Mahmoud El Gendy

Acting

Mahmoud El Gendy

Born — Died

1945-02-24 — 2019-04-11

Place of birth

Al Beheira, Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

101 titles

Mahmoud Hussein El Guindi was born in (the town of Abou Al Mattamir), Al Beheira governorate. (He has nine siblings). (Mahmoud was enrolled in a vocational school where he trained as a (tailor)). After graduating, he worked at a factory. Thereafter, Mahmoud was admitted to the (Institute of Cinema) and graduated in 1967. Following his graduation he worked in cinematic, television and theatrical productions. Among the plays in which he has performed are “Antarah”, “Mawloud Al Malik Maarouf”, “Shakespeare fee Al Ataba”, “Alashan Khatir Eyounik”, “Al Maleem bi Arbaa”, “Bahebak ya Mojrim”, “Al Brenseesa”, “Innaha Haqan Aaila Mohtarama”, “Al Rouaab Al Laziz”. Following an accident that took the l…

Known for

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

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

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

The God Father poster
9.5

The series revolves around a large family dominated by Father Zain Al Attar, who embodies the course of the artist Mahmoud Hamida, and has a large number of children who live with him in the house except two, one of them lives in a shelter and the other an aggressive person, and recounts the relationship of this father with gangs of arms and smugglers.

The God Father

2017

Ramadan Kareem poster
5.0

Taking place during the month of Ramadan in a local neighborhood, where one of the girls tries to disavow her family and her social level. She claims that she is from a wealthy family in order to meet a young man who she falls in love with.

Ramadan Kareem

2017

Lahfa poster
7.0

A comedy about an aspiring actress who enlists the help of her uncle, a casting agent, in order to land her breakthrough role, because the last thing she wants is to end up being an extra like her father.

Lahfa

2015

Film credits

2010s · 15 titles

Sameer & Shaheer & Baheer poster
7.1

The film revolves around three brothers of the same father, "Munir dangerous" . "Samir" (Ahmad Fahmy), is doubler of the artist Ahmed El Shakka in this films and "popular" (Chico) how loves music and is known for its relations with women, and "Baheer" (Hicham Maged), the son of an aristocratic family, the three brothers have was forced to travel together through time to the day met the father, three mothers, and through a series of events trying to comedy trio return to their time.

Sameer & Shaheer & Baheer

2010

World War III poster
6.9

Khamis is a terrible football player, while playing football with his friends he shoots the ball away and broke an abandoned museum's window. After entering the museum he finds that statues become alive at 17:00.

World War III

2014

An Hour and a Half poster
7.3

Based on the Ayyat train accident that killed 361 in 2002, this ensemble drama delves into the intense human stories of the passengers in a third-class coach car during the hour and a half before the crash.

An Hour and a Half

2012

Son of Adam poster
5.6

A family and businessman (Adam) is accused of running a criminal empire while he denies the accusation by being the one who take criminals down.

Son of Adam

2018

The Kowess Family poster
5.4

The 'Koways' Family may seem like a model for the normal family, but it is far from normal, as it unfolds through a series of comedy situations.

The Kowess Family

2018

The Fourth Pyramid poster
5.5

This suspense-thriller looks into the hidden world of online hacking through several methods, such as social media, different forums, and so on. Yusuf, a brilliant engineering student, is behind a lot of the operations that are being talked about.

The Fourth Pyramid

2016

Birds of the Nile poster
3.5

A young man leaves his rural origins in search of self-actualization. He moves into a poor neighborhood where he resides with his sister Narjes and gets involved with many women until he discovers he has cancer and encounters another girl with the same pernicious illness.

Birds of the Nile

2010

Reaction poster
6.0

When a series of seemingly random people are murdered, baffled police search for a iller who may have a connection to them all.

Reaction

2012

Forced Escape poster
5.8

Follows the escape journey of 4 complete strangers who were accused of a murder they did not commit.

