Jerjes Jbara

Acting

Jerjes Jbara

Born

1945-01-21 (81)

Place of birth

Syria

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

A Syrian actor who began his career in 1994 by appearing in the TV series The End of a Brave Man, as well as Five-Star Family. His works continued after that, the most notable of which include Mystery of the Crime (2003), The Whale (2008) and Koam Al-Hajar (2007).

Known for

Al-Hout poster
NR

A drama series that tells the story of the coastal environment during the era of the French mandate in Syria, especially the environment of fishermen in light of the exploitation and greed of some people and the bitter struggle of others against the French occupier.

Al-Hout

2008

Al-Qubba Alley poster
NR

A dying man entrusts his brother-in-law with a small, tightly-concealed box that wreaks havoc as it evokes a deep hatred and sparks sick ambitions.

Al-Qubba Alley

2021

Mawlana poster
8.9

On the run from his past and his community, Jaber becomes a fugitive and assumes the identity of a sacred heir—setting off a ruse in a forgotten village awaiting a saviour to revive its will to endure.

Mawlana

2026

Love Lobby poster
7.0

A romantic comedy set in a hotel that never sleeps, bringing together Rustam, the meticulous hotel owner, and Shams, the stubborn designer fleeing marriage. Amid endless weddings, unusual guests, and unexpected events, a playful game of attraction and tension unfolds between them, unlike any traditional story.

Love Lobby

2026

My Heart Is With You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Heart Is With You

2009

Lost village poster
10.0

Tucked away in the Syrian mountains, the fictional village of Umm al-Tanafs al-Fawqa has been completely bypassed by modern technology — and its simple, warm-hearted residents have no idea what they're missing. Each episode follows their hilarious attempts to navigate life's big and small dramas with nothing but common sense, stubbornness and each other. A gentle, sharp satire that uses village innocence as a mirror for modern society's complications — described by many viewers as the greatest Arab comedy ever made.

Lost village

2008

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

Al-Hout poster
NR

A drama series that tells the story of the coastal environment during the era of the French mandate in Syria, especially the environment of fishermen in light of the exploitation and greed of some people and the bitter struggle of others against the French occupier.

Al-Hout

2008

Al-Qubba Alley poster
NR

A dying man entrusts his brother-in-law with a small, tightly-concealed box that wreaks havoc as it evokes a deep hatred and sparks sick ambitions.

Al-Qubba Alley

2021

Mawlana poster
8.9

On the run from his past and his community, Jaber becomes a fugitive and assumes the identity of a sacred heir—setting off a ruse in a forgotten village awaiting a saviour to revive its will to endure.

Mawlana

2026

Love Lobby poster
7.0

A romantic comedy set in a hotel that never sleeps, bringing together Rustam, the meticulous hotel owner, and Shams, the stubborn designer fleeing marriage. Amid endless weddings, unusual guests, and unexpected events, a playful game of attraction and tension unfolds between them, unlike any traditional story.

Love Lobby

2026

My Heart Is With You poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Heart Is With You

2009

Lost village poster
10.0

Tucked away in the Syrian mountains, the fictional village of Umm al-Tanafs al-Fawqa has been completely bypassed by modern technology — and its simple, warm-hearted residents have no idea what they're missing. Each episode follows their hilarious attempts to navigate life's big and small dramas with nothing but common sense, stubbornness and each other. A gentle, sharp satire that uses village innocence as a mirror for modern society's complications — described by many viewers as the greatest Arab comedy ever made.

Lost village

2008

Brothers of the Soil poster
NR

The series revolves around the Arab Revolt that broke out in Syria against the Ottoman occupation that had ruled the country for four centuries.

Brothers of the Soil

1996

Maraya 2013 poster
NR

Through separate episodes, the series deals with several different stories and tales with political and social dimensions in a satirical comedic style.

Maraya 2013

2013

Al Zennd - Wolf of Al Assi poster
7.2

The story is set in a fiery period at the end of the 19th century in a tense atmosphere charged with the premonitions of the First World War. After Assi Al-Zand's discharge from military service and his return to his village on the banks of the Orontes river, he is caught up in a series of conflicts and conspiracies involving the region's leading political figures.

