Hamdy Youssef

Acting

Hamdy Youssef

Born — Died

1930-08-17 — 2003-04-15

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 15 titles

Terrorism and Kebab poster
7.6

Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.

Terrorism and Kebab

1992

Sweet Oblivion poster
6.5

Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. He knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame.

Sweet Oblivion

1996

Playing with Giants poster
6.8

When Hassan Bahlal, a young unemployed man, calls the National Security Agency to report a fire that is to break out in a factory the next day, a new chapter in Hassan's life begins as he tells the officer he has foreseen the incident in a dream.

Playing with Giants

1991

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better poster
7.4

Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman

Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better

1998

A Woman Over the Top poster
NR

(Nima Abdul Ghaffar) is a married woman who lives a routine life. She meets a wealthy man who makes her divorce her husband to marry her. But when she gets pregnant,he abandons her. She then discovers that he has taken the marriage contract with him and decides to take revenge.

A Woman Over the Top

1997

Birds of Darkness poster
6.9

Three lawyers, brought by friendship but separated by interests, Fathi Nofal, who turns from a committed lawyer to an opportunist, while Ali al-Zanati joins religious extremist groups to make financial gains , and the third Mohsen only works as a simple employee away from conflict.

Birds of Darkness

1995

Mahrous the Minister's Attaché poster
6.6

Mahrous, a simple man, is acquainted with the minister as they both hail from the same village. When Mahrous gets appointed at the minister's office, he only causes trouble. However, as the two get involved in extra-marital relationships, they form a strange bond and become square in many endeavors.

Mahrous the Minister's Attaché

1999

The Luminous poster
NR

To provide for his disabled son and his sister who is still a student at the Faculty of Law, Saber earns a living by working as a part-time prisoner. Can he preserve his virtuousness when he has spent so much time amongst criminals?

The Luminous

1996

The servant poster
9.0

Shaheen falsely imprisons Kamel and exploits his son Mahmoud as a servant.

The servant

1990

Al Makhtufa poster
5.0

A collision occurs between a taxi driven by Hussein and the car of Nevin, the daughter of millionaire Ratib Barakat, which leads to the taxi being destroyed, so he harms her and drags her to the police station. Ratib Barakat expresses his willingness to pay the necessary compensation, but he changes his mind when he learns that he slapped his daughter, and Hussein is left without a source of livelihood, and when his mother dies. Hussein decides to take revenge by kidnapping Nevin to a deserted place.

Al Makhtufa

1991

The Lady's Driver poster
6.2

A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and daughter suffering from her domination and control. When she got a new driver to work with, all the family members will have different life.

The Lady's Driver

1993

Cheap Flesh poster
6.0

The story of three girls, Iikhlas, Tawhida, and Nagfa, who live in the same village, going through the same tough circumstances. As they ask Master Mabrouk to help them find a job or get married, each of them faces a difficult life.

Cheap Flesh

1995

Night Chat poster
NR

A police detective investigates an apartment in which suspicious businesses are taking place, so he disguises himself to work there and succeeds in identifying both those who frequent the apartment and those who run it.

Night Chat

1999

Layl Wa Khawana poster
NR

The corrupt lawyer Mohaseb Awadallah exploits the small thief Salah to steal important documents from the safe of an investment company. When the lawyer feels that Salah's power is increasing, he gets rid of him through another thief named Shaqroun who carries out the lawyer’s plan.

Layl Wa Khawana

1990

Penalty poster
NR

Sayyid Al-Atar turns from a teacher to the head of one of the clubs, and gets to know Nargis, who works in prostitution, to turn her into a famous belly dancer, and he returns the favor by paying him checks without credit in exchange for getting married.

Penalty

1995

1980s · 32 titles

What is wrong with the world poster
NR

After her husband’s death, Saniya raises her three daughters alone and becomes determined to marry them off to wealthy men, even selling everything to move to an upscale neighborhood.

What is wrong with the world

1988

وعد ومكتوب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

وعد ومكتوب

1989

Story Of Half a Million Dollar poster
NR

Amer shares with Saif in counterfeiting dollars, Amer leaves the money bag in his car. The young Hussein steals the car and is sentenced to three years in prison for failing to prove that he does not own the bag. Amer cedes his apartment to Saif, who demands him for the value of the bag, and writes him a check for the rest of the amount. Hussein is released and tries to convince Amer to confess the truth.

Story Of Half a Million Dollar

1988

No artwork available
NR

The kind-hearted employee, known for his good conduct and honesty, fights the suspicious dealings carried out by his direct manager. As a result, he is suspended and transferred to work in Aswan. Impressed by him, businessman Mohamed hires him to work for his company. Al-Tayyib meets Souad, a nightclub hostess who was deceived and abandoned by Ahmed after becoming pregnant with his child, forcing her to work at a nightclub

Al-Tayyeb Effendi

1984

Prosecution witness poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prosecution witness

1987

The Lawyer poster
6.8

After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s.

