Faten Hamama
Also Known As: فاتن حمامة, Faten Ahmed Hamama, The Lady of the Arabic Screen, Faten Hamama, Faten Hamamah
Biography: Faten Hamama (May 27, 1931 - January 17, 2015) was an Egyptian actress and producer. Dubbed "The Lady of the Arabic Screen", she was born in El Mansoura, Egypt. Her legendary journey started as a secret statement between a six-year-old girl and her father after they watched a film in their neighborhood theater, at which leading actress and producer Asya Dagher was present. Faten told her father that she felt the audience was applauding her as the leading actress, and her father hugged her with a vision of helping his daughter become a movie star. She won a contest for the most beautiful child in Egypt, and her dad sent her picture to director Muhammad Karim (a pioneer of Egyptian cinema). Karim was looking for a child for his new film with Egyptian musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab. Faten auditioned for and got a role in this movie, Yom said (1940) ("A Happy Day"). She impressed the filmmakers so much during shooting that she was actually given more lines and scenes in the picture than were scripted initially for her. Karim put her under contract, and four years later he gave her a role in a film with Mohamed Abdel Wahab again, Russassa fil Kalb (1944) ("A Bullet in the Heart"). With her third movie with Karim, Dunia (1946), Faten showed filmmakers and audiences alike that she was an actress ready for bigger roles. Her father, along with her family, moved to Cairo to help her in her career. She also began studying her craft at the High Institute of Acting in 1946. Faten left Egypt from 1966-1971 because she resisted the political pressure that was applied to her. She divided her time between Lebanon and London, England. During this period Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser asked some prominent critics and writers to try to persuade her to return to Egypt, saying that "Faten Hamama is a national treasure". Her return to Egypt in 1971 breathed life back into Egyptian cinema. She insisted that her films reflect the values of society through family relationships. Her first film upon return was Witch (a short film) with Salah Zulfikar. Her role in Emberatoriet Meem (1972) ("Empire M") as a widow with six children and the struggles she endured to raise them made the film a success both critically and financially, and she earned a special award from an organization in the Soviet Union when the film was shown at the Moscow International Film Festival. Her film Orid Hallan (1975) ("I Need a Solution") which was produced by Salah Zulfikar was not only a big hit but resulted in changes to Egyptian marriage and divorce laws. Faten Hamama is the fourth Pyramid in Egyptian cinema, a legend in her platinum anniversary, the diamond that remained shining and kept glowing over the decades on the silver screen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: El Mansoura, Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: May 27, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 17, 2015
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I Am the Past
Overview: A man enters prison because of his brother-in-law and his mistress. After leaving prison, he searches for them to find them dead in a car accident. He marries their daughter to take revenge on her with the help of his sister. When she gives birth, he tries to stop his sister. He eventually kills his sister after accidentally hitting her.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-01-22
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The Lady of the House
Overview: Elham marries Nabil and moves to live with him in his mother's house. Her mother-in-law starts seeing Elham as an intruder while she's the lady of the house. When Elham didn't have kids, she wants Nabil to marry Elham's friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-04-11
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Orphans' money
Overview: A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Every house has a man
Overview: An archaeologist dies, leaving behind his wife and daughter alone. A handsome man, a representative of the Antiquities Authority, visits the house. The mother likes him and he likes her, and they exchange love. However, the girl also likes him and tries to woo him. However, she discovers that her mother likes him, so she revolts against her mother and accuses her of being disloyal to her deceased father. The young man tries to distract her from her hostility towards her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-09-22
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أشكى لمين
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Farewell My Love
Overview: This love story is about two young lovers who dream of getting married, but they get separated when the young man gets called for the military service and they lose contact. When the young girl marries an old military officer, the young man coincidentally gets assigned to work with her husband. Despite all the obstacles the two lovers have gone through, they decide to catch up with their past love. But when the old officer finds out what's going on between his wife and the young soldier, he decides to dramatically end their love relation.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Cup of torment
Overview: The events revolve around (Riyadh), who abandons his wife and their infant daughter (Nemat), who ends up in an orphanage after the death of her mother. When (Nemat) grows up and leaves the orphanage and marries (Mahmoud), the father sees her and falls in love with her without knowing that she is his daughter. The events unfold after he learns the truth and seeks to kidnap his grandson, (Nemat's) infant son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-07-28
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Love and Tears
Overview: A dramatic love story about the daughter of a retired drunk fisherman and a marine officer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-10-31
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Isalu kalbi
