Motawie Eweiss

Acting

Motawie Eweiss

Born — Died

2029-08-06 — 2015-12-01

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Known for

غدا تتفتح الزهور poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

غدا تتفتح الزهور

1984

The sea said poster
1.0

Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.

The sea said

1982

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

The Pasha's House poster
NR

The series revolves around the Egyptian pharaonic heritage and examines the social situation in Egypt during the period of conflict that is the 1950s, during which the Egyptians united against the British and the family of Muhammad Ali, until the 1952 revolution broke out to save the country.

The Pasha's House

2010

Bakiza and Zaghloul poster
8.0

The series tells the story of Bakiza, who was surprised after the death of her rich elderly husband - Ashmawi - with Maji, his daughter, Zaghloul, who was raised in poverty away from her rich father. Ashmawi, the father of Zaghloul, tried at the end of his days to search for his daughter through advertisement in the newspapers, but the result is the arrival of his daughter Zaghloul late after his death to find his widow "Bakiza" - Suheir Al-Babyloni - arrogant and poor at the same time. The series is exposed to the paradoxes that result from the difference between the two characters and the way they deal with the difficulties they face after the death of Ashmawi, after discovering that he died penniless and that they share a legacy from which he remains after paying his debts except home.

Bakiza and Zaghloul

1987

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

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

A L ine of soldiers poster
NR

In a working-class neighborhood, Salma, the daughter of Constable Gaber, falls in love with Antar, a soldier. But this does not please Baraka, the butcher and neighborhood tough, who tries to drive them apart. Although he is already married to two women, Baraka wants to marry Salma and competes with Antar through unscrupulous means.

A L ine of soldiers

1990

The Son of the Mountain poster
NR

Abdel-Gabbar leads a gang of outlaws who carry out robberies, murders, and looting, taking refuge in the mountains of Upper Egypt. A young police officer from the village decides to rid his community of Abdel-Gabbar and his men.

The Son of the Mountain

1992

The scandal poster
NR

Kamel works as an employee in the government and lives happily with his wife Amina and his two daughters. His neighbor Mohsen invites Kamel and his family to spend several days with his sister Suad in his luxury apartment in Alexandria.

The scandal

1992

The Egg and the Stone poster
7.0

A 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

Citizen Masrey poster
6.5

The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father named Abdul-Muqeem (Izzat al-Alayli) to send his only son Masrey instead.

Citizen Masrey

1991

A Citizen Under Investigation poster
NR

A Citizen Under Investigation is the great Egyptian director Henry Barakat's last film, and a damning indictment of Egypt's ruling military dictatorship.

A Citizen Under Investigation

1993

Lady of Cairo poster
NR

A countryside girl moves to Cairo searching for her brother. She meets a rich man and marries him and enters the artistic field because of her beautiful voice. She becomes a big star, but she's unsatisfied with her marital life, so she drifts in a number of relations.

Lady of Cairo

1990

The Escape poster
7.4

Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.

The Escape

1991

1980s · 21 titles

Rial faddah poster
NR

When a psychiatric patient escapes from the hospital and tries to kill himself, his doctor manages to get him to reconsider and takes him back. The patient recounts how his belief in sorcery and charlatanism became an obsession that ruined his life, until he discovered that it was all a lie.

Rial faddah

1985

The Street Player poster
7.3

Fares, a shoe factory worker, has only one passion in life: football. He lives a humble life in a chaotic neighborhood where he plays street football to increase his income. However, neither his marriage nor his job is stable enough. He goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife and his son.

The Street Player

1983

وعد ومكتوب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

وعد ومكتوب

1989

راجل بسبع أرواح poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

راجل بسبع أرواح

1988

The Beggar poster
6.4

After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.

The Beggar

1983

Goodbye My Friend poster
6.9

Two friends Marzouk and Barakat, work with street vendor Batta on her cart in the melon trade. Al-Gayiar who works in the trade of stolen cars admires them, they work with him till they become his competitors. He decides to get rid of them after they've become a treat.

Goodbye My Friend

1986

Wedad, The Belly Dancer poster
NR

(Wedad) is a dancer in her aunt's cafe in Naja Hammadi, and once the prince (Yusuf), known for his corruption and injustice, arrives at his palace in Naja Hammadi, and sees Widad and asks her to dance for him at a private party, and tries to rape her but she succeeds in running away from him, and she tries to take revenge with the help of officer (Hassan).

Wedad, The Belly Dancer

1983

Alfarysa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alfarysa

1986

El Agooz Wil Baltagi poster
NR

A desperate old man asks a thug named Mahrous, whom he accidentally meets, to kill him in exchange for an amount of money. As he agrees, a friendship grows between them.

El Agooz Wil Baltagi

1989

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

We Share Your Joy poster
NR

Mokhtar desperately tries to wed Samia but their inability to find a suitable apartment over the last 8 years stands in the way. His mother-in-law isn't making things any better.

