Atef El-Tayeb — Director (11)
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Jail Cell (1984)
التخشيبة WikiData IMDb TMDB
Atef El-Tayeb actor: Nabila Obeid / Ahmed Zaki …
other title: التخشيبة / The Arrest
A doctor finds herself criminally involved in a baseless crime after a minor accident causes unbelievable mischief and trouble. She spends her days in police stations, security services and hospitals waiting for her lawyer to prove her innocence.
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Revealing the Hidden (1994)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Nabila Obeid / Farouq Al Fishawy …
other title: كشف المستور / Kashf El Mastoor
Salwa's new life as the wife of a prominent college professor is jeopardized when the past comes calling in the form of the director of the General Intelligence Directorate who wants her to take up her old task of seducing important figures. When she refuses, he threatens to reveal her past.
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Nagi El-Ali (1992)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Nour El-Sherif / Salim Kallas …
other title: ناجي العلي / Naji El Ali
After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.
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Sons and Killers (1987)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz / Nabila Obeid …
other title: أبناء وقتلة / Abnaa w Qatalah
When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.
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A Slam Dunk (1987)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Nour El-Sherif / Kamal Al-Shennawi …
other title: ضربة معلم
Walid, the son of an important businessman, kills his mother's lover. When his mother turns him in, his father tries to use his influence to get him out of trouble, but a young police officer stands in his way.
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The Piper (1985)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Nour El-Sherif / Poussi …
other title: الزمار
Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.
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Love Above Pyramid's Plateau (1986)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Ahmed Zaki / Athar ElHakim …
other title: الحب فوق هضبة الهرم / Love on the Pyramids Plateau
The film puts the lights on the struggle of youngsters to afford a proper life for marriage. Through their small incomes, and the ordeal of finding a house in crowded Cairo, so it follows a young couple's longing for their simpliest dreams - to be together.
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The Escape (1991)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Ahmed Zaki / عبدالعزيز مخيون …
other title: الهروب
Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.
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Against the Government (1992)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: Ahmed Zaki / Afaf Shoieb …
other title: ضد الحكومة
After being fired by the prosecution office, Mostafa becomes a personal injury lawyer and takes advantage of people's pain for profit. But his life turns upside down when his only son falls victim to a car accident.
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The Bus Driver (1982)
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Atef El-Tayeb actor: نور الشريف / Mervat Amin …
other title: سواق الأتوبيس / Sawak al-utubis …
A 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.