
Ali Abdel-Khalek
Directing
Biography
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 documentaries, including Farewell Song. His feature directorial debut was A Song on the Passage (1972), which gained critical acclaim. During the 80s, he collaborated with writer Mahmoud Abu Zeid in several successful films, including The Shame (1982), Drug Habit (1985), and Monsters Run (1987). In television, he directed the TV series Star of the Masses (2003), and The Second Gate (2009).
Known For

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.
The Egg and the Stone

Depicts the escape of a poor innocent girl fleeing from three savage rapists.
Rape

Al Nems is a quarreling microbus driver, and he moves from one job to another, and one day he meets a businessman who is assigned to deliver money with his wife and assistant, while he plots a plot, and he (Al Nems) becomes in the middle of a great adventure.
El Nems

Kamal is arrested with his mistress in the act of adultery. They also arrest her friend Ebtisam, who comes across her home, despite her innocence.
Darb Al Rahba

A strange man arrives at the fishermen's village looking for his illegitimate child to give him his inheritance. He dies and leaves the money with the head of the fishermen. The big fishermen doubt the three women from the village who had a "shady" past: A daughter of a merchant, A belly dancer, and a woman who was loved by many men, and tries to know who is the mother of the child.
Devilish Daughters

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.
El Keif

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.
The Venal Gentlemen

Tahar returns from exile and informs his sons (Issam) and (Omar) of the secret of his burial for a bag full of gold and jewelry in the garden of the villa that he owned before his exile.
The Hustlers

Mansour (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is sentenced to death by hanging for communicating with Israel before the October War, and intelligence officer Mohy (Farid Shawky) devises a plan to replace Mansour, the "spy" with Egyptian officer Ezzeldin , because of the big resemblance between them so that he obtains important information about the Dimona reactor.
Execution Of A Dead Man

Zanouba is a poor maid, who is deceived by Ahmed, the son of her employer, after believing that he loves her. She returns broken to her neighborhood and decides to end her poverty with her brothers Salem and Zinhom, by trafficking drugs. Ahmed becomes a police officer in charge of fighting the drug trade
The Empress

Rashad is a poor man who loves Shhrzad and takes care of her and her sister Souad who loves him. While the three of them are returning to Cairo, they meet a wealthy man dying inside his car after getting shot, and asks them to deliver a suitcase full of money to a woman in the north coast
El Gentel

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.
A house without love

(Suheir Fadel) an Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctor is unable to have kids from her Husband (Hazem Kharbash) after many years of marriage. Her husband Hazem goes for some medical tests to find that he is incapable of procreation and his wife is perfectly healthy, and he lies to her to maintain their marital life.
Ladies' Threshold

Ahmed is an engineer, living with his wife Nabila, their son and sister in a cheap hotel after their house is taken down. After living in the hotel becomes a financial burden , the family members decide to live in the yard of a grave, while suffering from many problems and harassment.
Graveyards for Rent

Set during the Six-Day War, the connection between a group of Egyptian soldiers on a passage in the desert and the command center drops. They try to survive despite the enemy attacks and lack of ammunition and supplies.
A Song on the Passage

A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing.
The Shame

Nahed uses a number of beautiful girls in her smuggling operations. The police receive information about a major smuggling operation on Marina Beach so Officer Adel is tasked with uncovering the smugglers.
Whaling

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.
Four On An Official Mission

Ahlam is a poor girl who's forced to work as a maid to support herself. She works for the handsome millionaire Mustafa and falls for him. As he falls for her as well, he showers her with money and gifts, until he decides to travel abroad and she falls apart.
A Maid...However

A young man named Dhadha gets a help from a rich powerful lady to run for presidency but he does not know that she other things in mind.