliefs and expectations, he sees no improvement in his life.
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a "chess bar" in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women. All this changes with the arrival of Sarah, a sexually liberated, uninhibited metisse who easily lures Youssef into an affair. Soon he is dreaming not about chess but about opening a coffee bar in Genoa. The friendship is destroyed, the bar sold. Youssef, dressed in Western clothes, waits to leave with Sarah; will she show up? Said boards a train and sits down next to a Westernized woman bearing a resemblance to Sarah
Fyzal Boulifa's Cannes winning and Bafta-nominated short is an allegory of emancipation inspired by his mother's experience growing up in Morocco. Produced by Gavin Humphries the film also won the Fujifilm Prize and was selected for Sundance.
At a strict girls school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
Years have passed since the brothers have separated in their different ways of life. But one day, a ghost from the past returns to cast a shadow over the sons of Rizk, forcing them to return to a life of crime and theft once again in order to save themselves, in a fateful operation that is the largest, most dangerous, and most important in the history of the sons of Rizk.
Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social changes brought about by the revolution. Tinted with historical symbolism, the film tells of the disaggregation of a feudal family when the father died.
Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
Zahra’s beauty parlor is a haven for women wanting to pamper themselves or seek refuge. A clumsy act will connect Zahra and a young man’s paths and hearts.
A love story fueled by conflict and mystery, falls between two, and major changes in their lives.
A passionate love story is to be crowned with marriage, only for the groom to die on the wedding day. Will his beloved be able to overcome her grief and move on? Does his involvement with the mafia attribute to his death?
In a family comic framework, the work deals with the story of Fadel, who is known as Professor Mamnoue, who refuses Arabic is pronounced incorrectly and always objects to mistakes from the person in front of him, whatever their appearance.
A Lebanese-Syrian-Egyptian drama TV series in which a handsome young man, Aous, is being chased down by five women who are trying to kill him, each with a separate motivation that has underlying feelings of passion, betrayal and deceit.
Yaman makes the choice to relocate to the family's ancestral home with the intention of taking up a position as a sculpture instructor at a university. However, his mother strongly opposes the idea, and a secret is about to be revealed.
As a series of mysterious crimes ensues, Detective Karim M'alouf is forced to embark on the most dangerous of journeys to solve the mystery, and he is soon to cross paths with a woman called Nasim who he is forced to protect.
A criminology research visit to prison changes Rawad’s life when he meets Wazir, a schizophrenic who believes he’s been framed for 21 murders.
Mayar comes back to Lebanon after his rich father's death, acting on his father's will he meets Yara, falls in love with her and his life change.
Beirut 303 plane explodes over the shore of Lebanon, turning the lives of the few who survived into a quest of truth filled with mystery and suspicion.
A biography about the artist Sabah (Al-Shahroura) following her professional and personal life from the age of seventeen, addressing the problems that she has experienced since her adolescence in Lebanon, and her adoption in Egypt, her children, and her many husbands, in addition to her family.
On the eve of the 35th anniversary of launching Dentelle’s atelier, a group of people discover life-changing secrets hidden within its walls.
Set in 1964 Lebanon, a group of students from different walks of life get caught in a web of conflicting ideologies, traditions, ambitions and romance.
Tasked with a secret mission to follow a high-profile politician, a photographer witnesses a murder and turns into the prime suspect.
When a drug dealer's daughter is killed in a car crash, the person responsible is given two choices - work for the drug dealer or have his family killed.
Under a single sky burdened by crises, the stories of the Lebanese intertwine with the anguish of Syrian refugees in a human epic that showcases the harshness of current challenges. The events boldly depict the tragedies of poverty, the struggle for survival, and the hopes hanging by a thread.
Meet Carole, Carine and Rola, three sisters who live in a Beirut suburb in the early 90s along with their parents, their dog, and the problems of everyday life, in one of the first sitcoms to be beloved by generations of viewers.
Karam, a successful engineer, leads a life that people may deem perfect, but its intricacies unfold when he falls in love with two different women.
The story of a quadrant of Tango dancers as they discuss the difficulties of love and how to deal with one's partner. As they all have different views, they all have different opinions on what to do after a break up. One of them however, has an opinion that is extremely far away from any of their points of view, as she believes that suicide is the perfect thing to do after breaking up with one's lover.