Samir Seif

Directing

Samir Seif

Born — Died

1947-10-23 — 2019-12-09

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Directing

Credits

38 titles

Egyptian director born on 23 October 1947 in Cairo. He graduated from the High Cinema Institute in 1969 and was appointed teacher's assistant. He worked as a film critic then as an assistant director to many great names, including Youssef Chahine and Hassan El Emam. His directorial debut was The Circle of Revenge (1976), after which he directed various successful films, including The Suspect (1981), Shams El Zanati (1990) and His Excellency the Minister (2000). He also directed a number of TV series, including Season of Flowers (2000), and Cinderella (2006).

Known for

Highly Dangerous Man poster
4.8

In prison, Sayed Kabaka meets two of his closest friends, Bader and Mustapha. After getting out, Mustapha finds out that his wife died without receiving the proper care promised by his partners, and that his daughter is placed in an orphanage. He teams up with Kabaka and Bader to take revenge on his partners for what they did.

Highly Dangerous Man

1991

The Fair poster
4.6

The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .

The Fair

1989

The Tiger and The Female poster
5.8

Officer 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

Talking About Love poster
6.2

(Nahid) is a waitress from an average family,after she gets divorced,she tries to overcome her loneliness by looking for a new love. Her colleague (Salma) is attracted to (Hassona) the assistant director,who had the opportunity to direct a music video,so he turns to (Salma) to be in the clip.

Talking About Love

2004

His Excellency the Minister poster
7.6

A 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

Stranger In My House poster
6.2

Shehata Abu Kaff, goes to Cairo to play for Zamalek club. The club buys him an apartment, but the owner sells the apartment to him and to another lady.

Stranger In My House

1982

Film credits

Behind the camera

Highly Dangerous Man poster
4.8

In prison, Sayed Kabaka meets two of his closest friends, Bader and Mustapha. After getting out, Mustapha finds out that his wife died without receiving the proper care promised by his partners, and that his daughter is placed in an orphanage. He teams up with Kabaka and Bader to take revenge on his partners for what they did.

Highly Dangerous Man

1991

The Fair poster
4.6

The child (Barakat) from his mother gets lost in the crowd of the birth, to be kidnapped by the seller (Ali al-Araj) and taken to his home and called (Ibrahim), to grow up in an environment of all criminality, and involved working with a smuggling gang, and travel with them to Greece to carry out an operation, to change his life .

The Fair

1989

The Tiger and The Female poster
5.8

Officer 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

His Excellency the Minister poster
7.6

A 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

Stranger In My House poster
6.2

Shehata Abu Kaff, goes to Cairo to play for Zamalek club. The club buys him an apartment, but the owner sells the apartment to him and to another lady.

Stranger In My House

1982

The Egyptian Martyr St. Menas poster
8.0

The life of St. Menas

The Egyptian Martyr St. Menas

1989

The Ghoul poster
6.6

Adel is a journalist for a major newspaper, divorced and single, he was married before and has a daughter. One night, in the bar he always visits, he meets Nash'at al Kashef, the son of a the famous businessman Fahmy Al Kashef. Nash'at kills the bartender and he injures the belly dancer Nadia when she refuses to go back to his house with him. Adel calls the police, but Fahmy uses his power to get the accusation off his son. Adel succeeds in reaching Nadia, the only witness, and makes her confess what she saw to the police, who catch Nash'at and send him to court. Adel falls in love with Mosheera, daughter of Fahmy Al Kashef. The court finds Nash'at not guilty, so Adel decides to set justice to the case by his own hands.

The Ghoul

1983

Cat on Fire poster
7.0

Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father’s money and lives in isolation with his wife, Gigi. She has many ambitions to transfer ownership of the factory to Amin, but he considers her... The reason his gay friend committed suicide.

Cat on Fire

1977

The Last Respectful Man poster
6.6

Teacher Fergany is assigned to supervise a school trip to the zoo in Cairo, during the trip a child disappears. He tries to search for her everywhere, to prevent renewed conflict between families in Upper Egypt.

The Last Respectful Man

1984

The Dancer & the Politician poster
5.9

A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf.

The Dancer & the Politician

1990

Shams El Zanaty poster
5.8

During World War II, a tribal chief travels to Cairo to buy weapons. He asks for Shams Al Zanati's help to protect his oasis from Marshal Bar'i.

Shams El Zanaty

1991

The Nobody poster
6.6

The porter (Arafa) suffers from sexual deprivation. He marries the infamous widow (Warda) but his work efficiency is reduced due to frequent sleep with his wife. Morsi arrives in the town and meets Arafa and his friend, the railway worker, Dasouki, to ask them about the bully Asran. They know that Morsi was commissioned by the wealthy Kilani to hire Asran To kill the contractor Fuad Minawi. Arafa claims that he is Asran and receives 2,000 pounds as a down payment to complete the process. Morsi discovers the trick and a battle between Arafa and Asran breaks out. Asran gets killed, but the medical report confirms that Asran died of a heart attack. Kilani asks Arafa to complete the crime, but Arafa refuses, and one of Kelani's agents kills Dasouki and fails to kill Arafa. Arafa decides to take revenge for killing Desouki.

