Adel Emam

Acting

Adel Emam

Born

1940-05-17 (86)

Place of birth

El Mansoura, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

Adel Imam is an Egyptian actor known for his long-standing career in comedy and drama. Born on May 17, 1940, in Mansoura, he moved at an early age with his family to Sayeda Zeinab in Cairo. He earned a degree in agriculture from the University of Cairo, where he became active in student theatre. He began his professional acting career in the early 1960s, joining a television troupe and performing in stage plays such as Ana wa Howa wa Heya and Al Nassabin. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Imam gained widespread popularity through iconic stage roles in Madrassat Al Mashaghbeen, Shahid Ma Shafsh Haga, and Al Wad Sayed Al Shaghal. Imam has appeared in over 100 films and numerous television seri…

Known for

His Excellency poster
6.2

Legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Bahgat, a former government official who finally retires — only to discover that home is its own battlefield. Caught between his jealous, sharp-tongued wife, the endless dramas of his grown-up children and their spouses, and the bewildering world of his grandchildren, Bahgat finds retirement anything but peaceful. A warm, classic Egyptian family comedy built around one of the country's greatest comic performers.

His Excellency

2014

Professor and Head of Department poster
4.5

A college professor rebelling on political situations, holds a big governmental position after the revolution, but he gets shocking surprises.

Professor and Head of Department

2015

Ferqet Naji Atallah poster
7.3

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Ferqet Naji Atallah

2012

The Oracle poster
7.6

A crook manages to evade capture for a long time as he switches between various identities that make it difficult for the police to catch him. As he is finally caught by the police officer who has spent his life chasing him, both of them are changed forever by a series of events.

The Oracle

2013

The Ghosts of Adly Allam poster
6.5

The series revolves around Adly Allam, an employee in the National Library, he loves reading and culture, and lives with his grumpy wife Hayat, and her brother Araby under one roof. A demon called Sala appears to him , asking him to be in his life in exchange of changing his life for the better.

The Ghosts of Adly Allam

2017

Valentino poster
5.2

Egypt's legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Nour — nicknamed Valentino — a school owner whose life is firmly under the thumb of his iron-willed wife Afaf. Trapped in a marriage of constant conflict, Nour finds himself drawn to another woman, setting off a chain of scams, secrets and comic misunderstandings. A witty dramedy about marriage, deception and the universal truth that everybody lies.

Valentino

2020

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

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

The Embassy in the Building poster
6.5

The 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

Bobbos poster
4.7

A wealthy businessman and a businesswoman face financial ruin during an economic crisis. As they try to recover, a comedic romance develops between them.

Bobbos

2009

Hassan and Marcus poster
6.5

A terrorist Muslim group calls for the execution of Sheikh Hassan for refusing to join their organisation. At the same time, a priest ,Marcos, is also facing death threats. Both men seek help from the government, who puts them under the witness protection program, giving each man the other's identity.

Hassan and Marcus

2008

The Danish Experience poster
5.5

When Kadry El Meniawy becomes the minister of Youth and sports, the attractive woman Anita from Denmark comes to Egypt for cultural exchange between the two countries. As she stays at the minister's villa, his sons try to get close to her while he also falls for her.

The Danish Experience

2003

A Groom from a Security Agency poster
5.8

A businessman who loves his daughter very much, refuses every man who proposes for her in order not to leave him. But can he refuse a man from a security entity?

A Groom from a Security Agency

2004

The Prince of Darkness poster
5.9

The film revolves around Saeed AL-Masri (Adel Imam), one of the pilots of the October War who lost his eye-sight after his plane crashed during the war. Saeed AL-Masri is forced to live in a home for disabled people that is managed by a very bureaucratic managers which they turn it into a prison.

The Prince of Darkness

2002

1990s · 13 titles

Terrorism and Kebab poster
7.6

Ahmed 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

Sweet Oblivion poster
6.5

Officer 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

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

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

Bakhit and Adeela 2 poster
5.2

The second part of Lenin al-Ramly and Nader Galaal’s trilogy “Bekheet and Adeela”. A gang of drugs dealers finances Bekheet and Adeela’s parliament campaign. At the end, Bekheet and Adeela figured out that the gang has its hidden agenda, they enter the elections as independents, become members and finally overcome the gang.

Bakhit and Adeela 2

1997

The Terrorist poster
6.3

Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.

The Terrorist

1994

Playing with Giants poster
6.8

When 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

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

Birds of Darkness poster
6.9

Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple employee away from conflict.