We Share Your Joy

1988

The Devil Preaches poster
5.0

A rivalry between the region's bosses shows the misuse of power and rank and its consequences even against a young couple who dared to rebel against planned but unwanted marriage to one of them, a story of injustice and abuse .

The Devil Preaches

1981

The Shame poster
7.6

A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.

The Shame

1982

Rape poster
6.7

Depicts the escape of a poor innocent girl fleeing from three savage rapists.

Rape

1989

Al-Erhab poster
NR

Esmat sympathizes with the life of a fugitive from justice after proving her innocence and relating to him after being represented by love. Ismat is preparing to travel to Abu Dhabi where he will hold an international conference on crime. Omar asks her to send a gift to a relative there. Ismat is surprised after hearing from him that he has a dynamite to blow up the plane. A delegation of ministers travels to attend the conference. Ismat informs the police and cooperates with them in eliminating him.

Al-Erhab

1989

Almoshaghib Sitta poster
NR

The poor young man, Sitta, is forced to do simple jobs as a magician and a robabki seller, but he fails at all of them. After being fired from his last job with the wealthy smuggler, Mamdouh, Sitta buys a piece of furniture in which Mamdouh had carefully hidden three million dollars, because it belonged to one of the big currency traders and his workers sold it while he was in prison without knowing its value. He decides to direct the money to charity and marry his beloved.

Almoshaghib Sitta

1988

The Widow and The Devil poster
NR

The rich widow Hanan frequently visits the shop where Lubna works, which plans with her lover Atef to blackmail Hanan. Hanan gives them a room attached to the villa garden to get married. Atef succeeds in seducing Hanan into his love, Lubna rebels against them, so Atef claims to kill her and hides her body in a deserted place, a telephone woman threatens her to report the police about the crime to blackmail her.

The Widow and The Devil

1984

Kaydahonna Azeem poster
NR

Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty years to prove the lineage of her daughter from Lotfy, a wealthy who married her customally and refused to recognize his father to Samsim, so she had to register her in the name of her deceased husband.

Kaydahonna Azeem

1983

El Meaalema Samah poster
NR

Teacher Kamal controls the market through bribery, but he loves Samah, the daughter of the teacher who raised him and cared for him. Meanwhile, Kamal robs him and burns his stores, which leads to his death. At the same time, Samah refuses to marry Kamal, especially since she is waiting for Sayed to return, who returns to disown her and seeks to marry Kamal's wealthy daughter. Thus, Samah decides to take revenge on everyone alone.

El Meaalema Samah

1989

Who is the Thief Between Us poster
4.5

The young journalist, Sahar, meets Hussein in London and they return to Egypt, where he meets her father, Asim, the company manager, from whom his twin brother, Sherif, embezzled a large sum of money. After Sherif gets arrested, Hussein tries to sell everything to help him get out of jail.

Who is the Thief Between Us

1984

Hell Below Water poster
4.5

After Hassan and Hala split up, each moves on with their life as Hala marries a corrupt elderly businessman and Hassan loses his wife in a diving accident. Hala and Hassan reunite after many years apart in a dangerous situation that reignites their love story.

Hell Below Water

1989

1970s · 6 titles

The Land poster
8.3

Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.

The Land

1970

Karnak poster
6.8

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

Karnak

1975

Desire and Loss poster
NR

Abdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian Nawal. This criminal escapes after he tried to defend himself, but the events follow and he is also accused of killing the Ghanaian Nawal, he lands in one of the villas where Murad and his wife live with their young son, and Abdullah takes from the house residents Hostages so he can escape

Desire and Loss

1972

شيلني وأشيلك poster
NR

Alaa lives and grows up in a forest in Africa, and before the death of his father, the ruler of the African country in which he and his son live recommends the necessity for Alaa to return to Egypt, and after his return Alaa finds it very difficult to adapt to the new situation in which he finds himself, until he finds a girl who teaches him to read And writing, and a love story arises between him and her.

شيلني وأشيلك

1977

Sabreen poster
NR

Sabrina's mother is sick, and her aunt visits them to check on the health of her sister. At the Police College, after being attracted to Sabrina and promised to marry, but the aunt is determined to marry her son Idiot Mohammed to ensure service to the whole family.

Sabreen

1975

Amira.. My Love poster
6.4

Adel is a director of a company and is married to Nabila, the daughter of Medhat, the owner of the company. Adel falls in love with the company employee's princess, reveals her feelings and that he was unfortunate in his life with his wife and that his marriage was an interest in relation to his position. A princess shared the same feelings and married her in secret, but Medhat finds out about them.

Amira.. My Love

1975

1960s · 9 titles

Souq El Selah poster
NR

Bahiya decides to take revenge after her brother's death at the hands of a drug gang. She exploits the love of Sayed, a gang member, to achieve her revenge, but the gang leader, Shukoura, stands in their way.

Souq El Selah

1960

Mister Fish poster
10.0

What could change in the life of el bultai family after the death of their grand el sayed el bultai .

