Mahmoud Moursy

Acting

Mahmoud Moursy

Born 1923-06-07 · Alexandria, Egypt

Mahmoud Moursy was an Egyptian film actor.

Acting credits

Dawn of Islam poster
6.0

This is the story of young Hassem, the son of a powerful sheik, set at the beginning of Hegira. When the youngster's uncle is murdered, Hassem decides to go to Mecca with a view to finding the culprit and punishing him. But what he discovers there is not the murderer but the prophet Muhammad. Touched by grace, Hassem converts to the new religion and comes back to his village to propagate the new faith. Which is not to his father's liking, since the Muslim religion is opposed to feudal rights and privileges. The infuriated sheik curses his son and starts persecuting the new converts.

Dawn of Islam

1971

Prince of Cunningness poster
6.3

This lavish period action-adventure is an Egyptian version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Prince of Cunningness

1964

My Wife & the Dog poster
7.4

Chief Morsy is a lightkeeper staying at a faraway lighthouse. He marries So'aad and shortly returns to the lighthouse where he recounts to Nour his adventures with women. When he sends his wife a letter with Nour, Morsy grows suspicious of his wife's fidelity. Suspicions nourished by his jealousy.

My Wife & the Dog

1971

Saad the Orphan poster
6.0

The story of Saad al-Yateem, whose father was killed by his uncle (Badran), and his righteous lady (Karamat) until he grows up, and even the fate wants to love his cousin without knowing her. The film deals with the age of young men in the twenties, and the bully is to be a murderer or a murderer

Saad the Orphan

1985

The Bridge poster
NR

When the mother's preoccupation with her career urges the grandfather to look after his grandson, he gradually notices the generational gap between them as the boy refuses to abide by his grandfather's teachings. They soon try to build a bridge to carry them to mutual understanding and respect.

The Bridge

1997

The Open Door poster
6.4

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.

The Open Door

1963

Bit of Fear poster
6.9

Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.

Bit of Fear

1969

أمواج بلا شاطئ poster
NR

A handsome young man called Nader lives a wealthy life with his widowed mother Nazik. When his father's friend Saleh takes over the management of their company, Nader finds out that his mother is in a relationship with Saleh, which drives him into the arms of the prostitute Mimi to take revenge.

أمواج بلا شاطئ

1976

Sons of Silence poster
NR

As the war of attrition with Israel reaches its peak, and while Magdy is waging his war on the front, his journalist fiancée is waging a brutal war against the utilitarian editor-in-chief, whose true identity she later discovers.

Sons of Silence

1974

Meet poster
NR

Three young fresh graduates who cannot adapt to their society and feel alienated, (Kamal) the young scientist who does not adapt with the few possibilities to do research that benefit his country, (Mustafa) the young man concerned with the issues of the country who collides with the opinions of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in which he works as a journalist, (Nabil) In front of him, manifestations of corruption and embezzlement continue in the hospital in which he works, and he is unable to do anything, so they feel despair, and he decides to emigrate.

Meet

1977

A Song on the Passage poster
7.7

Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies.

A Song on the Passage

1972

The Quail and Autumn poster
7.7

Eissa Al-Dabagh is a member of a washed-out political party that was defanged by the 1952 revolution. When he meets the prostitute Riri, he tries to use her to chase the mirage of the power and control he once had. But when he discovers that she is pregnant, he kicks her out.

The Quail and Autumn

1967

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 Long Nights poster
NR

After his wife's death, Mokhtar decides to stay celibate and take care of his children. But he changes his mind when he falls for Nihad and marries her. Their happy marriage is disturbed when Nihad gets pregnant which brings up painful memories for Mokhtar whose first wife died in childbirth.

The Long Nights

1967

Sun of the Hyenas poster
7.8

In a small, self-sufficient Tunisian fishing village, German developers set up a hotel infrastructure, with the complicity of local councillors. The lives of the villagers are turned upside down.

Sun of the Hyenas

1977

Sun of the Hyenas poster
7.8

In a small, self-sufficient Tunisian fishing village, German developers set up a hotel infrastructure, with the complicity of local councillors. The lives of the villagers are turned upside down.

Sun of the Hyenas

1977

Al-Shahat poster
7.0

The story revolves around Omar Al-Hamzawi, a lawyer who lives with his wife Zainab and their two daughters Jamila and Buthaina. Omar has many thoughts about life and existence. After his illness, he travels to Alexandria to get out of his depression, but it increases after his return. His orientations change after his return and he becomes a nightclub goer. He also gets to know the singer Margaret and many other women after that. His life changes again towards isolation, Sufism, and reading the Quran.

Al-Shahat

1973

A woman in love poster
NR

After the son returns from Alexandria to Cairo to live with his father again, the wife is attracted by her husband’s preoccupation into an affection for her husband’s son, which quickly turns into intense lust.

A woman in love

1974

Had Al-Saif poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Had Al-Saif

1986

The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny poster
8.0

Hosny suffers from terrifying nightmares, so he resorts to a psychiatrist to help him

The Tragedy of Dr. Hosny

1973

Fares Bani Hemdan poster
NR

Abu Firas al-Hamdani is a famous Arab poet from the princes of the Hamdani state, as he is known for his equestrian and courage, he lives between the court of Prince Seif al-Dawla, and people love him everywhere. Who competes with Firas for the love of Naglaa.

Fares Bani Hemdan

1966

أنا الهارب poster
NR

The events of this film revolve around Hamdi (Farid Shawqi), who works as an officer in a prison. Hamdi is married and has a child suffering from paralysis, whose treatment requires a large sum of money.

أنا الهارب

1962

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

The Rebellious poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Rebellious

1963

Behind the camera