Birds of Darkness

1995

A Message to the Governor poster
4.9

In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist the enemy. After killing some soldiers, he finds himself in a cave with a wise old man who tells him about his destiny. When Harfoush wakes up he realizes that he is now at the gates of Cairo except it is the year 1998...

A Message to the Governor

1998

The Devil's Island poster
5.5

Shawaf delivers his neighbor Fatima an illustrative map of the ship sunken at the Devil Island in Hurghada, hidden by gold boxes, accompanied by Baybars to finance the trip, and agree to Jalal teach them to dive, and recognizes the task of Fatima, and succeeded in the extraction of some gold bars, and here shows the Zoghbi gang and events escalate.

The Devil's Island

1990

Mahrous the Minister's Attaché poster
6.6

Mahrous, a simple man, is acquainted with the minister as they both hail from the same village. When Mahrous gets appointed at the minister's office, he only causes trouble. However, as the two get involved in extra-marital relationships, they form a strange bond and become square in many endeavors.

Mahrous the Minister's Attaché

1999

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

1980s · 23 titles

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

At the Minister's Door poster
6.5

Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after Kamal's father has been unjustly arrested for a crime he did not commit.

At the Minister's Door

1982

Sayed the Servant Boy poster
8.2

The fugitive Sayed seeks refuge with his uncle who works as a cook for a wealthy family. When the family's daughter gets divorced for the third time, the family enlist Sayed's help to marry her as a mohallel so she could reunite with her husband.

Sayed the Servant Boy

1985

Neither Seen, Nor Known poster
5.2

The story revolves around Mursi (Adel Imam), a poor history teacher, married and suffering from an ambitious financial crisis in life, who gets involved with an old colleague at the university (Salwa), who runs her house for prostitution and hides him. Salwa uses the naiveté of Morsi to convince him that he attacked her He is drunk to press him to marry her pregnant.

Neither Seen, Nor Known

1983

Troublemaker poster
7.6

Azza escapes from her family’s home after being incessantly harassed by her stepfather. On her journey, she meets Medhat and agrees to live in his house, where she meets Magda and they become friends. Things get complicated when Magda dies and Azza pretends to be her.

Troublemaker

1980

The Beggar poster
6.4

After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.

The Beggar

1983

The Street Player poster
7.3

Fares, a shoe factory worker, has only one passion in life: football. He lives a humble life in a chaotic neighborhood where he plays street football to increase his income. However, neither his marriage nor his job is stable enough. He goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife and his son.

The Street Player

1983

Love in a Jail Cell poster
6.0

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.

Love in a Jail Cell

1983

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

Tit for Tat poster
6.3

(Maysa) Delegate to one of the advertising agencies, competes with another agency, the Oscar agency, which works (Salah Fouad), and each of them trying to win advertising campaigns illegally, Salah (Fouad) organizes an advertising campaign for a fake commodity called Fankouche, and requests ( Salah Fouad) from Dr. (Ayoub) to invent any material by this name for marketing, Maysa go to the laboratory of Dr. (Ayoub), and meet (Fouad) as Dr. (Ayoub) and fall in love.

Tit for Tat

1984

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

As Not to Fly the Smoke poster
7.9

Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.

As Not to Fly the Smoke

1984

Goodbye My Friend poster
6.9

Two friends Marzouk and Barakat, work with street vendor Batta on her cart in the melon trade. Al-Gayiar who works in the trade of stolen cars admires them, they work with him till they become his competitors. He decides to get rid of them after they've become a treat.

Goodbye My Friend

1986

I Killed Al Hanash poster
4.7

Hassanein and Barhuma suffer from the abuse of (El-Hanash) a bully in the neighborhood. After some time, Hassanein travels to Greece where he meets with his mistress Aziza and marries her after knowing that she has a child as a result of their illicit relationship. On the other hand, El-Hanash gets his agents in Greece to go after Hassanein, which results of Aziza's murder by a bullet directed towards her by mistake instead of Hassanein.

I Killed Al Hanash

1985

The Lawyer poster
6.8

After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.

The Lawyer

1983

Two on the Road poster
6.4

Mamdouh meets with Hanan on a ship heading to Greece, and a romance starts between them, so Mamdouh proposes to Hanan. To his surprise, Hanan returns suddenly to Egypt and asks him not to try to find her again. Mamdouh returns to Egypt to find that she is married to Ezzat Beik, a very powerful man, and a war ensues between Mamdouh and Ezzat.

