Hassan El-Adl

Acting

Hassan El-Adl

Born

1951-03-21 (75)

Place of birth

El Mansoura, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

An Egyptian actor, he was born in Mansoura. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the Institute of Productive Sufficiency in 1972, followed by free studies at the Institute of Dramatic Arts. He worked in theater and cinema. He is known for the series Life of a Modern-Day Husband (2003), and Wanoos (2016). He directed the play The Man Who Thought.

Known for

Tamer & Shawkeya poster
8.2

Tamer & Shawkeya follows posh lawyer Tamer who marries Shawkeya, a simple working‑class teacher. Their cultural and social differences lead to hilarious situations as they navigate family expectations, everyday life, and in‑laws in this classic Egyptian comedy of mismatched marriage and domestic chaos.

Tamer & Shawkeya

2006

Al-Gama'a poster
7.0

Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Al-Gama'a

2010

Moftaraq Toroq poster
6.5

When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.

Moftaraq Toroq

2024

Release poster
6.0

After 15 years behind bars, Abbas El Rayyes walks free—stained with the blood of his family. With his cousin’s help, he seeks redemption, only to confront a world far darker than his prison cell.

Release

2026

Harb El Gebaly poster
7.0

In the bustling Al-Jamaliya district of Cairo, two powerful rival families — the Gebaly and the Gharbawy — clash over wealth, dominance, and deep-rooted grievances. At the centre is Harb, a strong yet good-hearted man navigating loyalty, love, and betrayal, as old scores, inheritance disputes, and criminal entanglements pull everyone around him into an escalating war for control.

Harb El Gebaly

2025

ألف ليلة وليلة poster
NR

The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.

ألف ليلة وليلة

1992

Film credits

2020s · 7 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

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

Flight 404 poster
7.4

A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?

Flight 404

2024

Back to Alexandria poster
6.1

After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.

Back to Alexandria

2024

A Nose and Three Eyes poster
5.2

When a mid-40s plastic surgeon seeks help to understand his attraction to a younger woman, he must own up to his romantic failures and commitment issues.

A Nose and Three Eyes

2024

Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo poster
7.4

The story follows Hassan and his dog, Rambo, as they embark on a quest to save Rambo from Hassan's vengeful landlord, whom the dog attacked. Through his challenging journey across Cairo to find a safe haven for Rambo, Hassan confronts his deepest fears and rediscovers himself.

Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo

2025

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

2010s · 3 titles

1990s · 9 titles

Destiny poster
6.8

In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

Destiny

1997

The Emigrant poster
5.8

The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study. In this film, Joseph is called Ram. Ram, tired of his family's backward superstitious life, and tired of being picked on by his brothers, wants to go to Egypt to study agriculture. His brothers travel with him across Sinai, but then suddenly sell him to Ozir, an Egyptian who works for a Theban military leader, Amihar. Amihar is impressed by Ram's drive and personal charm and so grants Ram some desolate land outside the capital. Ram soon finds himself a pawn in the political and sexual games between Amihar and his wife Simihit, a high priestess of the Cult of Amun.

The Emigrant

1994

The City poster
7.4

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.

The City

1999

Mabrouk and Bulbul poster
NR

Mabrouk, the village idiot and his sister Fatheya inherit a land after the death of their mother. Bolbol moves to Cairo after suffering from her step mother's treatment and becomes a prostitute, when she returns to the village, she meets Mabrouk who was her childhood sweetheart and their love flourishes again.

Mabrouk and Bulbul

1998

His Highness Hanafy poster
6.2

Hanafi al'abiha steals a jewelry shop with his partners and hides the bag with his brother Ahmad before they were arrested. His three accomplices escape and kidnap Ahmed's wife Duaa until they recover the bag. Hanafi is temporarily released to lead the Police to the place of his colleagues, and the events follow.

His Highness Hanafy

1990

Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine poster
7.2

This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.

Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

1991

Mr. Karate poster
5.6

Salah moves to Cairo to work as a guard in a garage and falls in love with Nadia, who works at a video store. He is obsessed with the films she has at her store and decides to learn karate.

Mr. Karate

1993

Little Dreams poster
9.0

Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.

