Mahmoud El Meligy

Acting

Mahmoud El Meligy

Born 1910-12-22 · Cairo, Egypt

Mahmoud El Meligy was an Egyptian screenwriter and actor of film, theatre, and television. He started his career playing minor roles, but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winning actor, he has acted in hundreds of films and was famous for his evil, villain roles.

Acting credits

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6.0

Adel decides to marry Sawsan despite the opposition of her parents. Adel is under pressure from her father to divorce her. Eventually Adel gives in to her father's threat to imprison him because of his marriage to a minor and divorces her. Sawsan escapes from her home and turns to her friend Mona.

Under 20 Lovers

1979

Ebn Al-Shaitan poster
NR

Ebn Al-Shaitan (Son of the Devil) a disguised serial killer who target men who leave their wives and kids and remarry.

Ebn Al-Shaitan

1969

A Handful of Days poster
NR

Chief Kamel loses his job after an accident. His wife, Widad, works as a secretary for his company's manager. When Kamel suspects his wife's betrayal and divorces her, he leaves with his son to Cairo. Widad marries the manager and the employee Hamdy tries to assault her.

A Handful of Days

1978

Saladin poster
7.1

The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.

Saladin

1963

سجى الليل poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

سجى الليل

1948

Orphans' money poster
7.0

A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.

Orphans' money

1952

Goodbye forever poster
NR

When two brothers fall for the same girl, things get more complicated when Adel desires to marry her when she is in love with Sherif. But when it's revealed that Adel is terminally ill, he proposes to Nagwa.

Goodbye forever

1976

Alexandria… Why? poster
6.5

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Alexandria… Why?

1979

Eyes Journey poster
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Two Sudanese young men travel to Egypt in pursuit of proper education. While one of them finds the love of his life and pursues a career in signing, the other is doomed to lead a life of failure as life-pleasures blind his eyes to the essence of existence.

Eyes Journey

1983

Yellow Valley poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Yellow Valley

1970

Mandil Al-Helw poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Mandil Al-Helw

1949

The Land poster
8.2

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.

The Land

1970

Son of the Nile poster
7.2

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.

Son of the Nile

1951

Nahed poster
8.0

A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actually succeeded in doing so. The wife was jealous of her husband because of her friend who asked her friend's husband, the doctor, to get rid of the fetus she had conceived from her lover, but the doctor refused, so the family collapsed because of the wife's suspicions.

Nahed

Jamila, the Algerian poster
7.2

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...

Jamila, the Algerian

1958

Jealousy poster
NR

A love story grows between a young athlete and his neighbor. As he dreams of winning a championship, girls begin to chase him, and one seeks to make him fall for her, which generates feelings of jealousy in the heart of his beloved who abandons him.

Jealousy

1946

Oh Islam poster
5.8

Set in the 14th century. Under their leader Timur, the Tartar hordes invade the Middle East and take over areas as widespread as Persia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and Syria. A lowly woman from a harem (Lubna Aziz) rises to lead the Egyptians against the invaders.

Oh Islam

1961

An Egyptian Story poster
6.5

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

An Egyptian Story

1982

Always in my heart poster
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When a young orphan who works as a teacher in an orphanage falls in love with the marine officer Adel, her uptight manager fires her. Forced to work in a disreputable hotel, she is assaulted then arrested on prostitution charges.

Always in my heart

1946

Confessions of a Woman poster
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When she was a teenager, Nadia was raped by Essam, which led her to abhor sex so much that it caused her divorce from her husband Hussein. As she meets Ahmed and falls for him, Essam reappears in her life, prompting her to seek treatment for her trauma.

Confessions of a Woman

1971

Serving Two Masters poster
NR

Shoman Pasha discovers that there is an upholsterer named Master Abbas who looks just like him. The Pasha decides to switch places with Abbas after he gets fed up with his life and its restrictions, just as the upholsterer gets tired of living a life of poverty and need.

Serving Two Masters

1946

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya poster
9.0

A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya

1954

For the Sake of a Woman poster
7.5

Insurance representative of the client rich go to the work of an insurance policy, a wealthy married to a beautiful young tempted even located in the nets and cemented their relationship, offer him salvation from her husband, then grab the value of the insurance policy, the husband dies, you go for the company to capture the amount of insurance, but the company have doubts about the death of husband and it suggests that he died unnatural way especially that the wife was a nurse before her marriage, knows insurance this information delegate who was behind the seizure of the wealth of the husband goes to meet her, surprises her in the arms of her lover kill her but they call it lead endure and on his deathbed in hospital admits the full truth then death throes the latter.

For the Sake of a Woman

1959

Appointment with Satan poster
7.0

Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the best doctor ever.

Appointment with Satan

1955

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