Forced Escape

2017

Local Dog poster
5.3

A comedy movie revolves around a thief who steals street dogs and sell them, oddly he learned this profession from a female dog, who breastfed him when he was a baby, which led him to acquire a supernatural powers.

Local Dog

2016

30 Years Ago poster
7.4

"Omar" is back from abroad to divide his fortune to his family of nine members equally, but he tells them that his money is cursed, and the curse haunt who get the money wherever he goes, and has already convinced his cousin "Emad" about it after the occurrence of the victims in a strange way between family individuals in a row, trying to uncover the mystery behind the curse

30 Years Ago

2016

The Best is Yet to Come poster
NR

A TV presenter discusses several issues concerning the Arab region and Arab identity through the representation of a Kuwaiti student who travels to Egypt to resume his studies and crosses paths with an Egyptian girl whose parents oppose their marriage.

The Best is Yet to Come

2014

Monkey Talks poster
5.1

Two magician brothers, Taha and Rashad El-Shenawy, prepare to pull off a magic trick to free their wrongfully imprisoned father.

Monkey Talks

2017

Out of the Ordinary poster
6.6

When Yehia's scientific investigation of the paranormal yields nothing, he takes a forced vacation from his work and regular life. Wandering aimlessly, he settles in a seaside guest house that is inhabited by a group of quirky characters. As Yehia grows intimate with the owner and close to her charismatic young daughter, he believes he's stumbled across the magic he had sought for so long. It appears that something out of the ordinary seems to exist within them all, and perhaps also within himself.

Out of the Ordinary

2015

قاطع شحن poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

قاطع شحن

2010

2000s · 9 titles

The Wedding poster
6.1

Facing financial strain, a man organizes a fake wedding to raise money. A deeply touching Egyptian drama.

The Wedding

2009

Tara2ee3o poster
6.7

The play deals with the life of a young Saidi called (Fares), who was sent by his father to complete his education in Cairo, but returned without completing his studies, then (Fares) falls in love with a girl who works with him in the Mawlid.

Tara2ee3o

2002

Cabareeh poster
6.7

A typical day at a nightclub at Al-Haram street is turned upside down when a terrorist decides to blow up the building. A plunge into the lives of a group of people who are drastically different but equally interesting.

Cabareeh

2008

The Baby Doll Night poster
5.4

Hossam, an Egyptian tour guide working in the US, comes to Egypt on vacation during New Year's Eve and hopes to spend a romantic night with his wife in their hotel. Unbeknownst to him, Awadain the terrorist who has other plans for the hotel that night.

The Baby Doll Night

2008

One of the People poster
6.9

Mahmoud is a man with simple dreams. His life turns into agony, when he witnesses a murder in the garage where he works as a security guard and he testifies against the murderer.

One of the People

2006

No One Can Overcome Them poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

No One Can Overcome Them

2009

Convicted Outlaw poster
6.3

A guy whose father was an assisstant to a drug dealer who killed him . So when the guy when he grow up he worked with the same dealer . At the end he killed the dealer for his father .

Convicted Outlaw

2007

No artwork available
NR

The events take place inside a luxurious villa in the 6th of October city in Cairo, in which the writer reviews the most important problems of Egyptian society and the conflict between two classes, one rich and corrupt and the other poor and hard-working.

Those Darn People

2007

Please, here, driver! poster
6.3

A social comedy that tells the life of the street in Cairo in 2007 and 2008 through a taxi driver. We see daily dilemmas for the taxi driver through the taxi customers from all segments of the society in comical paradoxical paradoxes that reflect the spirit and rhythm of the Egyptian street in all its manifestations to see the state of a society full of shyness and surprise. .

Please, here, driver!

2008

1990s · 14 titles

Youth on a Volcano poster
NR

The film follows Fawzi, a poor unemployed young man whose fiancée leaves him for a wealthy man. When circumstances present him with an opportunity to make quick money through smuggling, he decides to accept the offer.

