Bassem Samra

Acting

Bassem Samra

Born

1971-05-24 (55)

Place of birth

Dakahlia, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

87 titles

Egyptian Actor, has started his Acting career in 1990 with late director Mr. Youssef Chahine. After that, he starred in the feature film, Al Madina, where he depicted an unforgettable character.

Known for

El-Atawla poster
7.0

Set against the streets of Alexandria, The Porters follows Nassar, a seasoned thief who falls in love and resolves to leave his criminal past behind. But walking away proves far more dangerous than staying — as former allies, rivals, and family close in on him from all sides. Starring Ahmed El Sakka and Tarek Lotfy, it's a gritty, fast-paced crime drama built on betrayal, brotherhood, and the cost of trying to change.

El-Atawla

2024

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

A Girl Named Zat poster
8.1

Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.

A Girl Named Zat

2013

صديق العمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صديق العمر

2014

Brothers But Enemies poster
NR

The series depicts the corruption rooted in Egyptian society prior to the revolution, through the portrayal of a shrewd businessman and his connection to important statesmen.

Brothers But Enemies

2012

Misyou Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda poster
5.0

The series revolves around the teacher of the first Arabic language, Professor Ramadan (Mohamed Heneidy), who lives in a rural village called Mitt Bariz, who is very loved by the people of the village and tries to exploit their love to illuminate their insight into what the mayor and the People's Assembly member asked about this village of corruption. In the midst of events, he goes to France and some comic paradoxes occur.

Misyou Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda

2011

Film credits

2020s · 18 titles

Shish Doo poster
3.0

Over the course of one night, two friends, Adel and Nabil, find an unconscious wealthy young man and decide to kidnap him for ransom to escape poverty and despair. As events escalate, the kidnappers’ interests become entangled with the young man’s family and a powerful man who exploits his disappearance, revealing class conflicts, power struggles, and moral collapse.

Shish Doo

2026

Renegades of Europe poster
5.5

A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future.

Renegades of Europe

2022

Siko Siko poster
7.5

Two cousins, both from a middle-class background, finally see their dream come true when their inheritance is rightfully returned to them following their uncle’s death. Soon after, and to their shock, they discover that the inheritance is in the form of illegal goods. To liquidate these goods, they create an elaborate mobile game to sell them through it. They call this game… “Siko Siko”. The cousins enjoy a brief moment of spectacular success before a mob boss appears in their lives, claiming to be the real owner of the goods!

Siko Siko

2025

Bogeyman poster
5.8

The events of the film revolve in one day around Sultan, a veteran criminal who was released from prison. But, he is surprised by the appearance of his two sons which he knew nothing while beings forced to escape with them amid a gang pursuing him.

Bogeyman

2023

El Dashash poster
4.9

After suffering a health crisis, a dodgy nightclub owner tries to turn over a new leaf — but with all the people he's crossed, it won't be easy.

El Dashash

2025

Bershama poster
6.1

A young man invents a new cheating method to escape the hell of high school, which leads him into a funny cat and mouse game with a cunning teacher.

Bershama

2026

Restart poster
4.9

Mohamed, a simple phone technician, dreams of marrying Afef, a young social media influencer. But when money stands in their way, they team up with their comedian family to pursue online fame.

Restart

2025

The Jeweler poster
3.7

After being caught one too many times, Amr El Barouqy, a famous jeweler with a weakness for women, is forced to put aside his traditional male pride. When his strong-willed wife Yasmine insists on building a healthier and more balanced life together, the couple turn to relationship counselor Dr Kareem and embark on an unconventional therapy program to save their marriage. However, instead of bringing them closer, each step unleashes a new wave of chaos, turning their attempt to fix their relationship into a series of escalating disasters.

The Jeweler

2026

Their Uncle poster
5.6

The story follows Sultan, a boxer and trainer who works with his friend Saeed in a sports center. They find themselves in trouble when they stumble upon a printing press for counterfeit money.

Their Uncle

2022

Playing with the Kids poster
5.0

Seeking a change, history teacher Allam transfers to a school in the desert, but his new life comes with more obstacles than he bargained for.

Playing with the Kids

2024

Box of Wonders poster
6.0

The film follows the touching stories of various people in Downtown Cairo as they try to find balance in their lives and deal with its ups and downs.

Box of Wonders

2020

Divorce Me poster
1.2

A strained relationship between a married couple ends in divorce, but the husband faces a severe financial crisis that compels him to seek help from his ex-wife to save him from prison. Together, they embark on a journey full of challenges and funny situations, during which they discover their true feelings for each other.

Divorce Me

2025

El Hareth poster
4.3

A married couple heard a strange story during their honeymoon about a night where the moon is absent, the desert is angry, and the people on the outskirts of the Siwa Oasis believe that Satan is searching for a bride.

