Acting
Salim Kallas
Born November 13, 1936
Died December 2, 2013 · aged 77
Salim Kallas was a Syrian actor. A Damascus-native, He worked at the national theater and at Syrian TV.
Known For
Escaping Tel Aviv · 2009Escaping Tel Aviv
★ 6.22009
MovieThrillerDrama
A seemingly ordinary life is shattered when a woman uncovers a hidden truth about her husband, plunging her into a high-stakes international conflict. As loyalties blur and danger escalates, an Egyptian intelligence officer is tasked with a critical mission where failure is not an option.
The Two Friends · 1970The Two Friends
1970
MovieDrama
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 Head · 1977The Head
★ 10.01977
Movie
The events take place between Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Chases and searches occur between the police and smugglers, where a group of villains stole the head of King Santrouk II, who held a significant position in history.
Hamido's Return · 1971Hamido's Return
1971
Movie
Murder by Sequence · 1982Murder by Sequence
1982
MovieDrama
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 late!
The Dupes · 1972The Dupes
★ 7.21972
MovieDrama
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."
Lovers on the Road · 1977Lovers on the Road
★ 5.01977
MovieDrama
Based on the famous story, “Sa’ay El Bareed La Yaduq Babek Maratein” (The Postman Doesn’t Knock Twice), an adventurer escapes from danger by hiding in a small motel along the road. The motel is owned by an old, miserly man who is married to a young beautiful woman. Soon the fugitive and the wife develop a passionate relationship and plot to kill her husband. However, the old man’s son returns to spend the weekend in the motel and the plan goes off the rails.
Shore of Love · 1977Shore of Love
1977
Movie
Nawal is involved in a boating accident near an island at sea. She wakes up to find herself in the care of two brothers, Ghassan and Adel. They soon discover that she has lost her memory, and both of them fall in love with her, each trying to get closer to her. Nawal eventually falls for Ghassan. When Adel consults a doctor to understand her condition, the doctor informs him that if she regains her memory, she will no longer recognize either of them. Despite this, Adel continues to search for clues about her past and eventually discovers that she has a sister in Egypt who closely resembles her.
Movies
Escaping Tel Aviv · 2009Escaping Tel Aviv
★ 6.22009
MovieThrillerDrama
A seemingly ordinary life is shattered when a woman uncovers a hidden truth about her husband, plunging her into a high-stakes international conflict. As loyalties blur and danger escalates, an Egyptian intelligence officer is tasked with a critical mission where failure is not an option.
The Two Friends · 1970The Two Friends
1970
MovieDrama
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 Head · 1977The Head
★ 10.01977
Movie
The events take place between Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Chases and searches occur between the police and smugglers, where a group of villains stole the head of King Santrouk II, who held a significant position in history.
Hamido's Return · 1971Hamido's Return
1971
Movie
Murder by Sequence · 1982Murder by Sequence
1982
MovieDrama
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 late!
The Dupes · 1972The Dupes
★ 7.21972
MovieDrama
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land."
Lovers on the Road · 1977Lovers on the Road
★ 5.01977
MovieDrama
Based on the famous story, “Sa’ay El Bareed La Yaduq Babek Maratein” (The Postman Doesn’t Knock Twice), an adventurer escapes from danger by hiding in a small motel along the road. The motel is owned by an old, miserly man who is married to a young beautiful woman. Soon the fugitive and the wife develop a passionate relationship and plot to kill her husband. However, the old man’s son returns to spend the weekend in the motel and the plan goes off the rails.
Shore of Love · 1977Shore of Love
1977
Movie
Nawal is involved in a boating accident near an island at sea. She wakes up to find herself in the care of two brothers, Ghassan and Adel. They soon discover that she has lost her memory, and both of them fall in love with her, each trying to get closer to her. Nawal eventually falls for Ghassan. When Adel consults a doctor to understand her condition, the doctor informs him that if she regains her memory, she will no longer recognize either of them. Despite this, Adel continues to search for clues about her past and eventually discovers that she has a sister in Egypt who closely resembles her.
Nagi El-Ali · 1992Nagi El-Ali
★ 7.01992
MovieDramaHistory
After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.
Night of Men · 1976Night of Men
1976
MovieDrama
A beautiful girl falls in love with a simple employee and surrenders herself to him, only to discover that he doesn't love her as he forsakes her. When her brother finds out what happened, he decides to take revenge on him and chases him everywhere.
Short and Shirt and Cap · 2000Short and Shirt and Cap
★ 5.12000
MovieComedyRomance
A carefree tour guide in Sharm helps a minister's daughter escape from her controlling dad, leaving his two friends to deal with the dire consequences.
