Assia Dagher
Biography: A Lebanese producer and actress, born in Tannourine in 1901. She moved to Egypt in 1923 with her niece, Mary Queeny. In 1927, Assia established her own production company, Lotus Film, which became one of the pioneering production companies in the history of Egyptian cinema. Assia produced her first film in 1929, Belle of Desert, in which she also co-starred. Since then, the films in which she participated as an actress and producer continued, including When a Woman Loves, Manager's Daughter, and The Accused. In the late 1940s, Assia decided to stop acting and devote herself to her work as a producer. After that, she produced many notable films, such as Return My Heart, and Nasser Salah Eddin, which was at the time the most expensive Egyptian film ever made. Assia Dagher died in 1986 at the age of 78.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 18, 2001
Deathday: January 12, 1986
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Bent Elbasha El Moder
1938-01-13
Bent Elbasha El Moder
Overview: Hikmat disguises herself as a man after her brother suffered a tragic accident while on his way to start his work. She pretends to be teacher for the children of the Pasha instead of her brother. Hikmat gets to know the children whom she teaches and becomes Mr. Hikmat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-13
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What a madness
1943-12-02
What a madness
Overview: Overnight, the situation changes with Ikram. After she was living a happy life with her husband, Hassouna Bey, she finds herself in the circle of suspicion by discovering her husband's betrayal of her. Her aunt, Sharbat, suggests several ways to help her preserve her marriage. He pushed Hassouna to assume the role of a rich woman, hoping to solve his wife's problem.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-12-02
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The Fifth Groom
1942-12-04
The Fifth Groom
Overview: Four greedy men are trying to win over Bahira Hanem. So she pretends to be poor to test the fifth man's feelings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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Dangerous woman
1941-04-10
Dangerous woman
Overview: The story is from the heart of life, and revolves around the world of dance and the dancers who wage war against the ruin of full homes, so they steal husbands from their wives with various means of temptation and camouflage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1941-04-10
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Al-Sharid
1942-06-07
Al-Sharid
Overview: In Cairo in 1914, two friends meet two girls from behind the Yashmak. They are Nima, Muhammad’s sister, and her friend Hosnia. The two young men fall in love, but the girl proposes to another young man, which shocks Hassan, so his friend stands next to him. A sin occurs between Hosnia and Hassan, the result of which is that... Hosnia gives birth to Souad. Souad grows up without knowing a father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-06-07
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This Was My Father's Crime
1945-12-03
This Was My Father's Crime
Overview: A big lawyer is involved with a girl demanding marriage, but he refuses where his social status does not allow him to be associated with her, and the girl puts her child and calls her Samiha and then she leaves life before the girl grows up to disclose her father, Samiha grows up and works in a worker, and the lawyer grows until he becomes a famous lawyer. Samiha gets to know Samir Bey, who assgresses her and escapes from her to the Levant, but Samiha insists on resorting to the judiciary, and Samir's father assigns the famous lawyer to defend his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-12-03
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Look for the Woman
1939-01-05
Look for the Woman
Overview: Adel dedicates his life to supporting the farmers, which his wife Hoda, who lives a life of luxury and extravagance, objects to, while her sister Malak Masaei supports Adel, so Hoda suspects that there is something between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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When a Woman Loves
1933-03-27
When a Woman Loves
Overview: Amina gets involved with a young man she loved, but he deceives her and abandons her. She gives birth to her son Murad, who is raised by her friend Umm Ibrahim. Amina marries Hashem, who knows nothing about her past. Murad is ten years old when his mother's friend Umm Ibrahim sends him to Europe. Years later, Murad returns to Egypt and meets Nadia, a con girl on board a ship who shares her brother Ramzy's crimes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1933-03-27
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Laila
1927-11-16
Laila
Overview: Thrive Leila in one oasis overlooking the ruins of Memphis, and meet Rauf Bey Layla tries to woo her, but her heart was hung with Ahmed, and made a speech Ahmed Leila but soon recognized by a Brazilian girl and imported into Egypt, and succeed Brazilian girl to win the heart of Ahmed, and abandon Laila which became pregnant from him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1927-11-16
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Shajarat al-Durr
1935-02-26
Shajarat al-Durr
Overview: In the 13th century AD, the Turkish slave girl (Shajarat al-Durr) captures the heart of (Al-Malik Al-Salih) and he marries her so that she can interfere in the affairs of the country and plot and plan conspiracies and schemes when the war against the Crusaders breaks out. It happens that (Al-Malik Al-Salih) dies during the war, so she hides the news of his death so that the soldiers in the battle will not be shaken, and she continues to rule and command in his name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1935-02-26
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Pangs of Remorse
1932-12-31
Pangs of Remorse
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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almutahama
1942-05-18
almutahama
Overview: The prosecutor (Kamel) succeeds in convicting (Othman Borai), the drug dealer, and (Borai)’s wife decides to take revenge on the prosecutor, causing a quarrel between him and his wife (Samiha). Kamel believes that his wife is cheating on him, so he divorces her and expels her from the house. He discovers the truth and tries to search for her. He learns that she jumped into the Nile, so he travels with his son outside the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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Bewitching Eyes
1934-02-08
Bewitching Eyes
Overview: Delilah, a singer, seems at first to be in mutual love with a young man named Sami, but her club won't let him in much, and he grows distant while she grows fonder. She accosts him demanding he reconsider, jumping into his car as he leaves the club. Sami's car crashes, throwing him to his death, but Delilah escapes. Heartbroken and traumatized, she visits his grave in the dead of night and performs occult rituals to revive him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1934-02-08
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The Call of God
1926-06-28
The Call of God
Overview: A young man meets a girl in a village overlooking a desert area. They get to know each other and meet frequently. After a while, the young man, the girl's fiancé, meets another girl from a foreign country and proposes to her after the foreign girl succeeds in keeping the young man away from his first love. The people of the village learn that the girl is pregnant from her fiancé, so they expel her from the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1926-06-28
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Belle of the Desert
1929-05-01
Belle of the Desert
Overview: The Sheikh of one of the tribes loves the Bedouin girl Salma, who's engaged to her cousin. The Sheikh kidnaps her and forces her to marry him. As she gives birth to a child, the servant Suleiman helps her escape, only for his malicious intentions to be revealed when he tries to attack her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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Banknote
1936-01-01
Banknote
Overview: A frivolous woman who takes a lover every day, integrates into high society to set her nets around pleasure seekers, and with the events she changes and becomes a loyal wife living with her husband and son, she is accused of killing her husband, and the truth comes out as there is a con man and a woman plotting and scheming against her.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Proxy Wife
1936-02-09
Proxy Wife
Overview: On a ship traveling to Egypt, Burhan kills Amina Hanem to steal her jewelry that the jeweler Cohen had offered her. However, the girl Nahid, who looks like Amina, sees him and orders him to return what he stole to Cohen. She wears Amina's clothes to impersonate her, in exchange for not exposing his crime. In Egypt, Nahid meets Amina's husband, pretending to be his wife. Amina's husband discovers the truth and fights with Burhan. In the fight, Enayat, Amina's husband's lover, is injured. He kills Burhan to make it look like Burhan killed Enayat and then committed suicide. Amina's husband lives with Nahed pretending to be his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1936-02-09
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Zuleikha loves Ashour
1939-03-01
Zuleikha loves Ashour
Overview: Ashour lives happily with his kind-hearted wife until one of her relatives tries to separate her from her husband Ashour, with the help of one of the girls who tames lions in the circus, who is able to make Ashour believe that he is a very attractive man to whom women are attracted.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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