Flight 149: Hostage Of War

Flight 149: Hostage Of War 2025

1

When Flight 149 landed in the middle of a warzone, the passengers and crew became human shields for Saddam Hussein. Thirty years later, the hostages are launching a legal case to discover the truth about why the plane landed in the first place.

2025

Capernaum

Capernaum 2018

8.15

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.

2018

No Other Land

No Other Land 2024

7.80

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

2024

Much Loved

Much Loved 2015

6.00

A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

2015

The Blue Caftan

The Blue Caftan 2023

7.33

Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

2023

The Man Who Sold His Skin

The Man Who Sold His Skin 2021

6.61

To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.

2021

Mosul

Mosul 2019

6.68

When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

2019

The White Helmets

The White Helmets 2016

7.40

As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.

2016

In Between

In Between 2016

7.10

The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, have sex, and choose.

2016

Theeb

Theeb 2014

6.80

In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.

2014

The Square

The Square 2013

7.70

The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

2013

Wadjda

Wadjda 2012

7.20

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

2012

Where Do We Go Now?

Where Do We Go Now? 2011

7.50

In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the country around them, the women in the village try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark by sabotaging the village radio, and then destroying the village TV.

2011

When Pigs Have Wings

When Pigs Have Wings 2011

6.90

After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.

2011

Caramel

Caramel 2007

6.90

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

2007

Cairo Station

Cairo Station 1958

7.40

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

1958

Zhen

Zhen 2025

1

In a small village nestled amidst the chaos of war, a resilient woman takes it upon herself to write heartfelt letters to the soldiers at the front lines, sharing snippets of the village life they left behind. The woman's letters become a beacon of hope, providing a brief respite from the harsh realities of war. As the years pass, news of her passing reach the senior commander of the troops. Intrigued by the impact of her letters, he decides to visit the village with a group of enemy soldiers in tow.

2025

I'll Get Back to You

I'll Get Back to You 2025

1

For the first time in decades, an exile arrives in Palestine and enters his family home. His mission is to recollect and liquidate remnants of the past. His expedition across the present connects him with places, people, and Palestinian plains. The plot thickens when his encounters lead him to a confrontation with Abu Bassam, a steward of the land, who reminds him that Palestine always remembers its people and keeps their roots alive. The exile’s mission transforms from liquidation to reincarnation, leading to a new state of permanence.

2025

The Perfect Candidate

The Perfect Candidate 2020

6.70

A young Saudi doctor campaigns for a seat on the municipal council, finding confidence as she combats prejudice.

2020

old neighborhood

old neighborhood 1994

9.00

A Bahraini historical comedy series, its separate connected episodes, in each episode a specific incident that occurred in the past in the Gulf countries, especially Bahrain, is highlighted.

1994

The Ten Sins

The Ten Sins 2018

1

A social drama about Dr. Ibrahim, who is successful in his work, he decides to go on a trip to an African country to treat people infected with a dangerous virus, and forces his wife to go with him. She discovers things in his personality that leads her to comply to his demands.

2018

Um Hilal Stories

Um Hilal Stories 1987

1

The series revolves around a simple family where the housewife Marzouq and Marzouqa (um Hilal and Abu Hilal) (Salwa Bakheet, and Mohammed Awad) work in the Bahraini sweets trade and live with their sons Hilal (Jassim Al-Sayegh), Latifa (Najla Butti) and Salwa (Shafiqa Yousef), whom Al-Baz (Jassim Sharida) marries, and um Hilal always gets involved in many problems because of her ideas and then pays for her ideas at the end

1987

Sit Al-Hosn

Sit Al-Hosn 2022

7.20

To keep her alternative business running, a middle-aged businesswoman resorts to an unusual solution that coincides with a series of mysterious disappearances in her hometown.

2022

Permissible and Forbidden

Permissible and Forbidden 2013

1

The series discusses the idea of ​​what is permissible and forbidden, the Arab community's view of it, and how each person sees it from their own perspective. It highlights the problems that are caused by the soul being prone to evil and tries to find solutions to it.

2013

Bin Aqel

Bin Aqel 1990

1

A Bahraini drama, revolving in a social context, about family relations and the desire of parents Abu Salem and um Salem to marry their son to a suitable girl for him

1990

Bela Rahma

Bela Rahma 1970

1

Bela Rahma is an Arabic television drama.

1970