
Mona Wassef
Actor · b. 1942 · Damascus, First Syrian Republic [now Syria]
Mona Wassef is a Syrian film and theatre actress who was born in Damascus in 1942. She is considered an icon in Arab cinema and a role model for many artists and has earned numerous nicknames including, “The First Star of Syria,” “Star of the Arab World,” and “Lady of the Syrian Screen.” Wassef's most famous early role was as Hind in the 1976 film “Al Ressala” (The Message) about the life of the prophet Mohammed. She has played the role of Bassam Kousa’s mother more than ten times in cinema and on television. In 2009, Wassef became the first Syrian woman to receive the Syrian Order of Merit-Excellent Degree. She has starred in more than 25 plays and 30 films, has appeared in nearly 200 television series and has received multiple life achievement awards from the Damascus Film Festival, Alexandria Film Festival and the International Arab Film Festival in Oran. She was married to the late director Mohammed Shaheen and they have one son, Ammar.
Movies14
Movie8.5HistoryDramaIn 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.
Movie8.0DramaWarThe murderer of Jabal’s father, is spotted alive in Bulgaria. Jabal heads a fierce hunt passing by Bulgaria and Istanbul. With the aim to bring Nazem back to justice to Al Hayba village.
Movie7.0ComedyJust Get Married!
2003 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe backstage story of one of the most successful Arab dramas in history, narrating the phases of its inception, execution, production and direction.
MovieComedyMenahi is a Saudi Bedouin young man, single and living with his old mother. He is a simple, spontaneous and kind-heart man, instinctive and adhering to the ethics of the environment from which he emerged, such as honesty, honor and virility. He dreams of owning a small farm to raise sheep. But he went out into the city and didn't adapt to civic life. —Akram Gus
MovieDramaShort movie (Al Urjouha) His story revolves around a soldier returning from the front to visit the family of his friend who died in the war. He decides to live with her and compensate for the loss of their son. He builds a solid relationship with the daughter of the martyr, who never stops playing on the "Swing" that her father made for her.
MovieDramaAn 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.
Movie6.0DramaThe 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.
MovieAdventureHistoryA mamluk called Gaber, in order to take advantage of the rift between the Caliph of Baghdad and the prince he works for, volunteers to be a messenger for the prince. He also takes it as a chance to see his beloved Zomorod. Gaber suggests the prince write the message on his bald head, but when his hair grows the message disappears.
MovieDramaLaila 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!
MovieA newly graduated young doctor has hopes of making his way steadily in his country, or of traveling to another country in order to achieve his dreams. In the village, he wakes up from his rosy dream he lived before he traveled to a harsh reality, after he is accused of murder.
MovieDramaScience FictionUnable to afford the dowry of his wealthy sweetheart, a young man is devastated when his beloved's father forces her to marry another, leaving him to convince his scientist brother to use his knowledge to shrink him. As he becomes pint-sized, he turns the life of his beloved's husband into hell.
Movie10.0The story of the film within the Abu Asaad family revolves around the inheritance of three brothers in the city of Hama in central Syria, but severe disagreements arise between them over how to divide this inheritance.
Movie5.0DocumentaryRejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot lines to organize a stinging attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut's political milieu.
Series11
TV7.6DramaA modern classic of Arab television. A social drama set in the 1920s in Damascus- It highlights Damascene life, noble values, and ancient customs and traditions represented by the people of Harat al-Dabeh who fled to Harat al-Salihiyah after the French bombed Harat al-Dabeh. The events take place after the gold is stolen from the house of the cloth merchant Abu Ibrahim, and the guard Abu al-Samu is killed. The men of the neighborhood try to find the thief.
TV6.6DramaAction & AdventureIn a village by the Lebanon-Syria border, the head of an arms-smuggling clan contends with family conflicts, power struggles and complicated love.
TV9.0DramaWar & PoliticsA historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State.
TV6.4DramaFamilyA man entrusts Abu Al Makhraz with a huge sum of money and disappears. When Abu Al Makhraz dies, his family finds themselves pitted against his relatives.
TV9.0DramaCrimeOn the run from his past and his community, Jaber becomes a fugitive and assumes the identity of a sacred heir—setting off a ruse in a forgotten village awaiting a saviour to revive its will to endure.
TV9.0The story revolves around the marginalized who are neglected by life, but are saved by love, through the story of Samra, the attractive gypsy, who was able to translate the poverty and despair, into a dance wandering the streets. Then she meets a doctor who falls in love with her.
TV9.0DramaLife returns to a building abandoned after the Lebanese Civil War when it becomes a temporary haven for Syrian refugees, as war ravages their homeland.
TVHaving spent most of her 20s taking care of her sick mother and her family's household, a sexually repressed woman elopes and has to face the hypocrisies of middle eastern society.
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1992 tv series
Al-Siwar
1992
TVDramaCrimeWhen the honourable officer Moussa discovers that his siblings are counterfeiting dollar bills, he’s caught in a moral trap: either let them face the criminal underworld or take the reins of a dirty game to shield them.
TV10.0DramaA female screenwriter in Damascus, Syria is politically detained which drastically affects all aspects of her life.