Alexandria, Egypt, 1940. Three young Egyptians come to the aid of a woman being attacked by three British soldiers. One of them is arrested and thrown in jail. When the military surrounds the police station and begins an all-out assault, it's up to one man, Gen. Youssef al-Masri, to defend his prison and protect his people.
An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family in the lives of those for whom dispossession is the norm, and yearning their daily lives.
The painter Ahmed Hamdy chooses Zeinab to model for his next painting. She soon falls in love with him, but he doesn't feel the same, as he gets involved with another woman and takes advantage of her.
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.
The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.
Adel decides to marry Sawsan despite the opposition of her parents. Adel is under pressure from her father to divorce her. Eventually Adel gives in to her father's threat to imprison him because of his marriage to a minor and divorces her. Sawsan escapes from her home and turns to her friend Mona.
The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a "school of hope" built of clay. Following both the students and the teachers in the Oulad Boukais Tribe's community school for over three years, SCHOOL OF HOPE shows students Mohamed, Miloud, Fatima, and their classmates, responding with childish glee to the school's altruistic young teacher, Mohamed. Each child faces individual obstacles - supporting their aging parents; avoiding restrictions from relatives based on traditional gender roles - while their young teacher makes do in a house with no electricity or water.
Naima escapes from her stepfather's house, and works in Sherazade's nightclub who gives her the artistic name 'Layal' and she becomes a famous dancer. She falls in love with journalist Galal and hopes to marry him.
Follows the escape journey of 4 complete strangers who were accused of a murder they did not commit.
A dangerous drug dealer, who manages to manufacture new drugs, sells them, and falls into many problems and chases by the police.
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles
Abdel Aal forces his daughter Samira to marry a wealthy man. After his death, they discover his will to deprive his entire family of his wealth, except for his widow Samira, on the condition that she remain a widow and not marry after him. Asem, her husband's brother, tries to exploit the situation and force her to marry. She flees to Egypt, meets Magdy, falls in love with him, and is forced to impersonate a maid so that her secret is not revealed.
Follows a plastic surgeon, Dr. Nabil, who owns a beauty clinic through which he is exposed to many comic situations along with his colleague.
(Ibrahim), the sea is a good character and loves the daughter of his aunt (Huda), but progress (strange) colleague of the fierce Navy to her speech, although he is a woman and the wife of many women's adventures, and also advances (Shalduma) the rich butcher to marry Huda also changed his name to (Shoshu) , But Huda is about Ibrahim's love only, and a drug gang is exploiting a stranger to promote her poisons at home using beautiful girls.
The film is about a couple who live in a popular area and have a son, the husband works in smuggling contraband and encourages his son to walk this road and makes him his assistant. The mother strongly objects, so the husband divorces her and expels her from the house, so she resorts to a doctor in the neighborhood and works for him as a nurse, to see then what fate hides for her of surprises.
Abbas Al-Aflatouni (Ismail Yassin), the grocer, went to Alexandria to redeem an olive message, anchovy, and cheese. Fleming arrived at him from Greece, and he was late and went to Locanda to reside there, but he did not find an empty room. Abbas Al-Platoni, the lawyer thought it the famous star, and was welcomed by the Locanda workers everywhere he goes, and the guest Hilal Bey Moon (Abdul Nabi Muhammad) watched him seeking the accompaniment of celebrities and their pride.
A light comedy about a man who enlists the help of two people in order to steal important documents from a bank safe, which leads them to pick and train two clueless thieves to do the job.
Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.
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.
A young widow, determined to give her children a better life, must confront her haunting past and transform pain into strength as she searches for healing—and a second chance at love.
The series deals with a number of love stories interspersed with strange events, starting with Maya, who lives with her mother. Her life is turned upside down because of a piece of caramel thathat enables her to read minds, and then she meets a businessman coming from France.
Widower Ramzi is going to marry Nisrine who is a lot younger than him. This shocks his son Jad and his girlfriend Sila as well as the entire family, who will do their best to get rid of Nisrine and keep her way from the family.
It tells the story of the power and control exercised by women in marital relationships, and, in turn, the weakness of the husband’s personality, through the daily lives of Karen and her husband.
A group of young men and women of different Arab nationalities live side by side in a residential building in Abu Dhabi. The work narrates the daily relationships between them, as well as the differences that may occur between individuals who live under one roof.
Beautiful executive assistant Zeina reluctantly teams up with the self-assured Tarek to chase down an elusive dollar bill worth $1 million.
The play is about the work in the mortuary, the secrets of the bodies that are kept in the mortuary, the hidden world of the dead, and the many secrets that happen to them in the mortuary
After 11 years in a coma, Dana wakes up to find family secrets from past threaten to ruin her life yet again.
Known as “the dead woman’s son", Shams discovers he’s heir to a tycoon. The legacy comes with a condition: find the four siblings his father erased to claim his legal identity. Fail, and he loses fortune… and his life.
The couple Adam a pianist and Yassmine a cellist, decide to start a project which collapses suddenly, then comes Taimour with an offer to save it.
Following years of trying to conceive, Tala decides to seek one last, unconventional method to protect her devoted marriage to Zayd and put an end to his family’s rebukes, so she hires a surrogate mother.
A realistic view of the social issues in Lebanon and Syria, where a blend of stories combine love, betrayal, forgiveness, and resentment.
A love triangle that starts when a love story between a strong woman and a power seeking politician deteriorates because of his hunger to power and money, and she only finds comfort with his own bodyguard.
A counterfeit artist, also a single father, is forced to work with his ex-lover to craft the perfect $100 bill — all to save his dying daughter.
The story of the five sons of Farid Noh, following each of their lives and the issues they face together.
The events revolve around a couple who live a happy life with their two children until an accident occurs that turns their lives upside down. Their two sons are kidnapped, so they try to search for them to reunite the family again.
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?
The story of a singer who is married to her business manager, and falls in love with another guy who works as a co-singer in her band.
Zero Degree Turn is a 2007 television series, made through the cooperation of Iran, Hungary, France and Lebanon. The program was one of most expensive and elaborate ever produced by Iran and attracted a large audience there. It is based on a real life story about Iranian diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari who saved Jews in 1940s Paris during the Nazi Occupation by giving out Iranian passports and allowing them refuge in the Iranian Embassy. Although it has been noted that neither character names nor the story are close to Sardari's story.
