
Acting
Ahmed Akl
Born — Died
1938-08-03 — 2008-02-25
Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
86 titles
Ahmad Ebraheem ‘Akl is an Egyptian actor who started his career in theatre, and then he moved to TV and cinema. A talented actor who played diversified roles one can never forget his role in Shereef 'Arafa’s “Al-erhaab wal-kabaab i.e. Terrorism and kebab”.
Known for
NRIt 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
المصراوية
2007
9.0Throughout its episodes, the series narrates the biography of the Arab singing lady (Umm Kulthum) since her inception in Sinbillawain and her journey with her father and siblings in singing religious songs on all occasions, through her artistic career and her move to stability in Cairo, and the stories of love that she went through during her life, and her artistic glory until she mastered The lyric scene in Egypt, and the crises she encountered during her artistic work and social life.
Om Kulthum
1999
NRIn 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
10.0A social drama about a woman and her daughter who travel from their city of Mansoura to Al-Kom Al-Akhdar in Shebin El-Kom. On their journey, they meet the conscript (Saber), and many miserable aspects and the deterioration of social and economic life occur during that period.
The Caboose
1990
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Live Your Days
2004
Film credits
2000s · 22 titles
6.4The film revolves in the context of romantic comedy and action through the character of a police officer under covered as student in a university and befriends key students to uncover a drug distribution network within the university.
The Student Cop
2004
5.4A 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
6.5The film revolves around an engineer working for an oil company in Dubai. He had to return to Egypt after twenty years. He was surprised that the Israeli Embassy was next to his apartment and was trying hard to sell the apartment at first.
The Embassy in the Building
2005
6.7Seeking job opportunities, a young man arrives in Cairo and becomes increasingly involved with the family of a wealthy businessman.
Life's Speed Bump
2006
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
5.4A new guy who falls in love with a girl he meets, loses his memory when she accidently hit him with her car; the doctor advices his father to repeat the same day over and over for his son so that he can get back his memory.
Young Lovers
2005
5.9A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts.
The Seventh Sense
2005
4.0Wafaa (Hanan Turk) is in love with Khalid(mustafa amar), her class-mate at University, but Khalid seems to like her cousin Rania (Mona Zaki) When Wafa finds out about this, she tries to lead Rania towards him
The First Love
2000
7.0Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.
A Cultural Film
2000
5.8A child who loves the cinema struggles with a fanatic dad who finds everything (including cinema) a sin, and a mother who is sexually repressed.
I Love Cinema
2004
6.5Two young people from a popular neighborhood in Alexandria, the first singer Kimo, and the second merged with her husband and the university professor.
Kimo & his Friend
2004
7.6A mix-up leads Ra'fat Rostum to a ministerial seat that he was never meant to have. As he successfully holds onto his office for a long time, he starts having violent nightmares and asks his office manager, Ateya, to accompany him to the North Coast in an attempt to stop the nightmares.
His Excellency the Minister
2002
6.0Farhaan Melaazem Adam leaves Upper Egypt to Cairo hoping to find a better life. But his dreams are shattered when forced to live in a poor neighborhood. He falls in love with Fotna, the daughter of a street food vendor, and he begins to forget his cruel life and undergoes another transformation.
Farhaan Melaazem Adam
2005
5.4Ahmed Al-Morsi Owais is a young man who has a technical diploma. A lover of poetry, he searches for a job until he eventually finds one as a conductor on electricity meters, allowing him to enter numerous houses from different classes.
The Fish Tail
2003
NRSayed, a street vendor, enlists the help of the lawyer Azza to prove his and his siblings' ownership of the house they reside in. As Azza looks the ownership documents over, she discovers that the siblings actually own the plot of land on which the Cairo Airport is built.
We Own the Airport
2001
3.5This movie a modern romantic musical based on William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. a handsome Egyptian singer and actor "Mostafa Amar" who play as Romeo role and the pretty Egyptian ballerina and actress "Nelly Kareem" who play as Juliet role are both of them heirs to two enemies wealthy families who are competitors in the business world. Though they fall in love, their families are against the union, and they must decide if they will be able to stay away from each other to please their families or not to sacrifice with their big love for any reason or anybody and to be with each other forever even in the death .
Your Love's Fire
2004
NRBelly dancer, Nahed Afify, is in the middle of a career crisis, so she distracts herself through multiple affairs. She ends each by collecting a fabric scrap from each lover’s clothes to form a lovers’ quilt. When she meets businessman, Moustafa, in Hurghada, she thinks he is another passing affair, but falling in love with him might mark the end of collecting lovers’ scraps in her life.
