Samy El Adl

Acting

Samy El Adl

Born 1946-11-02 · El Mansoura, Egypt

Acting credits

Strawberry War poster
NR

Fardous, nicknamed Farawla, sells flowers on the street, she falls in love with a poor man who sells apples. One day a rich man sees them and decides to give them money in exchange for giving him happiness.

Strawberry War

1994

Swimming Boltia poster
3.0

Master Boltia is facing investors trying to control a private beach in the Max area in Alexandria, where she lives with her daughter, leading to a fierce confrontation between her and the investors.

Swimming Boltia

2008

Friends or Business poster
6.0

Karim Nour and Tarek Al-Seyoufy are two successful TV hosts whose shows attract many viewers, which gradually turns them into rivals. When the channel director dispatches Karim to Palestine at the time of the Palestinian Intifada, he reluctantly goes, as he embarks on an eye-opening journey.

Friends or Business

2001

Li Li poster
7.3

Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.

Li Li

2001

Salam Murabbae Llstat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Salam Murabbae Llstat

2003

Best Times poster
7.5

Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.

Best Times

2004

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie poster
7.5

The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions.

Fawazia The Bourgeoisie

1985

Land of Fear poster
7.1

A police officer is chosen in the late 1960s for a unique and lifelong mission: to infiltrate Egypt’s criminal underworld. Stripped of his name and reputation, he adopts a new identity, living among smugglers, dealers, and nightclub owners. Over the years, he rises within this hidden world, all the while trying to balance his secret duty with the temptations of wealth, power, and desire. Against the backdrop of Egypt’s shifting political eras, his life becomes a meditation on morality, loyalty, and the fragile boundaries of identity and biblical-level metaphors.

Land of Fear

2000

Sleepless Nights poster
6.5

A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.

Sleepless Nights

2003

Okal poster
5.3

(Okal) is devastated when his ex fiancee is married to a rich man. After getting drunk,he finds himself in a coffin heading to Turkey. The mayor of Egyptians take him in and he falls in love with his daughter.

Okal

2004

You Know Who poster
6.5

Ellambi how stole from his uncle and go to prison and then he escaped from prison and during the hunting he makes an accident

You Know Who

2003

A Cultural Film poster
7.1

Three 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

Farhaan Melaazem Adam poster
6.0

Farhaan 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

By My Heart and Its Joy poster
NR

As Hanan files a lawsuit against her impotent husband for refusing to divorce her, she drops the case after he dies in an accident, after which she works in a care home for people with special needs.

By My Heart and Its Joy

2000

The Woman and the Law poster
10.0

The young woman, the young lawyer, is sacrificed to the mother, who works as a nurse in a hospital with her health and youth in order to devote herself to raising her only daughter. She hopes to become a doctor. The teacher is the owner of the house where the mother lives and her daughter looks forward to marrying the daughter.

The Woman and the Law

1988

Auntie Faransa poster
5.1

Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.

Auntie Faransa

2004

America Abracadabra poster
4.0

A 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

The Dealer poster
6.3

Hatred generated from an early age between on and Yusuf, ended the first rings migration on to Ukraine and Prison Joseph on his hands in Egypt, and in Ukraine set to allow wife to and Habiba Joseph preceding her newborn son, and works with drug dealers and run away with money to an unknown location, and Joseph travels to Turkey to work in the drug trade, even above the star and Ahlgreman meet again, to finish the story, one of them killed.

The Dealer

2010

The Storm poster
6.7

Ever wonder what it was like to be in the middle east during the Gulf War of the early 90s? Sure, many films and TV shows have portrayed what it was like for the UN forces. This film takes you into the melee from the perspective of Egyptians -- who were sharply divided about the war -- and their daily lives, which, as one sees, form the basis of their foundation for understanding/approaching the war. And it really is these "every day" realities that make up the bulk of the film.

The Storm

2001

Hamada Getting Rich poster
5.2

Hamada is so desperate to get rich that he participates in all TV competitions hoping to win one day. Fate smiles on him and he indeed wins a sum of 1 million dollars. But life is not a wish-granting factory, is it?

Hamada Getting Rich

2005

The Serial Killer poster
6.4

A young boy who comes from a broken home, grows up to be a ruthless criminal, then destiny leads him to fall in love with a beautiful girl, and he tries to get money to start a new life with her by doing one last crime.

The Serial Killer

2009

Youth on Air poster
5.0

Three friends decide to create a TV station without a license to detect defects of society. Inadvertently snapping pictures assassination of a public figure. They change the place of broadcasting so as not to fall into the hands of the gang or security forces or their families.

Youth on Air

2002

Boy and Girl poster
5.5

Sameh is an incorrigible boy who is always keen on getting what he wants. He falls in love with Shahd, the daughter of a major novelist who places a strong emphasis on the physical body and holds a very personal theory on love that he is quick to repeat in press interviews in front of his daughter.

Boy and Girl

2010

A Generous Gesture poster
5.8

Salmawi and Mima dream of joining the Acting Institute, but they are faced with impossible admission exams. They try to enter the world of acting through any other door, but with every attempt, they are accompanied by bad luck, which leads them several times to the police station. Despite the troubles, they insist on completing the journey and achieving their dream at any cost.

A Generous Gesture

2001

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