Ahmed Helmy
Also Known As: أحمد حلمي, Ahmed helmy
Biography: Helmy was born in Banha, Egypt. He graduated from the Higher institute of Dramatic Arts in Egypt, from the decoration department. Ahmed also graduated of the Academy of Arts, High Institute for Theatre Art in 1993. As an actor and performer, Helmy is notable for his fast-thinking and witty comedy.[citation needed] His career in mainstream Egyptian film began when director Sherif Arafa spotted him on the children's program Leib Eyal (Kids' Play) on the Egyptian Satellite Broadcast[citation needed]. Sherif found in him the comedian actor he was looking for to star his film, Aboud Ala El Hodoud (Aboud at the Frontier). In that film Helmy made his first big screen appearance, co-starring alongside Alaa Waley El Din. Thereafter, he quickly made a jump to leading roles in films such as Omar 2000, El Nazer (The Headmaster), El Selem We Al Tho'ban (Snakes And Ladders). In 2007, Helmy topped the Egyptian comedian market in number of audience and revenue, mostly due to the success of his movie Keda Reda.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Banha, Egypt
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Birthday: November 18, 1969
Age: 55 years old
Gender: Male
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Tarek's Situation
Overview: Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works at asks him to spy on a girl which stole a valuable thing from him. When Tarek does his searches, he discovers that she is the girl he have dreamed about.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-01-03
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Sorry For Disturbance
Overview: Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2008-09-01
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Can’t Complain
Overview: A comedy about triplet brothers with only one birth certificate.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-07-31
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1000 Mabrouk
Overview: A man finds himself stuck in a mysterious time loop, reliving the same day again and again. As the cycle repeats, he is forced to confront his daily routines, question his relationships, and search for meaning in a world that refuses to change.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2009-06-26
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She Made Me a Criminal
Overview: The movie is about a very naive young man, who wants to fix his house before it falls, but does not have the money, and rich girl who likes to spend money uncontrollably, whose father is scrooge, who would not give her access to her trust fund. In order to force her father to give her money, she stages a kidnapping with the assistance of her best friend and the naive young man, who ends up falling in love with her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-03-15
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Bittersweet
Overview: An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he finds himself caught between two worlds—and begins to experience the reality of a country he thought he knew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2010-05-25
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The Beach Loafer
Overview: Three friends from Alexandria singing in the popular Wedding accuse someone of murder and trying to prove his innocence in order to be able to marry his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Bewildered Bolbol
Overview: Bulbul meets a successful aristocratic girl named Yasmine, but she's not the romantic type he dreams of, at the same time he admires his cousin Hala for her calmness and kindness. In the middle of all this, the psychiatrist Amal shows up and he thinks of getting engaged to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2010-11-11
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X-Large
Overview: Magdy is searching for true love, so when he finds his childhood friend Dina on Facebook he tries to get closer to her. He is afraid that she would refuse him as he is very obese. So on their first meeting he told her that he is Magdy's cousin
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Sleepless Nights
Overview: A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-07-16
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Another One
Overview: A social worker in the Prison Service writes reports on the prisoners' psychological condition. In prison, an old classmate of his, who has become a successful businessman, invites him to a party, where he meets his old pals, realizes he's a failure, and rethinks his life again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-05-02
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55 esaaf
Overview: Wafaa is a young doctor who aspires to propose her project of the development of the first aid procedures to the Minister of Health. However, she gets involved with the nurse and the ambulance driver, and things get worse when the Minister is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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Over My Dead Body
Overview: Raouf is an interior designer and an owner of a home furniture gallery. He is a very suspicious person when it comes to dealing with all people around him. It is only when he goes into a coma, he started to realise his mistakes and discover what all his friends and family think of him. Is it too late ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2013-01-13
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Zaki Chan
Overview: Trouble follows Zaki wherever he goes, until he finds out that his father's boss needs a bodyguard for his kids and he decides to apply for the job even though he doesn't really fit the requirements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-05-04
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Excuse My French
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-01-19
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18 Days
Overview: 10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-09-06
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Life's Speed Bump
Overview: Seeking job opportunities, a young man arrives in Cairo and becomes increasingly involved with the family of a wealthy businessman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-12-19
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Made in Egypt
