Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano 2023

6.00

On August 4th, 2020, the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut leaves a large part of the Lebanese capital in ruins. In the midst of the chaos, a troubled film crew face an overwhelming decision: to continue the production of their movie or abandon it? As they face the aftermath of the catastrophe, they are torn between their firm belief in the transformative power of cinema and a deep sense of cynicism about its ability to effect change in a nation plagued by economic turmoil and societal collapse. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano chronicles their struggles and highlights the crew's resilience as they strive to find meaning and purpose in their work amidst the devastation.

2023

Capernaum

Capernaum 2018

8.14

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

2018

A Hero Till the End

A Hero Till the End 1963

6.00

Hafez takes advantage of his presidency of the Childhood Protection Association and his knowledge of the rich families, to cover up his criminal activity in which he kidnaps the children of these families in exchange for ransom.

1963

Shanbu Fi Al-Musayda

Shanbu Fi Al-Musayda 1968

4.00

Shanbo is an accounting employee in a bakery, who offers to a young journalist his story production to be published in the magazine she works for, and through the working relationship between Shanbo and the girl, a love story between them interferes with the events of the plot to assassinate the wealthy, miserly aunt, which her nephew is planning to capture Shanbo and get the wealth and the girl and shanbo tries to prove his innocence of the charge.

1968

Shafah Ghaliza

Shafah Ghaliza 1992

1

The film revolves around Magda, who lives under extremely difficult social conditions and tries in vain to obtain an honest source of livelihood. She ends up pickpocketing on public transportation, and from there she picks up the lawyer Alaa with his knowledge. He searches for her everywhere out of his extreme love for her and his sympathy for her condition and case, with the help of his brother who works in the prosecution service.

1992

My Hippy Wife

My Hippy Wife 1973

1

A humble man encounters a group of hippies and develops feelings for one of them. As they get married, they cannot find a place to stay, and he resorts to a friend of his who abhors all hippies. Can their stay at his house alter his prespective?

1973

The Naked Truth

The Naked Truth 1963

8.00

Amal, a tour guide in Cairo, doesn’t want to get married after witnessing her mother’s divorce, and has decided that all men are no good. With high hopes, she goes to visit the Aswan High Dam where a tourism delegation is. In a chance encounter, she meets civil engineer Ahmed, who intervenes in time to save her life after a near freak accident. After this, Amal must decide what she will do with her life: whether she will return to Cairo and whether to continue graduate studies in America.

1963

5 Seasons of Revolution

5 Seasons of Revolution 2023

1

Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life and people around her, mainly during a bright sunny day in Damascus. But with the uprising in Syria, Lina was slowly absorbed into documenting the impact on people’s lives. It didn’t take long before events escalated, and arrests, torture, and potentially life-threatening situations became a reality for Lina to negotiate on a daily basis. She had to adapt. She invented personas and aliases. They each helped her navigate life under a new norm. What was a simple plan, turned into a complex web of identities, which seemed then a small price in exchange for her liberty to continue to hold the camera.

2023

A kiss in Lebanon

A kiss in Lebanon 1945

1

Fathia travels to Lebanon to spend a period of convalescence, leaving her husband Sami behind. Fathia meets an Egyptian young man in Lebanon at the same time that her husband Sami falls in love with the playful Souad and spends time with her. News reaches Fathia that her husband is cheating on her, so she becomes angry and finds no way to respond to the betrayal except with betrayal.

1945

Awal Ghram

Awal Ghram 1956

1

A quarrel occurs between Sania (the first dancer in the band) and the band director, who decides to cancel the contract and give singer Zainab the chance to star, but the band’s first singer refuses to appear in front of her. Zainab suggests that her beloved singer Salah appear in front of her, and he actually succeeds. Hatreds are born in Sania’s heart, so she throws With her network around Salah, she convinces him that Zainab is in a relationship with the director. The director again seeks the help of Saniya, but Zainab discovers the truth and ends with a surprise.

1956

Singer of the Valley

Singer of the Valley 1947

1

After the artist Wahid Fakhry travels around the world, he returns to Egypt to search for new talent for his impending project. He finds what he is looking for in the form of a poor girl who is selling Falafel.

1947

The Emigrant

The Emigrant 1994

5.68

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.

1994

Sahbek Rajel 2

Sahbek Rajel 2 2025

10.00

The series presents a new adventure for Azzouz and Mehdi, blending action, comedy, and romance. After competing in the first part to win a woman's heart, their rivalry returns this time over a completely different goal.

2025

The Stranger

The Stranger 1956

1

Hajj Kamel picks up a little boy from the street, whose family and relatives refused to shelter him after the death of his father and mother, and he takes him into his home, so he lives like his son next to his young daughter and son. The real son, Mahrez, grew up with an unknown enmity towards the poor boy, Ghareeb, while the little daughter, Yasmine, loved this boy. When the father dies, the poor boy takes over his work. He continues to take care of Yasmine until the rich young man, Anwar, enters her life.

1956

36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime

36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime 2023

5.00

On February 10th, 2015, it took Craig Hicks 36 seconds to extinguish the lives of three young, Muslim Americans. Before they can grieve, the families are forced to become activists to set the record straight about the murders.

2023

Hatta Akher AlOmr

Hatta Akher AlOmr 1975

5.00

"Mona" girl club girls admire young "Ahmed" who does not exchange love for love, but does not care about them at all, travel abroad on a business trip. One day Mahmoud hints at "Mona" and admires her and marries her. The father agrees and they get married. They live a happy life. Ahmed returns from abroad. The case is confirmed when Mahmoud sees him and Ahmed in the club, so he decides to divorce her, but he goes to the front. But she resists, and renewed her hope to recover "Mahmoud" after the return of a colleague from abroad has recovered from injury Similar to Mahmoud's injury.

