Mohamed El Akkad

Acting

Mohamed El Akkad

Acting credits

The Borders poster
6.8

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the neutral area between the two countries, facing a lot of funny situations while there. The movie satirizes the ideology of Arab unity and cooperation at the state level.

The Borders

1984

Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha poster
NR

Two friends are trying to find a suitable place to stay. They find a suitable residence for a woman to live alone. The owner of the house rents a room in the apartment to the two friends without the woman knowing during her absence, which generates funny ironies among everyone.

Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha

1971

The Five Swindlers poster
NR

A girl and her boyfriend are swindlers who have successfully carried out previous frauds. When they find out that their neighbor has an amount of money that he is safekeeping for a friend, they devise a plan to swindle him.

The Five Swindlers

1974

One + one poster
NR

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One + one

1971

The Usurer poster
NR

A feudal lord and his business manager lead a careless life, squandering huge sums on their debauched lifestyle during their trips to France. As the scope of exploitation expands in front of the business manager, he oppresses the peasants and practices usury, so Zanouba decides to enter a special game with the usurer so that she can bring him down.

The Usurer

2000

The Sun on a Cloudy Day poster
NR

Adel is from an aristocratic family that lives in Syria during the French occupation, his culture forced him to rebel against his family, and descend to the bottom of society wishing to change his life, he got to know this society and loved him, but he became torn between his culture, and his aristocratic origins.

The Sun on a Cloudy Day

1985

My Lover Is So Crazy poster
NR

A failed Syrian inventor named Ziad Jamal is suffering from poverty and lack of faith from others, and his failure to marry the girl he loves. He reads in a newspaper about an armed robbery by a gang, and decides to help the Police in catching them.

My Lover Is So Crazy

1975

Girls of Modern Times poster
7.8

A wealthy young man lives a frivolous lifestyle, always in and out of relationships. But after a traumatic event, he starts to rethink his life. He takes the identity of a poor worker to see what life is like in someone else’s shoes and falls in love with a girl who doesn't know who he is.

Girls of Modern Times

1973

The World in 2000 poster
NR

Unable to afford the dowry of his wealthy sweetheart, a young man is devastated when his beloved's father forces her to marry another, leaving him to convince his scientist brother to use his knowledge to shrink him. As he becomes pint-sized, he turns the life of his beloved's husband into hell.

The World in 2000

1972

Womens' Tailor poster
NR

Saber Effendi works as a tailor for men, but his major problem is that he suffers from a great depression because of his lack of fashion and refuses to develop his ideas about fashion until his wife, Huda, who works in a Syrian magazine interested in fashion, suggests that he change his activity to become a tailor for women rather than men. Implementation plan.

Womens' Tailor

1969

When Wives Are Absent poster
NR

Ghawar has two jobs: he is a beach guard during the day and a sculptor at night. Ghawar lives with his friend Hosni and the two suffer that their wives travel constantly. A gang plans to steal a statue from the museum where Ghawar works and they send two pretty women to seduce him and Hosni.

When Wives Are Absent

1975

Night of Men poster
NR

A beautiful girl falls in love with a simple employee and surrenders herself to him, only to discover that he doesn't love her as he forsakes her. When her brother finds out what happened, he decides to take revenge on him and chases him everywhere.

Night of Men

1976