Nadia Lotfi
Also Known As: Nadia Lotfy, Nadia Lutfi, Paula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq, Paula Mohamed Lotfi Shafiq, Nadia Lofti, Paula Mohamed Mostafa Shafik, نادية لطفي
Biography: Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Loutfi was an Egyptian actress. During the apex of her career, she was one of the most popular actresses of Egyptian cinema's golden age. She was born in 1937 in Cairo to an Egyptian father and a Polish mother. Her father was an accountant. Acting started as a hobby, when she was 10 years old she participated in a play at her school and did very well. Her first roles in Egyptian cinema were in Soultan (1958) and Cairo Station (1958), both in the same year. The latter brought filmmaker Youssef Chahine to international attention and acclaim when it was a competitor at the Berlin Film Festival. Her career progressed and she appeared in El saman wel karif (1967) (based on the book by Nobel-winning author Najeeb Mahfouz). She closed out the 1960s in Abi foq al-Shagara (1969) opposite Abdel Halim Hafez as a nightclub dancer who loves a much younger man.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Birthday: January 03, 1937
Deathday: February 04, 2020
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Schoolgirl's notes
Overview: A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-11-04
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عمالقة البحار
Overview: A story about some Arab soldiers takes place after The Tripartite Aggression
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-12-18
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The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy
Overview: Wajih heads to Alexandria and lives in one of the apartments there, despite the owner’s objection at first because he is single. Then engineer Anwar, who is going through special circumstances, joins him in the residence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-05-31
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Thawrat Al-Banat
Overview: A widow with three daughters, Nadia, Esmat and Raja. Their aunt advises them to go to a matchmaker to find grooms for them. They reject this approach, so Nadia establishes an association calling for giving women the right to choose their life partner instead of men. The journalist Jalal mocks this idea, but he falls in love with Nadia and does not express his feelings. Her sister Esmat becomes involved with the shy Monem, while Raja chooses her fiancé Reda in the same way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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The City's Lost Souls
Overview: Abdullah is a judge who asks court guard Farghali to bring him a maid, he goes to the poor Shohrat who needs money for her children and her addict husband . She has an affair with the judge who gives her money. But when he decides to refrain from paying her, she leaves and he looks for her everywhere.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-01-28
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The Night of Counting the Years
Overview: Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-01-27
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On Cellophane Paper
Overview: Qesmat is at crossroads as she suffers from her husband's neglect just as she encounters the open-minded Hesham who breathes new life and paints new color into her life. Rather unconsciously, she draws a constant comparison between her constantly-busy husband and Hesham.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-10-05
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Nashal raghm anfuh
Overview: A pickpocket decides to repent from pickpocketing, and when he leaves the prison door, he sees a group of pickpockets waiting for him, so he goes with them to a nightclub where he meets its owner who asks him for the wallet he picked before entering prison. He denies pickpocketing the wallet and goes to his house and opens the wallet, only to be surprised by contracts and papers in the name of the movie star Samia Fawzy, so he is forced to go to her house to give her the papers, and she is impressed by him and loves him at first sight and marries him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-07-07
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Seraa El Gababera
Overview: Lillian is a Jewish dancer who has a number of admirers, including Farid, a wealthy lonely young man. Lillian leaves Farid in order to go to Palestine. Farid then meets Goaher, another dancer. Goaher is married to El Saba’i, who along with his colleague Simbel, protect her. Goaher refuses to give any of what she earns to El Saba’i, so Saba’i attempts to ambush, rob, and kill Farid, and events ensue.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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Ayam Bela Hob
Overview: Two colleagues from Port Said meet each other during their studies. Nadia, the daughter of the wealthy Shaker, and Hosni, the engineer, the son of the poor fisherman, return to Port Said. Hosni's father suffers from the injustice imposed by the wealthy Shaker, Nadi's father. Hosni helps his father stand up to Shaker. Nadia offers Hosni a job in her father's fleet, but he refuses. Nadia decides to run away with Hosni and get married in Cairo. However, her father's men catch her and threaten to kill Hosni if he does not stay away from Nadia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-09-17
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Lost in Memories
Overview: After a tragic accident on set, movie star, Sherif, now has to live with the consequence of that day. He falls into a state of grief and loneliness, but with the help of his cousin, Amal, the details of that fateful day starts to reveal itself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Mama's Secretary
Overview: Amal is a little child who lost her father goes to a circus and finds a man called shalaby who looks exactly like her father. she starts to call him dad and things escalated quickly.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-10-20
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Life is Sweet
Overview: Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-11-21
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A Marriage in Danger
Overview: Ahmed (Ahmed Ramzy) is a hard-working young man in love with Samira (Nadia Lotfy), a girl from a wealthy family. Both want to get married, but Samira's aunt rejects, given Ahmed's social status. Meanwhile, a belly dancer in love with Ahmed is trying to keep them apart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-01-09
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The Long Nights
Overview: After his wife's death, Mokhtar decides to stay celibate and take care of his children. But he changes his mind when he falls for Nihad and marries her. Their happy marriage is disturbed when Nihad gets pregnant which brings up painful memories for Mokhtar whose first wife died in childbirth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-03-20
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Days Of Love
Overview: When his leading lady drops out of his film, a director gets a saleswoman for the part and introduces her as a sophisticated lady. When the movie becomes a smash hit, she rebels against the director.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Unforgettable Love
Overview: Amal (Nadia Lotfi) loves Hussein (Jalal Issa), but her father refuses to marry her to him and manages to kill him, so she lives sad hopes in the world of remembrance, sacrificing her youth and beauty for the sake of the memory of the one she loves, even if she offers her in her loneliness and her monster who humanizes her and who can forget the memory of her first love, then she encounters Adel, a young man similar to her lover, and discovers that he is his little brother, so she becomes kind to him, but she is frightened when she remembers her first love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-12-11
