Maher Essam
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1979-10-05
Locus Natus: Egypt
Et ut: ماهر عصام
The Bulbul's Nest
A comedy about a taxi driver who wants to achieve his goal of becoming a famous singer. He finds himself inside the world of nightclubs and befriends...
release : 2013.10.13popularis : 3.052
Lion Heart
Kidnapped as a child and raised in the circus, a young lion tamer's tough side emerges when he gets entangled in an underworld murder mystery.
release : 2013.08.07popularis : 0.975
The Sixth Day
Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a...
release : 1986.09.29popularis : 2.346
Qarmat in Trouble
Qarmouti builds a graveyard for his ancestors, and makes it a paid tourists attraction; this causes him lots of problems with the government....
release : 2019.01.16popularis : 2.959
High School Freshmen
When Surgeon Hamza commits a mistake that leads to the death of a child, he's sentenced to jail and prevented from practicing his profession. The...
release : 2001.03.06popularis : 1.302
11’09”01—September 11
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
release : 2002.09.04popularis : 13.106
عدى النهار
The events of the series take place in the period from September 1966 until September 1967, and goes through the causes of the 1967 defeat and its...
release : 2008.09.01popularis : 1.274
A Lineage issue
A family consisting of a husband, wife, and seven half-siblings. Each of them has his own problems, and the time in which they live is completely...
release : 2006.02.23popularis : 1.509
Marriage by Presidential Decree
An employee in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to marry a girl of a higher social status. At a moment of recklessness,he sends a wedding...
release : 2001.07.20popularis : 4.096
Fawazia The Bourgeoisie
The film focuses on the relationship between people with different political views, through the residents of one local region, highlighting some...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.514
18 Days
10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or...
release : 2011.09.06popularis : 3.422
The Gate of the Sun
Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and...
release : 2004.05.18popularis : 1.417
Salem: His Sister's Father
Salem is a poor street vendor who has been taking care of his sister since their parents died. After the 25th of January revolution, his life turns...
release : 2014.04.15popularis : 1.585
Azazeel
With a wicked magic spell, the devil (Azazel, the son of Satan) is prepared to harm an innocent girl (Rawan Fouad). Crazy, but the childhood lover...
release : 2009.01.01popularis : 0.9
Professional Guys
Seba'y is an unsuccessful football coach in the Dokki Sports Club. As he tries to marry his sweetheart Osha, his final chance to prove himself to her...
release : 2015.09.23popularis : 1.039
A Girl from Dar El Salam
The film follows Manal, a young girl living in the poor town of Dar Elsalam in Cairo. After she graduates from a commerce secondary school, she...
release : 2014.05.21popularis : 1.25
Closed Doors
During the Gulf War, Fatma works as a maid for a wealthy man, and her son Mohammed is suffering from oppression by his teacher Mansour, who's having...
release : 1999.09.08popularis : 2.207
The Tiger and The Female
Officer Wahid is assigned to work undercover to enter the ring of the largest drug trafficker, he uses the help of the repentant night girl Naima, to...
release : 1987.02.14popularis : 1.408
We're Sorry, Sir
A drama that depicts the life of a group of young people as they decide to be of use to society, but their benevolence is met with malevolence and...
release : 2018.05.09popularis : 0.431
Chaos, This Is?
Hatem is a corrupt police officer, who loves his neighbor Nour, who in turn loves the prosecutor, Sherif. Hatem tries to win Nour’s attention...
release : 2007.11.28popularis : 4.736
Silence... We're Rolling
Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist...
release : 2001.10.06popularis : 1.267