Sabry Fawaz

Acting

Sabry Fawaz

Born

1968-11-22 (57)

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Sabry Fawaz is an Egyptian actor, screenwriter and theatre director.

Known for

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.

El Helmeya Nights

1987

Critical Moments poster
8.0

A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.

Critical Moments

2007

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

Ella Ana poster
7.0

An anthology drama series presenting separate, self-contained stories — each spanning five to ten episodes — all adapted from real events and centred on the lives of Egyptian women. From inheritance disputes and workplace harassment to marriage, divorce and motherhood, each story tackles a different social issue with honesty and emotional depth. Featuring a rotating cast of Egypt's top actresses including Ilham Shaheen, Laila Alawi and Menna Shalaby.

Ella Ana

2020

Om Kulthum poster
9.0

Throughout its episodes, the series narrates the biography of the Arab singing lady (Umm Kulthum) since her inception in Sinbillawain and her journey with her father and siblings in singing religious songs on all occasions, through her artistic career and her move to stability in Cairo, and the stories of love that she went through during her life, and her artistic glory until she mastered The lyric scene in Egypt, and the crises she encountered during her artistic work and social life.

Om Kulthum

1999

Ramadan Kareem poster
5.0

Taking place during the month of Ramadan in a local neighborhood, where one of the girls tries to disavow her family and her social level. She claims that she is from a wealthy family in order to meet a young man who she falls in love with.

Ramadan Kareem

2017

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

The Stories poster
7.4

The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.

The Stories

2026

Mousa poster
6.7

An engineering college student invents the first of its kind robot in the Middle East, in an attempt to avenge his father's death and achieve justice, which gets him pursued by the authorities.

Mousa

2021

The People of the Cave poster
6.2

The epic tale of three people who wake up from their long sleep after three centuries, to find themselves in a different time other than the one in which they lived before, as they struggle to deal with this unrecognizable world.

The People of the Cave

2024

The Tale of Daye's Family poster
7.5

Over the course of 48 hours, Daye travels across Egypt's governorates to fulfill his dream. He is accompanied by his captivating voice, his broken family, and his music teacher. He journeys without money, a car, or any means of communication, and most importantly, he is unsure of his ability to reach his goal.

The Tale of Daye's Family

2025

Mr. Ex poster
3.9

Farid is an elusive individual renowned for his absence rather than his presence. He gained fame through the alias "Mr. Ex," as he became sought after by men to assist in their marital separations. However, the situation takes an unexpected twist when Farid's former love, Tiba Al-Akkad, reemerges onto the scene.

Mr. Ex

2023

Ibn El Hagg Ahmad poster
3.9

Ahmad’s life goes downhill when he crosses paths with a menacing gang and finds himself teaming up with a young woman to confront them and fight for survival.

Ibn El Hagg Ahmad

2023

Al Ekhteyar 3 Al Qarar poster
NR

This season depicts the events Egypt witnessed in the years following the January 25 Revolution, leading to the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power, and the crises that afflicted Egypt during that period causing a state of popular anger against the group and Mohamed Morsi, which ended in the outbreak of the June 30 Revolution.

Al Ekhteyar 3 Al Qarar

2022

30 March poster
5.0

Ali, the fugitive from a murder he does not even know whether he committed it or not, sets out to uncover truth with the help of his friend, the lawyer and his neighbor. Over time, he finds himself embroiled in cases much more dangerous than he imagined, making him on the verge of insanity or murder.

30 March

2021

2010s · 13 titles

The Preacher poster
6.7

A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. From Behind the scenes that exposes religion and authority struggle - Mawlana is a movie that defy boundaries.

The Preacher

2017

Lion Heart poster
5.4

Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.

Lion Heart

2013

Please Call Me poster
5.3

Ibrahim Toshkee, a non-talented who wants to become an actor. When he faces failure, he utilizes his wits into coning people, which leads him to many problems. In the meantime, he is in a love with his neighbor "Abla" and having an affair with a prostitute “Ashgan”.

Please Call Me

2010

Photocopy poster
7.3

Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.

Photocopy

2017

The Night of the Carnival poster
6.5

Spanning one day, the film takes place in a “Muled” (An Islamic saint's day celebration), following the curious and intertwined stories of a variety of different characters living nearby, working invisiting the Muled.

