Nour El Sherif Filmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • The Baby Doll Night

    Actors: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Nour El Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hémeida, Gamal Soliman

    Synopsis: An Egyptian businessman is hit with the worst case of mistaken identity in history in this satiric comedy-drama from director Adel Adeeb. Houssam (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is an Egyptian travel agent whose work has taken him to New York City, where he's been living for a year. Houssam's wife Samiha Read More

    2008

  • The Yacoubian Building

    Actors: Adel Imam, Yousra, Nour El Sherif, Hind Sabry, Khaled El Sawy

    Synopsis: The lives and loves of a handful of Egyptian aristocrats -- some flush, others living in shabby gentility -- set the stage for this epic-scale drama, based on a best-selling Egyptian novel. The Yacoubian is a luxury apartment building which was built in Cairo in the late '30s. At the dawn of the Read More

    2006

  • Kahir Elzaman

    Actors: Nour El Sherif, Gamil Ratap, Khalid Zaki

    Synopsis: A rare Egyptian attempt at the sci-fi genre, this tale by Kamal ElCheikh tries to make an association between the cryogenic preservation of bodies and ancient Egyptian mummification. Dead bodies are coming up missing in the local hospital, so Kamal (Nour El Sherif) and his cousin (Khalid Zaki) Read More

    1986

  • El-Lanaa

    Actors: Nour El Sherif, Madiha Kamel

    Synopsis: Based on the 1963 movie Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller (1911-1997), Lanaa is also about a reporter who pretends to be insane in order to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital to investigate a murder. The disjunction with the 1963 film occurs in the inmates: these patients represent all levels of Read More

    1984

  • El Taous

    Actors: Nour El Sherif

    Synopsis: This suspense thriller is about a man who is fatally attracted to his wife's younger sister; his passion cannot be dampened, not even when his wife manages to marry off her sister hoping to cure his unbalanced infatuation. Rather than ending the problem, the wife's tactics cause her husband to Read More

    1982

  • Sonya And The Madman

    Actors: Nagla Fathi, Mahmoud Yassin, Nour El Sherif

    Synopsis: When a poor student kills an elderly female moneylender, he believes that he is some sort of revolutionary hero. It is quite a comedown for him when he is instead treated as a very ordinary murderer. This movie adapted its story from Dostoyevsky's famous novel Crime and Punishment, changing it to Read More

    1977

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