Lovers' Scraps
2003
4.5A widower who suffers from the problems of his four children and their expenses decides to use a demon to implement his requests and is able to use the methods of charlatanism and sorcery in preparing that demon, but before he achieves his wishes and requests, he suffers a heart attack, falls into a coma, and must live that demon with his children.
Jala Jala
2001
7.2(Hamdy) and (Samira) married to traditional marriage,and they are not satisfied sexually because of problems rooted with them since childhood. Samira goes to Dr.(Fatma) the Psychiatrist hoping to find a solution for their problem,who succeeds in convincing the husband to take part in therapy.
The Ostrich and the Peacock
2002
3.3A dermatologist discovers that his friend has a sexually-transmitted disease and begins tracing his friend's multiple relationships.
The Red Notebook
2000
5.9Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one of the primary schools.
Love Trip
2001
NRThree young men and three girls, with some emotional ties, including a wealthy or middle-class family and one of them rural. They are all involved in opening a fast food restaurant with a loan from the bank. Without justification, the police arrest them. They are released with the assurances of their parents. One of them refuses to marry her boyfriend until she achieves her dream of a restaurant project. The young man returned after her return from work that killed the doorman. In the end, everyone succeeds in realizing their dreams at the beginning of the journey of marriage to each of his beloved.
Were It a Dream
2001
1990s · 24 titles
7.6Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.
Terrorism and Kebab
1992
6.5Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.
Sweet Oblivion
1996
6.8When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.
Playing with Giants
1991
8.1After being fired by the prosecution office, Mostafa becomes a personal injury lawyer and takes advantage of people's pain for profit. But his life turns upside down when his only son falls victim to a car accident.
Against the Government
1992
NRThe events of the play take place in a lyrical and comic form in a local neighborhood where Ramzi lives. He is writing a play and trying to present it to the people of the neighborhood, but Officer Sherif removes the advertisement for the play.
Alabanda
1998
6.0follows the story of Mahdy, a struggling everyday man facing common hardships — low wages, inflation, bad living conditions, and general frustration with society. When Mahdy hears on television about a method to freeze a human for years and be revived later, he becomes obsessed with escaping his bleak present. Believing that life will get better after the year 2000, he builds a makeshift cryogenic setup and locks himself inside a large refrigerator to wait for a better future.
Love In The Fridge
1992
5.4Amr Diab, a famous singer, saves a poor child from el Bataa.
Al Afaret
1990
6.3Abboud lives a reckless life with his two friends. He knows that he will not enter the army because he's an only child. But when his father marries another woman who gives birth to a boy, Abboud is forced to join the army in spite of being unfit, working at the border with his friends.
Abboud on the Border
1999
6.0The story of Egyptian displaced family from Ismailia after the 1967 war. Hema (Mohamed Fouad) dreams of becoming famous singer and continues the journey of success with the help of his friend (Mohamed Henedi) and his brother(Khaled Nabawy), but his brother is jealous of him and trying to drive a wedge between him and his lover (Hanan Turk). Hema is back to sing in Ismailia after the return of her natural life after the 1973.
Round Trip to Ismailia
1997
7.0The film depicts different group of characters who are held up by a traffic sign. A romantic love story grows between Re'u (Mohamed Fuad), the football fan and Samia (Laila Alawi), the nurse who loves to sing. And Naeamat who's having a baby and wants to go to the hospital with her husband.
Traffic Light
1996
6.0When Ayman El-Sersawy, a flirty businessman, marries his secretary Omnia, his frequent trips to Italy raises questions. After he convinces Omnia that those trips are to meet up with his friend Salem whom she wishes to meet, he is shocked to find an unknown man in his house claiming to be Salem.
The Truth Called Salem
1994
NRAl-Kharabi, the poor employee who supervises the stores of the Scientific Institution for Book Printing, lives in very miserable conditions, and suffers from the ignorance and domineering of his wife (Naima), so he decides to keep a pair of rabbits in the store, in response to the advice of (Tawfiqa), the playful worker. Rabbits multiply terribly in the warehouse and eat books, colonize all corporate offices, and threaten an environmental catastrophe.
The Rabbits invasion
1992
4.0A group of young Egyptians are planning to immigrate to the United States from Bucharest. But, when the man they hired steals their money and leave them on the Hungarian border, they are forced to work together to overcome adversity.
America Abracadabra
1993
10.0Three poor girls live in a neighborhood. One of them is called (Firdaws), who breaks off her engagement due to her father's disagreement with (Mohsen), her fiancé. Meanwhile, (Mahassen) suffers from loneliness and takes care of her sick mother. And (Mary) is their Coptic friend who loves (Ramadan), the Muslim, despite their different religions. The film follows the lives of the three girls and the rest of the neighborhood, their relationship with each other, and what happens inside the neighborhood daily.