Youth on a Volcano

1991

The Battle of Beauties poster
NR

Dalal works as the manager of singer Afaf, who owns a nightclub. However, Afaf is constantly harassed by Aziz, a depraved thug who stalks her. Aziz breaks into Afaf’s apartment to steal her jewelry, but when he discovers that her sister is there, he is forced to kill her and flee. The events continue to unfold from there.

The Battle of Beauties

1993

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

Shams El Zanaty poster
5.8

During World War II, a tribal chief travels to Cairo to buy weapons. He asks for Shams Al Zanati's help to protect his oasis from Marshal Bar'i.

Shams El Zanaty

1991

Beggars and Noblemen poster
7.8

In June 1945, during the final days of WWII, former university professor Gohar meets a young prostitute in a brothel and kills her in a moment of frenzy. Police Detective Noureddine takes on the murder case and tracks down Gohar, hoping to confront him and get a confession to the murder from him. However, both the detective and the killer face startling facts that change the way they think.

Beggars and Noblemen

1991

Jaws Family poster
NR

A huge fortune suddenly descends on Taher, making him suspicious and mistrustful of everyone who approaches him, especially his wife and his sister, fearing that they want to exploit him.

Jaws Family

1997

الرصيف poster
NR

The film takes place within a social framework within the Egyptian and Arab society with its myriad problems and stories.

الرصيف

1993

Ballo Ballo poster
NR

In the framework of a comedy revolves around theatrical play some people working within the circus and link them to some of the positions of comedian and theatrical show where they know a rich girl was connected with the circus in the university period, talking many comedy events

Ballo Ballo

1995

Kelab El Madina poster
NR

Shukry becomes a fraudster after prison and gets involved in a smuggling operation that attracts police attention.

Kelab El Madina

1995

Stories of an Estranged poster
8.0

Between the Setback of 1967 and the glorious October War, Abdel Rahman feels despair following the defeat of his homeland as he witnesses the changes that occurred to the people and their journey from despair to determination to restore their land and dignity.

Stories of an Estranged

1992

El Motaleqat Wil Zeaab poster
NR

Madiha, after filing a lawsuit against her gambler husband, and after he stole his jewelry to spend on the tables, meets the owner of a computer company, the husband threatening his wife and stealing her furniture. Spouse dies in a collision. Madiha discovers that Salah loves her younger sister Rasha. The teacher, Hamouda, the husband of Salah’s sister, tries to establish a relationship with his wife, who has requested a divorce.

El Motaleqat Wil Zeaab

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

Nagi El-Ali poster
7.0

After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.

Nagi El-Ali

1992

Nannousah poster
NR

Noussa escapes from the poor neighborhood in which she lived after she surrendered to the one she loved, but he disavowed her, and married a rich girl, and after succeeding in achieving some wealth, she returns to take revenge on the neighborhood people who let her down.

Nannousah

1992

1980s · 16 titles

افتح المحضر poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

افتح المحضر

1986

An Egyptian Story poster
6.5

After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

An Egyptian Story

1982

The Bloody Destiny poster
8.0

As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.

The Bloody Destiny

1982

Harat altayibin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Harat altayibin

1987

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

Bitter Day, Sweet Day poster
6.3

Aisha is a widow with five children, Sana, Suad, Lamia, Asmaa and Noor. The eldest got married to Orabi the carpenter, and are living in the family's poor house. Orabi starts acting like he's the man of the house, and the other sisters try to find their way in life.

Bitter Day, Sweet Day

1988

The Genius and Love poster
NR

Dr. Hanan the psychiatrist postpones her wedding to Dr. Omar till she checks up on three patients having different problems, but it revolves around the life partner. Dr. Omar decides to disguise and interfere in their lives to solve the problem and marry the one he loves.

The Genius and Love

1987

Madame Shalatta poster
5.0

Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes to prison for his suspicious activity and confiscates his money and Najwa loses the way.