El Hareth

2020

Devil’s Brain poster
3.0

A family has a traumatic accident that causes it to engage in a major conflict between its members, due to their involvement in a crime.

Devil’s Brain

2020

Today Is A Beautiful Day poster
10.0

The work deals with a set of interlocking stories about the relationship of men and women, and raises many issues such as the lack of understanding between husbands, marital rape and its impact, as well as the delay in the age of marriage.

Today Is A Beautiful Day

2021

Extra Time poster
NR

The work revolves around three con men who dream of achieving great wealth in a short time, so they meet in a treatment facility to carry out the mission of kidnapping a person in the hope of making the most money from it.

Extra Time

2024

The Queen poster
1.0

The events take place in a comedic context, where a businesswoman named (Magda) is exposed to many harassments, but she survives her enemies’ attempts to harm her, and is able to obtain her full rights from them.

The Queen

2024

Demon Game poster
5.5

A group of young people pushed by circumstances to an unknown fate controlled by a human demon, represented by a malicious electronic application that infiltrates their smartphones and controls their lives and guides them to the amateur.

Demon Game

2022

2010s · 15 titles

Sons of Rizk 2: Return of the Lions of the Land poster
6.8

Three years after the events of the first film, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces them to new worlds for them, and puts them in very dangerous confrontations with A number of professional criminals.

Sons of Rizk 2: Return of the Lions of the Land

2019

Cairo 6,7,8 poster
7.3

Three women seek justice due to the difficult daily situation which sexual harassment causes in the streets of Cairo, Egypt.

Cairo 6,7,8

2010

18 Days poster
6.6

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

18 Days

2011

Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces poster
6.7

Yehia runs a catering business with his sons, Ref’at and Galal; the former is engaged to marry Karima, who actually loves his brother and is trying to find a way to reveal her feelings for him; while he himself is in love with Shadia who just returned from the UAE, but fear the differences between them.

Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces

2016

Antar, The Fourth Grandson of Shaddad poster
3.6

The grandson of Antar Abassi enters a fierce battle with Asad Alrijal, and tries to beat him with all his strength in order to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the tribe.

Antar, The Fourth Grandson of Shaddad

2017

After the Battle poster
6.6

Reem is a young political activist who works for an advertisement company. As she tries to uncover the truth behind the incide of the Battle of the Camel, she accompanies her friend Farah to Nazlet Al Seman where she meets and falls for Mahmoud, one of the people involved in the incident.

After the Battle

2012

Feelings poster
4.1

Yearning to get back with Ehab, Salma finds her loveless marriage, his devastating secret, and society’s opinions stand in their way.

Feelings

2010

Roh's Beauty poster
5.1

Inspired by the Italian movie Malèna, it has a similar story but is less artistic and lacks a plot. With her husband out of the country. Rouh lives in Bolak El Dakror with her mother-in-law. Rouh's neighbors cause her a lot of problems since several of them desire her and want to pressure her into having an affair. As Rouh pushes back against her neighbors' lust, two of them set her up.

Roh's Beauty

2014

Bibo and Beshir poster
6.8

Limited by choices and eager for independence, a drummer and a basketball coach simultaneously agree to sign tenancy agreements with fishy terms. They meet by chance and fall in love without knowing they live in the same place.

Bibo and Beshir

2011

Forced Escape poster
5.8

Follows the escape journey of 4 complete strangers who were accused of a murder they did not commit.

Forced Escape

2017

Horrible Grandma poster
5.5

Raouf escapes of the control his grandmother Rawyah Hanim after she traveed to Germany and he movd with his grandfather Romman. After his grandfather's death, he decided to marry Manar, who he is attached to, but as his grandmother returned home and moved to live with him, life turned upside down dramatically as she tries to control his and his wife's lives.

Horrible Grandma

2012

The Citizen Gecko poster
4.0

The film follows an unemployed man called “Bors” (Gecko), who hails from one of Cairo's slums, and the hardships he faces while trying to get married to the girl he loves.

The Citizen Gecko

2014

The Republic Of Imbaba poster
6.3

Living on the edges of Cairo’s Embabah neighborhood, several residents seek to better their circumstances following the January 25 Revolution.

The Republic Of Imbaba

2015

Convict poster
8.0

Sentenced to death for committing rape, a convict navigates his final trying days alongside his allies and enemies in prison.

Convict

2014

El Haram Street poster
2.1

A dancer leaves a folklore troupe to work in a nightclub on El-Haram street. Three men get into a conflict over her. Which one will she choose?

El Haram Street

2011

2000s · 18 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

Ibrahim El-Abyad poster
7.4

After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.

