Athar ElHakim

Acting

Athar ElHakim

Born

1957-08-24 (69)

Place of birth

Cairo, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

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

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Seyam Seyam poster
NR

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Seyam Seyam

1980

فريسكا poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

فريسكا

2004

Al Zankaloni poster
NR

The series consists of separate episodes, each episode tells the story of a person who makes negative social mistakes that occur in society, and at the end of the story, the artist shows him the effects of the sage, such as the conscience that reprimands him for the mistakes he committed, so soon he returns to his mistake, so she returns again and discovers his action, and he is surprised.

Al Zankaloni

1987

My Dear Children, Thank You poster
NR

After the father, Abdo, passes sixty, he retires from his job. He starts discovering new things about his four children, while his children realize that they've drifted away from their father, and that they'll always need him like he needs them.

My Dear Children, Thank You

1979

Film credits

1990s · 10 titles

No artwork available
NR

Millionaire Bahgat, the owner of an investment company, plots to frame four of his employees for a crime they did not commit. However, they manage to escape. Sana, the lawyer and fiancée of one of them, sets out to prove their innocence and is joined by Colonel Adel after his investigation uncovers evidence implicating Bahgat. But higher authorities order Colonel Adel to stop investigating Bahgat’s illegal activities. Convinced of Bahgat’s guilt and the young men’s innocence, Colonel Adel decides to resign and join forces with Sana in her mission to expose the truth.

Chasing the Forbidden

1993

The Search for Sayed Marzouk poster
6.8

Yousef is a naive employee who goes out on his day off to meet strange characters, including a wretch dressed like Charlie Chaplin and Said Marzouq, an eccentric multi-faceted billionaire, full of contradictions and ambiguity. While trying to find himself ,he becomes accused of murder.

The Search for Sayed Marzouk

1991

Police demons poster
NR

Three female police officers: Sanaa, Samah and Samia, are assigned by their boss to follow up on three cases of kidnapping girls who were walking in the street, a case of kidnapping children from hospitals after their birth, and white slave gangs that help girls in the field of prostitution, including the Balabel gang. The three female officers deal with these cases with cunning and deceit.

Police demons

1992

Qanun Ika poster
6.0

In 1968, the university doctor (Hussein) and his wife (Mona) are arrested. The wife dies in prison due to severe torture. Dr. Hussein is subjected to ill-treatment inside the prison, and after a while he is released and released from prison, but he refuses to return to his previous work or any other profession. He meets the dancer (Eka), who takes him to a new and different direction in his life.

Qanun Ika

1991

Ashgal Shaqa poster
NR

The story revolves around the meeting of Colonel Mansour (Majed El Masry), the head of the Anti-Narcotics Bureau, with his old lover, Salma (Athar El Hakim), after her mother separated them. He became a police officer and never married, and she became an artist and married twice. They agreed to resume their previous relationship again. They were brought together by the presence of a drug dealer in her furnished apartment, and they agreed to cooperate together to bring down the prominent gang member, Emad El Moayed (Sami El Adl). Salma befriended him and introduced him to Mansour as the owner of a car showroom, which he exploits as a front for drug smuggling.

Ashgal Shaqa

1998

Mu'akhar Sadaq poster
NR

Magdy and his sister Safiya's friend get engaged, and then he meets his first love, Salwa, by chance, whom he had difficulty marrying before. They keep meeting and talking about the past, and their feelings for each other return once again.

Mu'akhar Sadaq

1990

The Truth Called Salem poster
6.0

When Ayman El-Sersawy, a flirty businessman, marries his secretary Omnia, his frequent trips to Italy raises questions. After he convinces Omnia that those trips are to meet up with his friend Salem whom she wishes to meet, he is shocked to find an unknown man in his house claiming to be Salem.

The Truth Called Salem

1994

Al Moshaghebat Wal Captain poster
NR

Hoda, Zeinab, and Wafaa are flight attendants who receive a warning that a passenger aboard the plane named “El Hady,” a world-peace activist, is being targeted by an international terrorist organization, who's planning to kidnap and kill him. The three women plan to foil their plan.

Al Moshaghebat Wal Captain

1991

Shaweesh Noss El-leil poster
NR

Aging Constable Hassan (Farid Shawqi) continues to work hard in the Department of Drug Control while devoting himself to raising his son and daughter. He then discovers that the son became a drugug addict through a junkie dancer, so he intervenes in order to save his son.

Shaweesh Noss El-leil

1991

Luebat alashrar poster
NR

The writer (Riyad) marries the beautiful (Camelia) despite her previous relationship with (Azmi), his lawyer, at the same time (Azmi) marries (Manar), Riad's secretary. Manar doubts the renewal of the relationship between Azmi, her husband, and Camellia. She manages to record a tape of Camelia urging Azmi to kill Manar and Riad, and plans to trap Camellia and Azmi at her house and summon Riad to expose them.

