Yousef Sweid

Yousef Sweid

Born: June 22, 1976
in Haifa, Israel

Movies for Yousef Sweid...

Lost in Athens
Title: Lost in Athens
Character: Alexandros Demetriou
Released: February 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Juvenile court judge Marlene Neubach relies on strictness out of conviction. When she visits her son Jakob in Athens, who is currently studying there for a semester abroad, Marlene has a surprise. Jakob has disappeared from the face of the earth and is wanted by Inspector Vergas in connection with crimes. The lawyer cannot imagine that her beloved son could be involved in illegal activities. But can Marlene trust the local police? Together with her random acquaintance Alexandros, who offers to be a lawyer, the judge begins to investigate in the Greek metropolis. As she finds out, her son belongs to an allegedly criminal activist group. Through Jakob's friend Eleni, the worried mother learns about the double life of her son, who hasn't studied for months but has committed himself to political activism with conviction. In order to find him and help him, the courageous lawyer begins to rely on means that she would have to punish in the courtroom.
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Title: Woman of the Dead
Character: Reza Shadid
Released: November 7, 2022
Type: TV
In a vengeful quest to find out who killed her husband, a woman ends up exposing her small community's deepest and ugliest secrets.
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Title: Munich Games
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: TV
50 years after the Munich Massacre, Munich is hosting a soccer game between an Israeli and a German football club. When things start to fall apart, it seems history might be repeating all over again.
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Title: Unorthodox
Character: Karim Nuri
Released: March 26, 2020
Type: TV
A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
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Title: The Spy
Character: George Seif
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: TV
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
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Title: The Spy
Character: George Seif (voice)
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: TV
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
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Tel Aviv on Fire
Title: Tel Aviv on Fire
Character: Yehuda
Released: August 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
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American Assassin
Title: American Assassin
Character: Khaled
Released: September 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
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Title: False Flag
Character: Amir Cohen (Amir Al-Hamati)
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: TV
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.
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Title: The Screenwriter
Character: Kataeb
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: TV
Mockumentary based on the life of Israeli-Arab writer and journalist, Sayed Kashua, creator of the series 'Arab Labor'. Kataeb, Palestinian writer and journalist living in Israel, loses interest in writing his successful series and instead wants to write a series on a 40 year old going throw a mid-life crisis he is experiencing. As a Palestinian and Israeli he confronts with questions about identity, national definitions, as well as his relationships with his family, and the society and country he lives in.
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Title: Johnny and the Knights of Galilee
Character: Kayes
Released: February 2, 2015
Type: TV
Reunion of childhood friends leads to a succeeding gigolo business in the north of Israel.
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Hill Start
Title: Hill Start
Character: Ahmed
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A Comic drama that tells the story of the Geva family - a bourgeois family from Jerusalem. When the mother of the family, Ora, goes into a coma after a car accident, the family members try to bring her back in every way possible.
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Inch'Allah
Title: Inch'Allah
Character: Faysal
Released: September 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
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Title: Homeland
Character: Hasan Ibrahim
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: TV
CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
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Agora
Title: Agora
Character: Pierre
Released: May 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
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The Bubble
Title: The Bubble
Character: Ashraf
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women.
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Road
Title: Road
Released: August 18, 2005
Type: Movie
On a desert road, a couple makes love in front of a monument where, a year earlier, four Palestinian workers had kidnapped their Israeli boss in a protest against the injustices of the Israeli occupation.
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Maktub
Title: Maktub
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The body of a middle aged woman is discovered and a promising young police officer is assigned to this case. His name is Ataf and he is of Druze origin - a small sect of people whose religion is secret and who hold a firm belief in reincarnation. Through the course of his investigation, Ataf begins to experience some strange nightmares that carry him to his past. Soon after he begins his search for a clue to these nightmares, and realises that the murder case and his dreams are somehow connected. More than that - the connection has to do with his former life that ended tragically when his present life began.