Ibrahim El-Abyad

2009

The Wedding poster
6.1

Facing financial strain, a man organizes a fake wedding to raise money. A deeply touching Egyptian drama.

The Wedding

2009

The Island poster
7.2

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

The Island

2007

Mr. Romantic poster
4.7

Roshdy is a carefree young man who spends his time at nightclubs with women. When his uncle dies, Roshdy is to receive all his fortune but on one condition: he should marry a good and committed woman.

Mr. Romantic

2009

The Gate of the Sun poster
6.5

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.

The Gate of the Sun

2004

The Promise poster
4.6

Sahrawi ,the leader of a gang decides to get rid of Yousef, one of his old men after he has cancer and taking money belonging to the gang. He entrusts Adel to eliminate him, as well as Farah to follow Adel, but they fall in love. Then Yousef and Adel become friends.

The Promise

2008

The Ghost poster
6.9

A young amnesiac accused of murder seeks to know the truth about himself while he is on the run from the police, searching for the real killer with the help of his friend.

The Ghost

2007

Sansa poster
7.2

Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa is charming and careless, living the bohemian life. His encounters are numerous, mostly with feminine characters, until he gets attached to an old and eccentric orchestra conductor who becomes a kind of father figure.

Sansa

2004

The Forest poster
4.1

A group of homeless kids and their struggle to earn money by going through trash,stealing,disturbing drugs and prostitution. The film sheds the light on what makes them do up-normal behaviors to survive and that society and government are responsible for this spreading of this issue.

The Forest

2008

Stolen Kisses poster
5.0

A couple's relationship experiences some ups and downs as the societal pressures put upon them get increasingly burdensome.

Stolen Kisses

2008

I Am Not With Them poster
5.0

Playboy Amr (Ahmed Eid) studies at the Faculty of Medicine, he lives a careless life between the use of drugs and neglect of study, and then falls in love with fellow religious veiled Farah (Bushra), and tries to woo her by pretending to be religious and then she discovers the truth.

I Am Not With Them

2007

Uncensored poster
6.0

Two youths fall in love. However, their relationship is not without problems which are typical of relationships today.

Uncensored

2009

Klephty poster
8.5

The film revolves around a man who can spend all of his life in a difficult life by lying and cheating. He is connected to a girl who seeks to marry him and is disappointed to be associated with another man until he finds himself alone, which causes him to continue the monument again.

Klephty

2004

The Aquarium poster
6.8

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.

The Aquarium

2008

Al Moshtabah poster
2.0

Embodies the artist Amr Waked in his new film [suspected Zero] characters twins, one a prosecutor, and the other a businessman, and the film is set in the framework of Action Choiky and social humane at the same time, about a shocking incident of a man who acts which shows that many of the ironies and vague positions, and are identify the perpetrator in the end the incident,

Al Moshtabah

2009

Rotating Square poster
NR

Sami and his wife Sarah are packing to move to the USA where they intend to open a restaurant. Rania, Sarah's sister, goes to their house to take them to the airport, but some unexpected and unforeseeable events take place in the apartment.

Rotating Square

2002

Hard Days poster
3.8

A well-known director working for an independent channel who discusses political issues on air, gets to know a television announcer and the pair fall in love. Their wedding plans are put on hold due to a murder that threaten to turn everything up-side down.

Hard Days

2009

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

El-Atawla poster
7.0

Set against the streets of Alexandria, The Porters follows Nassar, a seasoned thief who falls in love and resolves to leave his criminal past behind. But walking away proves far more dangerous than staying — as former allies, rivals, and family close in on him from all sides. Starring Ahmed El Sakka and Tarek Lotfy, it's a gritty, fast-paced crime drama built on betrayal, brotherhood, and the cost of trying to change.

El-Atawla

2024

El-Atawla poster
7.0

Set against the streets of Alexandria, The Porters follows Nassar, a seasoned thief who falls in love and resolves to leave his criminal past behind. But walking away proves far more dangerous than staying — as former allies, rivals, and family close in on him from all sides. Starring Ahmed El Sakka and Tarek Lotfy, it's a gritty, fast-paced crime drama built on betrayal, brotherhood, and the cost of trying to change.

El-Atawla

2024

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

Hekayat Beneeshha poster
NR

Dr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.

Hekayat Beneeshha

2009

A Girl Named Zat poster
8.1

Based on Sonallah Ibrahim's celebrated novel, "Zaat" explores the social and political winds of change in Egypt starting from 1952, when the main character "Zaat" was born, all the way up to the present day.

A Girl Named Zat

2013

صديق العمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صديق العمر

2014

Brothers But Enemies poster
NR

The series depicts the corruption rooted in Egyptian society prior to the revolution, through the portrayal of a shrewd businessman and his connection to important statesmen.

