Hend Sabry

Acting

Hend Sabry

Born

1979-11-20 (46)

Place of birth

Tunisia

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Hend Sabry is a Tunisian actress. She was born in Kebili province in Tunisia and holds a degree in Intellectual Property. She is known for her work in Egyptian cinema and television and resides in Cairo. Sabry first appeared in the films The Silences of the Palace (1994) and The Season of Men (2000) by director Moufida Tlatli. She gained the attention of Egyptian director Inas El-Degheidy who would eventually cast her as the lead in the controversial film Journals of a Teenager in 2001. Among her most notable roles were those in films like Daoud Abdel Sayed's A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief (2001), Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building (2006) and Ibrahim El-Abyad (2009), and the televisio…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 11 titles

The Blue Elephant 2 poster
7.6

A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.

The Blue Elephant 2

2019

Asmaa poster
7.9

A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.

Asmaa

2011

Excuse My French poster
7.1

A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.

Excuse My French

2014

The Passage poster
7.0

A platoon of Commandos’ soldiers, lead by a fearless commander, Nour, and their journey through heroic battles from The Six Days War to the commencement of The Attrition War.

The Passage

2019

The Flower of Aleppo poster
6.1

Salma is a 37 years old paramedic nurse working in private and public hospitals in Tunisia. When her only son, Murad, go to Syria to join the terrorist movement Al-Nusra Front, Salma infiltrate the jihadists with the aim to bring her son back to Tunisia.

The Flower of Aleppo

2016

18 Days poster
6.6

10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.

18 Days

2011

The Treasure : Love & Destiny poster
6.6

A sequel to The Treasure (Part 1) - Reality & Fantasy (2017) The movie resumes with the stories of Hatsheput in the Pharaonic era, Ali al-Zaibaq during the Ottoman era and Beshr al-Katatini, head of State Security Investigations Service, who faces new challenges in work and love, whilst pointing his son, Hassan, towards a treasure through his recorded will.

The Treasure : Love & Destiny

2019

Noura's Dream poster
5.7

With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.

Noura's Dream

2019

The Island 2 poster
6.5

Following the events of the first part, Mansour Al-Hefni escapes from prison and reunites with his son Ali and brother to return to the island to recover what they have lost. Mansour must stand against his old love Karima while the leader of the travelers tribe Sheikh Jaafar enters the conflict for rulership

The Island 2

2014

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination poster
7.0

The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.

The Treasure: Truth & Imagination

2017

The Parrot poster
NR

The Parrot tells the story of a Mizrahi Jewish family, who emigrate from Morocco, trying to settle into their new life in Haifa, Palestine in 1948.

The Parrot

2016

2000s · 24 titles

The Yacoubian Building poster
7.3

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

The Yacoubian Building

2006

Rise and Shine poster
6.7

A woman is searching aggressively for her lost apartment keys. During her search, she is visited by some unsavory memories she has been repressing.

Rise and Shine

2006

Mama Africa poster
7.0

In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales from the depths of their hearts. The result is a groundbreaking initiative bringing together the incredibly fresh talents of six female directors from the vast and diverse continent of Africa.

Mama Africa

2002

Ibrahim El-Abyad poster
7.4

After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.

Ibrahim El-Abyad

2009

Best Times poster
7.4

Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.

Best Times

2004

Whatever Lola Wants poster
6.1

A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

Whatever Lola Wants

2007

The Island poster
7.2

Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.

The Island

2007

Heliopolis poster
6.9

8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.

Heliopolis

2009

The Bookstore poster
9.0

After a few years spent in France and in the West Indies, Jamil comes home as a broken man. He arrives in a bookshop in the center of colonial Tunis for a temporary job as a clerk. He is attracted to Aicha, 15 years older woman and the mother of the book shop owner Tarak.

The Bookstore

2002

A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief poster
5.7

Selim, a handsome and successful writer triggers an elaborate chain of events when he visits police headquarters to report his car stolen. There he runs into the bumbling Sergeant Fathy Abdel Ghafour, an old family friend who now works as a detective. When the meddlesome Sergeant Fathy insists on hiring a live-in housekeeper for his old friend, Selim’s life becomes inextricably intertwined with that of his beautiful new housemaid, her thieving husband and the well-meaning detective.

A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief

2001

Clay Dolls poster
6.8

The 40-year-old Omrane is in charge to find maid placements in Tunis for the girls from his village. But the most rebel of the girls has escaped and he has to look for her to get her back in the right path. The girl refuses to lose the freedom she just obtained. For her part, the young Fedlah who was enthusiastic by going to town quickly discovers a world where childhood doesn't belong to.

Clay Dolls

2004

I Want My Right poster
6.1

A down-to-earth, struggling taxi driver (Ramzi) discovers, by sheer chance, that his country's constitution grants him a share in the nation's entire public property. He proceeds to collecting power-of-attorney documents from over 50% of the population in order to literally sell out the country so that he could get married.

I Want My Right

2003

El-Torbini poster
4.0

Mohsen is an autistic young man who lives with his older brother Kareem after their parents passed away. Karim is trying to have custody of his brother to get his share of the inheritance, and the two brothers' relationship develops further.