Madame Shalatta

1986

الوحوش الصغيرة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الوحوش الصغيرة

1989

Al Jamaliyah poster
7.0

Fathi steals cars on behalf of the teacher Aliwa, who does not pay him his dues financially. When Fathi gets fed up with this, the teacher Aliwa reports him and Fathi goes to prison. In prison, he meets two other thieves, and the three of them decide to stop stealing and repent to God. Fathi decides to cooperate with the police and work again with the teacher Aliwa to inform the police about him.

Al Jamaliyah

1987

Heart of the Night poster
7.7

Ja'far rebels against his controlling grandfather and marries the shepherdess Marwanah. When his grandfather kicks him out, Ja'far is unable to support himself and Marwanah so he leaves her and marries the wealthy lady Huda, but he begins to struggle to prove himself.

Heart of the Night

1989

نوع من الرجال poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

نوع من الرجال

1988

عصفور عقله طار poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عصفور عقله طار

1987

The Informant poster
NR

Mabrouk comes from his village to repair part of his uncle's flour machine, and on the train he meets Nawara. He helps her to escape from her uncle who wants to kill her to defend his honor. He also meets Hashim, who tries to quit being an informer for officer Sharif.

The Informant

1989

Illusions Of Love poster
NR

Hassan succeeded in getting married despite the objection of their families to this connection. Hassan hassan, in the opinion of Amira's mother, is a simple employee in a bank and cannot make Amira happy when she has the right groom for her daughter. And a princess in the opinion of Hassan's father in the formation of his future, which is his rich bride and suitable for his son and finally marry her after the feet of a princess to commit suicide and problems begin to crawl on the nest of marriage and expel love or illusions from the other side

Illusions Of Love

1984

El Princesa poster
6.0

A young widow and a wealthy man who charters a yacht and wants to take a trip at sea, but at the same time she hates men due to her previous marriage at the same time.

El Princesa

1984

1970s · 6 titles

Shafiqa and Metwally poster
6.7

The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.

Shafiqa and Metwally

1978

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

It Is Really A Respectable Family poster
NR

The story revolves around a father dedicated to raising his children and harnessing all his life and power to achieve that goal, especially after the death of their mother, but the life of this father changes after he got to know a dancer, the father falls in love with this beautiful dancer and waives many of the principles that he himself He decides to marry this dancer.

It Is Really A Respectable Family

1979

Sweet Lemon poster
NR

A man returns from the Italian countryside to reunite with his former lover, now a successful singer, only to find their reunion far different from what he expected.

Sweet Lemon

1972

Prayer of the oppressed poster
NR

Manar marries a wealthy man while she is in a relationship with Medhat. He sends her letters in the name of Nabila, her brother Sharaf's wife, but divorces her when he gets his hands on one of them. He suspects his paternity of Mervat and hands her over to a teacher who runs a pickpocket den.

Prayer of the oppressed

1977

Rendezvous with Soso poster
6.0

A chance meeting between a nightclub worker and a famous actor gives Soad the chance to have a movie career. But her love story with Hesham is put on the line when she comes clean about her real profession.

Rendezvous with Soso

1977

Series credits

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

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

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

المصراوية poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

المصراوية

2007

The God Father poster
9.5

The series revolves around a large family dominated by Father Zain Al Attar, who embodies the course of the artist Mahmoud Hamida, and has a large number of children who live with him in the house except two, one of them lives in a shelter and the other an aggressive person, and recounts the relationship of this father with gangs of arms and smugglers.

The God Father

2017

Ramadan Kareem poster
5.0

Taking place during the month of Ramadan in a local neighborhood, where one of the girls tries to disavow her family and her social level. She claims that she is from a wealthy family in order to meet a young man who she falls in love with.

Ramadan Kareem

2017

Lahfa poster
7.0

A comedy about an aspiring actress who enlists the help of her uncle, a casting agent, in order to land her breakthrough role, because the last thing she wants is to end up being an extra like her father.

