Amr Abdel Gelil

Acting

Amr Abdel Gelil

Born 1963-01-10 · Egypt

Despite his great talent and the fact that his career took-off to a promising start with an involvement with Youssef Chahine, Amr was nonetheless assigned minor roles in his first few years in cinema. Thereafter, Amr proved his talents as a comedy actor when he performed in Khaled Youssef’s films “Heyna Maysarah” and “Dukkan Shehata”. Amr finally found a leading role in Youssef Chahine’s “Kalimny Shoukran”.

Acting credits

Laughter, Joy, Work and Love poster
6.0

During 1968 , in the Heliopolis area, a group of school students live for fun and pleasure, and they get to know a young boxer named (Adham), who changes their views on life in many aspects. (Adham) falls in love with the prostitute (Aisha), and decides to marry her, but his rich father wants to keep them apart.

Laughter, Joy, Work and Love

1993

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Starring Role

Zombie Ala Gamby poster
4.2

A singer and his band find themselves facing an unexpected situation, when they accidentally enter a zombie-infested area and clash with them.

Zombie Ala Gamby

2022

The Fourth Man poster
4.0

An aspiring filmmaker takes a leap of faith and agrees to make a commercial film in a short time, unaware that the process sets him onto a comedic adventure.

The Fourth Man

2022

Notice Death poster
NR

A number of people receive death threats from a mysterious mentally ill person, and these threats quickly turn into real crimes out of revenge. A police officer undertakes the task of investigating to uncover the truth and achieve justice, but his job becomes more difficult as the threads of cases linked to each victim become intertwined.

Notice Death

2026

Shehata's Store poster
6.3

Shehata is the son of a modest gardener who saved all his money to open a fruit stand and named it after his favorite son. Shehata's siblings get so jealous of their brother and plot against him. A representation of the downfall of society and its decaying morals.

Shehata's Store

2009

For Zeko poster
6.7

The story follows a simple family whose young son, Zeko, wins the opportunity to participate in a contest for Egypt's smartest child. As they set out to attend the contest, many paradoxes happen to them during the two-day trip

For Zeko

2022

Casablanca poster
6.4

Three friends form a gang of pirates, “Sea Burglars”, get assigned to a mission against the Mob, after a large cargo of diamonds was heisted. Things turn into a web of rivalries and paybacks, when one one of them decides to do the mission on his own and escape to Morocco.

Casablanca

2019

The Swarm poster
4.2

Based on actual events and the efforts of the Egyptian National Security Authorities against terrorist organizations through the incident of the massacre of 21 Egyptians in Libya and the army’s expanding operations in order to confront these terrorist groups.

The Swarm

2024

Away from Evil poster
4.6

Sully a lover boy, who escapes his marriage from Farah, to then find himself in love with Mariam but fails to marry her because of a spell. His journey contains many comedic situations with his friend Meshmesh.

Away from Evil

2023

The Mexican Experiment poster
3.5

Within a framework of comedy and action, the work revolves around a group of friends traveling on a mission to Mexico. They are exposed to many situations and paradoxes, and events continue

The Mexican Experiment

2024

Friday Market poster
5.0

Every week, the poor go to Friday market. The film revolves around the merchants in that market, their personal lives and dealing with customers

Friday Market

2018

Alexandria Again and Forever poster
5.1

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

Alexandria Again and Forever

1989

The Humans and the Mongoose poster
4.8

The story follows a poor government employee who lands in a lot of trouble because of his father's profession, while he falls for a girl who tries to help him solve his problems.

The Humans and the Mongoose

2021

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NR

The events of the work revolve in a comedic context around a young man who lives an average life and faces various financial challenges. Then his life changes completely when a person appears to him who exploits modern technology to bring in money, and events begin to develop.

Hell land

Chaos, This Is? poster
7.1

Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention even if by force.

Chaos, This Is?

2007

Belomondo poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Belomondo

2023

The Emigrant poster
5.8

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

The Emigrant

1994

The Nightingale of Dokki poster
5.8

A poor guy want to be famous singer but he is a failure one when his mother dies he knows from her that he has a millionaire twins brother.

The Nightingale of Dokki

2008

TAG poster
5.0

The film follows the lives of the twins Tag and Haroun, who go through many crises as their supernatural abilities cause many paradoxes to occur.

TAG

2023

Next Thursday poster
NR

A couple buys a new palace, but they discover that they have been deceived, and the palace has been sold to multiple people. To make matters worse, the palace is haunted and anyone who lives in it is afflicted by a magical curse!

Next Thursday

2023

Marry Me Again? poster
5.4

When a technical error annuls the union of all married couples in Egypt, a journalist sets out to investigate rising marital issues— including his own.

Marry Me Again?

2021

Until Things Get Better poster
5.8

A film highlighting the issue of street children and the marginalized social class living under the pressure of economic conditions in a shanty district. Nahid escapes from her stepfather’s harassment only to become a victim of a horrible rape incident. She then becomes a dancer.

Until Things Get Better

2007

Tata Fell asleep, Tata woke up poster
NR

Tata (Sherif Negm) works as a bartender in a nightclub, and since he lives in dreams and not in reality, he is fired from work. He goes to work for his cousin Maghawri (Shaaban Abdel Rahim), a wedding singer and cinema extras, to help him get a job and discovers that he has a supernatural ability.

Tata Fell asleep, Tata woke up

2007