Souhir Ben Amara

Acting

Souhir Ben Amara

Born

1985-11-27 (40)

Place of birth

Tunis, Tunesia

Known for

Acting

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Moawiya poster
7.0

The most expensive Arabic series ever made, chronicling the life of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan — from his early opposition to Islam, to his conversion, governorship of Syria, and ultimate founding of the Umayyad Caliphate. Spanning civil war, conquest, and political intrigue across the early Islamic world, this sweeping epic covers one of history's most controversial and consequential rulers.

Moawiya

2025

Kingdoms of Fire poster
7.5

A historical look on the last days of the Mamluk Sultanate before its fall to the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century and how Egypt and the Sham were incorporated into the Ottoman empire.

Kingdoms of Fire

2019

El Foundou poster
7.0

As Yahia is imprisoned for killing Maryam, he serves his sentence, and decides to look for the real killer to clear his name.

El Foundou

2021

Anna e Yusef poster
NR

Anna and Yusef are a couple deeply in love. She is an Italian physical therapist; he is a Tunisian engineer. They live in Trento with their daughter. Their lives change, however, when Yusef is wrongly accused of being a member of the mafia: their dream of a peaceful life, after so many sacrifices, seems to come to an end.

Anna e Yusef

2015

It's a Game and Got Serious poster
7.3

Sherif and Shorouk's lives are turned upside down due to their children's addiction to an electronic game, and the series discusses the impact of social media and electronic games on the family's life and stability.

It's a Game and Got Serious

2026

El Jaïda poster
NR

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.

El Jaïda

2017

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2010s · 7 titles

El Jaïda poster
NR

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.

El Jaïda

2017

Always Brando poster
6.0

A hybrid documentary/drama feature combining a fictional story about a Tunisian community disrupted by an American film crew with the real-life saga of director Ridha Behi's efforts to make a movie with a dying Marlon Brando.

Always Brando

2011

السماء تصيح poster
NR

On a forgotten road far from the city, Sammy and Lilia find themselves facing a group of gravediggers

السماء تصيح

2017

Terror poster
NR

Based on a true story, inspired by real-life events. Under the regime of President Ben Ali, Adel is partying at friends' house. His wife, distraught, calls him to warn him that the police are at their door. Adel panics. He fears being arrested for his subversive ideas. In his car, on the way home, dark thoughts cross his mind.

Terror

2019

The Crow's Siesta poster
NR

After losing their restaurant in the capital, Fatma and her husband Ibrahim are forced to run another restaurant in the desert. But in this universe of sand they meet Mokhtar, a wizard capable of digging up treasures that have been buried underground for centuries.

The Crow's Siesta

2018

Tlamess poster
4.7

S is a young soldier in the southern desert of Tunisia. When S learns about his mother’s death, he obtains a week’s leave and goes back home. He will never return to the camp. In his popular neighborhood starts a man hunt after which S eventually escapes through the mountain. Few years later, F, a young woman married to a rich business man who has just settled in a luxurious villa, learns of her pregnancy. One morning, she goes out alone for a walk in the forest. She will never come back.

Tlamess

2019

Hidden Beauties poster
7.0

Two young Tunisian women strive to achieve the same level of emancipation enjoyed by their male counterparts—even as their country fights for freedom.

Hidden Beauties

2013

Series credits

Moawiya poster
7.0

The most expensive Arabic series ever made, chronicling the life of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan — from his early opposition to Islam, to his conversion, governorship of Syria, and ultimate founding of the Umayyad Caliphate. Spanning civil war, conquest, and political intrigue across the early Islamic world, this sweeping epic covers one of history's most controversial and consequential rulers.

Moawiya

2025

Kingdoms of Fire poster
7.5

A historical look on the last days of the Mamluk Sultanate before its fall to the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century and how Egypt and the Sham were incorporated into the Ottoman empire.

Kingdoms of Fire

2019

El Foundou poster
7.0

As Yahia is imprisoned for killing Maryam, he serves his sentence, and decides to look for the real killer to clear his name.

El Foundou

2021

Anna e Yusef poster
NR

Anna and Yusef are a couple deeply in love. She is an Italian physical therapist; he is a Tunisian engineer. They live in Trento with their daughter. Their lives change, however, when Yusef is wrongly accused of being a member of the mafia: their dream of a peaceful life, after so many sacrifices, seems to come to an end.

Anna e Yusef

2015

It's a Game and Got Serious poster
7.3

Sherif and Shorouk's lives are turned upside down due to their children's addiction to an electronic game, and the series discusses the impact of social media and electronic games on the family's life and stability.

It's a Game and Got Serious

2026

The Ten Sins poster
10.0

A social drama about Dr. Ibrahim, who is successful in his work, he decides to go on a trip to an African country to treat people infected with a dangerous virus, and forces his wife to go with him. She discovers things in his personality that leads her to comply to his demands.

The Ten Sins

2018

From the days of Maliha poster
NR

Maliha, a dreamy girl, in her last year of university navigates school, life and love as she discovers the many faces of people around her.

From the days of Maliha

2010

Diary of a woman poster
NR

The series tracks the interconnected lives of several women residing in the same apartment complex in Tunis. It explores highly sensitive social taboos, domestic crises, and the legal constraints of Tunisian society.

Diary of a woman

2013

Lylet Shak poster
7.0

The series tackles the issues of marital infidelity and class difference, through the story of a man who discovers that his son, Bayrum, is not biologically his.

Lylet Shak

2015

Raid poster
NR

Inspired by a true story, the series revolves around Raad, who was born on the Galite Islands. He lost his parents at the hands of the Italian mafia, which necessitated his transfer to an orphanage where he spent his childhood. At the age of 20, he met Andrea, who became pregnant with his child and suggested he travel to Tunisia to celebrate their wedding. Events escalate, and Raad is arrested by the Tunisian police and conscripted into the army. He relives the painful events of Gafsa in 1980.

Raid

2025