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The Visitor
Overview: Hamed tries to convince Nadia to impersonate Laila, the daughter of his wealthy uncle, to seize his money. Nadia agrees with him and begins setting her net on the wealthy uncle. However, she meets her ex-lover, Hassan, and tells him her story. Hamed discovers the predicament he is in, and his attempt to kill her fails.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-11-06
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حبيبة غيري
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-06-21
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The Sun Will Never Set
Overview: An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-12-25
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Fleeing from life
Overview: Dr. Kamal falls in love with Suhair, who works as a hostess in a nightclub. At the same time, Dr. Mahmoud also loves her. Mahmoud precedes his colleague Kamal in declaring his feelings for her and marrying her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-20
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Widow Wanted
Overview: One of Ahmed's relatives dies and leaves him a huge fortune to inherit, but on one condition, which is to search for a widow to marry, and he continues to search again and again for someone suitable for the task.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-12-09
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Mudaris khususi
Overview: After his parents got separated and remarried, Mamdouh is going through tough times. He starts stealing cars with his friend. But he decides to quit this crime life and bring his parents back together while they have moved on with their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Badia Masabni
Overview: The life story of the artist Badia Masabni, from her childhood, through her rape in her hometown in Lebanon, her migration to Egypt, her work as a dancer, her marriage to Najib Al-Rihani, her work as an actress, their divorce, the withholding of taxes on her theater, her selling of the theater to the dancer Biba, her escape with her money to Lebanon, her birthplace, and her death alone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-12-21
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My Father Is on the Tree
Overview: A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-02-17
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A house without love
Overview: Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Quail and Autumn
Overview: Eissa Al-Dabagh is a member of a washed-out political party that was defanged by the 1952 revolution. When he meets the prostitute Riri, he tries to use her to chase the mirage of the power and control he once had. But when he discovers that she is pregnant, he kicks her out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-02-13
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El Ragol El Monaseeb
Overview: A Lebanese company sends a representative to the Cairo branch to discover the secret of the branch's losses. This representative disguises himself as a newly transferred messenger. He notices that a love story is developing between the daughter of the failed manager and the public relations employee, and he tries to reveal to the girl what is happening.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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نصف عذراء
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-06-07
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Where Do You Hide the Sun?
Overview: A mixed cast of Egyptians, Libyans and Moroccans address the issue of corruption among young people, many of whom seem to be suffering greatly from the lingering effects of war.
Genres: Fantasy Action Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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غراميات مجنون
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-02-27
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For Men Only
Overview: (Elham and Salwa) two chemical engineers, have been appointed to the Oil Company (Cairo) but are seeking to work in the desert to explore new oil wells, but the company only sends men there. The desert, having progressed to work as two men because of the company's system of accepting only men's travel on these missions, recognizes their colleagues in the desert and lives with them as two men
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-11-16
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The Black Sunglasses
Overview: When rich celebutante Maddie and worker Omar meet, two completely opposite worlds collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-04-29
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Alkhataya
Overview: Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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The Impossible
Overview: Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-01-02
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Forever Yours
Overview: A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he gets accused of her crime, he gets involved in her husband's murder and tries to escape.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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My Only Love
Overview: Adel and Mona are in love, and just as they were about to get engaged, Adel has an accident. When he recovers, he finds that the only woman he loved is now married to another man.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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Unfaithful
Overview: Ilham's marriage to a highly successful - and often busy - lawyer is put to the test, and suspicions of infidelity arise.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-11-15
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Enemy of Women
Overview: Nadia manages to make the famous writer Dr. Essa, who is anti-women, to fall in love with her and change his attitude towards women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Mansion of Longing
Overview: 10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Caught in a Honey Trap
Overview: After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a past of struggling and support
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-10-17
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Three Stories
Overview: The film combines 3 separate stories .. The first story (Dunia Allah) to Naguib Mahfouz and starring Salah Mansour and Nahed Sharif .. Tell the story of a courier in a government service approached the age of the pension did not enjoy his life at all decides to embezzlement of employees salaries and travel to Alexandria with one of the girls on the street to enjoy several weeks He was convinced that he did not harm anyone because all the employees did not need a salary except for one employee who was burdened with social burdens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-02-12
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Naughty Girl
Overview: The two friends, Shukri and Sami start a rivalry to win the heart of the beautiful nurse Samira, who is in love with Shukri. They start doing pranks to each other and events continue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Barrier
Overview: The great businessman Salah is sponsored by his brother Ezzat, who chooses the Faculty of Medicine despite his literary leanings. Salah refuses to marry her mistress Nadia.Seeking to make Ezzat fall in love with her and succeed in it
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-08-07
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Waraa Al-Shams
