The Bra

2018

German

6.6

♡ 7

86%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Veit Helmer Director

Paz Vega as Daria

Manal Issa as Mother with baby

Chulpan Khamatova as Nesrin

Irmena Chichikova as Widow

Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.

Golden Youth

2019

French

4.8

♡ 1

40%

1970s

bourgeoisie

Drama

husband wife relationship

nightclub

older/younger

paris, france

Eva Ionesco Director

Hugo Dillon as Alain Pacadis

Melvil Poupaud as Hubert / Lucille's husband

Isabelle Huppert as Lucile / Hubert's wife

Manal Issa as Razerka

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.

Father and Sons

2018

French

5.7

♡ 2

Comedy

Drama

father son relationship

Félix Moati Director

Billie Blain as Anne

Anaïs Demoustier as Esther

Benoît Poelvoorde as Joseph Zuccarelli

Manal Issa as Laura

Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...

Memory Box

2021

French

6.6

♡ 3

93%

mother daughter relationship

painful memories

quebec

suicide of father

Joana Hadjithomas Director

Benjamin Hatcher as

Manal Issa as Maia Sanders

Rim Turkhi as Maia Sanders

Rabih Mroue as Raja

Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.

My Favorite Fabric

2018

French

5.8

♡ 4

57%

Drama

woman director

Gaya Jiji Director

Metin Akdülger as

Nathalie Issa as Line

Manal Issa as Nahla

Amani Ibrahim as Shirin

Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister Myriam, Nahla finds refuge at her neighbor's, the mysterious Ms Jiji.

Malek

2019

French

5.7

♡ 1

Drama

Guy Édoin Director

Abbas Abdulghani as Abo Roro

Karine Vanasse as Geneviève

Joseph Antaki as Head chef

Manal Issa as Souad

Malek, a Lebanese immigrant from Montreal, is haunted by the violent death of his sister. Convinced that he could have avoided this tragedy, he is consumed with guilt. He lives alone, poor, jobless until he meets Shohreh, an Iranian girl, with whom he falls in love. A new life opens up to him and he quickly finds work. Malek gradually regains his dignity but the past resurfaces to the point where he is pushed, almost in spite of himself, to finally settle his accounts with himself.

Nocturama

2016

French

6.4

♡ 7

82%

Bertrand Bonello Director

Hadidiatou Sakho as

Vincent Rottiers as Greg

Adèle Haenel as La jeune femme au vélo

Manal Issa as Sabrina

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

The Swimmers

2022

English

7.4

♡ 26

82%

Sally El Hosaini Director

Ahmed Malek as Nizar

Alfredo Tavares as Olympic Coach

Manal Issa as Sarah Mardini

Matthias Schweighöfer as Sven

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.

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