Farouq Falawkas

Acting

Farouq Falawkas

Born

1940-06-21 (86)

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

77 titles

Known for

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.

El Helmeya Nights

1987

Al Sera Al Helalya poster
NR

It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.

Al Sera Al Helalya

1997

Hawanem Garden City poster
NR

In a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.

Hawanem Garden City

1997

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr poster
6.0

A magical Egyptian fantasy from the Alf Leila w Leila series, Aroos El Bahr follows a forbidden love between a human prince and a mermaid princess. Blending folklore, music, and adventure, the story explores sacrifice, transformation, and destiny in a richly imaginative world inspired by timeless Arabian tales.

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr

1985

Chi Tutu Restaurant poster
NR

Where one of the restaurants owned by Adel and his friend Nagaty, after Adel returns from abroad deciding to start a small business that generates income for him, his friend Nagaty offers him a stay.

Chi Tutu Restaurant

2006

Bab Al Khalq poster
NR

After the Arabic language teacher travels outside Egypt in despair, he returns after a while to his hometown in Bab Al Khalq to be surprised by many changes that foretell a possibly mysterious future, whereupon he tries to coexist and keep pace with them to ensure the continuation of life.

Bab Al Khalq

2012

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 20 titles

Mr. Hassan's Apartment poster
NR

Hassan is an upright employee who works for a company. In order to win the favor of his bosses, Atallah and Jaafar, he gives them the key to his apartment to use for women's adventures. He actually gets a promotion. Hassan is impressed by his colleague Nawal, who loves the company manager, Helmy, who is married and has two sons. When Helmy lets her down, she gradually becomes attracted to Hassan.

Mr. Hassan's Apartment

1984

Sayed the Servant Boy poster
8.2

The fugitive Sayed seeks refuge with his uncle who works as a cook for a wealthy family. When the family's daughter gets divorced for the third time, the family enlist Sayed's help to marry her as a mohallel so she could reunite with her husband.

Sayed the Servant Boy

1985

4-2-4 poster
5.6

Lions Football club Abdul Ghaffar (Amin Al Hunaidi) decides to be a football team of his factory workers, but the disease is severe and recommends his son Mansour (Younis Shalabi), to take over the management of the factory and the team to succeed him and face financial problems, so Mansour turned to his manager and his friend (Samir Ghanem), To develop a plan for the advancement of the team will they succeed?

4-2-4

1981

The Law, Excuse Us poster
6.0

Ali and Hoda are a happy couple, on their wedding night Ali reveals that he has a psychological problem that makes him uncapable of sleeping with her.

The Law, Excuse Us

1985

Wikalet El-Balah Market poster
5.0

The events take place in Wikalet El-Balah, where Master Nehmatullah takes controls of the trade in the region by getting rid of her competitors. She marries the poor young Abdullah and makes him in charge of everything which turns the events upside down.

Wikalet El-Balah Market

1982

عضة كلب poster
NR

Awni's father gets him a job giving music lessons to his manager's daughter Nihad. As Awni forms a band with his friends to perform in nightclubs, their attempt to get time off to work in Alexandria leads Samir to suggest that they let themselves be bitten by a dog to take sick leave.

عضة كلب

1983

ابتسامة وراء قضبان poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ابتسامة وراء قضبان

1986

The Man Who Sneezed poster
6.5

A man, suffering from chronic sneezing, was told by the doctors that his days in life are numbered, only to act carelessly and unethically.

The Man Who Sneezed

1985

The Lost poster
7.0

In order to provide a home for her and her family, Zainab goes to work in an Arab country, and send her savings to her husband, she returns to discover that her husband divorced her and got married in her apartment. She collapses and decides to take revenge.

The Lost

1986

The Challenge poster
NR

When Huda gets released after killing her traitorous husband, it angers his father, Abdul Qawi who fights to prevent her from having custody of her child. Ahmed the lawyer sympathies with her and they get married while Abdul Qawi wants to avenge them.

