Kamal El Sheikh

Directing

Kamal El Sheikh

Born — Died

1919-02-05 — 2004-02-01

Place of birth

Monufia, Egypt

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

Egyptian director, editor and producer, born on February 5, 1919 in the village of (Amrous), Menoufia Governorate. He got his baccalaureate (high school) certificate in 1937, and he joined the College of Law (Law), but he was a general who left it and started in this period his passion for cinema and decided to become an actor so he sent his photo to the famous director (Muhammad Karim) who did not find his face fit to be an actor, so the Sheikh took advantage of his relationship At the time, the Minister of War (Haider Pasha) to mediate with him in order to enter the cinematic milieu, and he introduced him to the poet (Khalil Mutran), who in turn knew him on the director (Ahmed Salem), who…

Known for

Life or Death poster
6.8

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

Life or Death

1954

Miramar poster
7.5

Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.

Miramar

1969

The Thief and the Dogs poster
6.7

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.

The Thief and the Dogs

1962

Rise to the Abyss poster
5.6

Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist. By the time she discovers the truth, she's already in too deep. As Abla recruits her fiancé, an engineer in the Egyptian army, the General Intelligence Directorate assigns Khaled to arrest her.

Rise to the Abyss

1978

The Last Night poster
7.5

During 1942, Nadia Burhan lives with her mother in Alexandria, Fawzia lives with her husband Shaker, whom she married against her family's will. Nadia meets Salah and agree to get married. Fawzia dies from a German bombardment of the city, and Nadia has amnesia and Fawzia's husband tries to delude Nadia that she's Fawzia.

The Last Night

1963

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

Behind the camera

Life or Death poster
6.8

A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.

Life or Death

1954

Miramar poster
7.5

Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.

Miramar

1969

The Thief and the Dogs poster
6.7

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.

The Thief and the Dogs

1962

The Thief and the Dogs poster
6.7

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.

The Thief and the Dogs

1962

Rise to the Abyss poster
5.6

Abla travels to France and gets recruited by the Mossad under the pretext of working as a journalist. By the time she discovers the truth, she's already in too deep. As Abla recruits her fiancé, an engineer in the Egyptian army, the General Intelligence Directorate assigns Khaled to arrest her.

Rise to the Abyss

1978

The Last Night poster
7.5

During 1942, Nadia Burhan lives with her mother in Alexandria, Fawzia lives with her husband Shaker, whom she married against her family's will. Nadia meets Salah and agree to get married. Fawzia dies from a German bombardment of the city, and Nadia has amnesia and Fawzia's husband tries to delude Nadia that she's Fawzia.

The Last Night

1963

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

House No. 13 poster
7.7

Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.

House No. 13

1952

The Well of Deprivation poster
6.3

When it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psychiatrist who tries his best to find the root of her problems and cure her once and for all

The Well of Deprivation

1969

My Only Love poster
10.0

Adel and Mona are in love, and just as they were about to get engaged, Adel has an accident. When he recovers, he finds that the only woman he loved is now married to another man.

My Only Love

1960

For the Sake of a Woman poster
7.5

Insurance representative of the client rich go to the work of an insurance policy, a wealthy married to a beautiful young tempted even located in the nets and cemented their relationship, offer him salvation from her husband, then grab the value of the insurance policy, the husband dies, you go for the company to capture the amount of insurance, but the company have doubts about the death of husband and it suggests that he died unnatural way especially that the wife was a nurse before her marriage, knows insurance this information delegate who was behind the seizure of the wealth of the husband goes to meet her, surprises her in the arms of her lover kill her but they call it lead endure and on his deathbed in hospital admits the full truth then death throes the latter.

For the Sake of a Woman

1959

Sayedat el kasr poster
6.8

A chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan, a working-class girl and Adel, heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This leads to a whirlwind marriage. This development spells trouble for Adel's fair-weather bourgeois clique, who are used to manipulating him with their own financial interests at heart.

Sayedat el kasr

1958

The Peacock poster
6.4

Hamdy lives with his wife Nadia and her young sister Samiha. He loves his wife’s sister and decide to get rid of his wife by killing her.

The Peacock

1982

Land of Peace poster
10.0

The film takes place in Palestine and portrays the lives of freedom fighters trying to free their village from the control of the Israelis. Ahmed (Omar Sharif) is an Egyptian freedom fighter who ends up in this village. There, he meets Salma, a girl from the village. Together they try to save the Palestinians and always escape danger.

Land of Peace

1957

Sunset and Sunrise poster
7.2

In the wake of the Cairo Fire, Essam feels guilty for betraying his friend Samir by messing around with his wife Madiha. Essam decides to take revenge on Madiha's father who pressured him to marry her to avoid a scandal.

Sunset and Sunrise

1970

Love and Tears poster
5.8

A dramatic love story about the daughter of a retired drunk fisherman and a marine officer.

Love and Tears

1955

Whom Should We Shoot? poster
6.5

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.

Whom Should We Shoot?

1975

Something in My Chest poster
7.0

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.