Lahfa

2015

The Flood poster
7.0

The Mandoah family leads a humble life, with the mother, Safia, bringing up her children after the death of her husband. Her husband has left a piece of land in Ismailia that turns out to be part of the planned area for the Suez Canal project, which causes the price of the land to skyrocket to 300 million pounds. They each find themselves owning millions in the blink of an eye. What will come next?

The Flood

2017

Nelly and Sherihan poster
8.6

Nelly is a wealthy girl, and Sherihan is the opposite. They happen to be cousins, with completely different personalities. When they find out that they will be getting an inheritance from their grandfather, they put their differences aside to solve the 'Mickey Mystery' which should get them to the inheritance.

Nelly and Sherihan

2016

Harun Al Rashid poster
8.7

The story of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, which depicts the era of the Abbasid state and its historical glory, focusing on the personal life of the Abbasid caliph who was famous for his infatuation with women, and shedding light on his amorous exploits and the feuds of the harem inside the palace.

Harun Al Rashid

1997

I want to get married poster
7.9

The story of a pharmacist who wants to settle down and get married before reaching the age of thirty, and her family's insistence that she accepts the first groom who proposes, as well as her hilarious stories and experience with the men who propose to her.

I want to get married

2010

Morning and Evening Talk poster
8.4

The latest that deals with the social and political history of Egypt revolves through three personalities, its children and grandchildren branches, and follows their conflicts, social roles, their human relationship and their different attitudes towards life and the homeland through the direct effects of economic interests on the relationships between the characters and the origins of these three trees.

Morning and Evening Talk

2001

The Honey and The Tears poster
9.5

The series revolves around the two brothers Hafez and Shawqi, the sons of Haj Radwan, whose life paths are completely different, while Shawky indulges in the life of fun and luxury, his brother Hafez is busy working in trade with his father, and begins signs of conflict between them on several levels, and at the same time Hafez marries Dolat, and Shawky from Zainab, to ignite the ground of a new conflict.

The Honey and The Tears

1983

The Honey and The Tears poster
9.5

The series revolves around the two brothers Hafez and Shawqi, the sons of Haj Radwan, whose life paths are completely different, while Shawky indulges in the life of fun and luxury, his brother Hafez is busy working in trade with his father, and begins signs of conflict between them on several levels, and at the same time Hafez marries Dolat, and Shawky from Zainab, to ignite the ground of a new conflict.

The Honey and The Tears

1983

النوّة poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

النوّة

1991

King Farouk poster
NR

The biography of King Farouk I of Egypt, the penultimate king of the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Succeeding his father, Fuad I, to the throne, Farouk's reign ended when the Egyptian revolution of 1952 broke out, and he was overthrown and exiled.

King Farouk

2007

My Way poster
7.5

An aspiring artist tries to make it, facing numerous difficulties both personally and professionally throughout her life, since her persecuted childhood and adolescence as a girl living in a rural area.

My Way

2015

ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي

1995

No artwork available
NR

The series shows how the leaders of the former regime used thugs in their illegal business, one of those thugs is Hamza, who works as a mechanic as a cover for his dubious activities.

The Thug

2012

Live Your Days poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Live Your Days

2004

Unknown Number poster
7.8

When the young lawyer (Ali) receives a call from an unknown person, threatening that he has what may destroy his reputation, the events get complicated especially with the presence of many family problems that intersect with each other. Through out the series the question remains,who is that caller and what exactly does he want?

Unknown Number

2012

Bab Al Khalq poster
NR

After the Arabic language teacher travels outside Egypt in despair, he returns after a while to his hometown in Bab Al Khalq to be surprised by many changes that foretell a possibly mysterious future, whereupon he tries to coexist and keep pace with them to ensure the continuation of life.

Bab Al Khalq

2012

No artwork available
NR

Karima is a housewife, who works more than one job to support her family. After her husband dies, she discovers that he was married to another woman and that he has saved a huge fortune. So, she gets a large share of this money and turns into a stingy woman.