The Challenge

1988

The Challenge poster
NR

When Huda gets released after killing her traitorous husband, it angers his father, Abdul Qawi who fights to prevent her from having custody of her child. Ahmed the lawyer sympathies with her and they get married while Abdul Qawi wants to avenge them.

The Challenge

1988

Al-Sakakeni poster
NR

Azab is a simple employee whose life gets complicated when his brother Samir falls for a prostitute. As Samir tries to help his sweetheart recover from her addiction, she steals some money that was in Azab's custody and Azab is accused of stealing the money.

Al-Sakakeni

1986

Save Whatever is Possible poster
NR

(Nabil) returns to Egypt after an absence of 18 years to recover his father's palace after the guard has been lifted from him, gets to know the school (Amal), be surprised by his friend (Omar) who has become wealthy from the drug trade and becomes an influential businessman, (Omar) succeeds in attracting ( Nabil) to his world. And he turns his evening to the palace, which turns into a den of delinquency

Save Whatever is Possible

1985

الإنفجار الجميل poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الإنفجار الجميل

1983

Qaffas al-Harim poster
5.0

Reem's mother dies after being in a heavy accident, so her daughter puts the suffering that happened to her before her eyes, as their mother suffered because of her married husband, and the inferiority view of women in Upper Egypt.

Qaffas al-Harim

1986

Alley of Love poster
5.7

The encounters and relationships that a brothel hotel witnessed, from a well known man in power, ambitious cunning youngster, to chivalrous college professor, despite such corrupt business ,true love found a place in some hearts.

Alley of Love

1983

سعدون تحت الطبع poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

سعدون تحت الطبع

1987

The Visit Is Over poster
NR

Directed by : Samir Al Asfory

The Visit Is Over

1983

للآباء فقط poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

للآباء فقط

1989

أسعد الله مساءك poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أسعد الله مساءك

1987

1970s · 18 titles

Be Good to Your Parents poster
NR

Saber works as a courier in a government department. He seeks to raise the amount of embezzlement, so as not to imprison his son.

Be Good to Your Parents

1976

A Woman and a Man poster
5.0

Gasser, who works in one of the quarries, goes to the prostitute Hamida who falls in love with him. Metwally, who works with Gasser in the quarry, loves her, which leads the two men onto a dangerous path.

A Woman and a Man

1971

Take Care of Your Neighbors poster
6.5

A married couple on their honeymoon lives in an eccentric apartment as they discover that they have peculiar neighbors who share their apartment illegally. The double stay at the apartment brings a series of ironic events.

Take Care of Your Neighbors

1979

Serial Killer of Women poster
NR

Desperate for a fresh story, a journalist decides to look into a mysterious wave of murders in which the victims are all women.

Serial Killer of Women

1970

The Girl who said: No poster
NR

Esmat decides to drive the cab that she owns, but gets harassed by her former driver, Abdullah, who was exploiting her. He gets some thugs to lure her to an abandoned place, where the vice police arrest them, and events develop.

The Girl who said: No

1978

رحلة داخل امرأة poster
7.0

A wife enters into a love affair after her husband neglects her.

رحلة داخل امرأة

1978

Something of Love poster
8.0

The two friends, Adel and Sharif, reside in one apartment, and Sharif falls in love with Enas and his exchange of feelings is the same, to ask her to marry her cousin Darwish, who suffers from mental problems, so that Darwish requires him to marry Salwa his friend Adel first for a week as a condition to complete the marriage, and events escalate.

Something of Love

1973

Sunstroke poster
6.8

'Shams' is a photojournalist, in a romantic relationship with 'Salwa'. When he is invited to cover a wedding, he accidentally captured a photo of a burning paper with mysterious words which leads him to a murderous gang.

Sunstroke

1978

And it was love poster
5.0

A remake of Henry Barakat’s "Have Mercy" 1959.

And it was love

1974

Virgo poster
6.0

Fahmy is an ardent believer in horoscopes and manages his life according to them. When a fortune-teller convinces him that his life is connected to a Virgo who has a black birthmark, he discovers that the girl in question is Nana, his friend Adel's fiancée.

