Known for Acting
Full Name: Said Abdel Moneim Abdel Gawad Morsi El Assal. Born on September 16, 1962 in Shubra, Cairo, Egypt. He is the eldest among his siblings. His father, Abdel Moneim Abdel Gawad, was one of the biggest traders of truck spare parts in Egypt. He had a weak physique in his childhood, so his father sought the help of Dr. Sayed El Gendy to build his strength. From a young age, he managed his father's shops and warehouses and traveled abroad to import spare parts. He began practicing martial arts and self-defense at the age of 11. While in Italy with his father to resolve an issue with a shipping company, he joined a local sports club. After returning to Cairo, he trained for 4 years and then joined the Egyptian National Karate Team. He traveled with the team to the United States for a world championship and then returned to his normal life as a spare parts trader and a martial arts trainer on his days off. His close childhood friend was Hussein El Seify, an civil aviation engineer, whose brother Adel El Seify was a still photographer in Egyptian cinema. Through Adel, he learned that actor Hassan Youssef had opened an office on Emad El Din Street to train young talents for acting. His first role was a small part as a bodyguard in the film "Aman Ya Donya" (1991), but his scenes were cut to less than 20 seconds upon release, so he decided to step away from acting. Later, he was called back as a fight choreographer with small acting roles. Years later, he starred in a leading role in an Italian film as a strong Arab man skilled in horse riding, and after returning to Egypt, he began playing supporting roles in Arab films.
Born
September 16, 1962 (age 64)
Birthplace
Cairo Egypt
Filmography
47 films


Who Would Believe It?
2024 · 2h 4m
country: Egypt
Nadine gets rid of the state of emptiness in which she lives, by meeting a fraudulent young man named Bassem, who offers her the kind of love and attention that she is missing. Nadine Bassem participates in fraud operations through which they get involved in many problems, which puts their love story and other matters at stake.


Grapes
2024 · 1h 48m
country: Egypt
Two days before his wedding, a young millionaire playboy goes to celebrate with his fiancée, his friend, and his friend's fiancée, only to wake up the next day and discover that he married both his fiancée and his friend's fiancée, and that he also gave up his wealth to a complete stranger, so he sets off to find out what happened the night before.


The Gang of El Max
2024 · 1h 40m
country: Egypt
El Maxiky is accustomed to carrying out theft and smuggling operations alone without help. However, he gets embroiled in a major operation that requires outside assistance but eventually discovers that those he chose for help are implicating him in problems that threaten the operation's success.


Maqsoom
2024 · 1h 35m
country: Egypt
Hind, Emy and Rania can’t really stand each other. In the 90s, during their university years, they used to sing together in a band in before personal differences tore them apart. When they receive an invitation to sing together in Aswan, the three women reunite and are forced to work together on one last show. As they come together for this surprise reunion, they find themselves in a mix of challenges and comedic moments, remembering their past and rediscovering their present.


Their Uncle
2022 · 1h 39m
country: Egypt
The story follows Sultan, a boxer and trainer who works with his friend Saeed in a sports center. They find themselves in trouble when they stumble upon a printing press for counterfeit money.


Mako
2021 · 1h 31m
country: Egypt
Eight documentary makers decide to go to the location of Elsalam Ship which sunk years ago to make a new documntary where they face unforseen dangers.


A Stand Worthy of Men
2021 · 1h 52m
country: Egypt
A comedy about a group of friends as they get reunited to help one of their own find his way out of major trouble. As the situation gets more complicated, they are forced to take a trip to a coastal town.


Scarecrow
2019 · 2h 6m
country: Egypt
The story revolves around a grandfather who stole a rare masterpiece belonging to the late singer (Umm Kulthum) in his youth, but after years passes, he finds himself chased by those who want to have this piece, which makes him resort to the help of his only grandson.


Egypt's Exchange Cafe
2019 · 1h 30m
country: Egypt
In this modern real-life drama, the intertwined lives of a group of regulars in a popular downtown café highlight the inner conflicts of their different personalities, and how they reflect the changes in the traditions and values of the Egyptian society.


The Night of Hana and Sorour
2018 · 1h 39m
country: Egypt
The film revolves around Sorour, a businessman who loves a girl called Hannah, but gets involved with a gang and has to run away from them.


My Painful Debt
2018 · 1h 53m
country: Egypt
(Hani Ramzi) lives a simple life, working as a bill and installments collector for electrical appliances, where he faces many comic paradoxes during his work due to the high prices in Egypt.


Gedo Nahnooh
2018
country: Egypt
A group of young men whose grandfather dies, and upon distributing the inheritance, they discover that their grandfather did not leave money for them, while he left a will asking them to search for a buried treasure, and to search for the location of the treasure it becomes clear that it is inside the madhouse. They plan to enter the Hospital of the Crazies in pursuit of this treasure, and there they have a lot of comedic ironies.


