Ashraf Meslehi

Acting

Ashraf Meslehi

Born — Died

1974-04-23 — 2023-09-18

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Kalabsh poster
6.0

Selim al-Ansary is a morally-conscious police officer who is talented at his job. He is constantly criticized by those around him, even his mother, and is perceived as an evil person. When a murder inside the police station unjustly points to him as a suspect, he gets arrested, but he decides to escape to prove his innocence.

Kalabsh

2017

Lahfa poster
7.0

A comedy about an aspiring actress who enlists the help of her uncle, a casting agent, in order to land her breakthrough role, because the last thing she wants is to end up being an extra like her father.

Lahfa

2015

Amount of Light poster
5.0

Lail Abdul Salam is a hired assassin working for top businessmen, exposed to many stories, including the problem of his wife, who hates her life with him because of his preoccupation with his work, and gets involved with him in many problems which turns him into a different person.

Amount of Light

2017

Lam'i El Ott poster
4.0

The serial revolves around a bus driver (Muhammad Imam) in a private school. As the driver returns home after school ends, a parent kidnaps the school bus and asks for a ransom.

Lam'i El Ott

2017

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa poster
NR

A portrait of the social and political aspects of Egypt during the late 18th-century French campaign, and the most important events that ensued, from Battle of Shubra Khit between Napoleon and the Mamluk leader, Murad Bey, and through the first and second Revolt of Cairo, till the defeat and exit of the campaign.

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa

2012

Son of the Poor poster
5.0

An upper-Egyptian who lives on the border of the poverty line decides to earn an honest living by having two jobs: A teacher at a public school during the day, and a taxi driver in the evening. Yet, through his struggle to make ends meet he falls into the pit of drug trade.

Son of the Poor

2019

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Misunderstanding poster
5.0

Omar is trying to reclaim the inheritance of his father from his uncle. He uses his colleague Rauof, who turns out to be a crook and then flees to Lebanon and Omar goes to jail. Lina the Lebanese girl falls in love with Raouf, and they agree to marry, but he escapes to Cairo.

Misunderstanding

2015

Downtown Shaking poster
NR

The film is set in the span of eight hours in the region of downtown Cairo, exploring the variety of characters present in the busy town, and several problems they face in their daily lives, in addition to the economical crisis the whole country is facing.

Downtown Shaking

2015

Howa Fi Keda poster
5.0

When a girl leaves Upper Egypt for Cairo, she faces a lot of problems that she tries to work through, but she is forced to give up the traditions and customs of her village.

Howa Fi Keda

2013

31/12 poster
4.0

A police officer is looking for those involved in a mysterious murder.

31/12

2013

Game Over poster
NR

Five guys wake up in an abandoned place not knowing how and why they are there, also not remembering their identities, and consequently embarking on a long journey to find out how this happened.

Game Over

2015

Inside the Game poster
6.0

This thriller revolves around the directory of an ad agency who is accused of involvement in a murder.

Inside the Game

2012

Metaab and Shadya poster
NR

Met'eb and Shadya meet at an Islamic saint commemorating celebration (mawlid). As they face the obstacles of everyday life together, their chance encounter blossoms into young love.

Metaab and Shadya

2013

Sudden Escape poster
3.0

Nader is a former pilot who retires due to embezzlement cases in which his father is accused.

Sudden Escape

2017

2000s · 16 titles

Tito poster
7.4

Tito is the second installment in the new-wave Egyptian action movies. After Mafia by Sherif Arafa, which was a breakthrough in Egyptian cinema making, Tarek El-Aryan brings us Tito, the next logical step. Very simply, this movie is about an ex-con who tries to escape his sinful life by starting a new one, but his past comes back to haunt him. The reason, why Tito is better than Mafia is because the script and story line in Tito is more complex, and some of the characters had real depth in them and where fully developed throughout the movie.

Tito

2004

The Island poster
7.2

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

The Island

2007

Romantic Sayed poster
5.4

A musical comedy telling the story of a mother who is trying to raise her son Sayyed after her husband's death. However, her son faces problems whether at college or with his uncle.

Romantic Sayed

2005

Girl's Secrets poster
6.1

Graphic portrayal of society's struggle to balance tradition and modernity in modern-day Egypt. "Girl's Secrets" tells the story of sixteen-year-old Yasmeen, whose out-of-wedlock pregnancy sparks tragic consequences. The film articulates the many questions on the minds of most Egyptians and Muslims around the world: Should women abide by Islam's stringent dress code? How can parents screen out unwanted Western influences? Should Egyptian schools teach sex education? Should teen-age boys and girls socialize?