1975

Ln Aghfer Abadan

Ln Aghfer Abadan 1981

1

Hussein's father dies after being neglected by doctors. Hussein decides to take revenge on doctors by stealing their cars.

1981

He Came Back, But

He Came Back, But 1989

1

Fouad Bukrouh leaves his wife Naima because of his many problems with her and her brothers Rami and Hanadi in order to live away from them simply and away from problems, but Naima does not leave him as she pursues him in order to bring him home by making plans with the help of her neighbor Laila, which aims through these plans to continue the problems between Naima and Fouad in order to She takes money from Naima.

1989

Beirut Class

Beirut Class 2020

8.00

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.

2020

Keep trying

Keep trying 1972

1

The Kuwaiti comedy series حاور زاور, produced in 1972, features a series of humorous and socially reflective scenarios centered around everyday challenges and misunderstandings in Kuwaiti society. Each episode presents a standalone comedic plot that draws on interactions among neighbors, friends, and family, using humor to highlight social issues and relationship creating an engaging viewing experience that resonated with audiences of the time.

1972

Mrs. Munira

Mrs. Munira 1982

1

The events revolve around Faiza, an Egyptian girl in her twenties, who makes herself an old woman in order to meet the conditions that were put forward by one of the Kuwaiti families to work as a nanny for the children of the family whose mother died, which the children do not accept at first.

1982

Bou Kareem

Bou Kareem 2011

1

The series revolves around the father “Adam” and his seven daughters, who raised them alone after his wife “Karima” left him because she wanted to marry a rich person, so he struggled to raise them alone with his extreme poverty.

2011

Banat Althanawia (Highschool Girls)

Banat Althanawia (Highschool Girls) 2011

1

The work, which revolves around the story of five teenage girls in a secondary school, monitors the relationship of these girls with their society, their families, and their academic environment. Each episode deals with a new event in the girls' lives in terms of raising teenage problems, their issues, their view of society, principles and beliefs, and the impact of family and social problems on them.

2011

To Dad and Mom with Love

To Dad and Mom with Love 1980

10.00

A Kuwaiti family in the 1980s faces everyday struggles of parenting, discipline, and tradition. This heartfelt drama explores universal family dynamics within a changing cultural landscape.

1980

Harun's Mother

Harun's Mother 2020

5.00

Set in the 1940s, the series chronicles the life of Umm Harun, a doctor residing amongst the townspeople in Kuwait and faces numerous challenges, she and her family as well as the Jewish community at large.

2020

Bibi

Bibi 2022

3.00

Free-spirited Bibi brings joy wherever she goes, but despite her seemingly carefree life, a nightmare from her past starts catching up with her.

2022

Sulaiman Al-Tayeb

Sulaiman Al-Tayeb 1993

8.50

The story of Suleiman deals with the single 40-year-old man who lives with his misery mother and controls him and refuses his marriage so that his wife does not have children to inherit him, and the attempts of her speaking relative Umm Faisal to convince her to marry her son fail, until the speech decides to challenge Um Suleiman and cooperate with her relative, the widow Taiba, in order to marry her to Suleiman with trick.

1993

dalag suhail

dalag suhail 1996

1

In 1967, three brothers from the Badr Al-Dajji family live on his personal path, Haji, the older brother who owns a sweets shop, the middle brother who died early, and the younger brother who takes what he is unjustly entitled.

1996

Centipede

Centipede 2025

10.00

In this dramedy, eight women in their forties tackle life together, navigating its challenges and experiences, ranging from marriage and divorce, to motherhood, family, infidelity, money and much more…

2025

Akram Ezz El Din Family

Akram Ezz El Din Family 2024

1

The events revolve around the young man, Akram Ezz El-Din, who works as a journalist and tries hard to preserve his Arab culture and heritage, despite the challenges he may be exposed to.

2024

Thursday's Visit

Thursday's Visit 2010

1

The events of the series revolve in a comic framework about (Moza) and (Thnayan), the heads of a family, which includes 5 children, who together try to constantly reunite the family through the weekly meeting of the grandparents with their children and grandchildren in (Zuwara), shedding light on the problems that afflict family relations, which It can cause disconnection or strife if not handled wisely.

2010

Bu Olaiwy Diaries

Bu Olaiwy Diaries 1964

1

In a comedy context, Bou-Aliwi decides to write his memoirs and sits next to him, Um Aliwi, to review what he has gone through in his life and his dealings with those around him, and remember his relationship with his wife and her pregnancy and many of the situations he went through with her.

1964

Bidding the World Farewell

Bidding the World Farewell 1987

1

When Mahzouza and Mabrouka claim their share in their father's inheritance, their uncle seizes it, claiming that they're a couple of lunatics, and admits them into a psychiatric hospital. However, they escape from the hospital and embark on a journey to expose the truth and claim their rights.

1987

Ser Alhawa (Love Secret)

Ser Alhawa (Love Secret) 2013

1

It deals with the love story of a party designer who falls in love with one of her classmates at the university, but fate prevents their connection... The events follow in more than one dramatic line, dealing with issues of youth, human relations, and love. The current and previous times, as for Taif, she said about her role, “I embody the role of Umm Ahmed, who is kind-hearted and “walks” on the intention … and Aseel Omran, my niece, I love her very much, and I will be shocked by her because of her evils, and her impure intention, even though I wished her to be a wife to my son, with He loves another girl, and that's where problems happen.' The series is complete with action.

2013

Naseeb

Naseeb 1988

1

Abdullah finishes his studies in America and returns to Kuwait intending to marry his foreign girlfriend, at the same time his parents try to convince him to marry other girls, so he accepts obedience to his parents, but soon divorces them for several reasons, and then decides to marry his American sweetheart

1988