Al Zennd - Wolf of Al Assi

2023

The Key poster
NR

A social drama about the Syrian society and the corruption that runs rampant across all of its different classes, as well as exploring some ideals like love, integrity, and honesty.

The Key

2012

A Safety Distance poster
NR

The series manifest the lives of war veterans, and addresses subjects such as love, hope and life after war. There is also the ugly side of war such as organ trafficking and arms dealing.

A Safety Distance

2019

Unknown Culprit poster
8.0

The story opens with the murder of businessman Faisal Muthanna, ruled a homicide likely perpetrated by someone who wanted to rob him of his wealth. Elsewhere, Samir, a despairing tailor and taxi driver, reunites with his friend Yazen after years of war separated them.

Unknown Culprit

2021

A Hero From This Time poster
NR

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.

A Hero From This Time

1999

Behind Bars poster
NR

Naji Saeed is a ruthless Damascus businessman who built his empire by climbing over everyone beneath him. When Nader — desperate and naive — walks into his orbit seeking money, he finds there's no clean way back out. A Syrian social drama that traces how class, greed and moral compromise trap people in invisible prisons long before any actual bars appear. Starring Bassam Kousa, Bassem Yakhour and Sulafa Mimar. Directed by Allaith Hajjo.

Behind Bars

2005

Ashtar poster
7.0

After her parents get divorced, Ishtar goes to live with her grandmother. When her grandmother passes away, she leaves the house to Ishtar , but her boyfriend tricks her into writing it over to him. She then goes to her aunt, who introduces her to the world of art through her voice.

Ashtar

2004

Nebtedi Mnain Al Hekaya poster
6.0

The series begins its episodes with the most sacred relationship, which is love, bringing the story of Romeo and Juliet back to our time with a contemporary story based on the flashback method, and recalls events from the beginning of the millennium up to our present time.

Nebtedi Mnain Al Hekaya

2016

The Swallow poster
7.0

A ship in the United Arab Emirates carrying people of different nationalities on board

The Swallow

2021

The Sun Rises Again poster
NR

The story of a girl who grows up with a reckless father and loses her mother who dies of cancer but she goes on with her life trying to find the happiness she always longed for.

The Sun Rises Again

2005

Alhaqa'eb poster
9.0

A Syrian family — warm, funny and profoundly ordinary — finds itself facing the impossible choice millions of Syrians faced: stay in a home torn apart by war, or pack up everything and leave. They choose to go. But the road out proves just as punishing as what they left behind, with each episode delivering a new obstacle, a new heartbreak and a new reason to laugh through the tears. From the creator of Lost Village — tragicomedy at its most human.

Alhaqa'eb

2014

المصابيح الزرق poster
NR

The events of the series take place in the period from 1939 to 1945, the period of the Syrian struggle against the French occupation, by reviewing the current events in that period and shedding light on several characters and their social and political relationships.

المصابيح الزرق

2012

City Secrets poster
8.0

In a dramatic and social framework, Abu Mansour’s children work hard to improve their financial conditions, but they encounter major life obstacles, which they try to overcome.

City Secrets

2000

kum alhajar poster
10.0

The series monitors the social, political and cultural life in Syria from the period 1932 to 1936, where the events take place in two neighboring areas: the city of Aleppo, and a supposed rural area called Kom alHajar.

kum alhajar

2007

Neighborhood Live On Air poster
NR

The series deals with social life and raises many important issues that the Arab society suffers from, such as authoritarianism, social pressures. It also presents the negatives and positives in a dramatic comic style.

Neighborhood Live On Air

2008

Passing Obsessions poster
NR

A social comedy series that consists of separate-connected episodes, as it deals with a group of characters staying on the same floor in a building, which includes a photography studio, a beauty salon, a dental clinic, and an apartment. Each place and each person has their own concerns.

Passing Obsessions

2018

النصية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

النصية

1998

Seraa Al Zaman poster
NR

Set in a traditional Damascene neighborhood, the story follows—in a comedic way—the protagonist's quest to find the woman he loved but never confessed his feelings to over forty years ago, after he begins seeing her in his dreams every day.