Induced Labor
2018 · 1h 30m
country: Egypt
Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite them. Others still, just sneak in and hope Mr Trump doesn’t notice they are there. But in this raucous comedy, one Egyptian couple come up with a splendid wheeze. With twin babies due any minute, and all other efforts to secure citizenship fail, the couple decide to storm the US Embassy in Cairo and give birth there. Surely that will mean the babies are born as Americans, right? Well, er, no. As you might expect, things don’t quite go according to plan…


Shantet Hamza
2017 · 1h 25m
country: Egypt
A professional con man (Hamada Hilal) falls in love with a powerful woman who used to work for a well-known roguery gang.


Monopoly (The Bank of Luck)
2017 · 2h 2m
country: Egypt
Fueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Mohamed Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend (Ze'ro) by turning to robbery in order to fulfill their dreams. But, when they turn their master scheme to rob the bank into action, things take an unexpected turn. Little did they know that a plan is only as clever as the brains behind it.


No Trespassing or Cameras Allowed
2017 · 1h 46m
country: Egypt
A social comedy film about Thuraya Abdeen al-Entebli (Mervat Amin) receives a court order to obtain her grandfather's villa, Entebble Pasha, which was nationalized during the period of the conventions and when she goes to receive it, she found it was transformed into a police department ... Thuraya and her family live in the police department to obtain her right, Then the events follow.


Monkey Talks
2017 · 1h 27m
country: Egypt
Two magician brothers, Taha and Rashad El-Shenawy, prepare to pull off a magic trick to free their wrongfully imprisoned father.


The Preacher
2017 · 2h 10m
country: Egypt
A seemingly traditional journey of a young sheikh in a governmental mosque who moves from leading prayers to becoming a TV celebrity issuing "fatwas" that are accepted by millions who have become fans of his as a result of his courage and his attempts to deviate from the usual religious rhetoric in a society heavily influenced by fundamentalism. From Behind the scenes that exposes religion and authority struggle - Mawlana is a movie that defy boundaries.


Memory Card
2016
country: Egypt
The film follows several separate stories, which are all connected by a young lawyer who re-opens some cases in which a final judgment was thrown, including death penalties. The lawyer thinks that suspected criminals are not the real ones, and submits a request to re-investigate the cases to the attorney general, with the help of some information stored on a memory card.


The Other Mainland
2016 · 1h 38m
country: Egypt
A group of young men who live in a poverty-stricken village aspire to migrate to Italy seeking a better life. In their journey towards their dream life, they are faced with the treacherous waves of the Mediterranean Sea while boarding an old, worn-out boat and carrying no legal documents.


Titanic: The Arabic Version
2016
country: Unknown
A parody of James Cameron's Titanic


Freezer's Campaign
2016 · 1h 55m
country: Egypt
When Egypt's climate changes , turning the country into a frozen state, a group of intelligence officers travel to Italy to get a device that can stop the frost, posing as a movie crew.


Abu Shanab
2016 · 1h 54m
country: Egypt
Esmat Abu Shanab (Yasmin Abdul Aziz) is a female police officer who works in an administrative position and tries in various ways to work on field assignments.


Hassan and Boklos
2016 · 1h 38m
country: Egypt
The story of the two conjoined brothers, whom are exposed to funny situations, along with their cousin who got involved in their problems.


The Fourth Pyramid
2016 · 1h 32m
country: Egypt
This suspense-thriller looks into the hidden world of online hacking through several methods, such as social media, different forums, and so on. Yusuf, a brilliant engineering student, is behind a lot of the operations that are being talked about.


Ocean 14
2016 · 1h 41m
country: Egypt
As Ta’oun plots to rob the famous singer Ahlam, he recruits his fiancée and her brother to accompany him to Sharm El-Sheikh to carry out the heist. But he is unaware that he is being followed by the police officer who was terminated because of him.


Everyday's Lie
2016 · 1h 38m
country: Egypt
Hisham and Hadia, who work at the same advertising agency, an invitation to spend a vacation in Marsa Alam, in a resort owned by Sherihan. Hisham takes his wife, Aida, and Hadia takes her husband, Adel, and the four of them go on a vacation that will put their marriages to the test.


Born to a Man
2016 · 2h 22m
country: Egypt
An aspiring boxer Adham is thriving to become a successful professional. He falls in love with a girl, Mai, living in a slum, who suffers from her thug brother's possessive personality. Adham and his dad's lives turn torrid when Mai's brother knows of their affair.


