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31
7.7
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72
/19/
71
/18/
4.0
/1752/

The Dupes (1972)
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."
poster
74
18
7.6
/204/
70
/9/
70
/7/
4.0
/1086/

The Night (1992)
In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.
poster
63
13
7.8
/179/
50
/23/
51
/8/
3.8
/694/

The Extras (1993)
Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.
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60
/1/

Labor (2017)
A short film about post-crisis Syria through the obsessions of a pregnant woman haunted by nightmares about deformed children in the destruction.
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87
/69/

The Penguin (2006)
A young woman lives alone in isolation in her home and experiences many events inside her imagination or in her dreams; however, the only real thing in her life is her little goldfish.
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6.3
/28/

My Last Friend (2012)
When a popular doctor takes his own life, leaving behind a video will and a series of films of his life, everyone who knew him is forced to reassess their own life, creating a mirror of contemporary Syrian society.
poster
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7.4
/21/
100
/1/

The Lover (2012)
The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.
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7.1
/32/

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna (2002)
The film's story revolves around a child who has psychological problems (Adel), and the head of the family is disabled due to a severe injury he suffered in the Palestine War, so he became a seat and was unable even to perform his marital duties so that the wife continues to suffer from a double disadvantage, as she began bearing the burdens of raising her children, and assumed responsibility for the home The entire role of the father is also practiced, and there are uncommon forms of cruelty coated with a kind of maternal love that she cannot curb while shaving her son who sucks his thumb, and plucking his hair, and her daughter (Princess) is also punished by shaving her head because she colluded with her brother.
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6.8
/7/
90
/1/

ID (2007)
Based on the idea of ​​reincarnation, the work tells the story of Ahed, a young man who works in the pottery industry and lives in a village in northern Palestine with his family, where he is haunted by obsessions and memories from another life in another place.
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60
/1/

Seven Minutes to Midnight (2008)
The film tells a story about love and death, friendship and betrayal, health and illness, and responding to life's pressures and various requirements. It is a story about Amjad (Qusai Khouli) and Laila (Nadine), who fell in love and got married, but fate surprises them with a difficult life circumstance and puts them in a more difficult test, so one of them surrenders to the cruelty of the sudden circumstance, and there is marital infidelity and great regret, but after it is too late for this regret and all that remains is what reminds them of the beautiful, painful past.
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30
/1/

Damascus: The Smile of Sadness (2008)
The film tells the story of Sabria (the protagonist), who suffers from the male mentality in society during the period from the days of the Great Syrian Revolution until the 1940s, and depicts the Syrian woman’s attempt to achieve her freedom and equality with men.
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5.6
/11/
20
/1/

Hasiba (2008)
Based on one of the most famous novels by Syrian novelist Khairy Al-Zahabi, the film tells the story of a woman from a Syrian family who is married but always treated badly by her husband, and is good at embroidery.
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60
/1/

The Jasmine Birds (2009)
The film is based on the script of the film "The Diamond Dove" by the writer "Diana Al-Fares".
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4.9
/29/
80
/1/

Once Again (2009)
The film revolves around the subject of Syrian-Lebanese relations, starting from the period of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and up until after the Syrian army left, through a love story between a Lebanese woman who came to Damascus to work as a bank manager, and a young Syrian man who works as a communications manager there. The story between them begins with tension, but it quickly turns into a love story, although the tension between them does not completely disappear with falling in love, as the two characters are still living in the past.
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10
/1/

Men Under the Sun (1970)
Three Palestinian men strive to escape the hardships of life in a refugee camp. Under the scorching sun, the men enlist the help of an old man, Abu Al-Khaizuran, to smuggle them in an empty water tank across the desert.
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4.0
/6/
60
/1/

Days of Boredom (2008)
The film tells the story of four children living with their father on the Golan front in 1958, who live in constant weariness because of the war. After the military escalation on the front occurs, they are forced to return to their mother in her village.
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8.3
/18/
100
/1/

Morning Star (2019)
The film sheds light on the kidnapping of Syrian women who were subjected to torture during the years of the Syrian civil war, and the suffering they had to endure along with their families.
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7.5
/92/
50
/4/

Nights of The Jackal (1988)
Syria, 1967, rumors of war. Abu Kamel, a peasant who farms tomatoes near Latakia, bullies his family. One by one, each rebels against him or finds a route to break away.
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7.9
/7/
10
/1/