Girl's Secrets

2001

Born to Be a Criminal poster
5.8

Our man has about everything against him : he is short, weak, so simple, with an IQ far below the average. There is no wonder why he keeps on being teased by his friends, parents and even fiancee. But circumstances will turn him into a hero and then a vicious criminal feared by all. Half-educated and out-of-work, Taha, is kidnapped by a gang of thieves in his hometown Alexandria. Unbeknownst to them, neither Taha's mother nor his girlfriend has a fraction of the ransom

Born to Be a Criminal

2006

The Hostage poster
7.0

When Mostafa arrives to Ukraine, he witnesses the kidnapping of an Egyptian scientist. Eventually he gets involved in rescuing him, in a country he knows nothing about.

The Hostage

2006

Run Away Kids poster
7.0

(Hassan, Arafah, and Sultan), a group of friends working in the field of reviving weddings by riding motorcycles in the area of Siof in Alexandria, each young man lives a different story, but they meet in the same dream of traveling abroad, and their friend (Fadl Matareya) In their dream, after successfully traveling, they fall prey to a person called Pasha, who falsifies their papers, passports and military service certificates, and as their dream begins to verify, the surprise occurs.

Run Away Kids

2006

Auntie Faransa poster
5.1

Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.

Auntie Faransa

2004

Life's Indulgences poster
7.0

Hanan has been unhappy due to the passing of her father, while her husband Sharif has been eyeing Ghada, the young daughter of his driver. They are friends with a married couple, Ahmed and Mona, but Mona has been chatting online with her ex-boyfriend. All of their lives change when Sharif's driver finds out that Ghada as run away from home to be with Sharif and Ahmed finds out what Mona has been doing online.

Life's Indulgences

2005

Share' 18 poster
7.0

The film is about a murder in the apartment of Rawiya, which lives in the building opposite to Aya's building on 18th Street, where Aya sees the whole crime and becomes threatened with being the next victim.What will happen, especially if the suspect is close to Verse)?

Share' 18

2008

Marriage by Presidential Decree poster
5.1

An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At a moment of recklessness,he sends a wedding invitation to the President, and he responds to the invitation. Preparations are under way to receive the President at the wedding awaited by everyone.

Marriage by Presidential Decree

2001

The First Time You Fall in Love poster
NR

A police constable intercepts a woman's car driving at high speed and discovers that she is the actress Suham Shukri, whom he admires. She took him to her house and had sex with her under the influence of drugs. She then denied knowing him. When he found out that she was pregnant, he wanted to file a lawsuit demanding that she keep the baby, but she agreed to marry him to avoid scandal.

The First Time You Fall in Love

2003

Bono Bono poster
NR

When Nahed discovers that her husband Adham is buying contaminated dialysis machines, Adham commits her to a mental institution. Nahed gets incriminating documents of Adham's illegal business and escapes from the hospital to bring him down.

Bono Bono

2000

The Serial Killer poster
6.3

A young boy who comes from a broken home, grows up to be a ruthless criminal, then destiny leads him to fall in love with a beautiful girl, and he tries to get money to start a new life with her by doing one last crime.

The Serial Killer

2009

Azmet Sharaf poster
2.8

The wife of a well-known singer dies along with her driver in a traffic accident. In the ensuing murder investigation many latent – but explosive – issues rise to the surface.

Azmet Sharaf

2009

Rendez-Vous poster
6.5

A group of young men meets a prostitute, who changes the course of their lives. The girl begins a new life, away from the parties and the corrupt atmosphere.

Rendez-Vous

2001

Series credits

Kalabsh poster
6.0

Selim al-Ansary is a morally-conscious police officer who is talented at his job. He is constantly criticized by those around him, even his mother, and is perceived as an evil person. When a murder inside the police station unjustly points to him as a suspect, he gets arrested, but he decides to escape to prove his innocence.

Kalabsh

2017

Lahfa poster
7.0

A comedy about an aspiring actress who enlists the help of her uncle, a casting agent, in order to land her breakthrough role, because the last thing she wants is to end up being an extra like her father.

Lahfa

2015

Amount of Light poster
5.0

Lail Abdul Salam is a hired assassin working for top businessmen, exposed to many stories, including the problem of his wife, who hates her life with him because of his preoccupation with his work, and gets involved with him in many problems which turns him into a different person.

Amount of Light

2017

Lam'i El Ott poster
4.0

The serial revolves around a bus driver (Muhammad Imam) in a private school. As the driver returns home after school ends, a parent kidnaps the school bus and asks for a ransom.

