Rafiq Subaie
Birthday: Born in 1930-02-09 in Syria
Deathday: 2017-01-05
A Syrian actor, born in Al-Buzuriya neighborhood in Damascus, nicknamed "People's Artist". He began his artistic career in the late 40s by presenting improvised comedy parts on Damascus theaters and its private clubs, then moved on to singing and acting in several artistic groups such as Ali Al-Aris, Abdul Latif Fathi and Al-Bayrouti. In the late 1950s, he played the famous character of Abu Sayyah. His first appearance on television was in the series Happiness Restaurant (1960) with Duraid Lahham, followed many Syrian TV series, including: Salhiya Nights, Ghawar's Pranks and The Struggle of Time. He died in Damascus in 2017, at the age of 86, after a long artistic career during which he was one of the pillars of Syrian drama, in theatre, television, radio and cinema.
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رقصة الحباري
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أيام شامية
Character: زعيم أبو صطيف
Set in an old neighbourhood in Damascus towards the end of the Ottoman era, this story brings to life the traditions, customs, and relationships of the time....
طالع الفضة
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A story that examines the unique social fabric of the city of Damascus through the neighborhood of Talea Al Feda, where Muslims live alongside Christians and Jews, coexisting in tolerance and peace....
طاحون الشر
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The events revolve around the Levantine environment and the social problems that permeate it, during the period of the French occupation of the country....
ليالي الصالحية
Character: المختار أبو حاتم
A 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....
مقالب غوار
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الطير
Character: Shakir
A social work that talks about a girl named Abeer and deals with her life from her childhood after her father went to prison and her mother married and she was raised by a rich woman, and thus the events that she goes through continue....
قمر شام
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عُمَرْ
Character: Waraqa ibn Nawfal
A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State....
أولاد القيمرية
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قانون الغاب
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Faqaqie
Character: Abou Sayyah
The series discusses a variety of social issues within a framework of separate episodes, and through a series of comedic events that simulate society, such as hypocrisy, science, and other issues...
مرزوق على جميع الجبهات
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In which dramatic events are mixed with funny comedy, the main character "Marzouk" is a man who always cares about the concerns of others and tries to find solutions for them just because he knows that this is one of the duties of the respectable man, as he tries to solve the problems of neighbors and relatives, but he often falls into serious problems because of that, until personal problems occur....
صلاح الدين الأيوبي
Character: صاحب الأحداث مراد (شيخاً) - ضيف شرف
A chronicle of the life of legendary Muslim leader, Salah Al Din Al Ayoubi, who defeated the Crusader army in Jerusalem....
صقر قريش
Character: محمد بن علي - ضيف شرف
A historical series that traces the rise and fall of the Umayyad dynasty, and follows the life of Abd al-Rahman I, founder of the Umayyad regime in Andalusia....
مبروك
Character: دباح الغولة - أبو رؤوف
The series presents archetypes that reflect the issues encountered by people who are about to marry, as all the romance fades once the groom is forced to pay all he has in order to secure a house, turning his life after marriage into a struggle to pay off his debts....
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Ayam fi landan
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Zawaj Ala El-Tareeqa El-Mahalleya
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Leqaa Al-Ghorabaa
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The events revolve around a small family consisting of a couple and two children. One day, the wife dies, leaving the husband with two children to raise alone. He decides to marry again so that his wife can help him raise the children, but after that he commits suicide because he declares bankruptcy, and the second wife finds herself facing a great responsibility....
The Two Friends
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A strict father refuses to let his beautiful daughter marry the young pilot she loves, believing that the life of a pilot is filled with danger. The pilot sees a dead end, but that does not prevent him from using his cunning to persuade his beloved's father of their marriage....
Ortaşark Yanıyor
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A Turkish take on James Bond....
Fake Love
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A group of married couples pretend to love each other, with sincerity, and loyalty in front of society. However, problems and conflicts secretly arise, which are a result of betrayal and lack of trust, revealing that the apparent love between them is nothing but a lie....
The Memory of a Night of Love
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Adel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer....
Lovers on the Road
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Based on the famous story, “Sa’ay El Bareed La Yaduq Babek Maratein” (The Postman Doesn’t Knock Twice), an adventurer escapes from danger by hiding in a small motel along the road. The motel is owned by an old, miserly man who is married to a young beautiful woman. Soon the fugitive and the wife develop a passionate relationship and plot to kill her husband. However, the old man’s son returns to spend the weekend in the motel and the plan goes off the rails....