The Knife (1972)
Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story of Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss.
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80
/2/

Damascus... Aleppo (2019)
An introverted former broadcaster chooses to detach himself from the overwhelming situation his country is going through, but the news of his daughter getting besieged in Aleppo break through his shield. A portrayal of the fragile and voluntary detachment as a coping mechanism with war and trauma.
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30
/1/

Mariam (2013)
The fate of three women in wartime is united, each of whom is called Maryam and living at different times facing the war in its moral, social and brutal aspects, but each of them will not lose a life
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6.7
/14/
73
/3/

Joseph's Journey (2022)
After refusing to leave his home despite the horrors of the Syrian war, Yousef is forced to flee his hometown to protect his family and help his grandson fulfill his life-long dream.
poster
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7.4
/18/

Four O'Clock at Paradise (2015)
A close look at the modern life details of people representing different social strata, from a street vendor to a political intellectual, touching upon the story of two lovers whose life paths have faltered, as well as a crane operator who doesn't want to leave his homeland despite the circumstances.
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10
/1/

The Five Swindlers (1974)
A girl and her boyfriend are swindlers who have successfully carried out previous frauds. When they find out that their neighbor has an amount of money that he is safekeeping for a friend, they devise a plan to swindle him.
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6.6
/38/
80
/1/
60
/1/

Al-Yazerli (1974)
The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.
poster
72
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7.0
/108/
70
/4/
73
/6/
3.7
/267/

Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (1974)
The first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agricultural and land reforms, Everyday Life in a Syrian Village delivers a powerful jab at the state’s conceit of redressing social and economic inequities.
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6.6
/44/
37
/4/
50
/4/

The Cheetah (1972)
Set in Syria in the early 1900s. A peasant has his land taken from him by the authorities. He gets imprisoned and beaten by the gendarme, but manages to escape to the mountains where starts a bloody struggle for revolution.
poster
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7.3
/9/
10
/1/

Murder by Sequence (1982)
Laila is a smart woman who managed to make her way among businessmen outside her country. When she returns to her country with the aim of convincing her only daughter, an engineer, to travel with her, the daughter refuses. The businesswoman also discovers that her partners in the suspicious deals are conspiring against her, so she threatens them with the illegal documents in court. After a long struggle, she decides to live with her daughter and liquidate her business relations, but it is too late!
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8.3
/60/
45
/2/

Woman (2007)
Against the oppressive environment of religious fanaticism, political turmoil, archaic traditions, and the rise of fundamentalist Islamic movements, one extraordinary Arabian woman rises up in a personal, revealing, and dangerous quest to champion justice and equality for all women. WOMAN is a feature-length documentary based on the writings, lectures, and life of Nobel Prize nominee, activist Bouthaina Shaaban as she fearlessly ignites awareness while advancing the cause of rights for Arab women - from securing formal acknowledgments throughout the Arab world that women should be afforded basic human rights, to waging an international battle defending the integrity of the real Arab female, all accomplished with the firm hand of diplomacy and the power of her pen.
poster
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6.3
/23/
80
/1/
80
/1/

Dungeon Halab (2016)
Al-Qaeda (al-QIA) affiliated terrorist organizations such as al-Nusra and ISIS have laid siege to Aleppo City Prison. Syrian police and soldiers and more than 2,500 prisoners remained under siege for more than a year. Until May 22, 2014, when the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah broke the siege. This movie is about the legendary resistance of Syrian security forces and prisoners under siege.
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5.8
/9/
90
/1/

Public Relations (2005)
A tour guide is caught between two men: the first is a powerful and influential businessman, who is secretly married to the tour guide, and demands that she abort the fetus she is carrying from him. As for the other, she meets him on one of her tours and falls in love with him, as he appears to her to be a light-hearted, helpful and humble man.
poster
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60
/1/

Guards of Silence (2009)
Based on novel by Ghada al-Samman.
poster
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80
/1/

About Her (1978)
Documentary film that observes the live realities of Syrian women across the country in that period of time. It includes the ignorant and educated society.
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7.0
/42/
80
/1/
100
/1/

