Hassan El-Adl
Biography: An Egyptian actor, he was born in Mansoura. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the Institute of Productive Sufficiency in 1972, followed by free studies at the Institute of Dramatic Arts. He worked in theater and cinema. He is known for the series Life of a Modern-Day Husband (2003), and Wanoos (2016). He directed the play The Man Who Thought.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 21, 1951
Deathday: N/A
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The Collar and the Bracelet
1986-06-07
The Collar and the Bracelet
Overview: In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-06-07
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The Emigrant
1994-09-26
The Emigrant
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-09-26
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Adieu Bonaparte
1985-05-17
Adieu Bonaparte
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-05-17
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Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
1991-09-21
Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
Overview: This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1991-09-21
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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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Reklam
2012-02-15
Reklam
Overview: Shadyia is forced to marry a drug dealer, and from here her life begins to decline after her husband is arrested. She meets three other girls ,Dawlat, Shukryia and Suzy, who are also going a dark path.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2012-02-15
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Back to Alexandria
2024-07-18
Back to Alexandria
Overview: After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-07-18
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Mabrouk and Bulbul
1998-10-26
Mabrouk and Bulbul
Overview: Mabrouk, the village idiot and his sister Fatheya inherit a land after the death of their mother. Bolbol moves to Cairo after suffering from her step mother's treatment and becomes a prostitute, when she returns to the village, she meets Mabrouk who was her childhood sweetheart and their love flourishes again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1998-10-26
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Hanafy Al Obaha
1990-04-26
Hanafy Al Obaha
Overview: An officer balancing his marriage and police responsibilities releases a prisoner temporarily with the aim of using him to find and capture his old gang.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1990-04-26
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Bushra Sarrah
2009-12-09
Bushra Sarrah
Overview: an Egyptian teacher traveled to work in the Gulf for many years. After a long period, she decided to return to her country, but she was surprised by many changes in the behavior of citizens, and she got into many problems since her return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2009-12-09
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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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Mr. Karate
1993-03-24
Mr. Karate
Overview: Salah moves to Cairo to work as a guard in a garage and falls in love with Nadia, who works at a video store. He is obsessed with the films she has at her store and decides to learn karate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-03-24
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Ashbah Europa
2022-09-21
Ashbah Europa
Overview: A wife gives birth to sextuplets, forcing the husband to sell three of their children due to poverty. When the wife finds out, she decides to leave her husband and travel abroad and many conflicts arise between siblings in the future.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-09-21
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Box of Wonders
2020-02-19
Box of Wonders
Overview: The film follows the touching stories of various people in Downtown Cairo as they try to find balance in their lives and deal with its ups and downs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2020-02-19
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Halim
2006-07-12
Halim
Overview: The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-07-12
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Fawazia The Bourgeoisie
1985-01-01
Fawazia The Bourgeoisie
Overview: The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some important issues such as ignorance, poverty, and corruption, which leads to the adoption of misconceptions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Dreams of Hind and Camilia
1988-04-07
Dreams of Hind and Camilia
Overview: Hend is a young widow who works as a maid, she meets Eid the conman who goes to prison and leaves her pregnant. While Camellia is a divorced maid who supports her unemployed brother and his family in exchange for letting her sleep over in his apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-04-07
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O Lovely Life
1996-05-27
O Lovely Life
Overview: Batta, Sakina, and Nawal .. Three friendly girls, neighbors from one lane, with similar difficult social conditions and also the dream of marriage before spinsterhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1996-05-27
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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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The Rapists
1989-09-10
The Rapists
Overview: Some unemployed addicts kidnap the girl Safaa and take her to a remote place. After they gang-rape her, her fiancé Mokhtar manages to bring her home and her father reports the crime to the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-09-10
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Photocopy
2017-12-20
Photocopy
Overview: Mahmoud is man in his late 50s, who owns a photocopying store. When he comes across a topic about dinosaurs, he becomes obsessed with searching for the causes of its extinction, which leads him to rediscover love, friendship, paternity and the real meaning of life.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-12-20
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Destiny
1997-08-18
Destiny
Overview: In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1997-08-18
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Little Dreams
1993-03-24
Little Dreams
Overview: Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-03-24
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Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo
2025-01-01
Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo
Overview: The story follows Hassan and his dog, Rambo, as they embark on a quest to save Rambo from Hassan's vengeful landlord, whom the dog attacked. Through his challenging journey across Cairo to find a safe haven for Rambo, Hassan confronts his deepest fears and rediscovers himself.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2025-01-01
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Flight 404
2024-01-24
Flight 404
Overview: A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, will she manage to go to Mecca, or get tangled up in the past's webs?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-01-24
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Avenging Ragab
1984-12-24
Avenging Ragab
Overview: Shandawili and Ashmawy arrive from their hometown to Cairo to look for Abdel-Al, who's supposed to buy a modern farming machine. They both fall prey to Abu Hatab's gang. Feryal admires Shandawili, and decides to repent. Shandawili informs the police about Abu Hatab and his gang with the help of Feryal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-12-24
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Fatuat darab aleisal
1985-11-25
Fatuat darab aleisal
Overview: Prince pays the debts of the confectionery factory that the two sisters inherited, Tohma and her sister, from their father in exchange for buying half of the factory. Lotfy joins Prince’s work and Tohma admires him. The police attack Prince for drug trafficking, but Nona is imprisoned instead. Lotfy is injured in a battle between the police and the Prince gang. Tohma discovers that Lotfi is a police officer and decides to cooperate with him to catch Prince. Lotfi matches Prince in currency trading operations and discovers the identity of the gang leader.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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