Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab
Biography: Zaki Abdel Wahab (February 18, 1961 - March 20, 2022) was an Egyptian actor and film director. He was the son of renowned Egyptian singer Laila Mourad and director Fatin Abdel Wahab. He graduated from the Directing Department of the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema in 1983. Abdel Wahab worked as a second assistant director in the movie People on the Top (1981) and as an assistant director in many of Youssef Chahine's films, including The Sixth Day (1986), in which he made his debut as an actor. He also acted in Alexandria Again and Forever (1989), I Love Cinema (2004), and starred in Yousry Nasrallah's Mercedes (1993). In 1996, Zaki directed his feature film Romantica, which was a biography of his life. He was the location manager of American films and miniseries shot in Egypt such as Mysteries of Egypt (1998) and The Mummy Returns (2001). Zaki married actress Soad Hosny in 1981 after she separated from the film director Ali Badrakhan. However, they separated after only a few months of marriage, and he stated in more than one interview that the reason was his mother's opposition. He died in 2022 after a battle with lung cancer.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 18, 1961
Deathday: March 20, 2022
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El Fagommi
2011-06-01
El Fagommi
Overview: A biography about Ahmed Fouad Negm, the famous poet of the Egyptian colloquial, depicting the important historical and revolutionary stages, from his struggle fighting the English occupation and political oppression, to his imprisonment and his relationship with his companion the composer Sheikh Imam Issa.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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The Spider
2022-05-03
The Spider
Overview: A dangerous drug dealer, who manages to manufacture new drugs, sells them, and falls into many problems and chases by the police.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-05-03
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I Love Cinema
2004-06-09
I Love Cinema
Overview: A child who loves the cinema struggles with a fanatic dad who finds everything (including cinema) a sin, and a mother who is sexually repressed.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-06-09
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Violence and Sarcasm
2003-07-23
Violence and Sarcasm
Overview: A group of young people residing in Alexandria suffers from the governor’s tyranny. As they try to get rid of him, they launch a campaign to ridicule him by drawing caricatures and distributing them everywhere, until someone proposes an idea that changes the course of events.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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The Sixth Day
1986-09-29
The Sixth Day
Overview: Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-09-29
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Cactus Flower
2017-01-28
Cactus Flower
Overview: In a hot and politically challenged Cairo actress Aida and her neighbor, the aging diva Samiha, are thrown out on the streets. Together with the street smart Yassin, they try to find a place to live, forcing them to confront with their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Hadeed
2014-10-30
Hadeed
Overview: Ammar (Amr Saad) is young artist, who falls in love with wealthy girl Nadine (Dorra), but her rich uncle Mahdy disapproves . They decide to get married without his knowledge. But Mahdy's men kidnap Nadine, severely beat Ammar and put him in prison after which his life completely changes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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The City
1999-08-01
The City
Overview: Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1999-08-01
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Suicidal Notions
2016-11-17
Suicidal Notions
Overview: A woman’s sudden death and a discovered family secret disrupt everyone’s lives. After Marwa buries her mother, she discovers her mother’s wish to be buried elsewhere. Only hours before she is to leave Egypt for good, Marwa’s aunt decides to come through with her promise and bury her sister where she wished. Only something goes wrong with the aunt’s plans. Now Marwa finds herself stuck with her mother’s body in a box, just a few meters from Tahrir Square where revolution breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Sins of the Flesh
2016-03-29
Sins of the Flesh
Overview: Hassan and Fatma are a couple, living and working in a farm of wealthy owner Mourad. In the first days of the Jan 25th revolution, Ali seizes a security breach to break out of jail and runs to his cousin Hassan, for shelter. The latter takes him in but soon after, Mourad discovers the love that Fatma and Ali shared, years ago. This romantic history, fuelled by mounting sexual frustration, will come back to haunt all those involved.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-03-29
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Mercedes
1993-11-15
Mercedes
Overview: Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's fortune. In the process, Nubi is supposed to kill Gamal's stepmother Raifa, a suspected drug dealer, before she can kill his half-brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-11-15
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Alexandria Again and Forever
1989-12-04
Alexandria Again and Forever
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-12-04
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A Whole One
2011-12-11
A Whole One
Overview: Try (Zizi Badrawi) to convince her son, an interior decorator Abdullah (Hani Salama) to marry, with the help of his friend and his partner (Amr Youssef), not that Abdullah resides illicit relationship with a businesswoman (Rania Youssef), at the time that it relates to anchor (Yasmine Al Rayes ) heart Abdullah and seeking to marry him, and his girlfriend are trying to (smile) restore Khabib following her split from her husband (Amr Youssef), but Abdullah did not care about his love of them, sweeping the girl Christian (linux hosting).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-12-11
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Summer Thefts
1988-10-10
Summer Thefts
Overview: Set in the summer of 1961 during President Nasser's land reforms, this is a story of the childhood friendship between Yasser, the son of a bourgeois landowner, and Leil, the son of an Egyptian peasant. When turbulent times tear Yasser's family apart, the boys team up for a money-making scheme that results in misadventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Silence... We're Rolling
2001-10-06
Silence... We're Rolling
Overview: Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-10-06
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No Trespassing or Cameras Allowed
2017-03-15
No Trespassing or Cameras Allowed
Overview: A social comedy film about Thuraya Abdeen al-Entebli (Mervat Amin) receives a court order to obtain her grandfather's villa, Entebble Pasha, which was nationalized during the period of the conventions and when she goes to receive it, she found it was transformed into a police department ... Thuraya and her family live in the police department to obtain her right, Then the events follow.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-03-15
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