The Nobody

1984

Satan in the City poster
NR

Mansour Nassab deceives the new arrivals to Cairo, falls on his way to the shy young man Sharif, and claims to him that he is rich and is managing a place for him to stay in, so he resorts to a hotel owned by Tahiya, who lives in it with her daughter Sawsan, and in the hotel Sharif gets to know the uncle of the old man who He sees that this young man is in need of care and a guide for him, and Mansour agrees with Sharif to kill Sawsan's father and Tahiyya's husband in search of great wealth, provided that they share the wealth between them

Satan in the City

1978

The Age of Wolves poster
NR

Hanan works as a secretary for Shawkat, a businessman who trades in weapons. Despite being watched by the police and constant attacks from the journalist Samia, Shawkat steals Hanan from her fiancé, Ahmed, who works in an Arab country. Hanan's attempts to escape and follow her fiancée fail.

The Age of Wolves

1986

The Flame of Vengeance poster
4.0

A police officer exposed to the trick of drug dealers which forced him to leave his job but he mett someone tell him he is a business man and his daughter has died a result for use the drug and then the business man asks the officer to revenge from the drug dealers .

The Flame of Vengeance

1993

The Flame of Vengeance poster
4.0

A police officer exposed to the trick of drug dealers which forced him to leave his job but he mett someone tell him he is a business man and his daughter has died a result for use the drug and then the business man asks the officer to revenge from the drug dealers .

The Flame of Vengeance

1993

The Pleasure Market poster
6.8

He was jailed for 20 unfair years - a gang set up as a scapegoat for one of his operations. When he got out of prison, the gang decided to compensate him for the time he spent 6 million pounds in prison and despite the huge money he owned he could not adapt to his new situation. His imprint was imprinted with indelible imprint He decided to take revenge on those who caused his anomaly

The Pleasure Market

2000

The Suspect poster
6.4

The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.

The Suspect

1981

The Fish Tail poster
5.4

Ahmed 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

Streets of Fire poster
5.5

In the 1940s, the policeman Imam moves to Cairo to work in an area devoted to prostitution. There he falls in love with the prostitute Nusse who works with the bully Jalal without knowing that she is practicing this profession. He is defended by an imam who beats an English soldier who tries to intercept her and assault her. He is tried and dismissed from service, then returns to live in the neighborhood and look for work, and becomes a pimp, a quarrel between him and Jalal al-Fatwa. Each trying to prove his strength and impose his power.

Streets of Fire

1984

727 poster
NR

727 Starring: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz Hala Sedky Majed El Kadwany Abdullah Farghaly Haggag Abdel Azim El Ghabas Mohamed El Sharqawy Naeem Issa

727

1994

Watch Out for Al Khett poster
6.4

Khasosi is a simple man working at his cousin's company, who doesn't feel his love. When he discovers embezzlement by the assistant manager, the contractor Mossaad, he spreads news that he killed himself and returns as a terrifying character called Al-khut to reveal Mossaad's schemes.

Watch Out for Al Khett

1984

Time and Dogs poster
1.0

The story revolves around Sultan interest in the village girl Hanim who came to work in Cairo, as a maid in Dr. Fayez 's villa , after Dr. Fayez discovered the relationship between them, Sultan kills him and steal his money, then invests the stolen money in a company and marry rich.

Time and Dogs

1996

The devil who loved me poster
3.0

The police follow the activity of a robbery and pickpocketing gang led by the professor, and his daughter shares with him emotions at work, and Lieutenant-Colonel Salah, who is in charge of arresting this gang, who suffers from the power of his wealthy wife, who gets rid of her through divorce, is freed from her chains, but falls in love with the emotions of the pickpocket and marries her in the hope of revealing the hellish methods For the gang in thefts.

The devil who loved me

1990

The Pursued poster
NR

In 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

The Pursued poster
NR

In 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

حب في التخشيبة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

حب في التخشيبة

1994

The Mushroom poster
4.0

Mustafa worked in the guard team of President Sadat at the time of his assassination, he becomes depressed and an alcoholic. His wife leaves him with their daughter and marries a businessman engaged in suspicious operations leading to the abduction of the daughter. So she turns to Mustafa to save her.

The Mushroom

1997

The Mushroom poster
4.0

Mustafa worked in the guard team of President Sadat at the time of his assassination, he becomes depressed and an alcoholic. His wife leaves him with their daughter and marries a businessman engaged in suspicious operations leading to the abduction of the daughter. So she turns to Mustafa to save her.

The Mushroom

1997

The Savage poster
6.0

Baheya, 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

The Circle of Revenge poster
NR

After four thieves pull off a big heist, they drug one of their own, Gaber, and leave him to take the fall. When Gaber is released after serving his sentence, he discovers that his sister has become a prostitute as his former conspirators became rich, so he vows revenge.

The Circle of Revenge

1976

The Circle of Revenge poster
NR

After four thieves pull off a big heist, they drug one of their own, Gaber, and leave him to take the fall. When Gaber is released after serving his sentence, he discovers that his sister has become a prostitute as his former conspirators became rich, so he vows revenge.

The Circle of Revenge

1976

Augustine - Son of Her Tears poster
5.0

Hady is chosen to work on a documentary about Saint Augustine. As he starts researching his life and philosophies that changed the Western world and culture, he finds incredible similarities with his own life.

Augustine - Son of Her Tears

2019

No artwork available
NR

A remake of Charles Jarrott’s The Other Side of Midnight.

The Allowed and the Forbidden

1984

No artwork available
NR

Directed by Samir Seif.

Burning Streets

1983