Amer al-Ali

Al-Qaeda (al-QIA) affiliated terrorist organizations such as al-Nusra and ISIS have laid siege to Aleppo City Prison. Syrian police and soldiers and more than 2,500 prisoners remained under siege for more than a year. Until May 22, 2014, when the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah broke the siege. This movie is about the legendary resistance of Syrian security forces and prisoners under siege.

During a protest against French occupation, Mr. Wahib kills a French soldier and gets exiled to French Guiana. He escapes after years of exile and runs into a Belgian guy, Leopold, who is about to become the Belgian ambassador in Syria. On their way to Damascus, a friendship grows between them.

Nabd (2020) is a Syrian drama series that explores interconnected social and emotional stories within a community. The show follows multiple characters whose lives intersect through love, family tensions, and conflicts tied to money and business interests. It highlights social pressures, moral choices, and personal struggles in everyday life. Directed by Ammar Tamim and written by Fahd Mraee, it features a large ensemble cast and reflects contemporary Syrian society through realistic, relationship-driven storytelling.

“Rozana” is a Syrian social drama that explores the tense relationship between two families representing old money and newly wealthy elites. Their interactions are marked by rivalry, resentment, and shifting power dynamics, where status and influence shape personal and social outcomes. The series suggests that while tradition and authenticity persist, financial power often dominates decisions and destinies. It stars Bassam Kousa, Giana Eid, Milad Youssef, Andre Skaf, and Nadine Tahseen Bek.

Qamar Sham is a Syrian Damascene drama set in the traditional Al-Madina neighborhood, centered on Shahran Al-Baghdjati — a noble, generous man who refuses to marry and devotes himself to helping his neighbors. When his brother is murdered, Shahran sets out on a path of revenge to uncover the killer, while navigating loyalty, love, and the fierce power struggles that define life in old Damascus. Starring Bassam Kousa and Rafiq Al-Sbaei.

The series follows the family of Al-Mallah and Khaldun: the former enjoys great influence, while the other belongs to a downtrodden class. The spark of the story erupts with Khaldun’s desire to rob the Al-Mallah family, which turns the matter into a war between them and a settling of scores about the shared past and present that unites them.

A contemporary social series that takes place in Damascus, and deals with the subject of doubt in the human being when some of its constants in life are shaken.

A well-known musician lives in an almost forgotten village, so that his musical works are almost a piece of the past. As a result of certain events, this musician restores his relationship with the instrument by reproducing some soundtracks belonging to different past times, as if he were expressing, in some way, a break with this world that surrounds him.

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.

Jalal is imprisoned on trumped-up political charges. As he breaks out of prison and crosses the Lebanese borders, he meets his Palestinian friend, Qassem, who is a member of the resistance against the Israelis. Jalal's wife gets the court to grant her divorce in absentia to marry Colonel Nazem.

A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State.

A sweeping historical epic tracing the life of Saladin from his humble origins to his unification of fractured Muslim kingdoms and his legendary recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders after nearly a century of occupation. Starring Jamal Suleiman and directed by the late Hatem Ali, written by Walid Seif — the same partnership behind Palestinian Alienation — this is widely regarded as one of the finest historical dramas in Arabic television, epic in scale yet deeply human in its portrayal of leadership, faith and sacrifice.

The series revolves around the biography of the late poet Nizar Qabbani, and the series tells the story of the life of this poet, including that he was born in Syria and married twice and worked in the diplomatic corps.