Sammy Sheik
Also Known As: Sameh Sheik , سامي الشيخ
Biography: Sammy Sheik is an Egyptian film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: November 05, 1981
Age: 43 years old
Gender: Male
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Al-Jabriya Flight 422
Overview: Inspired by true events. A group of hijackers capture Kuwait Airways flight 422 and force it reroute, putting the lives of the passengers and the crew at risk
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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This Narrow Place
Overview: A Palestinian sneaks into the U.S. to reconnect with his sister, and he plans to have a company, which built a bomb that killed his brother in Gaza, make a part for a rocket that he will launch into Israel.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-20
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An American Carol
Overview: A cynical anti-American Hollywood filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. He is visited by three spirits who take him on a hilarious journey in an attempt to show him the true meaning of America.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Lone Survivor
Overview: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Charlie Wilson's War
Overview: In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Brake
Overview: A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-22
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American Sniper
Overview: U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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The Morgue
Overview: A supernatural killer terrorizes a group of people in an eerie morgue.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Attack On Darfur
Overview: American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Genres: War Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Family Prayers
Overview: When a young Egyptian married couple runs into serious issues the family steps in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Overview: To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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Run
Overview: The film follows a boat carrying migrants from various African countries through the Mediterranean sea to Italy. When the boat loses orientation and goes off course, things turn violent as the migrants blame the smugglers. After finally making it to shore, the desperate passengers try to evade police and a few manage to get away.
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Original Language: en
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I Am Gitmo
Overview: A Muslim schoolteacher is taken to a CIA black site and then Guantanamo Bay Cuba, where he is interrogated and tortured, despite professing his innocence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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The Son of an Afghan Farmer
Overview: Muhad, a Muslim boy from Afghanistan, attends college in California, where he falls in love with an American journalism student, Victoria. Shortly after, his father suffers a stroke and Muhad must return home to tend to the family farm. As time passes, most of the crops are wiped out by the ongoing drought. Muhad is forced to head North with the rest of the farmers to harvest the poppies. Victoria has settled into her new life as a journalist for a local newspaper in San Francisco. When she follows a lead on a story about the ongoing war on drugs in Afghanistan, she is surprised to find her once innocent, first love is now a major player in the opium poppy trade.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-06
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Mr. Sadman
Overview: In 1990, before the First Gulf War, Mounir, an impressionable and sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double, loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start. But once the real Saddam invades Kuwait and makes international headlines, Mounir learns the truth about the Iraqi dictator and vows to shed his Saddam persona forever. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to be anyone else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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Sand Castle
Overview: Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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Cold Hell
Overview: A young Vienna-based taxi driver of Turkish origin witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The perpetrator, a serial killer, makes eye contact with her; a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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Girl Rising
Overview: Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Three Veils
Overview: The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-10
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Misled
Overview: Two brothers from southwest Detroit struggle to improve their lives. Unable to afford college and faced with expulsion - and meanwhile supporting his mother - Jason turns to stripping which turns to prostitution, posing a huge dilemma since he has just begun the first true love relationship of his life. Bobby's own drug habit spirals him down into a darker and darker place, exasperated by the re-emerging memory of the horrible childhood secret he shares with Jason.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-28
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White Lie
Overview: Ahmed falls in love with an American girl called Kristy whom he takes to Cairo for a family visit, causing many paradoxes due to the difference in customs and traditions. Kristy is surprised to learn that Ahmed wants to marry her and stay in Egypt, which she has not taken into account.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-10-17
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Azimuth
Overview: At the end of The Six Day War of 1967, two soldiers, an Egyptian and an Israeli, encounter each other in the Sinai desert. Two soldiers - one goal: Survival.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-05
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Overview: The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-28
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For the Love of Money
Overview: Spanning over two decades, "For the Love of Money" follows the true account of an Israeli immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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Cries from Ramah
Overview: When a bombing in a Tel Aviv café takes the lives of both a young Palestinian bomber and a young Israeli soldier, their two mothers encounter one another in a police station, neither aware of who the other is, until realization sets in...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-23
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