Overview: "Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by the commander of the military prison , When the rebel military commander refuses to ignore his insistence on requesting this investigation, during the special visit by "Jaafari" commander of the military prison in order to convince him to do so, "Jaafari" can not escape from his assassination by firing bullets,
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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Soultan
Overview: The story revolves around Sultan, the poor child who grows up and becomes a military correspondent at an elite brigade. He enjoys the sympathy of the police officer, the son of the general, unlike the rest of the house.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-10-05
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A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood
Overview: Directed by Houssam El-Din Mustafa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-09-25
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How to Rob a Millionaire
Overview: Mahfouz is surprised when he wins a thousand pounds in the lottery. But his happiness is short-lived when a beautiful pickpocket steals the money on the bus, which forces him and his friends to go back to working various jobs. Fate puts the pickpocket in their way again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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The Estranged Brothers
Overview: The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures. His son, Tawfik, revolts against his father after he learns of his relationship with the prostitute Lula, until he falls for her.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-10-14
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Cairo at Night
Overview: The Theater Lights Trio try to meet the singer Sabah, but her busy schedule forces her to postpone. As they grow to believe that the Maspero building's guard wants to kick them out, they go on a lot of comic adventures as they meet with a lot of celebrities including Shadya, Fayza Ahmed and Nagat.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-08-05
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Saladin the Victorious
Overview: The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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Legitimate Father
Overview: Sharifa is a middle-aged woman whose life is dedicated to managing the textile factory that she inherited from her husband, and looking after her family. But an unpleasant surprise lies waiting when she learns that her daughter is in love with their neighbor who is old enough to be her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-02-13
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Al-Aqmar
Overview: As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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House of the Poisoned Family
Overview: Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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A Bachelor’s Life
Overview: Omar is a single employee who loves his neighbor Hoda, but her father refuses their marriage. Omar spends a night with his friends at a nightclub and the dancer, Aziza goes home with him. When she tries a drug by accident, she passes out and he thinks she's dead.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-01-07
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The Seven Daughters
Overview: The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-01-16
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Faceless Men
Overview: After he finishes his engineering study, Ahmed meets Layla the hooker and tells his father that he will marry her. The father refuses and stands in the way of this marriage and claims that he was in a relationship with this girl and events escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Bloody Destinies
Overview: As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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Endama Nouheb
Overview: Being a swimming champion, many beautiful girls admire Ahmed but he only loves one. However, his life is turned upside down when he has a heart attack that threatens both his sports career and his love life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-06-05
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I'll Never Come Back
Overview: Dr. Ahmed falls in love with the young girl (Souad) who saved his child Essam from drowning, so that the relationship between them develops and Souad becomes pregnant with him, so he is forced to marry her, and he is forced to inform his wife (Hoda), who decides to leave and travel outside the country, before what happens that changes the course of events .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-07-24
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Oushaq El Hayah
Overview: Ahmed returns from abroad after studying music and finds Mona, the daughter of the wealthy man who adopted him, waiting for him after his great success. He proposes to her, but the wealthy man refuses, due to the social differences between them. Under pressure from the Pasha, Mona marries the son of the Pasha's friend, which breaks Ahmed's heart and he decides to marry Zizi, the heroine of the band, to overcome his love for Mona. At the same time, he tortures himself and does not know that Mona was paralyzed when she tried to catch up with him on her wedding night.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-11-15
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Men Gheir Ma'ad
Overview: Salwa (Soad Hosni) secretly loves Waheed (Mohamed Sultan) . While Waheed loves Nadia (Nadia Lotfy). Meanwhile, Kamal (Moharram Fouad) falls in love with Nadia too, and keeps his love discreet .But when he knows that his friend ,Waheed, loves her, he decides to keep a distance from Nadia.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-12-10
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Youth, love and fun
Overview: Three penniless students live in the basement of one of the buildings owned by a young heiress who lives under the guardianship of her uncle, who covets her wealth and wants to marry her to his failed student son. The heiress falls in love with one of the three students and the heiress on the one hand, and her guardian uncle and his son on the other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-08-31
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قاضى الغرام
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Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-09-09
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رحلة داخل امرأة
Overview: A wife enters into a love affair after her husband neglects her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-03-06
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الأقمر
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-01-30
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Mean yekdar al-aziza
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Years of love
Overview: The work revolves around the love story between Nadia and Adel. On the day they agree to meet, Adel is forced to travel suddenly and sends a letter to Nadia, but it does not reach her, which leads her to despair and agree to the engagement of Adel Fathy's brother. Adel returns from his trip and events escalate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-06-13
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Kant Ayam
Overview: Jalal is a busy doctor with his patients all the time. His wife, Wafiya, decides to travel to Alexandria and he will join them in a few days. However, on his way back after dropping his wife off, he meets a beautiful girl with whom he spends most of his days.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-05
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