Little Dreams

1993

O Lovely Life poster
7.0

Batta, Sakina, and Nawal .. Three friendly girls, neighbors from one lane, with similar difficult social conditions and also the dream of marriage before spinsterhood.

O Lovely Life

1996

1980s · 12 titles

Alexandria Again and Forever poster
4.8

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Alexandria Again and Forever

1989

Adieu Bonaparte poster
5.9

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.

Adieu Bonaparte

1985

Mahasabashi Hisaboh poster
NR

Hasib refuses to work or assume responsibilities because of his father's great wealth, but when his father is imprisoned and his property is seized, Hassib thinks of insuring his life for a large amount and suicide until his father gets money and pays his debts, but things change when Hassib withdraws from the idea after it is too late.

Mahasabashi Hisaboh

1984

The Rapists poster
NR

Some unemployed addicts kidnap the girl Safaa and take her to a remote place. After they gang-rape her, her fiancé Mokhtar manages to bring her home and her father reports the crime to the police.

The Rapists

1989

The Sixth Day poster
5.4

Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.

The Sixth Day

1986

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

Dreams of Hind and Camilia poster
6.5

Hend is a young widow who works as a maid, she meets Eid the conman who goes to prison and leaves her pregnant. While Camellia is a divorced maid who supports her unemployed brother and his family in exchange for letting her sleep over in his apartment.

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

1988

Avenging Ragab poster
8.0

Shandawili and Ashmawy arrive from their hometown to Cairo to look for Abdel-Al, who's supposed to buy a modern farming machine. They both fall prey to Abu Hatab's gang. Feryal admires Shandawili, and decides to repent. Shandawili informs the police about Abu Hatab and his gang with the help of Feryal.

Avenging Ragab

1984

prison without bars poster
NR

(Irfan) was in a relationship with his colleague (Laila) at university and they agreed to get married, but he left to work in order to complete their marriage. After his return, he discovers that (Laila) married a greedy lawyer to please her family.

prison without bars

1983

The Clown poster
NR

A man unexpectedly appears in the life of a family, claiming his right to his father’s inheritance as the long-lost twin son, while everyone believes he is a fraud since they thought he was dead. His arrival exposes hidden greed and conflicts within the family over money.

The Clown

1988

Fatuat darab aleisal poster
NR

Prince pays the debts of the confectionery factory that the two sisters inherited, Tohma and her sister, from their father in exchange for buying half of the factory. Lotfy joins Prince’s work and Tohma admires him. The police attack Prince for drug trafficking, but Nona is imprisoned instead. Lotfy is injured in a battle between the police and the Prince gang. Tohma discovers that Lotfi is a police officer and decides to cooperate with him to catch Prince. Lotfi matches Prince in currency trading operations and discovers the identity of the gang leader.

Fatuat darab aleisal

1985

The Collar and the Bracelet poster
6.6

In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.

The Collar and the Bracelet

1986

Series credits

Tamer & Shawkeya poster
8.2

Tamer & Shawkeya follows posh lawyer Tamer who marries Shawkeya, a simple working‑class teacher. Their cultural and social differences lead to hilarious situations as they navigate family expectations, everyday life, and in‑laws in this classic Egyptian comedy of mismatched marriage and domestic chaos.

Tamer & Shawkeya

2006

Al-Gama'a poster
7.0

Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Al-Gama'a

2010

Moftaraq Toroq poster
6.5

When her husband, a prominent figure in society, is involved in a scandal, Amira has no choice but to return to her profession to support her two children, after fifteen years she spent as a housewife.

Moftaraq Toroq

2024

Release poster
6.0

After 15 years behind bars, Abbas El Rayyes walks free—stained with the blood of his family. With his cousin’s help, he seeks redemption, only to confront a world far darker than his prison cell.

Release

2026

Harb El Gebaly poster
7.0

In the bustling Al-Jamaliya district of Cairo, two powerful rival families — the Gebaly and the Gharbawy — clash over wealth, dominance, and deep-rooted grievances. At the centre is Harb, a strong yet good-hearted man navigating loyalty, love, and betrayal, as old scores, inheritance disputes, and criminal entanglements pull everyone around him into an escalating war for control.