Under the Ceiling (2005)
As far as one can remember, water has been dropping from this ceiling. One drop after another, slowly, like an ever-repeating dream that spreads all-over and changes the rhythm of life, creating a partition in-between the internal and the external. One camera for Nidal Debs, another for his hero Marwan, One camera shooting what the other sees. who makes the film?. Marwan lives in Damascus since a long time, since when refugees arrived and filled the city, since hardship was even harder. He & his friends lived those times when life was different, when dreams were bouncing in the streets. Something is happening today, the friends awaken as Ahmad passes away, a life-time of silence has passed, a life-time of frustration and loneliness must end, dreams are searching for a few minutes, for last moments, there is still a little time left. There is a new space today.
poster
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6.6
/87/
63
/6/
62
/6/

Kafr Kassem (1974)
On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafr Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafr Kassem”.
poster
58
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7.6
/14/
10
/1/
70
/1/
3.7
/291/

The Visit (1970)
An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism. Featuring poetry from Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziad.
poster
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6.5
/12/
50
/2/
90
/1/

Dreamy Visions (2002)
The film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterized by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberalism. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.
poster
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7.1
/36/
60
/1/

Out of Coverage (2008)
When Zuhair is forcibly absent for ten years, Amer dedicates himself to the wife of his absentee friend and his daughter. But things take a surprising turn when Zuhair returns after a long absence, as Amer begins to wonder about his own fate.
poster
69
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6.9
/148/
66
/8/
70
/8/
3.6
/354/

Dreams of the City (1984)
Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s grandfather, who was known for his tyranny, reluctantly agrees to shelter the grieving family, and tries to force his daughter to marry again. The magic of the city of Damascus takes over the conscience. Dib, whose main concern has become discovering all the secrets of this city, is driven by his heart full of dreams, but he sees nothing in his life except humiliation and cruelty. The fragrance of childhood dies in Dib's heart, as he grows up in light of the political fluctuations that prevailed in the fifties (the end of the military dictatorship in Syria at that time, the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Nasser’s rise to power in Cairo, and Egyptian-Syrian unity in 1958), so that his rosy childhood dreams were shattered on the rocks of cruelty and violence. The city's dreams turn into a nightmare..
poster
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10
/1/

Rising Rain (1995)
Sabah is a creative writer who goes through the complexities of life in a city that pushes its children from its center to its outskirts where expatriates reside. He suffers from financial hardships, while a love story grows between a boy and a girl who meet at night in the rain.
poster
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10
/1/
100
/1/

Forced marriage (1972)
Mona and her friend Suheir travel to Syria to meet her fiancé. Mona's father requests the son of his friend Kamal residing in Syria to take care of his daughter Mona there, so he goes to her to meet and care for her so he gets to know Suhair and admire her. On the other side, events escalate as Salwa (to his heart), a client of a foreign country, tries to win over Dr. Khairat, the nuclear energy scientist, and tries to persuade him to go abroad again so that his country does not benefit from his knowledge.
poster
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30
/2/

The Truck Driver (1967)
A struggling young man abandons country life to work as a truck driver's assistant. His ambition drives him to be a driver himself, and lives a conflict that tears him apart between his love for a girl from his village, and his gratitude to his teacher who hopes to marry him to his daughter. We see the conflict that rages between truck drivers demanding wage increases on the one hand, and the employer on the other. The film depicts the harsh experiences that the hero goes through and learns through them the enormity of the individual battle in life.
poster
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80
/1/

Thief (2019)
The film tells the story of a robbery in which a girl suffers a conflict situation about the form of the victim that she wants to be, but in another context it is a form of contrast between past and future that highlights the effect of the act of theft
poster
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7.7
/9/
40
/2/

Al-lajat (1995)
In a desolate, conservative region of Syria a woman falls in love and runs away with a school teacher while her husband is away working in the city.
poster
58
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6.9
/106/
40
/2/
66
/8/

Sacrifices (2002)
As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow up with no name in the Syrian mountains, as they struggle to survive in a war-torn country.
poster
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6.1
/22/

Me, You, Mother, and Father (2016)
Story revolves around a love story between a soldier at a checkpoint and a girl living next door, who face political differences and the problems of war. The events and personalities of the film also monitor stories from the contemporary Syrian scene that bear the smallest details, as the film deals with the daily and daily reality in Syria.
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Adam (2018)
A little boy named Adam tries to convince his friend that his father is not a liar.
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Mr. Progressive (1974)
A revolutionary journalist tries to expose a corrupt, opportunistic politician who is making shady deals. The prominent politician tries to take revenge on him, using his intelligence and wide connections, by framing him in a murder that will silence him forever.


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