Virgo

1970

The Happy Marriage poster
8.0

Dr. Sherif is married to the novelist Nana, but he is also having an affair with her friend Laila. When Sherif goes to attend a medical conference, he takes Laila with him and claims that she is his wife. Unbeknownst to him, Nana follows him to reconcile with him after their latest fight.

The Happy Marriage

1974

No My Ex-Lover poster
6.2

Adel opposes Shawkat's attempts to use his office to carry out suspicious construction work. As Shawkat frames Adel for murder, Adel's fiancée Nagwa enlists the help of Medhat, a lawyer who starts to hit on her, as she pretends to be Adel's sister.

No My Ex-Lover

1976

Alshayatin fi 'ajaza poster
NR

While Hamada is in Abu Qir, Awad succeeds in hiding a set of valuable diamonds away from the police in Hamada's camera, and Hamada does not discover this, as he is with his two friends, Galal and Salah, spending some time having fun, but the diamonds turn their time into hell, and a gang begins chasing them in order to obtain those diamonds, led by Awad, who pushes Sonia to bring the diamond from the three friends.

Alshayatin fi 'ajaza

1973

Hobi Al Awal Wa Al Akhir poster
3.0

Director Mahmoud Salem needs a new face to introduce to his audiences. One day he finds his star, Mona. Offering her the opportunity to be a star, she asks for a chance to ask her fiancé about it. Mahmoud and Mona start to work together and fall for each other. Mona's fiancé feels the vibe coming from them and he leaves her.

Hobi Al Awal Wa Al Akhir

1975

I Have the Wallet poster
5.5

After failing in his studies, Atoua turns to pickpocket. He meets his classmate Shukri, who is now the manager of a food company, he promises to find him a job but Atoua feels that he's lying. He steals his wallet and finds documents implicating Shukri and other people in embezzlement cases.

I Have the Wallet

1978

Sana maa el shoghl el lazeez poster
NR

A family travels by plane that ends up landing on an island, and one of them works there because of his ability to work, and the governor of the island and one of the family's daughters exchanges love.

Sana maa el shoghl el lazeez

1970

Tawheeda poster
NR

A love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation. Tawhida becomes pregnant and is forced to marry a wealthy man to cover up the scandal, but Hussein's return changes the course of her life.

Tawheeda

1976

مين مايحبش زوبه poster
NR

The play depicts the period of setback until after the 1973 war, and monitors the changes that took place from 67 to 77 after the opening, through the story of "Zouba", which is in confusion after returning from the war of 73 after 10 years, believing he was martyred, With his friend Hassan, and gave birth to him, and to solve the problem using a lawyer who proposes to divorce her from the couple to leave her free choice and to hold a comparison between her two husbands. She sees that the first one is jealous of her and wants her dignity and dignity, "She achieved her openness and freedom until she worked as a hostess and toured the world. The play ends with an open end because Zoba sees that the two have tried to please each other in his own way.

مين مايحبش زوبه

1978

1960s · 5 titles

Series credits

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.

El Helmeya Nights

1987

Al Sera Al Helalya poster
NR

It takes about the movement of the Hilali Tribe from the Arabic peninsula to the nowadays Tunisia. It takes about the adventures of Abu Zaid which are a mixture of facts and myths with a glimpse of glory on the hero's cunning and wisdom.

Al Sera Al Helalya

1997

Hawanem Garden City poster
NR

In a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.

Hawanem Garden City

1997

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr poster
6.0

A magical Egyptian fantasy from the Alf Leila w Leila series, Aroos El Bahr follows a forbidden love between a human prince and a mermaid princess. Blending folklore, music, and adventure, the story explores sacrifice, transformation, and destiny in a richly imaginative world inspired by timeless Arabian tales.

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr

1985

Chi Tutu Restaurant poster
NR

Where one of the restaurants owned by Adel and his friend Nagaty, after Adel returns from abroad deciding to start a small business that generates income for him, his friend Nagaty offers him a stay.