The Lawyer

1983

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 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

As Not to Fly the Smoke poster
7.9

Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.

As Not to Fly the Smoke

1984

Sa'aoud Bila Domouo poster
NR

Mahmoud son of Jaber abandons the owner of one of the factories for Hind daughter of Juma the chief worker in the factory, after he promised her to marry, Juma is injured work injury, and loses his arm and work, Jaber refuses to compensate him, and orders his son Mahmoud to stay away from Hind, and when Juma tries to claim his right and the right of his fellow workers, Jaber manages a crime to get rid of him.

Sa'aoud Bila Domouo

1980

Days Of Anger poster
NR

Ibrahim suddenly returns from abroad, to find his wife Safaa married to Ezzat. The couple seize his apartment and savings. Ezzat accuses Ibrahim of insanity in order to lock him up in a mental hospital where he's subjected to all kinds of physical and psychological abuse.

Days Of Anger

1989

Under Threat poster
NR

After her wealthy father becomes bankrupt , Sally goes to live with her sister and husband where she lives a liberated life. She gets filmed at one of the parties she is invited to while stealing a piece of jewelry. Hassan, who filmed the video, tries to blackmail her to help him steal the apartments of their friends.

Under Threat

1986

Love in a Jail Cell poster
6.0

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.

Love in a Jail Cell

1983

Malaf Samia Sha'rawy poster
NR

Samia Shaarawy, the widow of a martyr, tries in every way to obtain her late husband's pension, but she was married in a customary marriage, and Colonel Ashraf Al-Dessouki, who marries her, knows about her problem. Immediately after the defeat of 1967, the commander for whom Ashraf works decides to carry out a military coup, and gives him money to help in the implementation, but he decides to seize the money.

Malaf Samia Sha'rawy

1988

Marzouka poster
NR

Boraie is a blind beggar who is helped by his beautiful daughter Merzouka in making a big fortune. The swindler Sursock convinces Merzouka to steal her father's fortune then leaves her and flees with the money to Alexandria where he becomes the owner of an export and import company.

Marzouka

1985

The Talisman poster
3.6

High school teacher Mahmoud lives with his entire family in a tiny apartment. The landlord's attempts to evict them reaches the point of enlisting the Devil’s help.

The Talisman

1987

Danger Bells poster
NR

Shukri Bey, the chairman of the food company, is affirming his friend Jaber's charge of forging official papers. He is entering prison for three years. In prison Jaber recognizes Qasim, becomes a prisoner among his prisoners, and after his release he meets with Naima, who gives him money to start a new life. He is a company with Kassem who persuades him to stay away from the idea of retaliation for Shukri. The two work together with a partner who thanks Shakri and earns a lot of suspicious operations. They get documents that condemn Shukri for using them in blackmailing him.

Danger Bells

1986

The Suspect poster
6.4

The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.

The Suspect

1981

Ashra Ala Ashra poster
NR

Dr. Taliba lives a very stable life with his wife, cousin, children and brother Alaa, the university student. He gets to know Nana, the reckless girl who grew up in a decayed family. He feels that Nana brought joy to his dry life.

Ashra Ala Ashra

1985

Save Whatever is Possible poster
NR

(Nabil) returns to Egypt after an absence of 18 years to recover his father's palace after the guard has been lifted from him, gets to know the school (Amal), be surprised by his friend (Omar) who has become wealthy from the drug trade and becomes an influential businessman, (Omar) succeeds in attracting ( Nabil) to his world. And he turns his evening to the palace, which turns into a den of delinquency

Save Whatever is Possible

1985

Vote for Dr. Sulaiman Abdulbaset poster
7.0

University law professor Dr. Soliman meets the hooker Ibtisam, and goes to spend the night with her in her home but clashes with her lover Tawfik and kills him in self defense. While Soliman is taking the body to his car , a friend of Tawfik sees him and begins to blackmail him.

Vote for Dr. Sulaiman Abdulbaset

1981

The Virgin & the White Hair poster
7.0

When Dawlat, a divorced barren woman, meets Medhat, a love story quickly turns into a successful marriage. But when their adopted teen daughter Posaina start to fall for Medhat, their world is turned upside down.

The Virgin & the White Hair

1983

Mothers in Exile poster
7.0

Hassouna identifies customs with the businessman Shaheen, who offers him assistance in exchange for facilitating the procedures of his illicit goods. Hasina is lured to get involved in a relationship, and recorded by Shaheen motivated, until Hassouna becomes at their disposal, Shahine Hassouna claims that his wife, threatens him with tape and acquiesces to him for fear of the scandal, and agrees to facilitate his suspicious operations, but after an innocent injustice at customs as a result of Hassouna's corruption, He then dies, wakes up his conscience, surrenders himself, reports on Shaheen and the rest of his corrupt partners to purify himself, and his deceased colleague is considered.