The Night of the Carnival

2015

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim poster
6.3

Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. His mother forces him to visit a spiritual healer, where he meets Ibrahim, who suffers from severe depression and hears mysterious noises, in a way to find hope, Ali, his goat and Ibrahim head on a trip across Egypt hoping to help each other overcome their problems.

Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

2017

Detention Letter poster
5.0

Khaled, in a terrorist group believing he fights for God, tries stopping his brother Ahmad from joining. After Ahmad joins and dies in a group dispute, Khaled seeks revenge until police arrest him.

Detention Letter

2017

Friday Market poster
5.0

Every week, the poor go to Friday market. The film revolves around the merchants in that market, their personal lives and dealing with customers

Friday Market

2018

Born to a Man poster
5.6

An aspiring boxer Adham is thriving to become a successful professional. He falls in love with a girl, Mai, living in a slum, who suffers from her thug brother's possessive personality. Adham and his dad's lives turn torrid when Mai's brother knows of their affair.

Born to a Man

2016

Amar’s Hand poster
6.7

Following the death of her husband, Amar is left to carry out her deceased husband’s dream of building a brick house with her five children. The five boys move to Cairo to earn some money, but they struggle to make ends meet and achieve their dreams in the capital.

Amar’s Hand

2011

Ali Baba poster
5.2

Ali seeks to achieve his personal interest even if it is at the expense of others, and if he is surprised that he has a daughter in her twenties, then here are the comic contradictions in which he falls.

Ali Baba

2018

Amr's in Trouble poster
NR

A child named Amr, the school's headmaster summons his guardian because of the problems he causes, but on the other hand his father Ragheb suffers from problems with his mother Sarah, who asked him to retrieve the memories of their love by grouping their high school students.

Amr's in Trouble

2019

Reklam poster
3.3

Shadyia is forced to marry a drug dealer, and from here her life begins to decline after her husband is arrested. She meets three other girls ,Dawlat, Shukryia and Suzy, who are also going a dark path.

Reklam

2012

2000s · 9 titles

Shehata's Store poster
6.1

Shehata is the son of a modest gardener who saved all his money to open a fruit stand and named it after his favorite son. Shehata's siblings get so jealous of their brother and plot against him. A representation of the downfall of society and its decaying morals.

Shehata's Store

2009

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

Nanny Doody poster
4.4

A cellphone thief get stopped with her partner by the police , she sets him up and runs away safely. She later gets involved in a murder case, and escapes to Alexandria. There, she works as a nanny for a police officer, and meets another person who changes her life.

Nanny Doody

2008

The Blood of the Innocent poster
5.6

The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.

The Blood of the Innocent

2005

Days of El Sadat poster
7.8

A biopic depicting the life of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, following his early life, his political and military achievements, and his assassination during the Cairo annual victory parade.

Days of El Sadat

2001

Dr. Omar's Gang poster
4.9

Omar, is a psychiatrist who returns home and applies new theories in psychotherapy. He meets Reem, a kleptomaniac rich girl, who works as a translator. Omar tries to help her quit stealing and they fall in love.

Dr. Omar's Gang

2007

Halim poster
7.3

The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.

Halim

2006

The Dove Hunter poster
3.5

Ali is a young man in his twenties who hunts doves. His relationships and vision of life develop, and he reaches the age of forty, which changes his outlook on everything he experiences in life, starting from his marital relationship to all his other human relationships.

The Dove Hunter

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Train to El Marg

2004

Series credits

El Helmeya Nights poster
8.2

A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.

El Helmeya Nights

1987

Critical Moments poster
8.0

A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.

Critical Moments

2007

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

Ella Ana poster
7.0

An anthology drama series presenting separate, self-contained stories — each spanning five to ten episodes — all adapted from real events and centred on the lives of Egyptian women. From inheritance disputes and workplace harassment to marriage, divorce and motherhood, each story tackles a different social issue with honesty and emotional depth. Featuring a rotating cast of Egypt's top actresses including Ilham Shaheen, Laila Alawi and Menna Shalaby.