Chi Tutu Restaurant

2006

Bab Al Khalq poster
NR

After the Arabic language teacher travels outside Egypt in despair, he returns after a while to his hometown in Bab Al Khalq to be surprised by many changes that foretell a possibly mysterious future, whereupon he tries to coexist and keep pace with them to ensure the continuation of life.

Bab Al Khalq

2012

العطار والسبع بنات poster
8.0

When an apothecary and his wife have trouble conceiving, the wife encourages her husband to marry a maid to beget him children. Ironically, the two women get pregnant at the same time.

العطار والسبع بنات

2002

The sea said poster
1.0

Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.

The sea said

1982

Raised in His Wealth poster
10.0

The series discusses the character of Hamada Ezzo, the reckless polygamous man. He's unable to take responsibility,because of his mother's excessive spoiling. He's confronted with the reality of life and its problems as he gets older, while his cousin Nawal tries to make him an organized person.

Raised in His Wealth

2007

Not One Thousand and One Nights poster
NR

A different take on the classic One Thousand and One Nights, where Scheherazade has a recurring dream that a soothsayer interprets as a sign that she only has two days left with her husband, before she meets the same fate as the women before her. Scheherazade comes up with a plot to escape that fate.

Not One Thousand and One Nights

2010

The Family of Hajj Metwalli poster
7.6

The story of Metwalli who started his life from nothing, working for a textile merchant who trusted him a lot. After the merchant's death, Metwali marries his widow and soon controls her entire wealth. He becomes one of the biggest textiles merchants, and then marries one wife after another.

The Family of Hajj Metwalli

2001

Tears on Bold Eyes poster
8.0

A story based on real events from the Egyptian spy files of an Egyptian intelligence operation against the Israeli Mossad, whose hero was in fact (Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Rahman Al-Hawan)

Tears on Bold Eyes

1980

And the Day Passed poster
NR

In the sixties, Al-Sharawi Pasha, who was a well-known businessman during the monarchy, tries to flee with his daughter, after the new revolutionary government tries to confiscate his fortune for his illegal activities.

And the Day Passed

2008

Goha El Masry poster
NR

Juha al-Masri repeatedly gets into absurd situations and relies on fate and God to save him.

Goha El Masry

2002

Dream Travel poster
NR

As Mr. Anis retires from his job at the railroad, he is soon devastated by the utter loneliness he has to live with. Seeking companionship and intimacy, he turns his house into a motel, not for material gain, but for human interaction, for company and friendship.

Dream Travel

1986

ألف ليلة وليلة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ألف ليلة وليلة

1984

Premeditation poster
NR

A romance series that discusses the life of a lawyer who lives a love story with one of her colleagues and reviews the problems that happen to her during the entire period of her career.

Premeditation

2012

No poster
NR

When Abdel Mutaal Mahjoub is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and things are made worse when he's presumed dead, he suddenly finds himself secluded, and recollections of his past life come creeping in, making him a prisoner of his own mind.

No

1994

A Very Rich Poor Man poster
NR

The events revolve around a man who becomes a billionaire. Initially believing that he possessed the world, he discovers that he is very poor because he lacks peace of mind and reassurance.

A Very Rich Poor Man

2007

Al Zayni Barakat poster
6.5

Following the decline of the Mamluk state and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, the series depicts the sufferings of people living amidst social and political upheaval. When the enigmatic and ruthless Zayni Barakat Ibn Musa takes control, the truth of his rule and character unfolds.

Al Zayni Barakat

1995

اثنين .. اثنين poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

اثنين .. اثنين

1995

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ناس و ناس

1989

بريء في ورطة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

بريء في ورطة

1997

Al-Saf'a poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Al-Saf'a

2012

mazraeat al'ahlam poster
NR

The series tells the story of a great scholar in cinema who imparts lessons and wisdom to his descendants.

mazraeat al'ahlam

1998