El-Torbini

2007

The Season of Men poster
4.7

An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to join Said in Tunis, weaving rugs to make money. Said asks that she give him a son, so Aicha lives under the rule of her mother-in-law.

The Season of Men

2000

How to Get Girls to Fall for You poster
5.0

After Ali is accepted into the Red Sea Academy for Tourism, he gets a scholarship in Switzerland where he falls for a Swiss girl. Meanwhile, Atef falls for his Lebanese friend Nada, who is also pursued by Ali.

How to Get Girls to Fall for You

2003

In Love poster
6.0

The story of a broken up family in which the father and the oldest son live in Europe while the mother and the younger son live in Egypt. The older brother decides to travel back to Egypt to know his family better.

In Love

2004

Double Faces poster
6.5

Mahmoud is a professor of acting, who lives an isolated life, a shift in his personality occurs when he discovers the betrayal of his wife with a young man, and meets a young actress who tries to make him live a different life.

Double Faces

2005

Downtown Girls poster
6.1

The film takes place inside the world of Downtown that is full of stories and many social relations,through two girls,one is a hairdresser and the other is a saleswoman in a clothing store.

Downtown Girls

2005

The Aquarium poster
6.8

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.

The Aquarium

2008

Ouija poster
4.9

Two strangers try to solve a mystery that revolves around both of their tragic pasts. At the heart of the mystery lies a mystic board with an ability to kill.

Ouija

2006

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

One Evening in July

2001

Journals of a Teenager poster
4.4

Jamila falls in love with Raouf, a handsome young man and a friend of Nancy at first sight, to the extent that she gives herself to him.

Journals of a Teenager

2002

Game of love poster
9.0

Laila, who is abandoned by her lover dentist because of her excessive freedom, and collected by the Egyptian station for trains, "Essam," who lives a married life and monotonous and tense with his wife, "Hanan" to which he was associated without love Issam Laila attracted after joining the work as a fashion designer in the company that works In the marketing department, their relationship is deepened. Issam divorces his wife, Hanan, but after a period of separation from Leila, she feels very humiliated and decides to travel to Alexandria to try to remedy her harsh experience.

Game of love

2006

No artwork available
NR

It is an ordinary day for Raouf, who spends his day racing against time and trying to resolve his differences with his fiancée, Nadia, while meditation, memories, and nostalgia are scattered throughout the day.

Day and Night

2006

Undated · 4 titles

Series credits

Saturday Night Live Arabia poster
4.0

The Arabic version of the popular, late-night comedy sketch show features celebrity guests, parodies, and a variety of laugh-out-loud antics.

Saturday Night Live Arabia

2016

Whose empire poster
6.5

An Egyptian family living abroad decides to return to Egypt when a bout of nostalgia strikes the parents. Their children reluctantly agree to the decision but they all face a series of comical situations beyond what they expected from the moment they land.

Whose empire

2014

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

Counterattack poster
7.2

Based on records of the Egyptian intelligence agency, the story follows Saif and Dina who carry out a series of secret operations to expose terrorist plots that seek to divide the Arab region and spread Al-Qaeda’s influence in the world.

Counterattack

2021

The Stories Behind the Verses of the Quran poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Stories Behind the Verses of the Quran

2015

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

Halawet El-Donia poster
7.8

When Amina gets diagnosed with cancer close to her wedding, she gets abandoned by her fiancé under his family's pressure. This all serves as a wake-up call which makes her reflect on her relationships with the people in her life. Her elevated sense of maturity makes her value what and who truly matter in her life.

Halawet El-Donia

2017

Finding Ola poster
7.2

After a life-altering event, Ola embarks on a journey of self-discovery while dealing with the challenges of raising two children and making ends meet.

Finding Ola

2022

Manna'a poster
5.2

The story of a group of people in the working-class neighborhood of Al-Batiniya in Egypt, each living through their own struggles, ambitions, and crises in complex circumstances that threaten their stability. The story of Manaa occupies a central position as she faces social and psychological challenges.

Manna'a

2026

Al Bernameg poster
8.6

Al Bernameg is a popular Egyptian satirical program. The series is hosted by satirical comedian Bassem Youssef on the satellite channel CBC. The press has compared it to The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show. Youssef visited The Daily Show as a guest in April 2013, while Stewart, on hiatus from his own hosting duties, returned the favor on El Bernameg in June 2013.

Al Bernameg

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

Baed Alfiraq poster
NR

The story of the series revolves around (Sukkarah), the maid, who goes to Cairo to look for her childhood love (Youssef), who has become a journalist and denies knowing her. She strives in her work until she becomes a wealthy and famous businesswoman, and she also continues her education. He then tries to come back to her, but will she agree?

Baed Alfiraq

2008

No artwork available
NR

Five young people try to enter the world of entertainment as they share the same dream, despite having different reasons and despite their different physical and psychological characteristics and social levels. An educated artist, Dr. Ezzat Abu Ouf, leads them along the way.

Special Screening

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hend Sabry off Season

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No artwork available
NR

The story revolves around journalist Mai El-Gebali, who decides to write a book about a serial killer sentenced to death. With the help of one of her lovers, who has close ties to the security services, she succeeds in securing weekly meetings with the serial killer Mahmoud Helmy, who exposes the secrets of this nightmarish world.

Red Honey

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