Luebat alashrar

1991

1980s · 23 titles

Hero of Paper poster
6.8

The film revolves around the cinematographer Rami Qashua, who begins to succeed in the cinema through the texts he writes, but his bad luck imprints it in an unenviable predicament when one of his texts ends up being written by a clerical writer on the typewriter. He performs the literal implementation of everything that happens in the scenario of theft and murder, and collaborates with journalist Sawsan in order to beat him.

Hero of Paper

1988

The Tiger and The Female poster
5.8

Officer Wahid is assigned to work undercover to enter the ring of the largest drug trafficker, he uses the help of the repentant night girl Naima, to impersonate the long-disappeared daughter of the drug leader, who welcomes them into his home before his sister discovers the truth.

The Tiger and The Female

1987

Ayoub poster
7.7

An aging man's intention to publish his biography has a lot of rich and powerful people worried what he might reveal.

Ayoub

1983

Karakib poster
NR

Sayed and Alawiya, a husband and wife of employees, face life with a modest salary. His co-worker dies, so he goes to his family to offer his services and help them in completing the pension procedures, but after a while the situation of his co-worker’s family changes from poverty to wealth, and behind this move is that his co-worker has security. On his life insurance policy. Sid decides to insure his life.

Karakib

1989

El-Halal Yksab poster
NR

After Dr. Fouad performs an operation on Shams and saves her life, she becomes attached to him and asks him to marry her. He hides from her that he is engaged to Narges, fearing that her health will deteriorate, so he marries her and Narges at the same time, and convinces Shams that Narges is his sister, and events escalate.

El-Halal Yksab

1985

Love Above Pyramid's Plateau poster
7.2

The film puts the lights on the struggle of youngsters to afford a proper life for marriage. Through their small incomes, and the ordeal of finding a house in crowded Cairo, so it follows a young couple's longing for their simpliest dreams - to be together.

Love Above Pyramid's Plateau

1986

Fokaraa Lah Yatkholoona Al Gana poster
8.3

When he was young, Ahmad witnessed the killing of his mother at the hands of his father because of her betrayal of him. He lives in a shelter, and gets out of the shelter to live in a room. He falls in love with a poor girl and decides to marry her. However, the building's owner, Boss Yaqoot, desires her and tries to win her over in various ways, until the matter reaches obtaining a court ruling to expel Ahmad from the house.

Fokaraa Lah Yatkholoona Al Gana

1984

Poor But Happy poster
NR

Hossam is an accountant at El Mellawany factory, manipulating the accounts with the factory manager Shawki for embezzling the funds, appointing Adel in the factory and discovering the deviation of his friend Hassan. Also in his love is the daughter of the ill-tempered Mellawani Najla Hassan and Shouki are plotting just for refusing to join them in their deviation. Admits himself to save Hossam, but the driver Saadallah reveals a fair innocence after he confesses them. Najla collapses and moves to the hospital. Adl and donate to her with his blood, make sure of the loyalty of his loyalty and marry Adel from his lover.

Poor But Happy

1986

I'm Not Lying, I'm Sugar Coating poster
7.2

Ibraham the industrious student fall in love with his colleague Khayriyah and she also fall in love with him, but the rich student Hani admire her. Ibrahim is trying to hide his social level because he is afraid to lose Khayriyah, and telling everybody that he is from a wealthy family, will Khayriyah find the truth someday ?.

I'm Not Lying, I'm Sugar Coating

1981

The Fox and Grapes poster
NR

Mohsen lives with his sister Aida and her husband Ezzat. After he graduated from the university, his colleague Najwa urges Mohsen to look for work so that they can get married. Ezzat tries to help Mohsen get a job but Mohsen fails in every job.

The Fox and Grapes

1984

Angham poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Angham

1986

A Bird on the Road poster
8.4

Faris works as a regional car driver, and he loves Esmat who works in a garment shop. Ismail is the personal driver to wealthy man Gad, he asks Faris to fill in for him and he meets Fawzia,Gad's wife who married him against her will, and soon he falls in love with her.

A Bird on the Road

1981

Palm of the Hand poster
6.0

At his wedding ceremony Hossam, is killed by a stray bullet, his father Mukhtar recalls the palm reader who told him that he will have three children, but they will all die at their weddings.

Palm of the Hand

1985

Time Conqueror poster
8.0

Fekry is a journalist who discovers that there some patients disappear suspiciously from a hospital, and doubts that Dr. Halim is behind this. Fekry is able to get into Dr. Halim's remote house in Helwan , to discover that he is conducting experiments to freeze humans to preserve them.

Time Conqueror

1987

El-Ukhwah el-Ghuraba poster
NR

Years pass since Abdel-Wadood and Aziza's marriage, but they do not have children. He marries Laila and they have a son, Omar. He is surprised when Aziza gives birth to their only son, but he abandons her. The two brothers become university students without knowing the truth about their relationship. They both fall in love with their colleague, Alfat, who prefers Wahid, who hides his love for her due to the social difference between them. Abdel-Wadood regrets his behavior with Aziza and Wahid and reveals the truth about his brother to Omar.