Lam'i El Ott

2017

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa poster
NR

A portrait of the social and political aspects of Egypt during the late 18th-century French campaign, and the most important events that ensued, from Battle of Shubra Khit between Napoleon and the Mamluk leader, Murad Bey, and through the first and second Revolt of Cairo, till the defeat and exit of the campaign.

Napoleon And Al Mahrousa

2012

Son of the Poor poster
5.0

An upper-Egyptian who lives on the border of the poverty line decides to earn an honest living by having two jobs: A teacher at a public school during the day, and a taxi driver in the evening. Yet, through his struggle to make ends meet he falls into the pit of drug trade.

Son of the Poor

2019

Nouna, the Lady Marriage-Officiant poster
NR

Nouna becomes the first female marriage officiant in Egypt which comes with its own set of problems and obstacles that lands her in comic situations as her clients reflect a number of recent social issues that plagues the Egyptian society.

Nouna, the Lady Marriage-Officiant

2011

نابليون والمحروسة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

نابليون والمحروسة

2012

فريسكا poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

فريسكا

2004

A Public Opinion Case poster
8.0

The events revolve around Dr. Abla and her colleagues, Dr. Hanan and Nurse Samiha. On the way back from the hospital after an operation, they get chased by three drunken guys, who kidnap them at gunpoint, rape them, and then escape, which turns the three women's lives upside down.

A Public Opinion Case

2007

Palestinian Alienation poster
9.5

The first comprehensive dramatic telling of the Palestinian Nakba, seen through the eyes of a poor rural family from the 1930s British Mandate era through the massacres of 1948 and the defeat of 1967. Written by Palestinian poet Walid Seif — based on his own family history — and directed by the late Syrian master Hatem Ali, this is widely considered one of the greatest Arab television dramas ever produced. A monumental work of collective memory, historical witness and human endurance.

Palestinian Alienation

2004

Birth Certificate poster
NR

The dramatic events revolve around (Ali) the police lieutenant colonel who is investigating a corruption case, with the sequence of events discovering papers proving that he is the son of (Yahya Nosier), one of the businesspeople accused in the corruption case he was investigating.

Birth Certificate

2016

Al-Batiniyya poster
7.0

In Al-Batniya neighborhood, a drug dealer owns a wood factory as a cover for his drug trading. His daughter marries a police officer against his will, while his son falls in love with a poor girl whom he marries in secret. But when his father wants to separate them, she seeks revenge.

Al-Batiniyya

2009

Women's beauty poster
5.3

Nour starts to see strange nightmares while her friend complains about a jinn that chasing her. Between belief and denial, she enters the world of sorcery.

Women's beauty

2020

In Amina's Hands poster
NR

The events revolve around Amina, a journalist who tries to uncover corruption in society, as she discovers a gang that steals children and sells them abroad to those who can't have children.

In Amina's Hands

2008

Al-Rahaya Stone Hearts poster
NR

The series revolves around a wealthy and powerful man named Mohammed Abu Diab (Nour Al-Sharif). Despite being loved by his townspeople who live under his command, he is betrayed by the people closest to him.

Al-Rahaya Stone Hearts

2009

El-Sayad poster
8.2

After a debilitating accident, a member of one of the security services is deemed unfit for duty and gets fired. But when his former colleagues confront a puzzling case, they are forced to call upon him to help solve the mystery.

El-Sayad

2014

Merchant of Happiness poster
NR

In spite of not completing his studies in Al Azhar, the blind ring seller Misbah knows how to handle people and fix their problems. Allegedly, he is a man of "miracles" and the people of his neighborhood rally around him to be touched by his blessings.

Merchant of Happiness

2009

No artwork available
NR

The events follow Allam Al-Zuhairi, an opportunist Upper Egyptian man who only cares about his personal interest, even if it comes at the expense of people closest to him, as he enters into an open confrontation.

Deadly Love

2005

Banat Hammam poster
NR

The story of Raya and Sakina is told from a different perspective and in two different time periods, as they are cleared of all allegations that they kidnapped and killed women in order to steal their belongings, but were working in struggle with the national resistance against the British occupation in Egypt.

Banat Hammam

2025

The Obsession poster
NR

In the mysterious village of Al-Na'am, twin brothers Hammam and Hassanain clash over love, power, and control after the death of their grandfather.

The Obsession

2015

يخلق من الشبح أربعين poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

يخلق من الشبح أربعين

2015

Hidden Worlds poster
6.2

When a prominent writer finds confidential documents incriminating government officials, he decided to publish them, risking his own life and his family's.

Hidden Worlds

2018