40 Films & TV Shows Set In Syria
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The Syrian Bride
🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇾 Syria The 2000sIn Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
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The Great Journey
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇾 SyriaReda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
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A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
🇫🇷 France 🇸🇾 Syria The 1910sIn 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help the king of the Syrian in the Conference of Peace in Paris.
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The Impossible Spy
🇮🇱 Israel 🇸🇾 Syria The 1960sThis is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
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The Golden Arrow
🇸🇾 SyriaScimitars Clash in a Mighty Spectacle! — Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.
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Oh Islam
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇮🇷 Iran 🇸🇾 Syria The 13th CenturySet in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.
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Thief of Damascus
🇸🇾 SyriaAladdin! Sinbad! Ali Baba! Scheherezade! — A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.
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Sirocco
🇸🇾 Syria The 1920sBEYOND CASABLANCA . . . Fate, in a Low-cut Gown, Lies in Wait for Bogart! — A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Action in Arabia
🇸🇾 SyriaWoman of Mystery ... Land of Intrigue — Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
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Background to Danger
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇸🇾 Syria The 1940sLove in the midst of intrigue! — An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Aufruhr in Damaskus
🇸🇾 Syria The 1910s -
The Morals of Marcus
England 🇸🇾 SyriaA confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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Das letzte Fort
🇸🇾 Syria
