Khalid Abdalla
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Khalid Abdalla (born 1980) is a British-Egyptian actor. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film, United 93. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks. Abdalla played Ziad Jarrah, the pilot and leader of the four hijackers on board the flight. He starred as Amir in the film of The Kite Runner and acted with Matt Damon in Green Zone, his second film with director Paul Greengrass Abdalla is on the board of the National Student Drama Festival.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Khalid Abdalla, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birthday: October 26, 1981
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Gender: Male
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Green Zone
Overview: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
Genres: War Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-11
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The Kite Runner
Overview: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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United 93
Overview: A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Genres: Drama History Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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In the Last Days of the City
Overview: In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at a moment when all around him dreams as much as buildings are disintegrating. With the help of his friends who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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Hush Your Mouth
Overview: A young man is killed for trying to stop what he sees as evil and his friends seen as fun. Whilst his sister starts an unwitting relationship with the killer and his mother sinks deeper into grief, it is left to his younger brother, seventeen Leo to avoid easy revenge and uncover the uncomfortable truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Square
Overview: The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2013-06-07
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Our Kind of Traitor
Overview: A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham
Overview: The fascinating story of a brave young scientist from 11th century Arabia. Ibn Al-Haytham embarks upon a quest to uncover ancient mysteries that would change our world forever. A journey of science from darkness into light.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-13
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The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Overview: The intersecting destinies of three people — a Moroccan-Iraqi writer searching for his brother, the lover whom he left behind, and a young orphan on the run — create an incisive and unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence and fundamentalism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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United 93: The Families and the Film
Overview: A film interviewing the families of the heroes of United Flight 93, prior to the theatrical release of the feature film, United 93.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-13
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Assassin's Creed
Overview: Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Birds Like Us
Overview: The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: bs
Release Date: 2022-06-30
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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
Overview: Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is about different kinds of popular protest. Written and performed by Paul Mason, former economics editor of Channel 4 News and BBC's Newsnight, the play is a personal account of how we got from the optimism of the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement to the election of Donald Trump. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is directed by David Lan and performed by Paul Mason, Khalid Abdalla, Sirine Saba and Lara Sawalha. It is directed for TV by Tim van Someren and produced by the Young Vic in partnership with Totally Theatre Productions.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-22
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Tigers
Overview: Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2014-11-08
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Undergods
Overview: An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-17
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