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- Competes friends working on the same farm at the heart of the girl, but she liked the younger, generating jealousy in the heart of the other lover, seeks to differentiate between loved ones, take advantage of the owner of the farm these feelings, who shall kill the girl's father, and deliver a charge to the young older, and pushes the young man to escape from the farm, even with impunity, which is intended however, that proved the charge, the younger lover in revealing the truth to succeed, and be arrested on his farm.
- As Soheir marries Hamdy, she gets in an accident and her sisters Hanan and Salma leave the house, the first to find work and the second to escape Hamdy's advances. After Soheir dies, Salma takes a job as a maid as Hanan gets recruited to work as a prostitute in upscale communities.
- The story of the strong rivalry between two singers, Ghawar and Hosni, and their rivalry over getting the chance to sing at a coffee shop called Al-Insherah, as many comedic pranks and situations occur.
- Hosni inherited an enormous wealth. Abbas and the dancer Nahed show up and try to take control on his money, however, Ghawar, Hosni's driver, decides to help him, so he makes them believe, through comic dumps, that he is the beneficiary from this money. He transforms everybody to servants working for him. Anotther Ghawar comedy starring Duraid Lahham and Nihad Qali that brings in the usual laughs.
- Produced in Syria, Iraqi director Kais al-Zubaidi's The Visit (1970) is a melancholic piece switching between on-screen texts of poems about exile and death, and chiaroscuro-lit sequences illustrating a Palestinian man's attempt to cross the border and return home. Devoid of dialogue or voice-overs and played out to the eclectic sounds of atonal strings, electronic glitches, and traditional music, the film offers an expressionist reflection of the trauma of exile for nationless Palestinians across the Middle East and beyond.
- Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck...
- The struggle of an ordinary peasant against the feudal system and the authorities.
- This vehicle for Syrian comedian Duraid Lahham offers the most risqué mad scientist subplot to be found in any of these Lebanese films, thanks to his character visiting the inventor of the Sexatron, a machine whose precise practical purpose remains sketchy, although the method for causing it to blow up is outlined clearly enough in the screencaps below. This sequence evidently tested the censor's limits and contains three splices in the Lebanese version of the movie; it may well have escaped uncut in the Turkish edit of the film.
- The lone sci-fi feature to come out of Syria, THE WORLD IN THE YEAR 2000 may sound like a futuristic fantasy, but is in fact a variant on THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957). Furnished with an intelligently written script, the machinations of its 'mad scientist' actually make a reasonable amount of sense; he's attempting to downsize human beings before the Earth becomes overpopulated in coming decades. The special effects, sadly, leave more than a little to be desired, and 1976 was a late date for a black-and-white production even by local standards; however, apparently no technicians were available who had the know-how to attempt these effects in color at all. Nevertheless, the film remains a tantalizing curio from a nation whose movies have seldom been seen overseas.
- A wealthy young man assumes the identity of a poor worker to see what life is like in someone else's shoes.
- A belly dancer and prostitute falls in love with a famous doctor who asks her for marriage, but for the sake of her lover's social standing, she decides to abandon him and return to her life of sin, and in order to forget him, she meets another man but also discovers that he has a family he loves. The dancer feels that she is not made for marriage life or to establish a normal family life, so she moves from A man to another after she lost all faith in love.
- 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
- Quneytra 74 begins with shots of people on the edge of the blasted city of Kuneitra. A woman breaks away from the crowd, makes her way towards the city, speeds up the step, as if to escape from the camera. Filmed on behalf of Syrian TV, the accuracy of Malas' light, shadow, silence and soundscape as essential elements of his cinematic language is evidenced here, as well as his interest in the issues of civil war, territorial war and identity destruction.
- A short film based on a real interview with a kid survived the 2006 war on Lebanon This short produced as a part of the admission application for the MFA in Cinema The crew is simply me and my little talented cousin Ziad in his bedroom, we had to shoot the kitchen scene in 3 hours while his mother was out of the house.
- Drama about a massacre of Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis in the years 1947-51.
- Ghawar is in love with Fatoum who owns a lodging house but she wants to marry the new tenant Hosni. Now Ghawar with the help of his friend Abu Antar has to find a way to get rid of his rival and marry Fatoum.
- Two clumsy friends are ticked by international crime organization to steal statues from the museum; the organization uses two beautiful women to deceive the two friends by their romance.
- Two naive friends come to a small town looking for a buried treasure of the grandfather of one of them; the corrupted mayor of that town thinking that they are important inspectors from the capital who came in disguise to inspect on the town does what he can to meet their exception so they won't report him back.
- A newly married young couple live happily in poverty until a rich young man enters their lives and start seducing the young wife into his arms.
- A documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.
- A film about the Palestinian refugees of the six-day war living in Syria, taking place a month before the Yom Kippur War.
- Salwa is a young woman who is married to an older man against her will, they live in a house outside the city, Salwa starts having affairs with every man she likes, when her husband causes a car accident killing a child things take different path.
- Through mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad. He documents the burdened livelihoods of farmers and the economic policies of the government that encouraged industrial egg productions rather than artisanal trades, a switch that ultimately led to the plight of the Sadad's rural peasant class.
- Samir is deeply in love with Hanan but he is unable to reveal his impotence to her in a merciless society that sees him as less than a man. When he kills himself after their honeymoon, Hanan falls for his friend Kamal, but this relationship has its own share of struggles.
- Mamdouh is a secret agent in government intelligence agency along with Naji they are trying to unmask an international crime gang, things get complicated when Layla Naji's cousin arrives to visit Naji. Layla discover that Naji is missing and might be dead and all the leads pointing to Mamdouh.
- After what seems to be a construction site accident a construction worker found dead, after the routine investigation the instigator starts doubting murder, so the search begins in the victim's life, past, friends and enemies hoping to get to the truth.