Mona Wassef
Birthday: Born in 1942-02-09 in Damascus, First Syrian Republic [now Syria]
Deathday: Alive
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.
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الصندوق الأسود
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الغريب
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ليل السرار
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Sa'at El Sifr
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سيرة الحب
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Qutil alrbye
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Sert Al-Hob
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وردة لخريف العمر
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ليالي الصالحية
Character: أمينة
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....
العراب: تحت الحزام
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قمر شام
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أغمض عينيك
Character: Jude's grandmother (Um Raja)
Hayat is forced to leave her son, Jude, who is eight years old and is diagnosed with autism, in the custody of her friend Munes who tries to provide for him a stable and secure life....
أسعد الوراق
Character: أم نعيم
During the period of the French occupation of Syria, the events of the series revolve around As'ad AlWarraq, an orphan, illiterate, poor young man who is pushed by circumstances between various paradoxes, between false accusations and the injustice of his neighborhood people towards him....
قاع المدينة
Character: أم ربيع
In one of the slums, a group of intertwined stories revolve around residents whose movement may extend outside this neighborhood due to work or study, and their fates intersect with the paths of some characters from other neighborhoods of the city....
عُمَرْ
Character: Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State....
زمن العار
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Having 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....
قلوب صغيرة
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The series tackles a number of negative contemporary social phenomena, shedding light on the challenges encountered by young people, like violence against children, poverty, homelessness, begging, slave trade, motherhood, family disintegration, and honor crimes....
هیبة
Character: Nahed El-Omran
Flashback story begins with a revenge for killing a father of a smuggling family by another smuggling family, and then engage the two families in endless tribal conflicts....
النصية
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ليالي روكسي
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Amidst an intense political battle for power and social dominance in a Damascene neighbourhood under French rule, a young aspiring actress gets the opportunity of a lifetime to star in the first film ever made in Syria....
ذي قار- يوم من أيام العرب
Character: الملكة المتجردة
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أسرار المدينة
Character: أم منصور
In a dramatic and social framework, Abu Mansour’s children work hard to improve their financial conditions, but they encounter major life obstacles, which they try to overcome....
وراء الشمس
Character: أم بدر
Alaa Al-Din Zeibak, a man from a well-off family, has Down syndrome, and he crosses paths with Badr, a man of a humble origin, who has autism spectrum disorder. As they interact, several situations ensue, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the differently-abled people....
الشمس تشرق من جديد
Character: حكمت / ضيفة شرف
The story of a girl who grows up with a reckless father and loses her mother who dies of cancer but she goes on with her life trying to find the happiness she always longed for....
غداً نلتقي
Character: والدة تمام - ضيفة شرف
Life returns to a building abandoned after the Lebanese Civil War when it becomes a temporary haven for Syrian refugees, as war ravages their homeland....
قلم حمرة
Character: أم ورد - ضيفة شرف
A female screenwriter in Damascus, Syria is politically detained which drastically affects all aspects of her life....
وأخيراً
Character: والدة ياقوت
After ex-convict Yaqout’s engagement party, a gang kidnaps his fiancée Khayal along with other women, sending him on perilous journey to save the love of his life....
الهيبة
Character: Nahed
In a village by the Lebanon-Syria border, the head of an arms-smuggling clan contends with family conflicts, power struggles and complicated love....
سمرا
Character: راوية
The 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....
بنت الشهبندر
Character: أم راغب
In the late 19th century Levant, the two brothers Ragheb and Zaid fall for Nariman, the daughter of a tycoon. Nariman falls for Zaid and they get married. But when he vanishes, Ragheb tries to take his place in everything, even Nariman's heart....
طاحون الشر
Character: أم زيدو
The events revolve around the Levantine environment and the social problems that permeate it, during the period of the French occupation of the country....
الزعيم
Character: العمة
In 1918 Damascus, after the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and before the French colonization of the country, six Damascene neighborhoods decide to choose one head to rule over them, only for clashes over the throne to crystalize and extend....
القعقاع بن عمرو التميمي
Character: سجاح
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عصي الدمع
Character: زهرية
The series examines the change in the composition of the Syrian family, through the life of a number of Damascene families that are connected by a number of intertwining relationships, as love blossoms between the lawyer Riyad El Emary and the interior designer Riad El Merady....