Overview: The film revolves around three young men who face many problems and crises in their lives from unemployment to marriage plans and achieve their targets
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-07-28
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Still a while
Overview: It discusses mental illnesses and how to confront them, as a person sometimes imagines that he is fine and thinks correctly, but the truth is the opposite, during which Ahmed Helmy appears as a thug.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
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Mido the Troublemaker
Overview: Mido studies at the Technical College, and in his spare time, he works in installing satellite dishes. His constant fall into troubles earned him the title 'Mido the troublemaker' but the gravest of his troubles is when a mysterious man approaches him for a secret mission.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-05-02
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El Set
Overview: From the 1920s on, Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum became the first prominent Arab singer to disseminate her work to the masses via the new technologies of the times: radio, the phonograph, cinema and television.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
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Al Nono
Overview: A major scammer will travel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to carry out two scam operations, the first will be in the Gaming Championship and the second will be against people during Umrah and Hajj.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ar
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The Brothers
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Original Language: ar
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The Headmaster
Overview: Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the school and achieve good results, while salah is dealing with his trust issues and his need to prove himself by getting out of his father's shadow. with the help of Hussien, his girlfriend Wafaa, and his two friends Atef and Lemby .. can he run the school his own way?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-07-26
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Flimflam
Overview: A tour guide named "Noor" travels to Sharm el-Sheikh with his family to take the advantage of an offer provided by a company to spend a honeymoon in order to meet an Italian girl named "Perla". He finds there a girl named "Layla " staying in the same villa . By the time Noor's family allied with "Layla " to discourage him from developing a relationship with "Perla".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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Omar 2000
Overview: Omar decides to emigrate to America as his 30th birthday approaches, but first he wants to get revenge on the people who have gotten in his way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-02-23
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Snakes and Ladders
Overview: A divorced young man happens to fall in love. The couple faces problems, as the young man does not want to settle down, she thinks he is a flirt, they break up, and events follows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-06-18
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Why Did You Make Me Love You?
Overview: Dalia abandoned her beloved Hisham, which made him get over her and become friends and he got involved with Noha.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Forced Escape
Overview: Follows the escape journey of 4 complete strangers who were accused of a murder they did not commit.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-06-25
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Love Trip
Overview: Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one of the primary schools.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Abboud on the Border
Overview: Abboud lives a reckless life with his two friends. He knows that he will not enter the army because he's an only child. But when his father marries another woman who gives birth to a boy, Abboud is forced to join the army in spite of being unfit, working at the border with his friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1999-07-21
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Scarecrow
Overview: The story revolves around a grandfather who stole a rare masterpiece belonging to the late singer (Umm Kulthum) in his youth, but after years passes, he finds himself chased by those who want to have this piece, which makes him resort to the help of his only grandson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-08-22
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Eye Doctor
Overview: It is about a family of older brother Nader, who works in a clinic, but deceives his brothers and tells them that he works as a sage of eyes, Helmi who sings in weddings, Mahfouz who is still studying, and uncle who uses cannabis without paying for it. By giving the cannabis dealer an archaeological chair as a price for cannabis, they know that this chair is archaeological and they search for it in an interesting comic frame.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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The Crew
Overview: A documentary that investigates the meticulous process of film-making in all the three phases of production, told from the perspectives of Egyptian film-makers, celebrities, and other contributors to the film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-04-26
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The Tale of Daye’s Family
Overview: Set over the course of 48 hours, the story follows Daye, a young man traveling across Egypt's governorates to fulfill his dream. He is accompanied by his captivating voice, his broken family, and his music teacher. He is traveling without money, a car, or any means of communication, and most importantly, he is unsure of his ability to reach his goal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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The Story of a City
Overview: It tells the true story of the heroes of the popular resistance in the city of Ismailia during 1967.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
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