Karima .. Karima

2009

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

Not One Thousand and One Nights poster
NR

A different take on the classic One Thousand and One Nights, where Scheherazade has a recurring dream that a soothsayer interprets as a sign that she only has two days left with her husband, before she meets the same fate as the women before her. Scheherazade comes up with a plot to escape that fate.

Not One Thousand and One Nights

2010

Chi Tutu Restaurant poster
NR

Where one of the restaurants owned by Adel and his friend Nagaty, after Adel returns from abroad deciding to start a small business that generates income for him, his friend Nagaty offers him a stay.

Chi Tutu Restaurant

2006

Blessed Signs poster
NR

Abo El-Maaty buys a piece of land to cultivate it. A film crew comes to shoot near the farm, but the film star Salwa has an accident and Abo El-Maaty takes her to his farm to take care of her. She discovers that no one there knows who she is and becomes impressed by the simple life they're living.

Blessed Signs

1987

Abo El-Ela 90 poster
NR

The idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.

Abo El-Ela 90

1996

Ibn Halal poster
9.5

A young man (Mohammed Ramadan) travels from Qena to Cairo for work, but the only job he can find is as a painter. He is constantly running into trouble, as he deals both with his extreme poverty and his desire to live a decent life for his mother. His world gets turned upside down when he finds himself way in over his head, and it becomes clear that he must find a way out before it is too late.

Ibn Halal

2014

He and She Stories poster
7.0

A drama consisting of several separate episodes, each episode discusses a different issue of men and women and their relationship with each other.

He and She Stories

1985

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

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr poster
6.0

A magical Egyptian fantasy from the Alf Leila w Leila series, Aroos El Bahr follows a forbidden love between a human prince and a mermaid princess. Blending folklore, music, and adventure, the story explores sacrifice, transformation, and destiny in a richly imaginative world inspired by timeless Arabian tales.

Alf Liela w Liela - Aroos El Bahr

1985

One Thousand and One Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves poster
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Ali Baba and the forty thieves are one of the most famous stories and characters with eastern features, and it is one of the well known fairy tales that inspired writers and artists around the world. The story revolves around a simple Arab lumberjack named Ali Baba who accidentally hears the password that opens the door of the cave in which a gang of thieves hide their treasures. Thanks to the password, open Sesame, Ali Baba managed to obtain the treasures hidden in the cave, and his name became a sign of thievery throughout the world.

One Thousand and One Nights: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1995

Good Mood poster
8.0

The drug dealer, Afandina, tries to monopolize the drug trade in his neighborhood, but he has a tough rival in Al-Noah and his son Bara'a, who want to take revenge on Afandina for killing Gharib Al-Noah.

Good Mood

2013

Al-Adham poster
7.5

Adham's negative experience as he was deprived of his inheritance forces him to migrate illegally to Ukraine, where he begins to trade in drugs until he becomes a drug lord.

Al-Adham

2009

The Foul Wind poster
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In Alexandria, a girl goes out to work in trade in order to provide for her siblings and afford their education, an endeavor that leaves her exposed to a lot of difficulties as she tries to keep the family together.

The Foul Wind

1991

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NR

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الشوارع الخلفية

1979

The Story of Hayat poster
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Hayat is a schizophrenic woman who was admitted to a mental hospital after killing her mother. When she successfully convinces her doctor that she was set up by her family, he helps her leave the hospital to begin a journey full of unexpected surprises and mysterious turns.

The Story of Hayat

2013

Adam poster
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Adam, an Egyptian television series presented in Ramadan 1432 AH / 2011, written by Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Zeid, directed by Mohammed Sami, and starring: Tamer Hosni, Mai Izz Aldin, Dora, Majed Masri, Ahmed Zaher, Dina Fouad.

Adam

2011

Vertigo poster
7.0

Farida, a photographer, goes to a hotel to meet her friend and husband, who works at the hotel's Vertigo bar. She finds herself the only witness to the murder of two businessmen and their guards, as well as the lives of her close friends.

Vertigo

2012

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