El-Ukhwah el-Ghuraba

1980

Zeyara serriya poster
NR

An accused who is sentenced by the judge to death, and all the evidence against him, but the accused denies that he committed the crime, which prompted his daughter to visit the judge in his home, all of which are confident in her father's innocence and due to her poor psychological condition, the judge went to prison to meet the accused sentenced to death on a secret visit, and briefed him about his daughter's case and asked him to comfort her psychologically.

Zeyara serriya

1981

Bird in the sky poster
NR

Hassan Musica is a poor young man who lives in a cemetery. He meets by chance the daughter of an Egyptian millionaire who lives in the United States of America. She comes to visit her mother's grave and learns that she is sick and needs a kidney transplant.

Bird in the sky

1988

Al-Dabah poster
NR

(Nesma), the daughter of the wealthy merchant (Hamed El-Ganzouri), is preparing a master's thesis on drug addiction, and she does not know that her father is a major drug dealer. (Zaher) helps him in his business until he becomes rich. (Nesma) falls in love with (Medhat), a medical student who is struggling in his studies because of his poverty, which makes him surrender to drug addiction. At the same time, (Zaher) admires (Nesma) and tries to marry her, but (Hamed) refuses and makes fun of him, so (Zaher) leaves his job and tries to expose him in front of his daughter and report him to the police.

Al-Dabah

1987

The Hallucination Kingdom poster
6.0

Master Qaddoura (Hassan Abdeen) is a big drug dealer in Alexandria, and officer Kamel (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is trying to catch him. He recruits brothers Morsi and Hassanein (Hussein Fahmy and Said Saleh) who work in the port ,along with Fatima (Magda El-Khatib) who wants to revenge Qaddoura for his involvement in her brother's murder.

The Hallucination Kingdom

1983

The Upper Egyptian Man poster
NR

American archaeologist Joe comes to Egypt to search for treasures of the Pharaohs, and it turns out that the map of this treasure is in the possession of the Upper Man Qadri. He tries to negotiate with Qadri,who agrees to show him the location of the treasure,in exchange for a big percentage.

The Upper Egyptian Man

1987

Uncle Qandil's Scissors poster
NR

Qandil is the owner of a barbershop who is trusted by his neighbors to solve their problems. When he is imprisoned after accidentally killing Gad, his greedy son Salah transforms the barbershop into a clothes store.

Uncle Qandil's Scissors

1985

Malaekat el-Shaware poster
NR

The film revolves around Sherifa, the Pasha's daughter, who marries Adel, the driver's son, and gives birth to her daughter Fatima. However, the Pasha forces her to divorce her, and Fatima ends up in the reformatory.

Malaekat el-Shaware

1985

Who'll Put Out The Fire? poster
8.5

Ramadan, a great musician, meets an amateur singer and helps her in her journey to fame. He kills her when she betrays him and goes to prison. After coming out he lives with Salah who works with a band in a night club. Hassan who also stays with them is admired by Ramadan for his talented voice.

Who'll Put Out The Fire?

1982

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

Zezenia poster
6.0

Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.

Zezenia

1997

Seyam Seyam poster
NR

Fasting is not all fasting, this is what the series explains through Professor Siam, who modifies every day a wrong behavior of his behaviors associated with fasting and complement to it as anom, from which we get to know the value of fasting and the divine wisdom of its imposition and determine its time.

Seyam Seyam

1980

فريسكا poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

فريسكا

2004

Al Zankaloni poster
NR

The series consists of separate episodes, each episode tells the story of a person who makes negative social mistakes that occur in society, and at the end of the story, the artist shows him the effects of the sage, such as the conscience that reprimands him for the mistakes he committed, so soon he returns to his mistake, so she returns again and discovers his action, and he is surprised.

Al Zankaloni

1987

My Dear Children, Thank You poster
NR

After the father, Abdo, passes sixty, he retires from his job. He starts discovering new things about his four children, while his children realize that they've drifted away from their father, and that they'll always need him like he needs them.

My Dear Children, Thank You

1979

Dream Travel poster
NR

As Mr. Anis retires from his job at the railroad, he is soon devastated by the utter loneliness he has to live with. Seeking companionship and intimacy, he turns his house into a motel, not for material gain, but for human interaction, for company and friendship.

Dream Travel

1986

Love and other things poster
NR

A love story between Dr. Hind, the wealthy girl, and the poor music teacher, decide to marry despite the rejection of the Hind family, but the family succumbs to the insistence of Hind and Sameh. After the marriage, the two lovers discover that love is not enough to withstand the class difference between them, and in front of the players (Adel) of Hind's partner in the hospital, who was scheduled to marry Hind before Sameh.

Love and other things

1986

No artwork available
NR

The story revolves around the village girl Zarifa , who everybody avoids and goes to work as a maid in the home of Hefnawy, but when her brother dies, she inherits his fortune and she's surprised by everyone getting closer to her.

Taming of the Shrew

1996

نحن لا نزرع الشوك poster
NR

Nahno La Nazra El Shouk

نحن لا نزرع الشوك

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دهب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

دهب

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الزنكلوني

1987

الفرار من الحب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الفرار من الحب

2000

الحقيقة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الحقيقة

1988