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8.5
/13678/
84
/647/
82
/298/
4.4
/27125/
98
/102/
92
/48/
89
/19/
cc age 15+

For Sama (2019)
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
poster
84
8.4
/121930/
83
/2713/
81
/1897/
4.2
/117898/
90
/181/
93
/194/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
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.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.6
/45893/
73
/767/
71
/486/
3.7
/13142/
89
/121/
84
/3835/
79
/29/
cc age 13+

The Visitor (2008)
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/4363/
76
/276/
72
/91/
3.8
/3269/
98
/102/
83
/22/
86
/31/
cc age 16+

City of Ghosts (2017)
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.2
/14704/
70
/362/
69
/344/
3.8
/19454/
92
/108/
75
/30/
84
/23/

The Other Side of Hope (2017)
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
poster
80
71
7.6
/5141/
73
/74/
70
/46/
4.0
/9624/
94
/16/
91
/77/

West Beirut (1998)
In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut.
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Kanopy
70
6.9
/1839/
66
/91/
59
/15/
3.6
/4074/
96
/71/
72
/14/
83
/12/
cc age 11+

Stray (2021)
Experience the bustle of Istanbul street life through the eyes of three stray dogs – Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal.
poster
69
6.8
/1207/
58
/8/
57
/25/
3.3
/498/
78
/18/

How I Killed My Father (2001)
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
6.8
/52632/
67
/1562/
64
/829/
3.1
/11497/
78
/174/
65
/1773/
69
/35/
cc age 14+

Fair Game (2010)
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
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Fandango at Home Free
62
6.4
/2190/
62
/32/
61
/33/
3.6
/3154/
44
/9/
86
/28/

Salome's Last Dance (1988)
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
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76
57
7.2
/2647/
72
/30/
66
/33/
3.7
/1307/
86
/7/
87
/128/

The Great Journey (2004)
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
56
7.2
/5749/
72
/284/
71
/92/
3.0
/6557/
76
/11/

Just Friends (2019)
Joris is trying to come to terms with his broken family relationships on the 10th anniversary of his father’s death when he meets the free-spirited, Yad. Also dealing with family issues, Yad has returned home to The Netherlands after living on his own. Joris and Yad spark an instant connection and decide they want to be more than “just friends,” but fear their families could threaten their relationship.
poster
70
55
6.8
/3898/
69
/169/
61
/87/
3.2
/4813/
92
/12/
69
/9/

A Moment in the Reeds (2018)
Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.
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AMC+
54
6.2
/1579/
58
/21/
55
/18/
38
/37/
47
/103/
43
/15/
cc age 15+

Sorry, Haters (2005)
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
poster
53
5.8
/8841/
60
/523/
56
/165/
2.8
/10275/
50
/150/
32
/11/
52
/32/
cc age 16+

Greed (2019)
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
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JustWatch TV
68
53
7.4
/9526/
74
/124/
64
/75/
3.4
/2019/
63
/8/
78
/9/
61
/5/

Worlds Apart (2015)
Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.
poster
51
5.5
/3509/
53
/27/
50
/44/
3.0
/546/
42
/36/
52
/79/

Polish Wedding (1998)
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.
poster
56
50
5.3
/2461/
65
/701/
61
/117/
2.4
/1503/
cc age 15+

Stolen Girl (2025)
In 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally abducted children who promises to help her find Amina in exchange for her collaboration.
poster
66
47
7.1
/10553/
68
/104/
66
/85/
3.4
/2934/
57
/6/

Propaganda (1999)
Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.
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Kanopy
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47
6.3
/7083/
58
/116/
56
/77/
3.1
/1305/
40
/101/
58
/960/
49
/30/

Death of a President (2006)
A fictional investigative documentary looks back on the "assassination" of George W. Bush and attempts to answer the question of who committed the murder. Perhaps less morbid and disturbing to watch now than during Bush's presidency, the film doesn't address Bush's policies at all, instead focusing on the way a nation assigns blame in a time of crisis.
poster
73
32
7.1
/1037/
65
/6/
59
/25/
3.5
/603/
100
/7/
75
/2/

Circle of Deceit (1981)
To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay. Together with his photographer, he meets some influential people and discovers the everyday face of the war.
poster
52
25
5.9
/1170/
55
/40/
55
/68/
3.1
/498/
33
/31/

Spy(ies) (2009)
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists.
poster
64
20
7.0
/698/
46
/3/
62
/15/
3.5
/246/
70
/10/
71
/1/

Sammy Going South (1963)
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
poster
39
11
4.0
/671/
44
/23/
47
/17/
26
/14/

The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake (2009)
Sir Francis Drake goes on a quest to find the legendary Tree of Life, battling the Spanish Armada, sea monsters, sorceress and his bitter nemesis Captain Don Sandovate on the way.
poster
?
6.7
/33/
70
/1/
64
/7/

