Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Bitter Sweetness
TITLE DETAILS

Bitter Sweetness

2024-01-01 · 21 min · Not rated

Drama · Family

A child from a poor family is exposed to food poisoning. This poisoning almost claimed his life, presenting his father with two choices: either abandon his principles and disregard his son's rights, or uphold his dignity and the dignity of his family.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Zaher Samir Kusaibati
Production companies
Art House productions
Countries
Syrian Arab Republic
Status
Released
Budget
USD 10,000

Top Cast

Karam Al SharaniThe Father
Robine IssaThe Mother

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

Where the Red Fern Grows
★ 6.9
Where the Red Fern Grows1974Drama · Family

Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

I Believe
★ 7.8
I Believe2019Drama · Family

A 9 year old boy experiences God's power in a supernatural way.

Where the Red Fern Grows
★ 6.6
Where the Red Fern Grows2003Drama · Family

Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann."

Little Lord Fauntleroy
★ 7.3
Little Lord Fauntleroy1980Drama · Family

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

Heidi
★ 7.8
Heidi2005Drama · Family

Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.

Greyfriars Bobby
★ 6.9
Greyfriars Bobby1961Drama · Family

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.

I Am David
★ 6.8
I Am David2003Drama

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.

Skater Girl
★ 7.2
Skater Girl2021Drama · Family

Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

A Second Chance
★ 6.0
A Second Chance2011Drama · Family

A young girl and her coach overcome adversity to make their way into the National Australian Gymnastics Squad.

The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
★ 7.4
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles2021Drama · Family

When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?

A Second Chance: Rivals!
★ 7.0
A Second Chance: Rivals!2019Drama · Family

As Maddy takes on coaching a team of young twelve-year-old gymnasts, she faces up to intense city versus country rivalry, racism, cyberbullying and her own self-doubt but eventually takes the challenge head on.

An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars
★ 6.8
An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars2012Drama · Family

A young girl struggles to maintain her school grades while competing as a gymnast.

Flicka
★ 6.9
Flicka2006Drama · Family

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.

I Was a Stranger
★ 6.9
I Was a Stranger2025Drama

A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

Poster unavailable
★ 7.3
Most2003Drama

A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.

Embattled
★ 6.7
Embattled2020Drama

The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.

The Encounter
★ 6.5
The Encounter2010Drama · Family

When five strangers with nothing in common come together at a remote roadside eatery, they place their orders with the diner's omniscient owner, who seems to know everything about them ... and is eerily reminiscent of Jesus Christ.

Skin
★ 6.4
Skin2009Drama

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Goal!
★ 6.8
Goal!2005Drama · Family

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

A Dry White Season
★ 6.7
A Dry White Season1989Drama

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Similar titles

HIYAR-A
Not rated
HIYAR-A2025Drama

Poster unavailable
Not rated
Red Crayon2018Drama

An innocent child narrowly escapes destruction and death in Syria. What she leaves behind can never truly be left behind.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
The ShelterDrama

Leila is a former concert pianist from Aleppo, which bore much of the brunt of the ghastly Syrian Civil War. Now living in exile in Paris, she works as a caregiver for Georges, a diplomat nearing the end of his life. Within the confines of his opulent apartment, filled with relics of colonial memory, Leila begins to experience ghostly visitations from her late husband and son. At first tender, these apparitions gradually take on a sinister form, blurring the lines between trauma and madness, memory and haunting. As the echo of distant bombs returns, the walls between Georges’s apartment and Leila’s lost home begin to collapse.

Gold
★ 6.5
Gold2018Drama

Amal lives in a bomb shelter with her sisters in a wartime Syria. Food and water is scarce. One day when Amal is out playing, she finds a piece of gold. Suddenly other people claims the gold belongs to them.

Broken Keys
★ 7.2
Broken Keys2022Drama

In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.

City of Love
★ 7.0
City of Love2017Drama

A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own.

A Private War
★ 6.8
A Private War2018Drama

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

Aporia
Not rated
Aporia2022Drama

Aporia tells the story of someone caught in the midst of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national conflict. After fleeing Syria, Haleem hopes to bring his wife and children and settle in Germany. During a layover in South Korea, he is found in possession of a fake passport. Haleem then finds himself struggling in an unfamiliar country, taking illegal and illicit work in the hopes of being reunited with his family…

Besieged Bread
★ 4.8
Besieged Bread2016Drama

In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.

67 Hours
Not rated
67 HoursDrama · Family

From the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Laila sets out to cross the border into Syria to attend her father’s funeral. At one of the world’s most tightly controlled frontiers, grief collides with a system that traps her and her family in an endless state of waiting.

Refuge
Not rated
Refuge2017Drama

Refugees are captured by border patrol officers as one woman escapes to find herself surviving on her own in a foreign land.

The Two of Them
★ 6.0
The Two of Them2024Drama

Two women in their fifties. Everything sets them apart: their social standing, their life experiences, their backgrounds. Despite their differences, they will join forces for the same deeply personal and visceral goal: to gain custody of their grandson upon his return from a jihadist prison camp. Two women, one child. Three destinies inextricably linked.

Nacht Grenze Morgen
Not rated
Nacht Grenze Morgen2013Drama

Sirocco
★ 6.0
Sirocco1951Drama

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
Love and WarDrama

Inspired by a true story, a mother is forced to enter war-torn Syria to recover her young daughter after the child is taken across borders by her estranged husband. Alone and out of her depth, she must navigate shifting alliances, bureaucracy and constant danger, as the window to save her child begins to close.

The Cheetah
★ 5.0
The Cheetah1972Drama

Set in Syria in the early 1900s. A peasant has his land taken from him by the authorities. He gets imprisoned and beaten by the gendarme, but manages to escape to the mountains where starts a bloody struggle for revolution.

Salam
★ 6.6
Salam2018Drama

A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.

Damascus Time
★ 5.8
Damascus Time2018Drama

Two Iranian pilots are in a special mission to save the people of a Syrian city who are surrounded by the terrorists. But they have to face many challenges before manage to accomplish their mission.

Nights of The Jackal
★ 6.0
Nights of The Jackal1988Drama

Syria, 1967, rumors of war. Abu Kamel, a peasant who farms tomatoes near Latakia, bullies his family. One by one, each rebels against him or finds a route to break away.

Sacrifices
★ 6.9
Sacrifices2002Drama

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.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.