Ali Abdel-Khalek

Directing

Ali Abdel-Khalek

Born June 9, 1944 · Egypt

Died September 2, 2022 · aged 78

An Egyptian director, who was born in Cairo on June 9, 1944, to a middle family. After completing his secondary education, he joined the Higher Institute of Cinema, directing department. He was influenced by leftist thought in his youth, which was reflected in his early films. After graduating from the institute in 1966, he worked as an assistant director for a while, then turned to directing docu…

Known For

وضاع حبي هناكوضاع حبي هناك · 1982
وضاع حبي هناك
1982
MovieDrama
Yellow ValleyYellow Valley · 1970
Yellow Valley
1970
MovieDrama
El KeifEl Keif · 1985
El Keif
★ 8.11985
MovieDramaCrime
Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.
The ShameThe Shame · 1982
The Shame
★ 7.61982
MovieDramaThriller
A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.
The Egg and the StoneThe Egg and the Stone · 1990
The Egg and the Stone
★ 7.01990
MovieComedyDrama
A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
A House Without TendernessA House Without Tenderness · 1976
A House Without Tenderness
1976
MovieDrama
Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.
Monsters RunMonsters Run · 1987
Monsters Run
★ 6.71987
MovieDrama
Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.
Four On An Official MissionFour On An Official Mission · 1987
Four On An Official Mission
★ 6.01987
MovieComedyDrama
Anwar Abdel Mawla is an employee working in a government agency, his life changes when he takes an official mission to hand over a heritage to the house of Money in Cairo made up of a monkey, a donkey, and a goat and many ironic comedies happen.

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El-KafeerEl-Kafeer · 1999
El-Kafeer
1999
Movie
The Egyptian intelligence service uses the Egyptian young man Akram, who is renowned for his genius in the field of aeronautical engineering. In order to study and know the secrets of the "Al Kafir" plane, the intelligence officer, General Yehya Iham Akram, is trying to go to France to repair the Concorde. Akram convince them at the airport that he arrived from Rome wrong but that the Israeli intelligence prepares him easy prey and recruit him after being brutally tortured, and his coach Margo, who is in love with him, and turns Margo on her device and decide to secede, and trial, is handed over to others, and Akram Aflat of Mossad men , And hijack the plane Alkafir and then destroy it and jump Parachute to be picked up by the Egyptian intelligence.

Director

The Venal GentlemenThe Venal Gentlemen · 1983
The Venal Gentlemen
★ 6.01983
MovieDramaThriller
Mahmoud, a simple employee of the Ministry of Health, loves lawyer "Amal", who trains in the office of her teacher, "Ali Hammad", Mahmoud "travels" to Kuwait to improve his financial situation. Her wealthy professor escapes chasing her cousin, Fathi officer, Mahmoud settles in Cairo after returning from abroad and renews his hope to marry Amal after her husband's death. Bribery from "Ibrahim Al-Fakharani" to facilitate the process of importing rotten food for "Al-Fakharani". Amal defends him and accuses her cousin of fabricating the accusation. Mahmoud's order is revealed, he collapses and confesses that he is already bribed after he reaches his home to find that his brother, sister and children died after eating the canned food that he admitted to the country.

Director