Ard Ard
1998
5.5Based on a true story, Souad Qassem, a widow, falls for Mahmoud Elwan who deludes her into believing that he is a well-heeled and powerful man. When they get married, she and her daughter have to swallow their pride under the scourages of his cruelty and abuse.
Woman and Cleaver
1997
NRAfter the 1967 War, three contractors conspire against Rasha, the famous singer, to arrest her on charges of spying for foreign parties after her husband commits suicide. All attempts to prove her innocence fail and she is sent to prison. When she is released in 73, she tries to reopen her case.
The Clever Ones
1993
NRFawzi 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
7.0When the simple fisherman Ahmed thinks about enrolling his son in school, as he realizes that he doesn't have an ID and that his son doesn't have a birth certificate. Matters become complicated in a series of comic events when he decides to register his children in the official records.
The Ferryman
1995
7.0The married couple Hommos and Halawa perform their choreographic show in the street, to the amusement of a record label owner who records a song for them. When a famous singer called Ghandour steals their song, they embark on a journey to take revenge.
Silence!
1991
NRIn the pyramid quil, Radwan returns from America to convince his influential father of a project to remove the residences of the area and build a pharaonic-style city and embark on implementation while his real goal is to explore for oil with American investors whose goal is to demolish the pyramid.
Why O pyramid
1993
1.0(Shukri) Director and his friend (Marei) screenwriter, cooperate and struggle in front of all obstacles to make a film about (reproach) popular dancer during the British occupation, which has a sense of national duty, it helps guerrillas with money and information, and contribute to the assassination attempt on King Farouk.
O, Mehalabeya
1991
NRWhen Sherif returns from abroad, he befriends a group of unemployed junkies, including a girl whose father lives in Kuwait and sends her a lot of money, a young man who went mad because of drugs, and the son of a a major general who is separated from his wife.
The Coma
1998
NRKamel, a storekeeper, discovers a huge shortage of wheat in his custody, then he is implicated in a murder he did not commit, and then he discovers that someone is impersonating him and committing crimes in his name.
El Tareq Li Mostashfa El Maganeen
1992
NRIn villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business manager Qadri and her secretary Laila. Kismat has a spoiled dog that everyone is forced to serve and they all compete to do it.
Mr. K
1994
1980s · 11 titles
5.8Officer Wahid is assigned to work undercover to enter the ring of the largest drug trafficker, he uses the help of the repentant night girl Naima, to impersonate the long-disappeared daughter of the drug leader, who welcomes them into his home before his sister discovers the truth.
The Tiger and The Female
1987
4.5The young journalist, Sahar, meets Hussein in London and they return to Egypt, where he meets her father, Asim, the company manager, from whom his twin brother, Sherif, embezzled a large sum of money. After Sherif gets arrested, Hussein tries to sell everything to help him get out of jail.
Who is the Thief Between Us
1984
5.5A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.
The Third Class
1988
NRIn the fourth story of the epic of Harafish, Samaha Al-Nagy grandson of Ashour al-Nagy decides to marry Mahlabia. But Al-Qalali the bully of the neighborhood wants to marry her. When Samaha and Mahlabia try to escape, the men of Al-Qalali kill Mahlabia and frame Samaha, who flees to Upper Egypt.
The Pursued
1985
NRAbu Zeit al-Hilali works in the sale of beans and falafel, and decides to move to Zamalek, and marries Mervat without the knowledge of her father in his building, but her feelings are still attached to her lover Alaa.
My Friend's Beans
1985
NRQamar dies on her wedding night from a random shot. Her husband Jalal decides to take revenge, and resorts to magic in order to reach immortality. He becomes wicked and sinks into sin and everyone decides to get rid of him.
The Devil's Friends
1988
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Seirk Ya Donia
1982
7.0(Saeed Saleh) in the play (Kaablon) looking for an answer to a question that the princess asked him as a condition if he wanted her to accept marriage with him, the question was: Where is the human mind? (Saeed Saleh) traveled a lot, and he suffered from alienation, and almost died several times before he knew the answer. The answer to the question for which he went out.
Ka3balon
1985
NRDirected by : Samir Al Asfory
The Visit Is Over
1983
3.0Set in old Cairo, Hassouna (Hamdy Gheith) is a mean thug who collects money from people for protection. He prosecutes Ashour El Nagy's (Ezzat El Alaily) family, who transform from wealth to poverty. Hassouna forces Ashour to divorce his wife and leave the neighborhood, and then tries to marry her.
The Berry and the Cane
1986
NR(Afifi) is a bossy and violent manager. The employee (Hosnia) tries to delude everyone that her fiancé's cousin is the new minister because of the similarity of names, so the employees turn against (Afifi), but her fiancé's cousin comes out of prison and there are big surprises.
