Abdullah Mahmoud
Actor · 1959 – 2005 · Cairo, Egypt
An Egyptian actor, born in 1959 in Cairo, worked in the field of acting as a child when he was participating in school plays. He joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, and began his artistic career through the series (Al-Bostaji), which qualified him to participate in a large number of television series, including: Asfour Al-Nar, Gates of the City, Innocents. As for the cinema, the late director Youssef Chahine presented him through his important movie (Alexandria, why?) and then participated in many important films, including: Bus Driver, The Ring and the Bracelet, Tal' Al Nakhl, The Egyptian Citizen. At the end of his life, Abdullah Mahmoud turned to the field of production, where he produced the movie (One Cappuccino), which is his first absolute starring, but he died in 2005 before the movie was shown in theaters due to complications from cancer.
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Movie7.3DocumentaryDramaOf the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could not build anything like it today. Based on the most up-to-date research and the latest archaeological discoveries, here is how the Pyramid came to be.
Pyramid
2002 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryIn the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
Movie5.8AdventureActionDuring World War II, a tribal chief travels to Cairo to buy weapons. He asks for Shams Al Zanati's help to protect his oasis from Marshal Bar'i.
Movie6.5DramaThe story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father named Abdul-Muqeem (Izzat al-Alayli) to send his only son Masrey instead.
Movie6.5DramaFantasyAfter we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.
Movie6.5DramaWarAmid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Movie7.2DramaFares, a shoe factory worker, has only one passion in life: football. He lives a humble life in a chaotic neighborhood where he plays street football to increase his income. However, neither his marriage nor his job is stable enough. He goes through a lot of problems due to his lack of self-discipline with his divorced wife and his son.
Movie6.2CrimeComedyHanafi al'abiha steals a jewelry shop with his partners and hides the bag with his brother Ahmad before they were arrested. His three accomplices escape and kidnap Ahmed's wife Duaa until they recover the bag. Hanafi is temporarily released to lead the Police to the place of his colleagues, and the events follow.
Movie9.0Wael and his sister Marwa suffer from their parents being busy with them. Their father, Ahmed, is a senior lawyer and their mother, Nawal, is the deputy editor-in-chief of a magazine. Wael and his friends come up with the idea of taking revenge on the rich, like their family, by stealing their cars and giving them to the poor, claiming that they are representatives of the Night of Power. Their crimes are repeated and the press is busy with the issue.
Movie5.7DramaHistoryIn 1969, a group of Egyptian frogmen target and destroy two Israeli vessels in the port of Eilat during the War of Attrition.
Movie7.7DramaA father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.
Movie6.8DramaSet in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.
Movie6.7DramaEver wonder what it was like to be in the middle east during the Gulf War of the early 90s? Sure, many films and TV shows have portrayed what it was like for the UN forces. This film takes you into the melee from the perspective of Egyptians -- who were sharply divided about the war -- and their daily lives, which, as one sees, form the basis of their foundation for understanding/approaching the war. And it really is these "every day" realities that make up the bulk of the film.
MovieDramaRomanceA poor street vendor agrees with her lover to deceive a company owner and steal his money.
Movie6.6DramaShaker returns from Doha after an absence of eight years hoping to resume his life in Cairo with his siblings Fawzia, Najwa, Ibrahim and Mahdi, after achieving them financial security. He's shocked by the social changes that happened while he was away that affected them,making them no longer need him.
MovieThe film revolves around Sherifa, the Pasha's daughter, who marries Adel, the driver's son, and gives birth to her daughter Fatima. However, the Pasha forces her to divorce her, and Fatima ends up in the reformatory.
Movie6.6CrimeDramaIn 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.
MovieThe amazing journey of Saeed Cappuccino dealing with life
Movie5.8ActionDramaA raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.
Movie5.7CrimeDramaThe story deals with the journey of Zinham, a young man who fled Egypt from Upper Egypt in search of a living, climbs up in organized crime and drug smuggling. His friend, Ibrahim, takes part in the crime journey. When he becomes one of the biggest drug smugglers (heroin) Who is in control of her market in Egypt in alliance with an Israeli smuggler, marries a dancer after he gets rid of Slim, the drug dealer who worked for him at the beginning of his career. He turns to liquidate everyone who stands in his way. He becomes drug addict and kills his close friend. (Ibrahim), after doubting the betrayal of his wife dancing with him.
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TV9.0DramaFamilyIn a town called Bahtoon Al-Jabal where the Hawara family lives following many fanatic customs. Sheikh Badar breaks the customary traditions and marries his daughter to a man from outside of the family, prompting her brother to try to kill her.
TV7.7The series revolves around the family of Fatima Ta'alba (Huda Sultan) and her children. Her eldest son is Hajj Darwish (Youssef Shaaban). The idea of the series revolves around the framework of an Egyptian family, the mother, Fatima Talaba, who raises her children in her own style, and her main goal is to form a large, interconnected and undisjointed family, and to secure the family's future by buying agricultural lands for them to become property owners. Hajj Darwish is the head of the family and is married to Maryam (Fadia Abdel-Ghani), his cousin. Fatima Talabeh controls all the family’s decisions to the extent that she chooses the wives of her children without taking their opinion and marries them. The mother controls the wives of her children and the entire house, including those in it.