Something in My Chest

1971

The Fugitive poster
NR

As the security services raid the house of a guy with known political hostilities, they arrest his brother when they can't find him, but he escapes them and goes to the house of the journalist Rauof who gives him up to cover up his affair with a prostitute.

The Fugitive

1974

The Little Devil poster
8.0

The Devil's Little Movie was produced in 1964 and directed by Kamal Al-Sheikh

The Little Devil

1965

The Little Devil poster
8.0

The Devil's Little Movie was produced in 1964 and directed by Kamal Al-Sheikh

The Little Devil

1965

Angel and Devil poster
7.0

"Shawkat" and "Samira" a couple has a daughter at the age of 5 years, living together in a happy.One day thieves seeking to steal their money and jewelry inside the Treasury, and while trying to open the Treasury the child "Sawsan" saw them,so the thieves took her as a hostage,the boss El-Shahat (Zaki Rostom) decides to demand a ransom from her parents about 110 thousand pounds."Sawsan" lives with two of the gang who are Ezzat (Rushdi Abaza) and Ghairia (Nagwa Fouad), who live in the city of Alexandria, and in spite of their being part of the gang but they Sympathize with the girl.

Angel and Devil

1960

For My Love poster
9.0

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For My Love

1959

A Plot poster
7.0

Amina works as a secretary for Murad, who loves her and decides to marry her. But his cousin, Salma, who's after his wealth, succeeds in telling Amina that Murad's father does not approve of the marriage, which causes Amina to be in a bad psychological condition and loses her eyesight.

A Plot

1953

Qalb Yahtarek poster
NR

Upon Aida's return from Alexandria, she meets Zozo who tells her that she is fleeing Lotfy who wants money from her. As Zozo gets her husband Farid to steal a sum of money from his company, she puts the money in Aida's bag. Farid kills Zozo and starts looking for Aida to get the money back.

Qalb Yahtarek

1959

Qalb Yahtarek poster
NR

Upon Aida's return from Alexandria, she meets Zozo who tells her that she is fleeing Lotfy who wants money from her. As Zozo gets her husband Farid to steal a sum of money from his company, she puts the money in Aida's bag. Farid kills Zozo and starts looking for Aida to get the money back.

Qalb Yahtarek

1959

The Stranger poster
9.0

Hajj Kamel picks up a little boy from the street, whose family and relatives refused to shelter him after the death of his father and mother, and he takes him into his home, so he lives like his son next to his young daughter and son. The real son, Mahrez, grew up with an unknown enmity towards the poor boy, Ghareeb, while the little daughter, Yasmine, loved this boy. When the father dies, the poor boy takes over his work. He continues to take care of Yasmine until the rich young man, Anwar, enters her life.

The Stranger

1956

Land of Dreams poster
7.5

The engineer Ahmed works in the land of Abdel Sattar Bey. He falls in love with his daughter Amina

Land of Dreams

1956

Time Conqueror poster
8.0

Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry is able to get into Dr. Halim's remote house in Helwan , to discover that he is conducting experiments to freeze humans to preserve them.

Time Conqueror

1987

Time Conqueror poster
8.0

Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry is able to get into Dr. Halim's remote house in Helwan , to discover that he is conducting experiments to freeze humans to preserve them.

Time Conqueror

1987

Unfaithful poster
8.0

Ilham's marriage to a highly successful - and often busy - lawyer is put to the test, and suspicions of infidelity arise.

Unfaithful

1965

The Man Who Lost His Shadow poster
6.7

The story of friendship on the eve of the free officers' revolution: Youssef, an unprincipled journalist, whose star rises thanks to his connections, and Shawki, an idealist man committed to social justice

The Man Who Lost His Shadow

1968

The Devil Makes Three poster
NR

Afaf falls in love with Hesham, a theatre actor, despite the objections of her father. When her father tries to force her to marry someone else, Afaf runs away on her wedding day and goes to Hesham, who is going through a psychiatric crisis.

The Devil Makes Three

1978

Love and the Death Penalty poster
7.0

Amira is helping her family during its financial stringency but it starts getting troublesome for her so she goes to her father who has married another woman asking for help and money, they have a fight and after she comes back he's dead and now she's accused of the murder.

Love and the Death Penalty

1956

Traders of Death poster
6.0

Life struggle pushes Mourad to join a gang that its headmaster is an inhuman doctor named Abbas.

Traders of Death

1957

I Won't Confess poster
9.0

Four months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.

I Won't Confess

1961

The Little Angel poster
NR

Duha is a thin girl who lives with her grandfather, but she suffers from the complex of leaving the house after the death of her parents in a car accident, she panics whenever she leaves the House, grandfather is forced to sell the house to businessman Murad and hides the news from duha, and when Murad comes to take over the house, he realizes duha's complex and sympathizes with.

The Little Angel

1957

The Vandals poster
NR

When a newly-constructed school building collapses, engineer Adel is sent to examine it; he learns that the contractor tampered with the materials and his friend, engineer Hamdy, is involved. Will he divulge the findings to sue the perpetrators? or keep them to save his friend?

The Vandals

1967