Rafiq Subaie

Acting

Rafiq Subaie

Born 1930-02-09 · Damascus, Syria

Rafiq Al-Subaiei (Arabic: رفيق السبيعي; ​​February 9, 1930 – January 5, 2017) was a Syrian actor, writer, and director. Rafiq Al-Subaiei was born in one of the oldest neighborhoods of Damascus and contributed to Syrian theater as an actor. He is particularly known for his role alongside Egyptian actor Salah Zulfikar in "Souvenir d'une nuit d'amour" (1973). Subaiei is also known as "Abu Sayyah," a character he portrayed in theater and television.

Acting credits

Safar Barlek poster
8.5

The film is set around 1914 when Lebanon was under the Ottoman Empire rule. The empire enslaved men to work for free. Abdou goes to get Adla the engagement ring but he's arrested with others and are taken to cut lumber. Meanwhile the Ottomans prevent the wheat from arriving to certain villages because they want to defuse the ongoing resistance operations led by Abou Ahmed. Adla travels to where some say Abdou is held prisoner and she meets with Abou Ahmed. She along other villagers start helping the resistance get the wheat to the people. When they accomplish their mission, Abou Ahmed, freed Abdou and others escape because now they're wanted, but on a promise to return and to continue fighting.

Safar Barlek

1967

Ayam fi landan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ayam fi landan

1976

We Will Return poster
10.0

The story of a young Palestinian who left his refugee camp to become a resistance fighter in the Palestine Liberation Organization.

We Will Return

1972

The Two Friends poster
NR

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 Two Friends

1970

Zawaj Ala El-Tareeqa El-Mahalleya poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zawaj Ala El-Tareeqa El-Mahalleya

1978

Ortaşark Yanıyor poster
10.0

A Turkish take on James Bond.

Ortaşark Yanıyor

1967

Jungle of Wolves poster
NR

With the housing crisis worsening and cement blocks constantly creeping up to swallow old houses with their inhabitants, a jungle of wolves that live in a fierce world lies behind the cement jungle. As a young journalist and his beautiful wife clash with what they think is the wolf of the jungle, it turns out that this wolf is only one of several wolves in a whole jungle of wolves.

Jungle of Wolves

1977

Fake Love poster
NR

A group of married couples pretend to love each other, with sincerity, and loyalty in front of society. However, problems and conflicts secretly arise, which are a result of betrayal and lack of trust, revealing that the apparent love between them is nothing but a lie.

Fake Love

1980

The Eastern Woman poster
NR

Amal is a pretty girl who works for a lady in her big house and is in a relationship with Walid, but she suffers as people misjudge her because of her beauty, harassing her and believing that she would be easy prey. Although her employer insists that she entertain her guests, Amal can't quit as she desperately needs her job.

The Eastern Woman

1986

Syrians poster
NR

The film talks about the story of Zeina and Reem, two women struggling in Syria, they both cross paths with Yousef and his father in a series of events.

Syrians

2016

The Night poster
7.1

In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.

The Night

1992

Love in Istanbul poster
8.0

Queen Nazli's daughter disappears at a young age, and the queen dies without seeing her. The heirs take advantage of the disappearance of the daughter to divide the wealth among them, but when the daughter suddenly appears, they try to stop her from having the wealth.

Love in Istanbul

1966

The Sun on a Cloudy Day poster
NR

Adel is from an aristocratic family that lives in Syria during the French occupation, his culture forced him to rebel against his family, and descend to the bottom of society wishing to change his life, he got to know this society and loved him, but he became torn between his culture, and his aristocratic origins.

The Sun on a Cloudy Day

1985

Lovers on the Road poster
5.0

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.

Lovers on the Road

1977

The Knife poster
8.0

Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story of Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss.

The Knife

1972

Sacrifices poster
6.9

As an elderly man on his deathbed looks to give his name to one of his newborn grandsons, he's unable to acknowledge any of them. The three boys grow up with no name in the Syrian mountains, as they struggle to survive in a war-torn country.

Sacrifices

2002

Dreams of the City poster
7.0

Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s grandfather, who was known for his tyranny, reluctantly agrees to shelter the grieving family, and tries to force his daughter to marry again. The magic of the city of Damascus takes over the conscience. Dib, whose main concern has become discovering all the secrets of this city, is driven by his heart full of dreams, but he sees nothing in his life except humiliation and cruelty. The fragrance of childhood dies in Dib's heart, as he grows up in light of the political fluctuations that prevailed in the fifties (the end of the military dictatorship in Syria at that time, the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Nasser’s rise to power in Cairo, and Egyptian-Syrian unity in 1958), so that his rosy childhood dreams were shattered on the rocks of cruelty and violence. The city's dreams turn into a nightmare..

Dreams of the City

1984

The Quiet City poster
NR

When Omar discovers that his company's accounts have been tampered with, he tries to meet Gamil, the company's president, but his manager Mahmoud gets in his way. Omar is arrested as it's revealed that Mahmoud is the one who embezzled the money to give it to his mistress.

The Quiet City

1972

Those Who Came from the Seas poster
NR

Following a plane crash, a man, his wife, and his friend end up on a desert island, and once again the eternal struggle that involves one woman and two men rages over who gets the woman and who should stay.

Those Who Came from the Seas

1977

The Long Night poster
NR

Four political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison.

The Long Night

2009

Murder by Sequence poster
NR

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!

Murder by Sequence

1982

Daughter of the Guardian poster
8.0

Chaos erupts in a village after a series of burglaries take place, prompting Najma, the daughter of a guard, to think of a solution. She disguises herself as a man and becomes the village vigilante.

Daughter of the Guardian

1967

The Iland's Devil poster
5.0

A man breaks into Nagy's house and burns classified documents. Ali Baba, Nagy's friend, tells him about the incident, and then Nagy dies in mysterious circumstances. However, all fingers point to Ali Baba as the main suspect. Meanwhile Laila arrives to uncover her cousin's murder.

The Iland's Devil

1978

Love Prank poster
NR

In Beirut, a naive college student falls for an Egyptian girl who is studying in Lebanon. As he asks his friends for advice, his friends prank him and take photos of him with the girl, which they then send to her father. The girl's father grows angry and goes to Beirut to bring his daughter back.

Love Prank

1972