Harb El Gebaly

2025

ألف ليلة وليلة poster
NR

The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.

ألف ليلة وليلة

1992

On Tipping Point poster
NR

In the wake of the 25th of January revolution, Fadel Abu El-Rous surrounds himself with wealthy and powerful businessmen that he appeals to using his intelligence and cunning.

On Tipping Point

2013

The People of Cairo poster
7.0

A dramatic police investigation by chief detective Colonel Hassan, the task entrusted to him is to look into a bomb report in a luxury hotel in downtown Cairo on the wedding night of the scandalous businesswoman Belle Safi, who will be attended by important community figures at various levels, but each carrying Inside is much worse than what people show.

The People of Cairo

2010

صديق العمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

صديق العمر

2014

The Oracle poster
7.6

A crook manages to evade capture for a long time as he switches between various identities that make it difficult for the police to catch him. As he is finally caught by the police officer who has spent his life chasing him, both of them are changed forever by a series of events.

The Oracle

2013

Ghamam Island poster
7.7

When Khaldoun and the gypsy Al-Ayqa settle on Ghamam island, they try to control its people, thinking that it contains a treasure and a great secret that no one knows. As they try to extend their influence to implement their plan, will the people of the island confront them led by Arafat, El Ajami, and Muharib?

Ghamam Island

2022

Without Mentioning Names poster
7.0

The series revolves around several intertwined events, different Aisha. The series deals with the story of Rabih al-Halawani, and his son Rabie al-Halawani. The magazine and its partner in extortion operations, ill-informed. On the other hand, there is a reason to spend the protection and care of a purebred (ewe) and closer to her on the other side, as she escapes to work for Karawana and then becomes a beach dancer. He exploits the need for a job as an engineer by one of the sons of the Egyptian countryside, in order to exploit him and his father to implement private and suspicious deals.

Without Mentioning Names

2013

Gouging The Sea poster
2.0

The series is set in Upper Egypt and is based on a true event in which the tyrannical parents of Abdul Hayy, a rebellious young man, force him to face several difficulties

Gouging The Sea

2024

Tales of a Modern-Day Husband poster
7.5

In separate episodes, the series deals with the many sides of marital life and the various problems couples face across different classes and social backgrounds, through the story of the couple Mahmoud and Samia.

Tales of a Modern-Day Husband

2003

Valentino poster
5.2

Egypt's legendary comedian Adel Imam stars as Nour — nicknamed Valentino — a school owner whose life is firmly under the thumb of his iron-willed wife Afaf. Trapped in a marriage of constant conflict, Nour finds himself drawn to another woman, setting off a chain of scams, secrets and comic misunderstandings. A witty dramedy about marriage, deception and the universal truth that everybody lies.

Valentino

2020

Wannous poster
8.3

Yaqut, a father, leaves his wife and kids and disappears for 20 years. The Devil, Wanoos, then visits his family, pretending to be their father's friend, and tells them that he and their father have made millions. A conflict between the children and their mother ensues, and they need to choose between going back to their father and his money, or keeping things the way they are.

Wannous

2016

Safha Beida poster
NR

In a context of suspense and mystery, Dhay experiences many strange and mysterious events, and after a murder occurs, Officer Iyad takes over the investigation and discovers three different stories about Dhay’s life, and facts are revealed to him about an international corruption scandal linked to a famous pharmaceutical company that threatens the lives of patients.

Safha Beida

2025

What Should I Do? poster
10.0

The story follows a father of four daughters who is married to a school principal, while his mother is a strong rural lady, but she also has a soft side.

What Should I Do?

2022

Into the Dark poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Into the Dark

2021

Abdul Kader the Foreigner poster
NR

Herbert Doperfield is desperate after his brother and his brother in law die during the Second World War, he regains hope again when he goes to Sudan and embraces Islam and changes his name to Abdul Kader. He then moves to Upper Egypt and falls in love with a girl from the big families there.

Abdul Kader the Foreigner

2012

Mamoun & Associates poster
5.3

In a social and cynical context, the series revolves around Maemon, a very stingy man who has a wife and four kids whom he deprives of everything. After they all leave him, they discover that he's a billionaire. They then start a journey of finding his hidden wealth and how to get hold of it.