Two on the Road

1984

Shaaban Below Zero poster
5.9

(Shaaban), a simple employee loves his colleague (Zeinab). The millionaire (Ghatrifi) dies, so his family search for one from his town or any relatives so that they can seize his inheritance. They reach where Shaaban lives, who is from the town of the millionaire. Ghatrifi family make a deal with Shaaban to assume the identity of Ghatrifi relative who lives abroad. Shaaban agrees to the deal for half of the millionaire's wealth.

Shaaban Below Zero

1980

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

Ramadan On The Volcano poster
6.1

Ramadan is a poor young employee who wants to marry his fiancée Alia but can't afford it. He plans to steal and hide the employees' salary bag, then turn himself in and serve his sentence so that he can get married after. Upon his release, he finds out that another gang stole the money bag.

Ramadan On The Volcano

1985

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

Karakon On The Street poster
6.8

Sharif, his wife Su'ad, their daughter Sarah, their son Hany and his mother are all living in the shelters after their house was demolished. Due to the inhumane standard of living in the shelters, they go to live in the courtyard of the family house. Unfortunately they find another person living there. Sharif designs and builds a wooden cabin to live in the street. He is subjected to many harassment.

Karakon On The Street

1986

Antar Holding His Sword poster
4.7

Antar is a poor farmer who flies to Italy after he sings a job contract with one of his relatives. After he arrives in Italy, he discovers that the contract is fake, and he gets manipulated by a director to act in porn films. He returns to Egypt and starts war against Medht, who is trying to take his wife's piece of land.

Antar Holding His Sword

1983

Vote for Dr. Sulaiman Abdulbaset poster
7.0

University law professor Dr. Soliman meets the hooker Ibtisam, and goes to spend the night with her in her home but clashes with her lover Tawfik and kills him in self defense. While Soliman is taking the body to his car , a friend of Tawfik sees him and begins to blackmail him.

Vote for Dr. Sulaiman Abdulbaset

1981

1970s · 13 titles

We Are the Bus People poster
8.0

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

We Are the Bus People

1979

The School of Mischief poster
8.5

In a high school plagued by five unruly students who have failed to graduate for over a decade, the principal hires a new teacher in a last-ditch effort to restore order. Effat, the newly appointed instructor, takes on the challenge with hopes of reforming the troublemakers into model students.

The School of Mischief

1973

Afifi's love affairs poster
NR

Lawyer Hassanein has an informal relationship with the dancer Dalal, and when his wife invites her to his birthday party, he finds no one but his friend, the poet Afifi, to ask him to play the role of Dalal's husband so that things do not get complicated.

Afifi's love affairs

1970

Something of Love poster
8.0

The two friends, Adel and Sharif, reside in one apartment, and Sharif falls in love with Enas and his exchange of feelings is the same, to ask her to marry her cousin Darwish, who suffers from mental problems, so that Darwish requires him to marry Salwa his friend Adel first for a week as a condition to complete the marriage, and events escalate.

Something of Love

1973

I Have the Wallet poster
5.5

After failing in his studies, Atoua turns to pickpocket. He meets his classmate Shukri, who is now the manager of a food company, he promises to find him a job but Atoua feels that he's lying. He steals his wallet and finds documents implicating Shukri and other people in embezzlement cases.

I Have the Wallet

1978

Some Visit the Marriage Registrar Twice poster
7.0

Dr. Mamdouh suffers from his wife's jealousy, although he is faithful,while his brother, Massoud has a wife who is always busy with the children. Ezzat, their cousin, advises them to follow his approach with his wife Saneya: he cheats on her, and at the same time showers her with love and respect.

Some Visit the Marriage Registrar Twice

1978

Everybody Wants Love poster
3.0

When Ahmed goes to visit his friend Abdel Salam in Fayoum, he meets Laila and falls for her. Abdel Salam tells Ahmed to stay away from her as she lives with her cousin Masoud who wants to marry her, despite the fact that he is married.

Everybody Wants Love

1975

A Killer Who killed No one poster
7.8

A representative in an insurance company named (Adel), has a daughter from which her mother deported to the underworld.

A Killer Who killed No one

1979

Sabreen poster
NR

Sabrina's mother is sick, and her aunt visits them to check on the health of her sister. At the Police College, after being attracted to Sabrina and promised to marry, but the aunt is determined to marry her son Idiot Mohammed to ensure service to the whole family.