موعد مع الوزير
1986
1970s · 3 titles
6.7The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.
Shafiqa and Metwally
1978
NRIn the 1940s during the conflict between the rebels and the British occupation, a love story grows between Hassan the singer and Naima, the daughter of the mayor. Her father objects,as she must marry her cousin. In front of her family's stubbornness, Naima is forced to flee with Hassan to marry him.
The Singer
1979
6.0Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.
The Savage
1979
Series credits
NRIt 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
المصراوية
2007
9.0Throughout its episodes, the series narrates the biography of the Arab singing lady (Umm Kulthum) since her inception in Sinbillawain and her journey with her father and siblings in singing religious songs on all occasions, through her artistic career and her move to stability in Cairo, and the stories of love that she went through during her life, and her artistic glory until she mastered The lyric scene in Egypt, and the crises she encountered during her artistic work and social life.
Om Kulthum
1999
NRIn 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
10.0A social drama about a woman and her daughter who travel from their city of Mansoura to Al-Kom Al-Akhdar in Shebin El-Kom. On their journey, they meet the conscript (Saber), and many miserable aspects and the deterioration of social and economic life occur during that period.
The Caboose
1990
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Live Your Days
2004
NRAn Egyptian social comedy series, the events of which take place in separate connected episodes between the families of (Kamal Al-Hamrawi) and (Sayed Al-Akhdar) adjacent to the residence in the same building, and in each episode there is a new comic situation between them that puts the members of the two families in funny situations.
Saken Osady
1995
NRA social comedy series that tells the story of a conman, Nadim Bahns, and his partner Makram. Nadim justifies his scams by claiming that he's an artist, who has a skill that not many people possess.
When the Fox Passed By
1999
7.5In separate episodes, the series deals with the many sides of marital life and the various problems couples face across different classes and social backgrounds, through the story of the couple Mahmoud and Samia.
Tales of a Modern-Day Husband
2003
10.0The 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
7.1Abbas the history teacher traveled to Iraq in search of money and left his wife and children. Upon his return after spending years in prison, he discovers that his family thinks him dead. His wife married his best friend, and he's forced to live under another guy's identity, Lotfy Al-Ganainy.
White Abbas in the Black Day
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
شخلول
2006
8.2The story of Rohaim Al-Menshawy, a self-made man from Upper Egypt who falls for the singer Hasanat. After his siblings oppose their marriage due to the gap in social status, he withholds their share of their late father's inheritance from them.
Elliel w Akhro
2003
NRThe story of the struggle of El Araby who owns a fleet of fishing boats in Alexandria but he faces repeated financial crises, and Fares who dreams of traveling to Europe and rejects the idea of marrying his cousin who loved him since she moved in with his family after her father died.
The Harbor and the Sailor
2005
NRAli Baba and the forty thieves are one of the most famous stories and characters with eastern features, and it is one of the well known fairy tales that inspired writers and artists around the world. The story revolves around a simple Arab lumberjack named Ali Baba who accidentally hears the password that opens the door of the cave in which a gang of thieves hide their treasures. Thanks to the password, open Sesame, Ali Baba managed to obtain the treasures hidden in the cave, and his name became a sign of thievery throughout the world.
One Thousand and One Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات المال
1999
NRZainab Al Shalakani from the Iron Lady Party is a dictator and pays lip service to democracy. She chooses everything for her two sons and controls every detail of their lives. Suddenly her son, who has been absent from her for twenty years, returns and tries to solve his brothers’ problems with their mother.
Your Dreams Are Orders
2007
7.0A biography that revolves around the life of Khalil Hassan Khalil, a Political Science professor, in the period before the Egyptian revolution of 1952. The series explores how he suffered from poverty and social injustice and struggled to improve his social status and accomplish his dream of becoming a college professor.
The Homestead
1990
7.0The story revolves around an Arabic school teacher who is admired by his students. When his son is assaulted by some spoiled teenagers at the club, their parents force him to withdraw his police report and events escalate.
The Accused Is My Father
2006
9.0Hekmat, the principal of a school for girls, tries to put her educational theory into effect across all the schools in Alexandria, but she faces a lot of obstacles, both within and without the school, in addition to her personal problems that she struggles to solve.
Conscience of Teacher Hekmat
1991
NRNo synopsis available yet.
رحلة أبو الوفا
1991
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ser El Arad
1994
NRThe series portrays the life of Hayat Al-Gohary, a virtuous woman who doesn't tolerate bribery. However, when she undergoes great pressure to force her to act against her morals in order to save her husband, things escalate. Will she succumb to temptation?
Hayat El-Gohari
1997
No synopsis available yet.
عباسية واحد
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
فوازير - حلم ولا علم
1999