Mamoun & Associates

2016

Adam's Apple poster
NR

This series tells the story of a professional con artist who knows exactly how to get what he wants. His incredible conning skills leave the security agencies that are after him totally dumfounded at every turn. But the con artist’s life changes completely when he meets a woman who specializes in computer hacking, and she becomes a great asset to him.

Adam's Apple

2014

Red Sulfur poster
NR

The events revolve around Officer Mo'taz who is assigned to investigate sudden frequent fire cases at a local neighborhood. There, he quarrels with the sorcerer Shams, after which his life goes from bad to worse.

Red Sulfur

2016

ألف ليلة وليلة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ألف ليلة وليلة

1984

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

City Gates poster
NR

After a wealthy man marries a younger girl, she inherits his fortune after he dies, which puts her in conflict with his nephew who claims his right in the inheritance.

City Gates

1981

Silk Kingdom poster
4.0

Three brothers separated by life are brought together in a fierce battle for the royal throne. Fate changes on the birthday of King Nour El-Din's second son, when Uncle Golden kills the king and pursues his heir. The faithful servant Radwan escapes with Princes Shams El-Din and Jalal El-Din, but they are separated. Shams El-Din grows up as a slave in the battalion, while Jalal El-Din grows up among thieves. When they meet again, conflicts between loyalty and betrayal explode in a battle for power.

Silk Kingdom

2025

El-Cinderella poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El-Cinderella

2006

Qabeel poster
5.9

In this suspenseful thriller, a police officer is trying to find clues related to the unresolved murder of a young woman, feeling haunted by her ghost along the way.

Qabeel

2019

Sarab poster
3.0

When a seven-year-old boy mysteriously disappears, his parents are devastated as they search for answers. However, his safe return leads to an investigation that uncovers hidden secrets and truths, upending everything.

Sarab

2025

Underground poster
NR

State security officer, Gamal Al-Jabali (Amir Karara) becomes a hired terrorist for an official entity who aims to keep the country in turmoil to stay in power. He falls in love with Tuline (Songul Odin) who suffers from her cruel husband Al-Mahdy(Hatem Ali), the leader of a mafia gang.

Underground

2013

The Nightmare poster
8.2

A mother's journey in search for her son's murderer. The story unfolds between the past, present and even nightmares which gives subtle clues and hints to guide the mother to the murderer.

The Nightmare

2015

Layali poster
NR

Layali is a pharmaceutical student whose father urges her to give false testimony in a corruption case. Refusing to obey, she flees to Cairo and gets into a relationship with a Lebanese producer who promises to help her rise into stardom, but fails to honor his promise.

Layali

2009

Question Mark poster
8.0

Noah Al-Shawwaf appears to be a well-off gentleman from Alexandria, but he is running away from a mysterious past.

Question Mark

2019

Tears on Bold Eyes poster
8.0

A story based on real events from the Egyptian spy files of an Egyptian intelligence operation against the Israeli Mossad, whose hero was in fact (Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Rahman Al-Hawan)

Tears on Bold Eyes

1980

Al Zayni Barakat poster
6.5

Following the decline of the Mamluk state and the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, the series depicts the sufferings of people living amidst social and political upheaval. When the enigmatic and ruthless Zayni Barakat Ibn Musa takes control, the truth of his rule and character unfolds.

Al Zayni Barakat

1995

Farawla poster
NR

Farawla, a fortune teller and the daughter of a doorman, comes out of poverty and becomes a social media celebrity, on a rising journey full of comedic situations, until she becomes a society woman and an expert in the field of energy.

Farawla

2024

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

Doors of Fear poster
9.0

Adam Yassin is a journalist and a translator who has an interest in the paranormal. As he pursues freak accidents and strange occurrences, even those that happened long ago, his investigations occasionally bring him into conflict with the police.

Doors of Fear

2011

No poster
NR

When Abdel Mutaal Mahjoub is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and things are made worse when he's presumed dead, he suddenly finds himself secluded, and recollections of his past life come creeping in, making him a prisoner of his own mind.

No

1994