Sabreen

1975

Take Care of Your Neighbors poster
6.5

A married couple on their honeymoon lives in an eccentric apartment as they discover that they have peculiar neighbors who share their apartment illegally. The double stay at the apartment brings a series of ironic events.

Take Care of Your Neighbors

1979

Marriage on Air poster
6.0

When Amira gets fed up with her uptight father, she runs away and seeks refuge with Gharib who works for her father. Gharib gets a letter from his friend Fekry who lives in the US, asking to find him a bride. Amira asks Gharib to recommend her to his friend.

Marriage on Air

1976

The Tender Gender poster
4.7

3 young men aims older women for financial gains by working as gigolos,during a summer vacation,one of them targets a strict unmarried woman by making her fall in love with him to win her trust,meanwhile,his two friends struggles with their plans too before end of summer.

The Tender Gender

1977

The Witness Who Didn't See Anything poster
7.8

Sarhan Abdel Basir, a children's performer known for playing a rabbit, becomes a witness in a murder case. Struggling to separate his on-stage persona from reality, he finds himself in a series of comedic situations.

The Witness Who Didn't See Anything

1976

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits

His Excellency poster
6.2

Legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Bahgat, a former government official who finally retires — only to discover that home is its own battlefield. Caught between his jealous, sharp-tongued wife, the endless dramas of his grown-up children and their spouses, and the bewildering world of his grandchildren, Bahgat finds retirement anything but peaceful. A warm, classic Egyptian family comedy built around one of the country's greatest comic performers.

His Excellency

2014

Professor and Head of Department poster
4.5

A college professor rebelling on political situations, holds a big governmental position after the revolution, but he gets shocking surprises.

Professor and Head of Department

2015

Ferqet Naji Atallah poster
7.3

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Ferqet Naji Atallah

2012

The Oracle poster
7.6

A crook manages to evade capture for a long time as he switches between various identities that make it difficult for the police to catch him. As he is finally caught by the police officer who has spent his life chasing him, both of them are changed forever by a series of events.

The Oracle

2013

The Ghosts of Adly Allam poster
6.5

The series revolves around Adly Allam, an employee in the National Library, he loves reading and culture, and lives with his grumpy wife Hayat, and her brother Araby under one roof. A demon called Sala appears to him , asking him to be in his life in exchange of changing his life for the better.

The Ghosts of Adly Allam

2017

Valentino poster
5.2

Egypt's legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Nour — nicknamed Valentino — a school owner whose life is firmly under the thumb of his iron-willed wife Afaf. Trapped in a marriage of constant conflict, Nour finds himself drawn to another woman, setting off a chain of scams, secrets and comic misunderstandings. A witty dramedy about marriage, deception and the universal truth that everybody lies.

Valentino

2020

Mamoun & Associates poster
5.3

In a social and cynical context, the series revolves around Maemon, a very stingy man who has a wife and four kids whom he deprives of everything. After they all leave him, they discover that he's a billionaire. They then start a journey of finding his hidden wealth and how to get hold of it.

Mamoun & Associates

2016

Tears on Bold Eyes poster
8.0

A story based on real events from the Egyptian spy files of an Egyptian intelligence operation against the Israeli Mossad, whose hero was in fact (Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Rahman Al-Hawan)

Tears on Bold Eyes

1980

Dreams Of El Tayer Boy poster
8.0

After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.

Dreams Of El Tayer Boy

1978

مأمون وشركاه poster
NR

Very Stingy Man Called Mamoun, He has four sons that he prohibits them form everything and his wife, even separated all about him, and then they find out that he is a billionaire, and the journey begin to find out where the hidden money, and how to take it from him

مأمون وشركاه

2016

Please don't misunderstand me poster
NR

Nadia falls in love with Sami, a university student, and tries to harm his girlfriend, Layla, forcing Layla to quit her job. Sami is also forced to leave his apartment and university, and they flee to Alexandria, where the story unfolds. The plot revolves around misunderstandings and hasty judgments.

Please don't misunderstand me

1973

How to lose a million pounds poster
NR

(Soheir) is a wealthy girl who refuses to marry because she believes that everyone covets her wealth, so she publishes an advertisement in the newspapers about her desire to marry a poor young man.

How to lose a million pounds

1978

تعبان جدا poster
NR

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تعبان جدا

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Hidden Worlds poster
6.2

When a prominent writer finds confidential documents incriminating government officials, he decided to publish them, risking his own life and his family's.

Hidden Worlds

2018