Mohamed El Akkad

The Borders (1984)

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the ...

Night of Men (1976)

A beautiful girl falls in love with a simple employee and surrenders herself to him, only to discover that he doesn't love her as he forsakes her. When her brother finds out what happened, he decides to take revenge on him and chases him everywhere. ...

When Wives Are Absent (1975)

Ghawar has two jobs: he is a beach guard during the day and a sculptor at night. Ghawar lives with his friend Hosni and the two suffer that their wives travel constantly. A gang plans to steal a statue from the museum where Ghawar works and they send two p ...

My Lover Is So Crazy (1975)

A failed Syrian inventor named Ziad Jamal is suffering from poverty and lack of faith from others, and his failure to marry the girl he loves. He reads in a newspaper about an armed robbery by a gang, and decides to help the Police in catching them. ...

The Five Swindlers (1974)

A girl and her boyfriend are swindlers who have successfully carried out previous frauds. When they find out that their neighbor has an amount of money that he is safekeeping for a friend, they devise a plan to swindle him. ...

Girls of Modern Times (1973)

A wealthy young man lives a frivolous lifestyle, always in and out of relationships. But after a traumatic event, he starts to rethink his life. He takes the identity of a poor worker to see what life is like in someone else's shoes and falls in love with ...

Imra'a Taskon Wahdaha (1971)

Two friends are trying to find a suitable place to stay. They find a suitable residence for a woman to live alone. The owner of the house rents a room in the apartment to the two friends without the woman knowing during her absence, which generates funny i ...

One + one (1971)

Womens' Tailor (1969)

Saber Effendi works as a tailor for men, but his major problem is that he suffers from a great depression because of his lack of fashion and refuses to develop his ideas about fashion until his wife, Huda, who works in a Syrian magazine interested in fashi ...