Unknown Refugee (2016)
In the autumn of 2015, Finnish-Iranian Ali Jahangiri wanted to personally experience the reality faced by refugees in Europe. Ali travelled across Europe to Finland with refugees who had landed in Greece. Unknown refugee is an authentic documentary of encounters that are not covered by the news.
poster
?
8.1
/18/
70
/1/

As Though Nothing Happened (2022)
Seven Damascenes, eight years apart, one collective trauma. This is the story of a city and the psychological scars its people bear from years of war.
poster
?
5.7
/25/
39
/4/

Houses Without Doors (2016)
The film portrays the changes in the life of an Armenian family on Aleppo’s frontline in Al Midan, an area that brought shelter to the persecuted Armenians 100 years ago and today to many displaced Syrians. From the balcony of his home, the director films with a small camera the changes in his neighborhood and his own family, interweaving his images with extracts from classical films to illustrate the parallels between the Armenian genocide and Syrians’ reality today.
poster
?
7.6
/11/
100
/1/

8 Borders, 8 Days (2017)
After waiting 15 months with no answer to her application for resettlement in the United States, a smuggler’s raft offers a single Syrian mother of two her only option for escape. 8 Borders, 8 Days documents the family'ss frightening eight-day journey to safety.
poster
?
7.3
/9/
60
/1/
60
/2/

My Paper Life (2024)
In Brussels, the Iranian artist and film director Vida Dena meets Naseem, father of a Syrian family who fled from the war. Within the walls of their precarious home, she talks with Hala and Rima, his two eldest daughters, through drawings. The little bits of coloured paper come to life on the screen to relate the memories, dreams and destiny of this family in exile.
poster
64
?
6.5
/207/
63
/42/
66
/17/

WWE Money in the Bank 2022 (2022)
The 2022 Money in the Bank is the 13th annual Money in the Bank professional wrestling live event produced by WWE. It took place on Saturday, July 2, 2022, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.
poster
?
7.9
/20/
20
/2/
17
/4/

Dancer on the Wounds (1974)
A belly dancer and prostitute falls in love with a famous doctor who asks her for marriage, but for the sake of her lover's social standing, she decides to abandon him and return to her life of sin, and in order to forget him, she meets another man but also discovers that he has a family he loves. The dancer feels that she is not made for marriage life or to establish a normal family life, so she moves from A man to another after she lost all faith in love.
poster
?
6.3
/17/

Tea on the Axis of Evil (2009)
When Syria was admitted to the "Axis of Evil", I decided to move there, alone, to record ordinary life and create a document to stimulate healthy curiosity about this Arab community to counter the vilification that dominated the media and White House rhetoric.
poster
?
5.7
/42/
35
/2/
100
/1/

AWA SuperClash III (1988)
AWA World Heavyweight Champion Jerry Lawler puts his title on the line against Kerry Von Erich's WCWA World Heavyweight Championship in a Title Unification Match main event. Plus, King Parsons defends the Texas Heavyweight Title against Brickhouse Brown, The Rock 'n' Roll Express battles The Stud Stable, and much more.
poster
75
?
7.6
/137/
71
/18/
78
/4/

NXT ArRIVAL (2014)
NXT Arrival was a live professional wrestling event produced by WWE held on February 27, 2014, at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. This was the first NXT Wrestling live event and the first live event to broadcast on the WWE Network service. Bo Dallas competed against Adrian Neville in a Ladder Match for the NXT Championship at the main event of the show.
poster
?
7.0
/37/

The Straner's Dust (1998)
The biopic of 19th century Syrian scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi who battled against the injustice in Syria during the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. His efforts actually managed to overthrow the Ottoman viceroy. However, he was banished to Cairo, only to continue his fight there.
poster
?
6.7
/78/
50
/1/

The Translator (2015)
Yusuf, a shy, sensitive Syrian refugee boy who lives in an exile at a remote Turkish border town, has to experience his newfound power, at the cost of his innocence.
poster
58
?
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
Amazon Prime Video
50
?
3.9
/412/
47
/15/
35
/4/
80
/7/

Becoming Burlesque (2019)
Fatima is a Toronto-born modern muslim girl raised in a family of mixed-cultures and mixed messages about what her role in the world is. She gets sucked into the empowering world of a sexy Burlesque cabaret, and unleashes her brave and confident Burlesque identity, “Babylon”. Then she must reconcile her old self with her new.
poster
66
?
6.4
/543/
68
/5/
3.4
/347/

Saf (2022)
Turkish director Ali Vatansever weighs the human cost of politically motivated urban renewal in his achingly resonant second feature, about a young couple forced to compromise their ideals and work for the very industry encroaching on their Istanbul neighbourhood, in order to keep up with the rent.


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