When a waitress is substituted for a belly dancer in a Greek restaurant, chaos ensues before the owner is forced to change his old ways in order to prevent a major catastrophe.

Dunya & Desie

2008

Dutch

6.6

♡ 1

45%

amsterdam, netherlands

parent child relationship

road trip

Dana Nechushtan Director

Paula Kalenberg as Duits meisje 2

Maryam Hassouni as Dunya El-Beneni

Tygo Gernandt as Pim

Ilias Addab as Samir

Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

The Past

2013

French

7.7

♡ 27

92%

Asghar Farhadi Director

Bérénice Bejo as Marie Brisson

Sabrina Ouazani as Naïma

Tahar Rahim as Samir

Valéria Cavalli as Valeria

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...

Street Flow

2019

French

6.4

♡ 10

Kery James Director

Mathieu Kassovitz as Dominique

Emily Goss as Lisa

Christophe Lavalle as Policier civils

Dali Benssalah as Samir

Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.

Today's Special

2009

English

6.6

♡ 4

81%

queens, new york city

David Kaplan Director

Jess Weixler as Carrie

Amir Arison as Dr. Semaan

Aasif Mandvi as Samir

Dean Winters as Steve

Young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.

The Hive

2021

French

5.7

♡ 1

Christophe Hermans Director

Ludivine Sagnier as Alice

Mara Taquin as Claire

Sophie Breyer as Marion

Romain Guillermic as Samir

As far as they can remember, Marion, Claire and Louise have been living at the pace of their mother Alice’s ups and downs. Now, love is everything that they have left to fight the spiral of self-destruction in which Alice is sinking even more deeply. An unconditional love as violent as it is indescribable.

Comme mon fils

2023

French

6.9

♡ 2

Comedy

Drama

Franck Brett Director

Lizzie Brocheré as Margaux

Dorcas Coppin as Rose

Salem Kali as Samir

Tomer Sisley as Victor

A little boy abandoned by his mother crosses paths with a thug on the run who decides to take him with him. The man and the child will soon learn to love each other and be inseparable like a father and a son.

Sebastian

2024

English

6.7

♡ 18

76%

Mikko Makela Director

Leanne Best as Dionne

Julian Firth as Ian

Akbar Kurtha as Samir

Orlando Norman as Theo

Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.