The Iland's Devil
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A man breaks into Nagy's house and burns classified documents. Ali Baba, Nagy's friend, tells him about the incident, and then Nagy dies in mysterious circumstances. However, all fingers point to Ali Baba as the main suspect. Meanwhile Laila arrives to uncover her cousin's murder....
Forced marriage
Character: أبو صياح
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 hi...
The bridge of the wicked
Character: Abu Sayyah
A plastic artist suffers from extreme poverty. His friend convinces him to fake suicide so that he can become famous as a genius artist and sell his paintings. It turns out that this friend is trying to seize his paintings and his lover. The artist discovers his friend's betrayal and plots to expose him to everyone....
The Eastern Woman
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Amal is a pretty girl who works for a lady in her big house and is in a relationship with Walid, but she suffers as people misjudge her because of her beauty, harassing her and believing that she would be easy prey. Although her employer insists that she entertain her guests, Amal can't quit as she desperately needs her job....
Those Who Came from the Seas
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Following a plane crash, a man, his wife, and his friend end up on a desert island, and once again the eternal struggle that involves one woman and two men rages over who gets the woman and who should stay....
The Long Night
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Four political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison....
The Sun on a Cloudy Day
Character: Old Man
Adel is from an aristocratic family that lives in Syria during the French occupation, his culture forced him to rebel against his family, and descend to the bottom of society wishing to change his life, he got to know this society and loved him, but he became torn between his culture, and his aristocratic origins....
Syrians
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The film talks about the story of Zeina and Reem, two women struggling in Syria, they both cross paths with Yousef and his father in a series of events....
We Will Return
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The story of a young Palestinian who left his refugee camp to become a resistance fighter in the Palestine Liberation Organization....
Murder by Sequence
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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 la...
Dreams of the City
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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 ...
The Night
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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 destruc...
Sacrifices
Character: Akbar
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....
Daughter of the Guardian
Character: أبو صياح
Chaos erupts in a village after a series of burglaries take place, prompting Najma, the daughter of a guard, to think of a solution. She disguises herself as a man and becomes the village vigilante....
Safar Barlek
Character: ابو درويش
The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he's arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber. Meanwhile the Ottomans prevent the wheat from arriving to certain villages because they want to defuse the ongoing resistance operations led by Abou Ahmed. Adla travels to where some say Abdou is held prisoner and she meets with Abou Ahmed. She along other villagers start helping...
Love in Istanbul
Character: Toufik
Queen Nazli's daughter disappears at a young age, and the queen dies without seeing her. The heirs take advantage of the disappearance of the daughter to divide the wealth among them, but when the daughter suddenly appears, they try to stop her from having the wealth....
The Three Swindlers
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The millionaire Sobhi lives in his luxurious palace, and he feels happy because his friend Ghoar is the one who serves him. Life seemed to give Sobhi a lot, and now Ghoar has turned into a servant. A gang seeks to seize Sobhi's money, and they manage to steal it. Sobhi works as a waiter in a restaurant. Ghoar inherits a sum of money and becomes rich....
Love Prank
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In Beirut, a naive college student falls for an Egyptian girl who is studying in Lebanon. As he asks his friends for advice, his friends prank him and take photos of him with the girl, which they then send to her father. The girl's father grows angry and goes to Beirut to bring his daughter back....
Shabab fi Mehna
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Three young men from different social classes, brought together by circumstances and coincidence, each with his whims, requirements, ambitions, and frustrations, seek to seize a sum of money found in the home of a rich man. They hatch a plan to infiltrate the house, manage to obtain the money and escape....
Jungle of Wolves
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With the housing crisis worsening and cement blocks constantly creeping up to swallow old houses with their inhabitants, a jungle of wolves that live in a fierce world lies behind the cement jungle. As a young journalist and his beautiful wife clash with what they think is the wolf of the jungle, it turns out that this wolf is only one of several wolves in a whole jungle of wolves....
Knife
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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....
The Quiet City
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When Omar discovers that his company's accounts have been tampered with, he tries to meet Gamil, the company's president, but his manager Mahmoud gets in his way. Omar is arrested as it's revealed that Mahmoud is the one who embezzled the money to give it to his mistress....