Said Elassal
Also Known As: Said Abdel Monem, سعيد العسال, سعيد عبد المنعم العسال
Biography: Said Abdel Moneim El Assal was born on September 16, 1962. He began practicing martial arts at the age of 11. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw that his son was physically weak. After 4 years of training, he joined the Egyptian Karate team. At the age of 16, he began his amateur fighting career as a lightweight at 135 pounds. In 1979, Said was a member of the Egyptian Karate team when it traveled to Tampa, Florida to compete in the WAKO World Championships promoted by Mike Anderson. In his first and only match against a competitor from the United States, "Sherman" faced "Big Train" Bergman, a kickboxer from Miami Beach, Florida, in a non-championship match fought under full-contact rules. Said's victory over the European and British semi-contact middleweight champion Michael Hemming allowed him to "withdraw" due to injury in the second round. He fought the vast majority of his career in both semi-contact and lightweight championships. However, he had at least 3 fights that he fought under kickboxing rules. His martial arts skills, highlighted by his ability to kick an opponent's head while spinning 360 degrees, and his good looks led to starring roles in higher budget films but in the meantime, his personal life was falling apart. A divorce, followed by a new marriage, followed by another divorce. But he tried to give his audience the best, and his acting improved in those films, becoming more emotional and each film basically had different action tones.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cairo Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: September 16, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
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Grapes
Overview: Two days before his wedding, a young millionaire playboy goes to celebrate with his fiancée, his friend, and his friend's fiancée, only to wake up the next day and discover that he married both his fiancée and his friend's fiancée, and that he also gave up his wealth to a complete stranger, so he sets off to find out what happened the night before.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-09-25
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Cinderella in Arabic
Overview: A gentle and dreamy girl who works as a costume assistant in a theater group faces troubles at work as the band's director and his son both love her, and at home as her stepmother prefers her own daughter to her and treats her unjustly. Can she find the balance her life lacks?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-06-22
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Ayazon
Overview: Businessman Sayed Fawzy offers a reward of ten million pounds to those who help him find his daughter who had been missing for twenty years now. While his greedy neighbour deludes him about her whereabouts, he meets Officer Gameela who tries to find her amongst the many greedy impostors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Private Lesson
Overview: Khososy a young who is living in the fifties of the 20th century in Egypt, one day he is mistaken for a man who wants to fight the British soldiers occupying Egypt, his father tries to smuggle him out of Egypt but the ship gets caught in Bermuda triangle and Khososy finds himself in the year 2005 of Egypt, trying to fit in the new time, he encounters many problems, he finds out that his children are now grown up and they in worse shape it can be, he tries to bring the back to the right way.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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Woman and Five Men
Overview: After becoming wealthy from her first husband, Ghazal the vamp get married secretly with another 4 men in row. But the last one hides his own project to execute with Ghazal.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1997-04-17
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Taimour & Shafi'aa
Overview: Taymour and Shafika have grown up together as next door neighbours and are deeply in love. However, their love is put to the test when he is assigned to protect her as her personal body guard when she is promoted to the level of Minister.
