Hamdy El Sakhawy

Acting

Hamdy El Sakhawy

Born 1955-07-01 · Egypt

Acting credits

The Headmaster poster
7.7

Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?

The Headmaster

2000

Return My Loan poster
NR

The play revolves around a young Egyptian from a simple family called Tolba, who since his childhood has been a guard for an oriental dancer named Habiba. He then worked as a guard for the American Embassy to collect 30,000 pounds for the dowry he will give the famous businessman Shawkat to marry his younger sister and his colleague He was forced to borrow from a bank run by Tawfiq Siddiq (Shawkat) for 19,000 pounds, but he was surprised. Later that the manager made him sign a payment amount of 25 thousand pounds, unable to perform Because of this, his baby son is kidnapped.

Return My Loan

1999

The Yacoubian Building poster
7.3

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

The Yacoubian Building

2006

Me or My Aunt poster
6.1

Henedy plays Taimor, a Young man studies music. He loves his colleague and intends to marry her. Her mother, who believes in magic, refuses their marriage.

Me or My Aunt

2005

Boshkash poster
5.8

An ex-goalkeeper starts working as a talent scout and travels all over the world in search of professional players to join Egyptian football clubs.

Boshkash

2008

Al Zaeem poster
7.7

Zeinhom is an ordinary man who struggles to maintain steady employment. Due to his uncanny resemblance to a powerful dictator, he is cast in a satirical film criticizing the regime. When unexpected events unfold, Zeinhom finds himself entangled in a dangerous political deception, forced to impersonate the very leader he mocked.

Al Zaeem

1993

الكنز poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الكنز

1993

Bakhit and Adeela poster
5.8

Bekhit works in a small workshop. He meets Adila by chance in a train, and they both find a suitcase full of money left by an escaping drug dealer. After they fail in finding the suitcase's owner, they both decide to share the money.

Bakhit and Adeela

1995

Mr. Abu Al-Araby Arrived poster
5.3

The film revolves around a young man named "Abu Arabi" who works in commerce, but does not succeed. However, he wants to marry a girl called "Mahja", but her father refuses because he wants to marry his daughter to a clothing vendor.

Mr. Abu Al-Araby Arrived

2005

The Death Ward poster
5.5

Tawfiq imports spoiled food for children which causes thousands of children to fall ill. Despite the efforts of the journalist Nabila to expose him, he is able to escape abroad, so the officer in charge, Fouad, decides to take the law into his own hands.

The Death Ward

1989

Malaf Samia Sha'rawy poster
NR

Samia Shaarawy, the widow of a martyr, tries in every way to obtain her late husband's pension, but she was married in a customary marriage, and Colonel Ashraf Al-Dessouki, who marries her, knows about her problem. Immediately after the defeat of 1967, the commander for whom Ashraf works decides to carry out a military coup, and gives him money to help in the implementation, but he decides to seize the money.

Malaf Samia Sha'rawy

1988

Three-Quarters Decent poster
4.2

This production is a light hearted comedy. The protagonist is an esteemed cartoonist that works at a news firm. The protagonist undergoes a difficult situation and emerges partly wounded. Following this experience he insists on going back to work but something about him has changed – he lets go of some of his upstanding principles to become “respectable less one quarter”

Three-Quarters Decent

2010

Upper Egyptian in the American University poster
7.3

Khalaf, a bumpkin southern Egyptian wins a scholarship to study at the American University in Cairo where students - many from Cairo's upper class - are known for their Americanized attitudes.

Upper Egyptian in the American University

1998

Alexandria... New York poster
6.7

An enthralling look at the relationship between America and the Arab World from an Arab perspective. It tells the story of Yehia, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker whose life has been shaped by a pair of disrupted love affairs, one with an American woman named Ginger, the other with America itself.

Alexandria... New York

2004

Hell Below Water poster
4.5

After Hassan and Hala split up, each moves on with their life as Hala marries a corrupt elderly businessman and Hassan loses his wife in a diving accident. Hala and Hassan reunite after many years apart in a dangerous situation that reignites their love story.

Hell Below Water

1989

The Forgotten poster
6.8

Yusuf Al-Mansi a worker in the railways. During his night shift and near his workplace, a millionaire named Asaad Yakout is hosting a big party to make a deal with a VIP and wants to have his secretary Ghada as condition to get the deal done. Yusuf Al-Mansi finds Ghada entering the booth and asks for his protection from the men her boss sent to bring her back to the party.

The Forgotten

1993

Please, here, driver! poster
7.0

A social comedy that tells the life of the street in Cairo in 2007 and 2008 through a taxi driver. We see daily dilemmas for the taxi driver through the taxi customers from all segments of the society in comical paradoxical paradoxes that reflect the spirit and rhythm of the Egyptian street in all its manifestations to see the state of a society full of shyness and surprise. .

Please, here, driver!

2008

La Todamerni Maak poster
NR

A successful married bank manager is wrongly accused in a prostitution case and the prosecutor is tough on her, so she is imprisoned and her life collapses. She gets out of prison to take revenge on the prosecutor and destroy everyone around him.

La Todamerni Maak

1986

Return of the Fugitive poster
NR

Sami Al-Gohary works with an international drug-dealing gang that operates in Egypt. When he gets arrested, the gang manages to break him out, and the police tirelessly try to re-catch him.

Return of the Fugitive

1990

Ai Ai poster
2.0

Zeinab's father dreams to have a decent Funeral like the ones of important society figures. will zeinab be able to achieve her father's wish?.

Ai Ai

1992

Curse of Money poster
NR

Al-Qarnafli (Hussein Al-Sherbini) leads a gang that specializes in stealing safes in the shops. He already succeeds in carrying out many operations, until the police puts a plan to catch him.

Curse of Money

1987

The Third Family War poster
NR

Fawzi and Fawzia decide to separate from each other, even though they married for love. A series of events happen with the aim of proving that each of them is better than the other.

The Third Family War

1998

Dr. Manal..Is Dancing? poster
NR

Salama owns a nightclub and is married to the dancer, Samira. He hides the truth about his work from his daughter Manal, who lives in Alexandria. Manal meets Alaa who works for the UN and they agree to marry. When Alaa finds out what Salama does for a living, his father disapproves their marriage.

Dr. Manal..Is Dancing?

1991

Dress up poster
8.0

Sameh and Azouz are two friends. The first becomes a famous actor, while the second, who accompanied him during his years of hardship, turns into a mere stand-in for Sameh. Then, Salma, the famous actress, appears and Sameh pursues her, but she takes care of his friend, the stand-in, and events escalate.

Dress up

2001