Seraa Al Zaman

2002

The Hero poster
NR

After risking his life to pull a teenager from the clutches of a fatal fire, a middle-aged man becomes a local hero – only to find himself amidst an inevitable power battle against a cunning thug.

The Hero

2025

The End of a Brave Man poster
8.0

Mufid the monster, the naughty teenager, did not find anyone who knew how to deal with him properly, so he did not discover anyone around him and develop the good qualities that Mufid was distinguished for. The society in which he lived, starting from the harsh father at home, to the ignorant and arrogant teacher at school, to the mukhtar who punished him for cutting off the tail of Abboud's donkey... All of these were the cause of Mufid's loss and his premature end. As a result of this treatment, Mufeed could not bear to stay even for a single minute in the farm, so he ran away and decided never to return to this farm that caused him pain and persecuted him.

The End of a Brave Man

1994

Marzouq On All Fronts poster
NR

In which dramatic events are mixed with funny comedy, the main character "Marzouk" is a man who always cares about the concerns of others and tries to find solutions for them just because he knows that this is one of the duties of the respectable man, as he tries to solve the problems of neighbors and relatives, but he often falls into serious problems because of that, until personal problems occur.

Marzouq On All Fronts

2004

Small Projects poster
NR

كوميديا لطيفة هادفة تصوّر معاناة أسرة كبيرة العدد لحالة بائسة من الفقر الثقيل الذي يجعل الأخ الأكبر يترك المدرسة ليشتغل ويُعيل والدته وإخوته السبع حتى يتخرجوا ويتزوجوا. ثم يكتشف أنه قد بلغ الأربعينات وأن قطار العمر قد فاته، وأنه قد خسر قصّة حب عمَّرتْ 15 سنة. A charming, meaningful comedy depicting the struggles of a large family living in abject poverty. The eldest brother drops out of school to work and support his mother and seven siblings, ensuring they all graduate and get married. Eventually, he realizes he has reached his forties—having let life pass him by—and has lost a romance that spanned fifteen years.

Small Projects

2006

Al Waq-waq poster
7.0

A comedy that revolves around a number of people who normally won't be able to stay in one place as fate forces them together when they all get stranded on an island. Forced to come together to survive, they resolve to pick one of them as a leader

Al Waq-waq

2018

The Face of Justice poster
NR

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.

The Face of Justice

2008

Congratulations poster
NR

The series presents archetypes that reflect the issues encountered by people who are about to marry, as all the romance fades once the groom is forced to pay all he has in order to secure a house, turning his life after marriage into a struggle to pay off his debts.

Congratulations

2001

5 Stars Family poster
NR

The story revolves around the family of Umm Ahmed Bilalish who lives in one of the old Damascene neighborhoods. When Farhan proposes to marry Samar, her mother reluctantly agrees. The events start taking a comic twist when the family wins the lottery and their social status changes.

5 Stars Family

1994

The Five poster
NR

Five young people from different regions and cultural and social backgrounds gather to live in one rented house to study at the university, where everyday several paradoxes and comedic adventures happen with the neighbors and the owner of the house.

The Five

2005

Rude and Fussy poster
NR

After his wife passes away, Azmy tries to get married again and asks his sister to help him find a new wife, but his sons, Sobhy, Fathy, and Ribhy, don't like the idea of having a stepmother, so they plot together to sabotage his marriage.

Rude and Fussy

2002

7 Stars Family poster
NR

Continuing the events of the previous parts, the series deals with the story of a large family whose members live in one house, and events escalate when Afif plots to seize all the family property, so the rest of the family looks for a solution in a funny and comedic context.

7 Stars Family

1997

Bahloul: The Wisest of the Madmen poster
NR

A Syrian historical series about the people of the Karkh district in Baghdad. Among its residents is a man called Abu Wahb, a wise and righteous figure who solves the city’s problems. The caliph intended to appoint him as Chief Judge, but fearing for his faith, Abu Wahb was instructed to feign madness. He then began appearing in public riding a reed, and people gave him the name ‘Bahloul.

Bahloul: The Wisest of the Madmen

2007

Very Kind poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Very Kind

1998

ناس من ورق poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ناس من ورق

2019