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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The Night Baghdad Fell
Overview: After the US invasion of Iraq, an Egyptian headmaster sponsors a young inventor to create a deterring weapon out of fear his country will be next.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-12-08
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A Generous Gesture
Overview: a young man trying to find his way to be an actor and he met with girl she also wants to be actress and they accused of murder of one director
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-03-05
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The Seventh Sense
Overview: A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-12-10
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Induced Labor
Overview: Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite them. Others still, just sneak in and hope Mr Trump doesn’t notice they are there. But in this raucous comedy, one Egyptian couple come up with a splendid wheeze. With twin babies due any minute, and all other efforts to secure citizenship fail, the couple decide to storm the US Embassy in Cairo and give birth there. Surely that will mean the babies are born as Americans, right? Well, er, no. As you might expect, things don’t quite go according to plan…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-01-03
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The Blue Elephant
Overview: After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-07-28
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The Night of Hana and Sorour
Overview: The film revolves around Sorour, a businessman who loves a girl called Hannah, but gets involved with a gang and has to run away from them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-06-13
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Monkey Talks
Overview: Two magician brothers, Taha and Rashad El-Shenawy, prepare to pull off a magic trick to free their wrongfully imprisoned father.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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Maqsoom
Overview: Hind, Emy and Rania can’t really stand each other. In the 90s, during their university years, they used to sing together in a band in before personal differences tore them apart. When they receive an invitation to sing together in Aswan, the three women reunite and are forced to work together on one last show. As they come together for this surprise reunion, they find themselves in a mix of challenges and comedic moments, remembering their past and rediscovering their present.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-01-18
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Born to a Man
Overview: An aspiring boxer Adham is thriving to become a successful professional. He falls in love with a girl, Mai, living in a slum, who suffers from her thug brother's possessive personality. Adham and his dad's lives turn torrid when Mai's brother knows of their affair.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-01-06
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Monopoly (The Bank of Luck)
Overview: Fueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Mohamed Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend (Ze'ro) by turning to robbery in order to fulfill their dreams. But, when they turn their master scheme to rob the bank into action, things take an unexpected turn. Little did they know that a plan is only as clever as the brains behind it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-04-05
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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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Mawlana
Overview: A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. From Behind the scenes that exposes religion and authority struggle - Mawlana is a movie that defy boundaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-01-04
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Shantet Hamza
Overview: A professional con man (Hamada Hilal) falls in love with a powerful woman who used to work for a well-known roguery gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-08-31
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Abu Shanab
Overview: Esmat Abu Shanab (Yasmin Abdul Aziz) is a female police officer who works in an administrative position and tries in various ways to work on field assignments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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The Other Land
Overview: A group of young men who live in a poverty-stricken village aspire to migrate to Italy seeking a better life. In their journey towards their dream life, they are faced with the treacherous waves of the Mediterranean Sea while boarding an old, worn-out boat and carrying no legal documents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-11-19
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The Fourth Pyramid
Overview: This suspense-thriller looks into the hidden world of online hacking through several methods, such as social media, different forums, and so on. Yusuf, a brilliant engineering student, is behind a lot of the operations that are being talked about.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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Ocean 14
Overview: As Ta’oun plots to rob the famous singer Ahlam, he recruits his fiancée and her brother to accompany him to Sharm El-Sheikh to carry out the heist. But he is unaware that he is being followed by the police officer who was terminated because of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-01-20
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Freezer's Campaign
Overview: When Egypt's climate changes , turning the country into a frozen state, a group of intelligence officers travel to Italy to get a device that can stop the frost, posing as a movie crew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-09-10
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Everyday's Lie
Overview: Hisham and Hadia, who work at the same advertising agency, an invitation to spend a vacation in Marsa Alam, in a resort owned by Sherihan. Hisham takes his wife, Aida, and Hadia takes her husband, Adel, and the four of them go on a vacation that will put their marriages to the test.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-01-20
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Misunderstanding
Overview: Omar is trying to reclaim the inheritance of his father from his uncle. He uses his colleague Rauof, who turns out to be a crook and then flees to Lebanon and Omar goes to jail. Lina the Lebanese girl falls in love with Raouf, and they agree to marry, but he escapes to Cairo.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2015-02-11
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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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Mako
Overview: Eight documentary makers decide to go to the location of Elsalam Ship which sunk years ago to make a new documntary where they face unforseen dangers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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The Gang of El Max
Overview: El Maxiky is accustomed to carrying out theft and smuggling operations alone without help. However, he gets embroiled in a major operation that requires outside assistance but eventually discovers that those he chose for help are implicating him in problems that threaten the operation's success.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-06-13
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Amohom
Overview: The story follows Sultan, a boxer and trainer who works with his friend Saeed in a sports center. They find themselves in trouble when they stumble upon a printing press for counterfeit money.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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Egypt's Exchange Cafe
Overview: In this modern real-life drama, the intertwined lives of a group of regulars in a popular downtown café highlight the inner conflicts of their different personalities, and how they reflect the changes in the traditions and values of the Egyptian society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-06-27
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Gedo Nahnooh
Overview: A group of young men whose grandfather dies, and upon distributing the inheritance, they discover that their grandfather did not leave money for them, while he left a will asking them to search for a buried treasure, and to search for the location of the treasure it becomes clear that it is inside the madhouse. They plan to enter the Hospital of the Crazies in pursuit of this treasure, and there they have a lot of comedic ironies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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Downtown Shaking
Overview: The film is set in the span of eight hours in the region of downtown Cairo, exploring the variety of characters present in the busy town, and several problems they face in their daily lives, in addition to the economical crisis the whole country is facing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2015-01-25
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