
Directing
Ali Abdel-Khalek
Born — Died
1944-06-09 — 2022-09-02
Place of birth
Egypt
Known for
Directing
Credits
38 titles
An Egyptian director, who was born in Cairo on June 9, 1944, to a middle family. After completing his secondary education, he joined the Higher Institute of Cinema, directing department. He was influenced by leftist thought in his youth, which was reflected in his early films. After graduating from the institute in 1966, he worked as an assistant director for a while, then turned to directing documentaries, including Farewell Song. His feature directorial debut was A Song on the Passage (1972), which gained critical acclaim. During the 80s, he collaborated with writer Mahmoud Abu Zeid in several successful films, including The Shame (1982), Drug Habit (1985), and Monsters Run (1987). In tele…
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وضاع حبي هناك
1982
7.0A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
The Egg and the Stone
1990
7.6A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.
The Shame
1982
6.0Anwar Abdel Mawla is an employee working in a government agency, his life changes when he takes an official mission to hand over a heritage to the house of Money in Cairo made up of a monkey, a donkey, and a goat and many ironic comedies happen.
Four On An Official Mission
1987
NROfficer Khaled is on the hunt for a gang that deals drugs. When the son of the gang leader is killed during a chase, Khaled doesn't realize that he is the son of the influential Esmat who vows revenge.
The Mud
1987
NRA young couple tries to make a living through freelance. The woman meets her former classmate who became a rich widow and asks for her help to find them better jobs.
Love Alone is Not Enough
1981
Behind the camera
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وضاع حبي هناك
1982
7.0A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
The Egg and the Stone
1990
7.6A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.
The Shame
1982
6.0Anwar Abdel Mawla is an employee working in a government agency, his life changes when he takes an official mission to hand over a heritage to the house of Money in Cairo made up of a monkey, a donkey, and a goat and many ironic comedies happen.
Four On An Official Mission
1987
6.0Anwar Abdel Mawla is an employee working in a government agency, his life changes when he takes an official mission to hand over a heritage to the house of Money in Cairo made up of a monkey, a donkey, and a goat and many ironic comedies happen.
Four On An Official Mission
1987
NROfficer Khaled is on the hunt for a gang that deals drugs. When the son of the gang leader is killed during a chase, Khaled doesn't realize that he is the son of the influential Esmat who vows revenge.
The Mud
1987
NRA young couple tries to make a living through freelance. The woman meets her former classmate who became a rich widow and asks for her help to find them better jobs.
Love Alone is Not Enough
1981
NRGamila is sentenced to one year in prison for manslaughter. Inside the prison, she meets a group of dangerous women and their leader Arwah who turned the prison into a drug den . She tries to controlol Gamila but she fights back.
El Mazag
1991
8.1Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.
El Keif
1985
4.0Al Nems is a quarreling microbus driver, and he moves from one job to another, and one day he meets a businessman who is assigned to deliver money with his wife and assistant, while he plots a plot, and he (Al Nems) becomes in the middle of a great adventure.
El Nems
2000
6.7Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.
Monsters Run
1987
NRMother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.
A House Without Tenderness
1976
7.7Set 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
6.5(Suheir Fadel) an Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctor is unable to have kids from her Husband (Hazem Kharbash) after many years of marriage. Her husband Hazem goes for some medical tests to find that he is incapable of procreation and his wife is perfectly healthy, and he lies to her to maintain their marital life.
Ladies' Threshold
1995
7.3A strange man arrives at the fishermen's village looking for his illegitimate child to give him his inheritance. He dies and leaves the money with the head of the fishermen. The big fishermen doubt the three women from the village who had a "shady" past: A daughter of a merchant, A belly dancer, and a woman who was loved by many men, and tries to know who is the mother of the child.
Devilish Daughters
1984
NRAhlam is a poor girl who's forced to work as a maid to support herself. She works for the handsome millionaire Mustafa and falls for him. As he falls for her as well, he showers her with money and gifts, until he decides to travel abroad and she falls apart.
A Maid...However
1993
8.0The Egyptian navy prepares for a crucial military operation to sink the Israeli destroyer Eilat. The mission is carried out by a group of officers and soldiers, each with their own story.
Dignity Day
2004
5.0Kamal is arrested with his mistress in the act of adultery. They also arrest her friend Ebtisam, who comes across her home, despite her innocence.
Darb Al Rahba
1990
1.8A young man named Dhadha gets a help from a rich powerful lady to run for presidency but he does not know that she other things in mind.
Zaza
2006
NRWhen Nahed discovers that her husband Adham is buying contaminated dialysis machines, Adham commits her to a mental institution. Nahed gets incriminating documents of Adham's illegal business and escapes from the hospital to bring him down.
Bono Bono
2000
6.7Depicts the escape of a poor innocent girl fleeing from three savage rapists.
Rape
1989
6.0Mahmoud, a simple employee of the Ministry of Health, loves lawyer "Amal", who trains in the office of her teacher, "Ali Hammad", Mahmoud "travels" to Kuwait to improve his financial situation. Her wealthy professor escapes chasing her cousin, Fathi officer, Mahmoud settles in Cairo after returning from abroad and renews his hope to marry Amal after her husband's death. Bribery from "Ibrahim Al-Fakharani" to facilitate the process of importing rotten food for "Al-Fakharani". Amal defends him and accuses her cousin of fabricating the accusation. Mahmoud's order is revealed, he collapses and confesses that he is already bribed after he reaches his home to find that his brother, sister and children died after eating the canned food that he admitted to the country.