Ella Ana

2020

Om Kulthum poster
9.0

Throughout its episodes, the series narrates the biography of the Arab singing lady (Umm Kulthum) since her inception in Sinbillawain and her journey with her father and siblings in singing religious songs on all occasions, through her artistic career and her move to stability in Cairo, and the stories of love that she went through during her life, and her artistic glory until she mastered The lyric scene in Egypt, and the crises she encountered during her artistic work and social life.

Om Kulthum

1999

Ramadan Kareem poster
5.0

Taking place during the month of Ramadan in a local neighborhood, where one of the girls tries to disavow her family and her social level. She claims that she is from a wealthy family in order to meet a young man who she falls in love with.

Ramadan Kareem

2017

صديق العمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صديق العمر

2014

The Black Horse poster
4.0

Faris is a lawyer who decides to leave the legal profession after being abandoned by his former girlfriend Hasna and married a wealthy man, but with her resorting to him again after the disappearance of her husband finds himself accused of things that did not occur to him.

The Black Horse

2017

Mousa poster
7.2

After losing his brother in the war against the British, a young Egyptian named Musa takes on himself a vow of revenge, which makes him wanted by British soldiers and a hero at the same time.

Mousa

2021

Abu Omar Al-Masry poster
6.5

An ambitious lawyer survives an assassination attempt, he escapes to Belgium to start a new life with a different identity, decides to seek revenge.

Abu Omar Al-Masry

2018

Take Care of Zizi poster
8.7

After lashing out at her husband and causing him a severe injury that amounts to a felony, a nervy young woman embarks on a journey to prove her innocence.

Take Care of Zizi

2021

The Balance poster
NR

A suspenseful thriller about what goes on behind the scenes of criminal activities, court and lawyers, with an unexpected twist at the peak.

The Balance

2016

Family Tie poster
8.0

The series revolves around the struggle for money, and the fierce battles of two families and their differences because of a conflict over inheritance, and how the parties will ignore the blood ties for wealth.

Family Tie

2019

The Covenant (The Permissible Speech) poster
7.9

The story of the Covenant (العهد) unfolds in a fantasy world in an unset time and place, in an atmosphere of excitement, crime, horror and drama blended with magic and fantasy. The story of 3 small neighbouring villages and the struggles among the members of Aldiabh family to gain control over the villages and the Covenant which sets the rules of the land. The Family do not hesitate at anything in order to reach their goals, lying, ploting, stealing and even killing the people closest to them.

The Covenant (The Permissible Speech)

2015

The Seven Commandments poster
8.3

After discovering their ailing elderly father has 28 million in his bank account, seven siblings conspire to end his life, but the story takes a mysterious turn when his body vanishes from his room following the crime.

The Seven Commandments

2014

The Escape poster
7.5

Mahmoud is a young engineer who misses on a job at his university due to corruption. As he stands up to a businessman, the latter frames him for murder and Mahmoud is forced to flee in an attempt to prove his innocence. But another tragedy awaits him when his brother gets killed.

The Escape

2012

Extra Sugar poster
NR

A comedy revolving around the three women: Esmat, Karima, and Gamila, who become victims of a scam because of a villa they decide to buy. Now they must learn to coexist under the same roof, or to wait until one of them manages to have the villa for herself.

Extra Sugar

2020

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

Rahim poster
7.0

The show deals with Rahim, a rich businessman, who works in money laundry and currency smuggling. After he gets out of a long prison sentence, he finds out that his men took all his money and drove his family away. He goes on a journey to find them and get his belongings back.

Rahim

2018

Friendly Fire poster
8.5

The show revolves around a group of friends who have remained very close since their school days. Though life has taken them down different paths, when they're brought back together, new confrontations and secrets arise, and a series of very surprising events unfold.

Friendly Fire

2013

Back to Love poster
5.4

After his debts mount up in Europe, Baligh returns home to regain his right in the inheritance, but his mission soon turns into an attempt to reconcile his family.

Back to Love

2022

A Woman from the Time of Love poster
9.0

When a father has to go abroad for work, he leaves his children in the care of his sister who comes to stay with them, only to be shocked when she witnesses their behavior. As the family struggles to adjust to the changes, the aunt wisely helps her brother's children through their problems.