Forced marriage · 1972Forced marriage
★ 10.01972
MovieComedyDrama
Mona and her friend Suheir travel to Syria to meet her fiancé. Mona's father requests the son of his friend Kamal residing in Syria to take care of his daughter Mona there, so he goes to her to meet and care for her so he gets to know Suhair and admire her. On the other side, events escalate as Salwa (to his heart), a client of a foreign country, tries to win over Dr. Khairat, the nuclear energy scientist, and tries to persuade him to go abroad again so that his country does not benefit from his knowledge.
TV Shows
Maraya · 1982Maraya
★ 8.81982
SeriesComedyDrama
Created and starring the legendary Yasser Al Azmeh, Maraya ran for 20 seasons from 1982 to 2013 — making it one of the longest-running comedy series in Arab television history. Each episode presents standalone stories skewering the social, political and economic frustrations of everyday Arab life with sharp wit and biting satire. A mirror held up to an entire society, it entered homes across the Arab world for three decades and never stopped being relevant.
Bab Al-Hara · 2006Bab Al-Hara
★ 7.92006
SeriesDrama
A modern classic of Arab television. 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.
They Asked Me · 2000They Asked Me
2000
SeriesDramaDocumentary
They Asked Me is an entertainment program and contains a variety of useful paragraphs and provides information and facts in a fun and interesting narrative way, presented in the nineties of the last century, which is presented by the distinguished media Sherif Alami, They Asked Me is a well-known and distinctive program in Jordan, ancient and modern, and it has a great herbal "
Diaries of a General Manager · 1995Diaries of a General Manager
★ 7.01995
SeriesDramaComedy
A journalist working in the same newspaper as her husband, and intellectual conflict arises between them because of the differences between the nature of men and women. The series shows the relationship between the spouses, revealing many attitudes of the “Eastern Man”.
Tahoun Al-Shar · 2012Tahoun Al-Shar
2012
SeriesDrama
The events revolve around the Levantine environment and the social problems that permeate it, during the period of the French occupation of the country.
A Hero From This Time · 1999A Hero From This Time
1999
SeriesComedyDrama
The series revolves around a poor man who wants to get rich. As he has a dream that he has found a treasure, his social status changes as he goes out every night to abandoned areas and begins digging and goes home by day to rest.
Big Dreams · 2004Big Dreams
★ 10.02004
SeriesDrama
The Halaby family works in trade. When the father decides to write all his property over to one of his sons, the two brothers clash, until the eldest brother falls ill, and his younger son is forced to give up his ambition to take care of their business.
Rijal Al-Izz · 2011Rijal Al-Izz
★ 10.02011
Series
Rijal Al-Izz — Men of Honor — is a 2011 Syrian Damascene period drama set in the Saroujeh neighborhood of Damascus during the French occupation of the 1930s. The series follows Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shami, a wrongfully accused man who escapes a death sentence and transforms into a resistance fighter, striking fear into the French occupiers while navigating betrayal and injustice within his own community. Starring Rashid Assaf and Qusai Khouli.
Ferqet Naji Atallah · 2012Ferqet Naji Atallah
★ 7.22012
SeriesDramaComedy
A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.
Castles · 1998Castles
1998
Series
The series revolves around a conflict among numerous princes, where each prince believes he is the rightful ruler to unify the kingdom and end the fragmentation plaguing the land.
Layali Al-Salehiya · 2004Layali Al-Salehiya
★ 6.42004
SeriesDramaFamily
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.
The Wait · 2006The Wait
2006
SeriesDrama
Events of the series take place in a poor neighborhood, shedding light on the lives of its people, especially the life of an illegitimate young man who makes every effort to be helpful to others.
El Arandaly's Son · 2009El Arandaly's Son
2009
Series
The events revolve around a corrupt lawyer who lives in a popular area defending the corrupt by circumventing the law, his life is exposed to a situation that turns it upside down and changes his situation to another one.
Holding Back Tears · 2005Holding Back Tears
2005
SeriesDrama
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.
النصية · 1998النصية
1998
SeriesDrama
Al Khawali · 2000Al Khawali
2000
SeriesDrama
The story of Nassar Ibn Oraibi, a fighter against injustice, that sheds light on the life in the Damascus neighborhood and the role of one woman who becomes responsible for the house and her four daughters in light of her husband's absence during the Hajj.
Murder in the Memory · 1992Murder in the Memory
1992
SeriesCrimeMystery
An Arabic-language series based on Agatha Christie's novel The Sleeping Murder, about a murder that occurred and went undiscovered until 20 years later.
The Face of Justice · 2008The Face of Justice
2008
SeriesDramaCrime
The Face of Justice tells the story of crimes, their investigation, and the trials of criminals in a suspenseful, crime-drama style. It presents true crime stories that occurred.
Qamar Sham · 2013Qamar Sham
2013
SeriesDrama
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.
Maraya 97 · 1997Maraya 97
1997
SeriesComedy
G المواطن · 2007G المواطن
2007
SeriesDrama