عز الدين القسام
Character: Juliet
A historical series that reviews the life of the martyr Izz al -Din al -Qassam, and its transition from Syria to Palestine to escape the death sentence issued by the French, to establish the resistance in Palestine against the British occupation....
باب الحارة
Character: أم عبدالله - ضيفة شرف
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....
باب الحارة
Character: أم جوزيف / جورجيت
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....
أهل الراية
Character: أم عزمي - ضيفة شرف
A merchant who is waiting with bated breath for the arrival of his new baby, collapses after his wife Wahiba Khanum dies during birth. He faces competition with market traders, but his daughter Qatr El Nada stands beside him. He marries Dalal, but things don't go as expected...
تحت سابع أرض
Character: دلال
When 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....
نهاية رجل شجاع
Character: ريم الشنكل
Mufid the monster, the naughty teenager, did not find anyone who knew how to deal with him properly, so he did not discover anyone around him and develop the good qualities that Mufid was distinguished for. The society in which he lived, starting from the harsh father at home, to the ignorant and arrogant teacher at school, to the mukhtar who punished him for cutting off the tail of Abboud's donkey... All of these were the cause of Mufid's loss and his premature end. As a result of this treatm...
مذكرات عشيقة سابقة
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A romantic drama about a girl who has kept her love for someone a secret for more than ten years and then decides to tell him in her own way, but what happens next?...
رجال العز
Character: أم نوري
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The Report
Character: فلك
Azmi, a legal adviser refuses to sign the budget of the celebration of a project as it's twice what was spent on the project itself. He gets fired from his work, and decides to write a comprehensive report of all the daily atrocities in the hope of presenting it to higher authorities....
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....
The World in 2000
Character: علا
Unable 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....
Al Hayba: The Movie
Character: Nahed Omran
The 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....
Al Hayba: The Documentary
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The backstage story of one of the most successful Arab dramas in history, narrating the phases of its inception, execution, production and direction....
Menahi
Character: أم مناحي
Menahi 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...
Just Get Married!
Character: Ramzis Mutter
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Something Is Burning
Character: Om Ramzy
After the 1967 setback, Abu Ramzi is displaced from the Golan with his family, and he is tired in order to secure a livelihood and his wife who works in sewing helps him. As for the son Ramzi, he dreams of riches quickly and in the easiest way, which drives him to collide with his father, who dreams of a roof that shelter him through halal earnings....
Algae
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The 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....
The Sun on a Cloudy Day
Character: the Prostitute
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....
Love..For Life
Character: أم إيناس
A poor girl, an employee in a company and living in a conservative, popular neighborhood, her character is strong, she loved a teacher, but the story of this love does not continue because of the surrounding circumstances that surround them...
Bikaya suar
Character: زنوبة
Abu Salem is a small family living a very miserable life, and their dream is simple in life. The wife is overwhelmed as she suffers from some diseases, the husband gets into several unsuccessful adventures, and the children open their eyes to this cruel world. We follow their lives and dreams to a better tomorrow....
The Message
Character: Hind bint Utba
In 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....
Al Urjouha
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Short 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....
Al-Yazerli
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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 povert...
Hundred Faces for a Single Day
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Rejecting 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....
The Mexican Hoax
Character: زوجة تيسير
Tayseer, a conservative man, has grown with a particular hang-up caused by his sister's marriage without his consent. When a man proposes to his daughter Kawthar, Tayseer vehemently opposes their relationship, even if the two are deeply in love. Is it too late to rid him of his hang-up?...
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....
The Adorable Thief
Character: أبلة سميرة
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Shadow of Silence
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A film by Abdullah Al-Muheisen...
Murder by Sequence
Character: ليلى
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...
The Visit
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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....
Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha
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Two friends are trying to find a suitable place to stay. They find a suitable residence for a woman to live alone. The owner of the house rents a room in the apartment to the two friends without the woman knowing during her absence, which generates funny ironies among everyone....
Another Face of Love
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A 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....
Sea, O', Sea
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In the late 30s, the family of the sailor Salah Hazoum arrives in the city of Latakia coming from Alexandria. His son Saeed searches for him in vain after he hears many rumors about his disappearance. The son decides to become a sailor like his father and works on a boat with Captain Abdosh. Based on the novel 'Dagal' by Hanna Mina....
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....
The Adventure
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A 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....