A Woman from the Time of Love

1998

And we have a time poster
10.0

The events revolve around two families, the family of "Hassan", whose wife died and left him four young men, and the family of Nadia, whose husband died and left her four daughters, and we will see how the two parties will deal with the problems around them, at first each party alone and after the meeting how they will face each other when they get to know each other.

And we have a time

2023

The Family poster
NR

The series takes place during the war of attrition and its aftermath, in a building and the relationship between its inhabitants, and about a family who loses their son in the war and its impact on them. It also deals with the issue of terrorism and poverty, which drives the poor to drift behind extremist groups.

The Family

1994

Wedding Song poster
8.8

Set in the 1970's, a group of actors work on a new play. They discover that the play's events revolves around their true behind-the-scenes characters, with the script presenting their deepest and darkest secrets. The actors try to put a stop to the revealing play, but their manager insists that the show must go on.

Wedding Song

2016

The Scale poster
6.0

While defending a businessman on trial for murder, Noha uncovers some hard-hitting truths that put her in danger in this suspenseful legal drama.

The Scale

2016

The Homestead poster
7.0

A biography that revolves around the life of Khalil Hassan Khalil, a Political Science professor, in the period before the Egyptian revolution of 1952. The series explores how he suffered from poverty and social injustice and struggled to improve his social status and accomplish his dream of becoming a college professor.

The Homestead

1990

No artwork available
NR

When her husband, a famous atomic scientist, is assassinated by a terrorist organization, the journalist Hend Allam tries to find out the truth behind her husband's murder, which puts her own life at risk as the terrorist organization targets her.

Who Shot Hend Allam?

2007

Child Treatment Certificate poster
5.0

Where the brilliant lawyer (Abdul Sattar al-KEF) is subjected to a tragic car accident, after which he enters a coma that lasts for 20 years, and when he wakes up from his coma, he finds himself in front of strange things and concepts that he has never seen before, and he has to keep up with the Times and developments that have occurred, but he finds it very difficult to do so.

Child Treatment Certificate

2025

Sa'atu we Tarikhu S2 poster
NR

The Egyptian courts hear a lot of significant cases, and they handle the facts and motivations of these cases in a thrilling, theatrical setting.

Sa'atu we Tarikhu S2

2025

Qasr El Nil poster
4.0

Dina El-Sherbiny's husband dies, and circumstances force her to marry her husband's brother, and disputes arise between her and his first wife.

Qasr El Nil

2021

Lucifer's Kingdom poster
7.0

In a local Egyptian neighborhood, the death of the headman Fathy Eblis gives way to a series of vengeful acts and unleashes chaos upon the people.

Lucifer's Kingdom

2020

Well Bred poster
5.0

Parents reevaluate their psychological and educational treatment of their children, especially after a school bus accident that turns their lives upside down, resulting in many of their children entering the hospital and undergoing serious operations.

Well Bred

2021

Ladies of Maadi House poster
7.0

As three married women, Maryam, Sherihan, and Radwa, live in the same house but in different eras, they are forced to make similar decisions in order to deal with the challenges of their marriages and after discovering the infidelity of their husbands.

Ladies of Maadi House

2021

Aunt Safiya & the Monastery poster
NR

Safiya loves Harby but marries his uncle Asran after she finds that he loves another. After the mayor plots against Harby and Asran, he kills Asran and Harby is arrested. Safiya decides to raise her son Hassan to take revenge for his father and kill Harby after his release from prison.

Aunt Safiya & the Monastery

1996

Faroun poster
NR

The series follows the life of Pharaoh (Khaled Saleh) and his journey to the top, but on that journey, Pharaoh gains many enemies. A group of people are lurking around Pharaoh, seeking to destroy him, but Pharaoh confronts them in a dramatic atmosphere full of suspense. Pharaoh's life becomes increasingly complicated due to the accumulation of problems, but he decides to resist in order to survive.

Faroun

2013

The Cocoon poster
3.0

Escaping from his boring and simple life, Hazem succumbs to daydreams where he becomes the opposite — a wealthy, evil person capable of doing anything. Soon, these dreams take over his life, making it impossible for him to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

The Cocoon

2025

No artwork available
NR

Its events take place in an Upper Egypt context, about the struggle of Upper Egypt families to gain power through illegal trade

Muntasir The Shark

—

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Threads of Gold

2027