Abdel Meguid Shukry
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 03, 1890
Deathday: July 21, 1952
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Qais and Laila
1939-11-09
Qais and Laila
Overview: Qais recites poems about his love for his cousin Laila. Ghabeer, Qais' rival in Laila's love, commissions the poet Mamoun to compose obscene poems about Laila and publish them as Qais's. The poems reach Laila's father, who refuses to let Qais marry Laila, and marries her to Prince Ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-11-09
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Cairo-Baghdad
1947-04-21
Cairo-Baghdad
Overview: One of the earliest Iraqi films, the plot revolves around a young Iraqi man working as a writer who flees to Cairo after being accused of murdering his uncle. He stays with a friend and gets to know his friend's daughter, eventually falling in love with her. He requests to marry her, and his friend agrees to his proposal. The young man continues to write to newspapers using his friend's name. However, when the murderer of his uncle is apprehended, a young man from Iraq informs him about the developments in the case.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-04-21
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1942-10-01
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Overview: Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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The Flirtation of Girls
1949-09-22
The Flirtation of Girls
Overview: Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-09-22
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Dananeir
1940-09-29
Dananeir
Overview: A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1940-09-29
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The Public Prosecutor
1946-05-20
The Public Prosecutor
Overview: A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-05-20
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The Black Market
1945-01-02
The Black Market
Overview: A corrupt grocer in a traditional Cairene neighborhood enters into an alliance with comprador merchants. Their goal is to hoard scarce commodities during the World WAR II, and then to sell them at vastly inflated prices. Eventually the grocer's neighbors rebel at his tactics. They call in the national athorities and the black marketeers are brought to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-01-02
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Long live women!
1944-11-04
Long live women!
Overview: Three young men boycott their fiancées following a dispute between them and them, in an attempt to live without women. They think that by doing so they can live a life full of freedom and enjoy everything, but this life is not right and human nature overpowers them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-11-04
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Layla in the dark
1944-02-24
Layla in the dark
Overview: Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but Laila is exposed to an accident that loses her sight, so she decides to sacrifice her love so that Hussein can avoid life with a co-wife.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-02-24
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The Straight Road
1943-10-17
The Straight Road
Overview: A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts him and takes him into her love. This changes his circumstances and he is distracted by her from his family. He neglects his work and his life is upended. He ends up killing this woman who killed him and betrayed him. Then he immigrates to Sinai, where he lives for a few years. When He returns to his family and finds that the children have grown up and married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-10-17
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في ليلة ممطرة
1939-03-09
في ليلة ممطرة
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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Leila, ghadet el camelia
1942-04-02
Leila, ghadet el camelia
Overview: A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Passion and Revenge
1944-01-02
Passion and Revenge
Overview: A woman seeks revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband but falls in love with him in the process.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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Ambassador of Hell
1945-02-19
Ambassador of Hell
Overview: The devil appears to a poor family, incarnated in a wealthy man who offers them a large fortune. The life of excess spoils the family and breaks up their relationships. Eventually, the devil appears again, this time with the will to drag the family to hell.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-02-19
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bihubh fi baghdad
1942-01-01
bihubh fi baghdad
Overview: Al-Usta (Bahbah), the barber, lives in the city of Baghdad, and one of his customers, Sheikh (Makhlouf), tells him: Shahbandar al-Tajjar said that he had a son who was constantly ill, named (Qamar al-Din). He suggests that he get him a slave girl, perhaps she will bring joy and happiness to his heart. Indeed, his father buys a slave girl named Baddour. She discovers that the cause of his illness is his love for (Shams), the daughter of the judge, so Badour suggests that he convince his father to guide her to the judge so that she can be the messenger of love between (Qamar) and (Shams), and Bahbah helps her in that. He knows the judge. By order, he imprisons them all and they try to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Yasmine
1950-12-11
Yasmine
Overview: Yasmine is the daughter of a wealthy man who was not interested in females, so he left her at the door of an orphanage. She grows up in the orphanage, then runs away from it to join a gang of children. She meets a musician who tries to protect her, so he convinces her to work with him and sing, but she gets tired of the life of poverty and runs away from him. After her escape, he discovers that she is the granddaughter of a Pasha, so he tries to help her return to her family.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-12-11
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Faeil Khayr
1953-03-21
Faeil Khayr
Overview: A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her father rejects this relationship, but stands in her way and declares that he does not agree with their marriage. His argument is that the young man is still in the first path of art. His daughter in case the artist stabilizes materially
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-03-21
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The Wedding
1933-07-17
The Wedding
Overview: Directed by Fatma Rouchdi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1933-07-17
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Heaven's Justice
1948-01-26
Heaven's Justice
Overview: An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His wife is forced to work at a nightclub to provide for their children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-01-26
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Hymn of Hope
1937-01-11
Hymn of Hope
Overview: Directed by Ahmed Badrakhan.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1937-01-11
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The Life of Darkness
1940-03-01
The Life of Darkness
Overview: A middle-class family. The son gets a law degree and wants his son to be a lawyer, but the son wants to be a novelist. The son is surrounded by bad friends, so he is led by them into a life of debauchery and slips into the abyss, betrays trust, misappropriates his father's money, and steals his mother's jewelry to satisfy his mistress's demands, which leads to his mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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