Brothers But Enemies

2012

Misyou Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda poster
5.0

The series revolves around the teacher of the first Arabic language, Professor Ramadan (Mohamed Heneidy), who lives in a rural village called Mitt Bariz, who is very loved by the people of the village and tries to exploit their love to illuminate their insight into what the mayor and the People's Assembly member asked about this village of corruption. In the midst of events, he goes to France and some comic paradoxes occur.

Misyou Ramadan Mabrouk Abul-Alamein Hamouda

2011

Ramez Brought It From The Last poster
10.0

Your favourite stars – in pairs this time – are invited to a supposed talk show hosted by Ramez, unaware that what awaits them is far from any TV interview.

Ramez Brought It From The Last

2024

Baba Almgal poster
7.0

Zain; a mechanic struggles to live an honest life with his mother, his fiancée and her siblings. His mother hides the fact that his father is still alive, but the secret she has kept for so long threatens Zain's life and turns it upside down.

Baba Almgal

2023

Magic Eye poster
8.3

Adel is a young man working as a security camera installer. His life takes a dramatic turn when his family is threatened by a series of mysterious and escalating events. Adel becomes embroiled in a dangerous and complex situation when his work involves a certain individual, and he later meets a lawyer who becomes his partner in confronting these crises.

Magic Eye

2026

Drug Habit poster
NR

Based on the film with the same name, the series deals with the issue of drugs and their deadly effects and how that's connected to the rampant corruption in society. As a trinitarian conflict arises between science, money, and addiction, the series shows that conflict through various characters.

Drug Habit

2016

Bin El Sarayat poster
8.0

The series depicts the effect that Cairo University has on the local neighborhood of Bin El Sarayat and its people, and how the neighborhood offers services to the university and its students.

Bin El Sarayat

2015

Al-Rayyan poster
6.0

The story of the famous businessman, Ahmed Al-Rayyan, who was a source of major controversy during the eighties after he was indicted for Ponzi schemes and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Al-Rayyan

2011

Asia poster
NR

Asia (Mona Zaki) works in painting and fine arts. She always fights with her husband, making it impossible for them to communicate. Asia gets into an accident that causes her to lose her memory, which changes her life completely. She starts working at a nightclub as a dancer.

Asia

2013

Belly of the Whale poster
8.0

‎Hilal works in the drug trade, then forces his younger religious brother Diaa to work with him, but Hilal is thrown in jail and Diaa finds himself responsible for his brother's illegal work and taking care of his family and fights a war that he knows nothing about‎‎.‎

Belly of the Whale

2023

The Killing poster
8.6

Police Captain Hisham begins his investigation into the murder of an influencer found dead in the car of a national club electoral candidate.

The Killing

2022

Sultan's daughter poster
6.0

In the context of suspense drama, events take place within conflicts and emotional relationships.

Sultan's daughter

2021

The Giza Killer poster
7.0

A man of many faces is caught in his own web of deceit and murder. Seven love stories. Four lives. Three murders. And only one killer.

The Giza Killer

2023

Henedi Show poster
NR

With Henedy Shaw, Mohamed Henedy followed Ramadan, Mabrouk Abu Al-Alamein, and his most famous characters, as he recalls them with the art stars who participated in his various artworks in a comic framework, play and joke

Henedi Show

2021

Abla Fahita: Drama Queen poster
6.9

After disappearing from the limelight due to an ethical scandal, Abla Fahita falls victim to the ploy of a nightclub owner who seeks to exploit her, and when he is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Fahita soon becomes the prime suspect in the crime.

Abla Fahita: Drama Queen

2021

Welcome Home poster
7.7

Assigned to investigate the revengeful murder of an unknown man, Adam begins to uncover the truth through torn photographs he finds at his house.

Welcome Home

2022

Qut Al Qulob poster
NR

Gout worked as a teacher trying to support and care for her family, but her son, Hassan, the doctor, is experiencing many troubles in his life because of his mother's unbalanced behavior, but Gout soon finds herself in an unlikely conflict

Qut Al Qulob

2020

بنت من الزمن ده poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

بنت من الزمن ده

2008

No artwork available
NR

A family lives in the Zamalek neighborhood. The family goes bankrupt and moves to live in Boulaq. The two brothers meet 20 years after their separation, where one of them lives in Zamalek and the other in Boulaq, and they are brought together by chance.

Zamalek Boulak

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The Alley poster
10.0

Set in an Egyptian alley, the story follows Mona, a young woman who works to support her poor family. The neighborhood is home to a mix of characters-some holding onto traditional values, others straying from them.

The Alley

2010

مولد وصاحبه غايب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

مولد وصاحبه غايب

2015