Mohammad Bakri

Born: 1953-11-27

Mohammed Bakri (also credited as Mohammad Bakri, born 27 November 1955) is a popular Palestinian actor, director and playwright. He began to act in theatre in 1976. During his career, he worked with many directors such as Costa-Gavras, Amos Gitai, Rashid Masharawi, Saverio Costanzo, Michel Khleifi and Annemarie Jacir. His sons Saleh, Ziad and Adam Bakri are also actors.


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American Assassin

as Ashani
Released: 2017-09-14

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran...

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The Body

as Abu Yusef
Released: 2001-04-13

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the...

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Cairo Conspiracy

as General Al Sakran
Released: 2022-10-26

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in...

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Weddings and Other Disasters

as Sergio Bauer
Released: 2010-04-23

Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic...

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Wajib

as Abu Shadi
Released: 2017-08-20

After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular...

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The Lark Farm

as Nazim
Released: 2007-01-01

The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians,...

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Death Before Dishonor

as Gavril
Released: 1987-02-20

Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due...

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Private

as Mohammad B.
Released: 2004-08-12

A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.

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Sous les pieds des femmes

as uncredited
Released: 1997-10-08

This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover...

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Giraffada

as Hassan
Released: 2014-04-23

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives...

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In Search of Peace

as Self
Released: 2001-09-21

In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on...

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The Tower

as Grandpa Lufti (voice)
Released: 2018-11-30

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to...

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All That's Left Of You

as uncredited
Released: 2025-01-25

The film follows three generations of a Palestinian family, tracking cycles of trauma beginning...

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Hanna K.

as Selim Bakri
Released: 1983-09-07

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense...

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The Savior

as Herod - Devil
Released: 2014-03-29

It is a time when Rome rules the world with the power of life and death in their hands. The...

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Nuzhat al-Fuad

as Ezra - Kahiri
Released: 2006-10-11

Odelia, a talented screenwriter, and her father,a well-known author, have a bond that is both...

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Beyond the Walls

as Issan
Released: 1984-09-27

In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the...

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The Mummy Lives

as Alexatos
Released: 1993-07-10

An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years...

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Rami og Julie

as Rami's Cousin
Released: 1988-03-04

A Palestinian refugee living in Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young...

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The Stranger

as Abu Adnan
Released: 2021-09-06

In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who...

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Haifa

as Haifa
Released: 1995-01-02

Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a...

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Short Stories About Love

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-02

Israeli short films mini-series.

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Laila's Birthday

as Abu Laila
Released: 2009-04-09

As Abu Laila is forced to leave his job as a judge and become a cab driver, he faces a hectic...

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Inertia

as Max
Released: 2015-10-01

Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The...

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Water

as Himself
Released: 2012-01-01

Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or...

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Double Edge

as Mustafa Shafik
Released: 1992-09-30

Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is...

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Beyond the Walls II

as Issan
Released: 1992-01-02

Directed by Uri Barbash.

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Desperado Square

as Avram Mandabon
Released: 2001-05-10

In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's...

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Tale of the Three Jewels

as Aida's father
Released: 1995-01-02

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she...

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Esther

as Mordecai
Released: 1986-01-01

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her...

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Scar

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-02

Scar holds a special place in the development and oeuvre of Ronit Elkabetz: it’s her first work...

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Cup Final

as Ziad
Released: 1991-01-01

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go...

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The Warren

as Abu Mahmoud
Released: 2014-10-05

A dramatization of raid to capture a suspected militant by the Israeli Defense Forces during the...

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In His Place

as Mohammad
Released: 2018-06-14

A complicated and nonliteral Jewish film about feelings the name for which has not yet been...

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Strange Cities Are Familiar

as Ashraf
Released: 2019-09-26

A political refugee living in London tries to get back to his home in Palestine to see his dying...

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The Salt Fisherman

as The Fisherman
Released: 2011-12-10

A fisherman lives alone. His days and nights are fraught with waiting. He rises with the sun and...

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Upshot

as Suleiman
Released: 2024-08-10

Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees...

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The Flowers of Kirkuk

as Old Sherko
Released: 2010-11-19

Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome....

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Zindeeq

as M.
Released: 2009-12-10

Acclaimed director Michel Khleifi's story of a Palestinian film-maker 'M' living in Europe, who...

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The Milky Way

as Mahmud
Released: 1997-01-01

1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is...

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The Olive Harvest

as Raeda's father
Released: 2003-01-02

Upon his release from an Israeli prison, Mazen begins to fall in love with Raeda, his friend...

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Sense of Morning

as Mahmoud
Released: 2010-09-04

A man living in 1982 Beirut listens to the bombs fall and reminisces about the smell of coffee.

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1948

as Self (interviewer)
Released: 1998-02-01

The documentary records the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, mainly veterans from the...

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Blackness

as Father
Released: 2014-06-30

In times of war, a man wants to save his six children from starvation.

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Homeland

as Abdul Qadir G'ulom
First aired: 2011-10-02

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile...

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Homeland

as uncredited
First aired: 2011-10-02

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile...

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The Bureau

as Ahmad Shahanah
First aired: 2015-04-27

Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of...

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The Night Of

as Tariq
First aired: 2016-07-10

After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death...

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Tyrant

as Sheik Rashid
First aired: 2014-06-24

The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern...

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Of Kings and Prophets

as Samuel
First aired: 2016-03-08

An epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of the...

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