The Venal Gentlemen
1983
6.0Mahmoud, a simple employee of the Ministry of Health, loves lawyer "Amal", who trains in the office of her teacher, "Ali Hammad", Mahmoud "travels" to Kuwait to improve his financial situation. Her wealthy professor escapes chasing her cousin, Fathi officer, Mahmoud settles in Cairo after returning from abroad and renews his hope to marry Amal after her husband's death. Bribery from "Ibrahim Al-Fakharani" to facilitate the process of importing rotten food for "Al-Fakharani". Amal defends him and accuses her cousin of fabricating the accusation. Mahmoud's order is revealed, he collapses and confesses that he is already bribed after he reaches his home to find that his brother, sister and children died after eating the canned food that he admitted to the country.
The Venal Gentlemen
1983
NROsama is a visual artist. He decides to travel to Luxor to search for the secrets of the drawings and paintings left by the Pharaohs. Here he is exposed to Antoine's gang, which specializes in stealing antiquities. Osama loses his memory and meets one of the Bedouin tribes. He lives with them, and one of the tribe's girls takes care of him and feels love for him.
A traveler without a road
1978
NRTahar returns from exile and informs his sons (Issam) and (Omar) of the secret of his burial for a bag full of gold and jewelry in the garden of the villa that he owned before his exile.
The Hustlers
1986
NRZanouba is a poor maid, who is deceived by Ahmed, the son of her employer, after believing that he loves her. She returns broken to her neighborhood and decides to end her poverty with her brothers Salem and Zinhom, by trafficking drugs. Ahmed becomes a police officer in charge of fighting the drug trade
The Empress
1999
7.0Ahmed is an engineer, living with his wife Nabila, their son and sister in a cheap hotel after their house is taken down. After living in the hotel becomes a financial burden , the family members decide to live in the yard of a grave, while suffering from many problems and harassment.
Graveyards for Rent
1986
6.0Rashad is a poor man who loves Shhrzad and takes care of her and her sister Souad who loves him. While the three of them are returning to Cairo, they meet a wealthy man dying inside his car after getting shot, and asks them to deliver a suitcase full of money to a woman in the north coast
El Gentel
1996
6.0Ra'fat is a businessman whose kidney is failing. As he requires constant blood transfusions, he hires Korashy, his blood donor, as his driver. But when Korashy undergoes surgery, he discovered that his kidney was removed without his consent.
Help Us
1989
7.3Mansour (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is sentenced to death by hanging for communicating with Israel before the October War, and intelligence officer Mohy (Farid Shawky) devises a plan to replace Mansour, the "spy" with Egyptian officer Ezzeldin , because of the big resemblance between them so that he obtains important information about the Dimona reactor.
Execution Of A Dead Man
1985
6.0Gaber Abdel Ghaffar lives on stealing merchandise in Alexandria port, and one day he gets arrested and deported to the army to perform military service. He escapes from the army to Italy illegally, where he suffers from harsh living conditions, so he goes to an employment agency belonging to the Mossad and decides to work with them, offering his services in espionage.
The Well of Treason
1987
NRThe Egyptian intelligence service uses the Egyptian young man Akram, who is renowned for his genius in the field of aeronautical engineering. In order to study and know the secrets of the "Al Kafir" plane, the intelligence officer, General Yehya Iham Akram, is trying to go to France to repair the Concorde. Akram convince them at the airport that he arrived from Rome wrong but that the Israeli intelligence prepares him easy prey and recruit him after being brutally tortured, and his coach Margo, who is in love with him, and turns Margo on her device and decide to secede, and trial, is handed over to others, and Akram Aflat of Mossad men , And hijack the plane Alkafir and then destroy it and jump Parachute to be picked up by the Egyptian intelligence.
El-Kafeer
1999
6.5A group of young men meets a prostitute, who changes the course of their lives. The girl begins a new life, away from the parties and the corrupt atmosphere.
Rendez-Vous
2001
2.0Hoping to secure his future, the undertaker Awad decides to invest in building tourist burials and takes out a loan to make his project a reality. Farhana, the hired mourner, falls for Awad, but the mother poses a stumbling block to their relationship.
Awad in a Mess
2003
6.0Teacher Hamza succeeds in winning the friendship of his pupils, the student Salah and his colleague Nadia ride a car to Jalal, Nadia's brother, they have a car accident, in the prosecution accuses Jalal Salah that he stole his car, denies the presence of Nadia with him in the accident, for fear of her brother being oppressed, Hamza Salah hides in his house to allow him The opportunity to take the exam, and Leila Hamza's relationship grows.
EL ABALSSA
1980
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Farewell Song
1970
4.4A widow bullied by traders in the fish market from further commercial aims after the death of her husband,a worker stand by her side and help then married her,but does the money and power change him ?
Market of The Fish
1986
NRNahed uses a number of beautiful girls in her smuggling operations. The police receive information about a major smuggling operation on Marina Beach so Officer Adel is tasked with uncovering the smugglers.
Whaling
2002