Mister Fish

1967

Between Two Palaces poster
6.0

The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.

Between Two Palaces

1964

Between Two Palaces poster
6.0

The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.

Between Two Palaces

1964

El Maganeen Fi Naeem poster
8.3

A madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.

El Maganeen Fi Naeem

1963

The Sin poster
7.7

Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

The Sin

1965

30 Days in Prison poster
6.8

Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of money.

30 Days in Prison

1966

Driven from Paradise poster
7.0

The dervish Alish dies and is taken in a majestic procession to the cemetery. When he ascends to heaven to be judged, he discovers that the sum of his virtues equals the sum of his sins, so he's sent back to the living in order to test him and decide whether he should enter heaven or hell.

Driven from Paradise

1965

The Thief and the Dogs poster
6.7

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.

The Thief and the Dogs

1962

1950s · 14 titles

The Blazing Sun poster
6.9

A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.

The Blazing Sun

1954

Our Best Days poster
7.4

A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is seriously ill and in need of an urgent operation.

Our Best Days

1955

The Barred Road poster
8.5

Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.

The Barred Road

1958

Struggle in the Harbor poster
6.5

Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.

Struggle in the Harbor

1956

Rayya and Sekina poster
6.4

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Rayya and Sekina

1952

Rassif Nemra 5 poster
8.8

Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.

Rassif Nemra 5

1956

The Beast poster
7.1

Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible.

The Beast

1954

Jamila, the Algerian poster
7.2

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...

Jamila, the Algerian

1958

Conflict in the Nile poster
7.2

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."

Conflict in the Nile

1959

Ismail Yassine In the Navy poster
8.0

The film revolves around a young man who falls in love with his cousin, but her mother rejects this love and marriage, and tries to marry her to an older and wealthy man, to ask her cousin to volunteer in the fleet to help speed up the marriage.

Ismail Yassine In the Navy

1957

Birds of Paradise poster
8.0

Three sisters stage their disappearance from home to force their father, who left his wife for a wealthy widow, to return to the family.

Birds of Paradise

1955

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya poster
9.0

A son succeeds his father as a ruffian in the Al-Husayniyah area. As conflict arises between the young man and the current thug, who competes with him over the same girl, the thug plots to put the young man in prison for several years.

The Thugs of El-Husseiniya

1954

Scandal in Zamalek poster
9.0

A man and his sister-in-law are suspects in a murder; they do not know that the man's wife is involved.

Scandal in Zamalek

1959

We the Students poster
6.7

Three students, Adel, Hassanein, and Samir, face personal struggles. Adel is rejected by his father for loving his neighbor’s daughter, Hassanein seeks revenge for his father’s murder, and Samir deals with parental neglect after his parents’ divorce. Samir’s relationship with a maid leads to complications, prompting him to seek help from a dancer, Gamalat, for an abortion. The trio robs a bar for abortion money but finds it insufficient. Saidyh dies during the abortion, and Gamalat’s call to neighbors and the police results in their arrest and a fifteen-year prison sentence.

We the Students

1959

Series credits

غدا تتفتح الزهور poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

غدا تتفتح الزهور

1984

The sea said poster
1.0

Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.

The sea said

1982

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

The Pasha's House poster
NR

The series revolves around the Egyptian pharaonic heritage and examines the social situation in Egypt during the period of conflict that is the 1950s, during which the Egyptians united against the British and the family of Muhammad Ali, until the 1952 revolution broke out to save the country.

The Pasha's House

2010

Bakiza and Zaghloul poster
8.0

The series tells the story of Bakiza, who was surprised after the death of her rich elderly husband - Ashmawi - with Maji, his daughter, Zaghloul, who was raised in poverty away from her rich father. Ashmawi, the father of Zaghloul, tried at the end of his days to search for his daughter through advertisement in the newspapers, but the result is the arrival of his daughter Zaghloul late after his death to find his widow "Bakiza" - Suheir Al-Babyloni - arrogant and poor at the same time. The series is exposed to the paradoxes that result from the difference between the two characters and the way they deal with the difficulties they face after the death of Ashmawi, after discovering that he died penniless and that they share a legacy from which he remains after paying his debts except home.

Bakiza and Zaghloul

1987

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

اجري ..اجري ..اجري poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

اجري ..اجري ..اجري

2002

رحلة هادئة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

رحلة هادئة

1978

Hend and Dr. Noman poster
7.0

As Dr. Noman's daughter and her husband go on secondment, they decide to leave their daughter Hend with her grandfather. In Egypt, Hend is the only eyewitness to a murder, and the murderers plan to have her killed.

Hend and Dr. Noman

1984

The Man Who Lost His Memory Twice poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Man Who Lost His Memory Twice

1981

احترس من قمر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

احترس من قمر

1993

The Black Cat poster
7.0

One of the Black Cat's accomplices murders a person and Mamdouh becomes the prime suspect.

The Black Cat

1964