Mothers in Exile

1981

The Death Ward poster
5.5

Tawfiq imports spoiled food for children which causes thousands of children to fall ill. Despite the efforts of the journalist Nabila to expose him, he is able to escape abroad, so the officer in charge, Fouad, decides to take the law into his own hands.

The Death Ward

1989

Challenge the strong poster
NR

Drug dealer Rushdi Abdel Rahman meets by chance the peasant Salma, who flees her town because her stepson is trying to kill her because she caused her husband to go to prison by testifying against him.

Challenge the strong

1980

The Third Class poster
5.5

A group of football team supporters go through a lot of trouble to watch the games while the management headed by Captain Aouf are reaping benefits effortlessly. To calm their rage Sorour is appointed as their representative in the council only to unravel their scam further, so they continue their revolt.

The Third Class

1988

Fish, Milk, Tamarind poster
9.0

When Ahmed's father travels abroad for work, he gets harassed for refusing to give a part of his income to those who helped him travel. The father dies, and when his body arrives in Egypt, the Interpol suspects Ahmed and his father of being members of a terrorist organization.

Fish, Milk, Tamarind

1988

Even after a while poster
NR

A person is wrongfully accused of murder and sentenced to death. The detective and the accused's fiancée continue their investigation until they are able to identify the real killer.

Even after a while

1988

El Zakaa' El Modammer poster
NR

Adham Fahkry has a lot of money and owns a company with huge capital. He tries to make his secretary, Jihan, believe that he is deeply in love with her and wants to marry her. Lawyer Ramzi Sultan storms into Adham's office and demands that he pay compensation to one of those he harmed. Jihan discovers that Adham is deceiving her, and events escalate.

El Zakaa' El Modammer

1987

We're All Thieves, My Dear poster
5.2

Murtada al-Salamuni's father's mansion gets seized and his wife leaves him, forcing him to reside in his family's country house. He tries to find work at Abdullah Bahnas, but he rejects him. Murtada decides to take revenge by cooperating with three thieves. led by Mahrous to steal important papers from by Abdullah to blackmail him.

We're All Thieves, My Dear

1989

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

The World on a Dove's Wing poster
6.5

Reda, a taxi driver, drives the wealthy widow Imane who has just returned from abroad. She lets him drive her to run errands, and he helps her break her sweetheart, the engineer Hassan, out from a mental hospital.

The World on a Dove's Wing

1989

1970s · 10 titles

My Sister poster
5.0

A man takes an escort to live with him in a rural area and convince them that she is his sister.

My Sister

1971

Adrift on the Nile poster
6.4

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.

Adrift on the Nile

1971

Les Misérables poster
3.0

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.

Les Misérables

1978

Love & Pride poster
6.0

After getting dumped by Adel, Zizi marries Hussein just to keep her pride. They agree to get divorced after a while, until she finds out that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything.

Love & Pride

1972

Imtithal poster
NR

Emtithal runs away from home after suffering from her stepfather's control, and works as a dancer in a nightclub. She gets close to the nightclub's thug and seduces him, becoming the queen of Emad El-Din Street. But when he discovers that she is having an affair with another young man named Naji and is pregnant with his child out of wedlock, he decides to take revenge on her.

Imtithal

1972

The Thin Thread poster
6.7

A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with Abdo. Will their love story continue?

The Thin Thread

1971

Love Comes Before Bread Sometimes poster
NR

Noura is a free girl, who gets to know Dr. Mounir and connects the love between them, but he is surprised by her thoughts, as she allows herself to have sex with the one she loves without marriage, and all of her sister Laila's attempts to straighten out and discourage her from what she does, Noura asks Munir to expedite his marriage to her, but he refuses, because he is afraid From her thoughts and marry another, so that Nora later meets the well-known writer Ezzat, to change her life.

Love Comes Before Bread Sometimes

1977

We Don't Sow the Thorns poster
6.5

Sayida lives a life full of tragedies, starting with her escape from her stepmother who treated her like a servant, her attempt to flee Abbas who keeps chasing her, her suffering from her husband who seizes her money and her involvement with a prostitution ring.

We Don't Sow the Thorns

1970

Waraa Al-Shams poster
7.0

"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by the commander of the military prison , When the rebel military commander refuses to ignore his insistence on requesting this investigation, during the special visit by "Jaafari" commander of the military prison in order to convince him to do so, "Jaafari" can not escape from his assassination by firing bullets,

Waraa Al-Shams

1978

Enough, my heart poster
NR

After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which leads her to many different pathways that make her rich but at what cost ?.

Enough, my heart

1977

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