Jay Abdo

Jay Abdo

Born: October 21, 1962
in Damascus, Syria

Movies for Jay Abdo...

The Strangers' Case
Title: The Strangers' Case
Character: Papa Homsi
Released: February 23, 2024
Type: Movie
Over four centuries ago, William Shakespeare collaborated with others on a play about the historical figure Sir Thomas More. In it, he wrote a speech in which More passionately articulates a defence of refugees, culminating in a poignant reference to their plight. Fast-forward to the present: Aleppo, in the midst of the Syrian civil war. Amira, a paediatric surgeon, performs a life-saving operation during the darkest days of the conflict. Through an unexpected twist of fate, she and her daughter become central characters in a dangerous tale that intricately interweaves the lives of five families spanning four continents and redefines all of their existences. Versions of this story continue to repeat themselves over the centuries. For this reason, Shakespeare aptly named this plight “The Strangers’ Case”.
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Neighbours
Title: Neighbours
Character: Nahum
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: Movie
A small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab school and has to watch his small world being radically changed in the course of an absurd nationalism.
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Refugee
Title: Refugee
Character: Papa Homsi
Released: May 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A Syrian doctor attempts to escape her war-ravaged homeland with her young daughter.
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The Way Back
Title: The Way Back
Character: Liquor Store Owner
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
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Jihad in Hollywood
Title: Jihad in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to reinvent his life and rebuild his career.
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1st Born
Title: 1st Born
Character: Hamid
Released: February 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.
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Title: SEAL Team
Character: Asim Al-Hazred
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: TV
Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.
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Ablution
Title: Ablution
Character: Khaled
Released: September 21, 2017
Type: Movie
The bond between a disabled Muslim father and his son is tested when love is pitted against religion.
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Facing Mecca
Title: Facing Mecca
Character: Fareed
Released: June 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds beautifully simple answer.
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Under Concrete
Title: Under Concrete
Character: Father
Released: June 1, 2017
Type: Movie
A child in Syria trapped under concrete after an explosion demolished her home.
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Bon Voyage
Title: Bon Voyage
Character: Kareem
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Jonas and Silvia are enjoying a wonderful sailing holiday in the Mediterranean sea. But while sailing through the night, far away from land, they discover an overloaded refugee boat, close to sinking. They are shocked, but too afraid to help. So they call the coast guards but lose the boat out of sight into the darkness of the night. In the early morning they find themselves drifting through an ocean of dead bodies. The refugee boat has sunk. Jonas and Silvia manage to pull a few survivors out of the cold water: Syrians. This rescue marks the beginning of a dramatic conflict between the hopes and dreams of the refugees, and the fears and ideals of the holiday sailors.
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A Hologram for the King
Title: A Hologram for the King
Character: Dr. Haddad
Released: April 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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Jihad in Hollywood
Title: Jihad in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo is now struggling as a refugee while trying to reinvent his life and rebuild his career.
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Title: Patriot
Character: Cantar Walley
Released: November 3, 2015
Type: TV
To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
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Queen of the Desert
Title: Queen of the Desert
Character: Fattuh
Released: September 3, 2015
Type: Movie
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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We've Got Balls
Title: We've Got Balls
Character: Butler
Released: April 29, 2013
Type: Movie
A small town with a population of 52 people has balls galore, as in bowling balls, which they use to form a zany bowling tournament to save the town.
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq
Title: Valley of the Wolves: Iraq
Character: Kurdish Leader (Jihad Abdou)
Released: January 31, 2006
Type: Movie
The film covers through fiction real-life events like the occupation of Iraq, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the Hood event and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.
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Skeet
Title: Skeet
Character: Mohamed
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.
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The Sun Rises again
Title: The Sun Rises again
Character: Emad
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.