The Womanizer
2015 · 1h 53m
country: Egypt
A romantic comedy about a playboy who gets in serious trouble with four different girls when they discover that he is seeing them all at the same time over the course of his journey to find his dream girl.


Misunderstanding
2015 · 2h
country: Egypt
Omar is trying to reclaim the inheritance of his father from his uncle. He uses his colleague Rauof, who turns out to be a crook and then flees to Lebanon and Omar goes to jail. Lina the Lebanese girl falls in love with Raouf, and they agree to marry, but he escapes to Cairo.


Downtown Shaking
2015 · 1h 52m
country: Egypt
The film is set in the span of eight hours in the region of downtown Cairo, exploring the variety of characters present in the busy town, and several problems they face in their daily lives, in addition to the economical crisis the whole country is facing.


The Walls of the Moon
2015 · 1h 41m
country: Egypt
Zeina wakes up from a faint to find herself blind and unable to remember anything. She ends up with Ahmed on his boat, who enters into a frantic chase with Rashid. After sitting alone in one of the boat's rooms, she tries to recall everything that happened to her through its recordings, including the details of the love triangle in which she herself was one of the sides.


My Mother-In-Law Loves Me
2014 · 1h 36m
country: Egypt
A plastic surgeon gets into trouble because of his extreme passion with women, so he decides to visit a shrink, who eventually discovers that he is in a relationship with her daughter, so she decides to stop him in every way possible.


The Master of Ceremonies
2014 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
The film follows a master of ceremonies who introduces singers and dance numbers on stage in local weddings, and who aspires of gaining wealth to escape his poor town and marry the girl he loves, but on his way he faces a lot of difficulties.


The Blue Elephant
2014 · 2h 31m
country: Egypt
After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.


The Promise
2008 · 1h 51m
country: Egypt
Sahrawi ,the leader of a gang decides to get rid of Yousef, one of his old men after he has cancer and taking money belonging to the gang. He entrusts Adel to eliminate him, as well as Farah to follow Adel, but they fall in love. Then Yousef and Adel become friends.


Taimour & Shafi'aa
2007 · 1h 39m
country: Egypt
Taymour and Shafika have grown up together as next door neighbours and are deeply in love. However, their love is put to the test when he is assigned to protect her as her personal body guard when she is promoted to the level of Minister.


Halim
2006 · 2h 35m
country: Egypt
The film displays the life of legendary singer(Abd Alhalim Hafez) in various stages. Depicting many sides of his artistic and personal life since his early childhood.


Cinderella in Arabic
2006 · 1h 32m
country: Egypt
A gentle and dreamy girl who works as a costume assistant in a theater group faces troubles at work as the band's director and his son both love her, and at home as her stepmother prefers her own daughter to her and treats her unjustly. Can she find the balance her life lacks?


The Lake House
2006 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.


The Seventh Sense
2005 · 1h 52m
country: Egypt
A young man wants to be a professional Kung-Fu player but figures out that the game is not popular in Egypt. He meets a fortuneteller who helps him to read and hear other’s thoughts.


The Night Baghdad Fell
2005 · 1h 43m
country: Egypt
After the US invasion of Iraq, an Egyptian headmaster sponsors a young inventor to create a deterring weapon out of fear his country will be next.


Private Lesson
2005 · 1h 39m
country: Egypt
Khososy a young who is living in the fifties of the 20th century in Egypt, one day he is mistaken for a man who wants to fight the British soldiers occupying Egypt, his father tries to smuggle him out of Egypt but the ship gets caught in Bermuda triangle and Khososy finds himself in the year 2005 of Egypt, trying to fit in the new time, he encounters many problems, he finds out that his children are now grown up and they in worse shape it can be, he tries to bring the back to the right way.


A Generous Gesture
2001 · 1h 38m
country: Egypt
Salmawi and Mima dream of joining the Acting Institute, but they are faced with impossible admission exams. They try to enter the world of acting through any other door, but with every attempt, they are accompanied by bad luck, which leads them several times to the police station. Despite the troubles, they insist on completing the journey and achieving their dream at any cost.


A Cultural Film
2000 · 2h
country: Egypt
Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.


Woman and Five Men
1997 · 2h
country: Egypt
After becoming wealthy from her first husband, Ghazal the vamp get married secretly with another 4 men in row. But the last one hides his own project to execute with Ghazal.


Aman Ya Dunia - أمان يا دنيا
1991 · 1h 43m
country: Egypt
"Morsi" The Conductor, lives on the rooftop of the house of his girlfriend "Najfa", who owns a convenience store, and her mother "Attiyat" refuses to marry him to her daughter. Morsi Meet a businessman "Mohsen", who sent him with a bag to Alexandria to deliver it to Khawaja Peter and receive another bag from him.