Hend Sabry
Also Known As: Hend Sabri, Hind Sabri, Hind Sabry, هند محمد المولدي الصابري, هند صبری
Biography: Hend Sabry is a Tunisian actress. She was born in Kebili province in Tunisia and holds a degree in Intellectual Property. She is known for her work in Egyptian cinema and television and resides in Cairo. Sabry first appeared in the films The Silences of the Palace (1994) and The Season of Men (2000) by director Moufida Tlatli. She gained the attention of Egyptian director Inas El-Degheidy who would eventually cast her as the lead in the controversial film Journals of a Teenager in 2001. Among her most notable roles were those in films like Daoud Abdel Sayed's A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief (2001), Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building (2006) and Ibrahim El-Abyad (2009), and the television series “Ayza Atgawez” (I Want to Get Married).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tunisia
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The Yacoubian Building
Overview: portrays the lives of residents in an old Cairo building "The Yacoubian Building", highlighting issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of the Egyptian society
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-06-01
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Trying to Find Hend
Overview: Trying to Find Hend
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-02-22
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Ibrahim El-Abyad
Overview: After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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Asmaa
Overview: A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-12-07
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Best Times
Overview: Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-04-04
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Fadel and Neama
Overview: Fadel and Naema are an innocent couple that run a food truck business. The events revolve around Fadel, as he goes through many comic situations while managing the restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-10-05
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The Island 2
Overview: Following the events of the first part, Mansour Al-Hefni escapes from prison and reunites with his son Ali and brother to return to the island to recover what they have lost. Mansour must stand against his old love Karima while the leader of the travelers tribe Sheikh Jaafar enters the conflict for rulership
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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The Bookstore
Overview: After a few years spent in France and in the West Indies, Jamil comes home as a broken man. He arrives in a bookshop in the center of colonial Tunis for a temporary job as a clerk. He is attracted to Aicha, 15 years older woman and the mother of the book shop owner Tarak.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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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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Four Daughters
Overview: Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-07-05
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Downtown Girls
Overview: The film takes place inside the world of Downtown that is full of stories and many social relations,through two girls,one is a hairdresser and the other is a saleswoman in a clothing store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-11-04
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Ouija
Overview: Two strangers try to solve a mystery that revolves around both of their tragic pasts. At the heart of the mystery lies a mystic board with an ability to kill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-01-06
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Rise and Shine
Overview: A woman is searching aggressively for her lost apartment keys. During her search, she is visited by some unsavory memories she has been repressing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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The Flower of Aleppo
Overview: Salma is a 37 years old paramedic nurse working in private and public hospitals in Tunisia. When her only son, Murad, go to Syria to join the terrorist movement Al-Nusra Front, Salma infiltrate the jihadists with the aim to bring her son back to Tunisia.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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The Island
Overview: Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-12-18
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The Treasure: Truth & Imagination
Overview: The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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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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Heliopolis
Overview: 8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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The Aquarium
Overview: Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Clay Dolls
Overview: The 40-year-old Omrane is in charge to find maid placements in Tunis for the girls from his village. But the most rebel of the girls has escaped and he has to look for her to get her back in the right path. The girl refuses to lose the freedom she just obtained. For her part, the young Fedlah who was enthusiastic by going to town quickly discovers a world where childhood doesn't belong to.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-09-29
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The Season of Men
Overview: An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to join Said in Tunis, weaving rugs to make money. Said asks that she give him a son, so Aicha lives under the rule of her mother-in-law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-09-13
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The Silences of the Palace
Overview: The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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Game of love
Overview: Laila, who is abandoned by her lover dentist because of her excessive freedom, and collected by the Egyptian station for trains, "Essam," who lives a married life and monotonous and tense with his wife, "Hanan" to which he was associated without love Issam Laila attracted after joining the work as a fashion designer in the company that works In the marketing department, their relationship is deepened. Issam divorces his wife, Hanan, but after a period of separation from Leila, she feels very humiliated and decides to travel to Alexandria to try to remedy her harsh experience.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-10-23
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A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief
Overview: Selim, a handsome and successful writer triggers an elaborate chain of events when he visits police headquarters to report his car stolen. There he runs into the bumbling Sergeant Fathy Abdel Ghafour, an old family friend who now works as a detective. When the meddlesome Sergeant Fathy insists on hiring a live-in housekeeper for his old friend, Selim’s life becomes inextricably intertwined with that of his beautiful new housemaid, her thieving husband and the well-meaning detective.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Double Faces
Overview: Mahmoud is a professor of acting, who lives an isolated life, a shift in his personality occurs when he discovers the betrayal of his wife with a young man, and meets a young actress who tries to make him live a different life.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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I Want My Right
Overview: A down-to-earth, struggling taxi driver (Ramzi) discovers, by sheer chance, that his country's constitution grants him a share in the nation's entire public property. He proceeds to collecting power-of-attorney documents from over 50% of the population in order to literally sell out the country so that he could get married.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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In Love
Overview: The story of a broken up family in which the father and the oldest son live in Europe while the mother and the younger son live in Egypt. The older brother decides to travel back to Egypt to know his family better.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Treasure : Love & Destiny
Overview: A sequel to The Treasure (Part 1) - Reality & Fantasy (2017) The movie resumes with the stories of Hatsheput in the Pharaonic era, Ali al-Zaibaq during the Ottoman era and Beshr al-Katatini, head of State Security Investigations Service, who faces new challenges in work and love, whilst pointing his son, Hassan, towards a treasure through his recorded will.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-08-10
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The Blue Elephant 2
Overview: A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Journals of a Teenager
Overview: Jamila falls in love with Raouf, a handsome young man and a friend of Nancy at first sight, to the extent that she gives herself to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-01-23
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Noura's Dream
Overview: With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-11-13
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How to Make Girls Love You?
Overview: A group of students get a scholarship in Switzerland, they happen to fall in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-11-24
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The Passage
Overview: A platoon of Commandos’ soldiers, lead by a fearless commander, Nour, and their journey through heroic battles from The Six Days War to the commencement of The Attrition War.
Genres: Action War History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-06-04
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Kira & El Gen
Overview: The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The 1919 Egyptian Revolution which unites the fates of Kira and El Gen to participate in the struggle against the British occupation.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-06-30
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The Parrot
Overview: Tunisian Jewish family that tries to settle in their new life in Palestine during 1948.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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One Evening in July
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-01-29
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El-Torbini
Overview: Mohsen is an autistic young man who lives with his older brother Kareem after their parents passed away. Karim is trying to have custody of his brother to get his share of the inheritance, and the two brothers' relationship develops further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-02-22
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Day and Night
Overview: It is an ordinary day for Raouf, who spends his day racing against time and trying to resolve his differences with his fiancée, Nadia, while meditation, memories, and nostalgia are scattered throughout the day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-02-26
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Mama Africa
Overview: In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales from the depths of their hearts. The result is a groundbreaking initiative bringing together the incredibly fresh talents of six female directors from the vast and diverse continent of Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Whatever Lola wants
Overview: A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-11
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