Overview: A wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the relationship out of respect for family traditions. The actor withdraws from her life out of respect for her family, and pretends to be in a relationship with a dancer. She leaves him and marries her cousin. The actor becomes addicted to alcohol, his condition deteriorates, and he leaves his job.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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The Last Night
Overview: A girl goes to sleep on her wedding night, wakes up 15 years later to find herself living a different life, where people call her by her sister's name.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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Sayedat el kasr
Overview: A chance meeting at an auction brings together Sawsan, a working-class girl and Adel, heir to a vast fortune with several estates to his name. This leads to a whirlwind marriage. This development spells trouble for Adel's fair-weather bourgeois clique, who are used to manipulating him with their own financial interests at heart.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Sleepless
Overview: Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new mother-in-law and getting involved with a man twice her age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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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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Immortal Song
Overview: Waheed (Farid Al Atrache), a famous music composer, meets Wafa' (Faten Hamama), a family member and the daughter of a close friend and relative of his. Wafa' has secretly had a crush on him for years and tries unsuccessfully to show her affection and hint that to Waheed. He thinks her love is nothing more than an expected family member's fondness.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-12-15
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Ethics for Sale
Overview: A fantastical story about a husband who is troubled by mother-in-law, until he meets a man who sells morals in the form of powders. As he buys the powder of courage to face his bossy mother-in-law, his life changes and he returns again to the seller asking for a new moral.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-12-29
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Bayoumi Afandi
Overview: The film revolves around Bayoumi Mustafa Saati, a simple man whom all people love for his safety and skill in his work. He succeeds in working in a big shop for selling and maintaining watches. Then he falls in love with a maid called Zubaydah, so what will happen next?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-12-29
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Like A Matchstick
Overview: A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-08-24
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The Blazing Sun
Overview: A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-03-01
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The Nightingale's Prayer
Overview: This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Cairo
Overview: An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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Son of the Nile
Overview: Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-01-10
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Dunia
Overview: Dunia meets the rich, frivolous young man, Mohamed. An illegitimate relationship develops between them and she becomes pregnant with his child. Mohamed disappears and she cannot face anyone with her child, so she decides to kill him. Her secret is revealed and she goes to prison. She decides to take revenge on him and searches for him until she finds him. She hides her past from him, but she is surprised that he shows her his love and decides to marry her and introduces her to his family, which puts her in a conflict between love and revenge. The mother reveals Dunia's past and she decides to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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Baba Amin
Overview: 1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees but forgets to take a receipt. Amin suddenly dies and watches on from the after life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-11-20
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Empire M
Overview: Well off widow working Mother "Mona" is struggling raising 6 kids at different ages ranging from elementary school to University graduating students. The day she thinks to bring a new husband home proves to be a very difficult task.
Genres: Family Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-11-06
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House No. 13
Overview: Sherif visits a psychiatrist for his illness who exploits him to commit a murder by hypnotism.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-09-23
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Aisha
Overview: Madbouly forces his daughter to sell lottery tickets in cafes, while her two brothers work in the field of pickpocketing. The wealthy Yahya meets Aisha and is sympathetic to her because he finds her very similar to the daughter he lost. The wealthy negotiates with Madbouly to take care of his daughter Aisha in his home and to educate and raise her in the best possible way. In exchange for a monthly salary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-04-06
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Your Day Will Come
Overview: With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-11-19
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Ana bint Nass
Overview: A delicate girl grows up with a poor family despite her wealthy origins. She marries a guy who sympathizes with her before she finds out the truth about her real family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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People's secrets
Overview: After serving his prison sentence, Mansour is released but tries to seduce the wife of the man who helped him to get released, so he plans to get rid of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-12-31
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Malak alrahma
Overview: The film revolves around a social drama about a wealthy Circassian (Fouad Bey) who lives with his wife and daughter, and a conspiracy is hatched against him by a con man named (Kazem) and his lover (Al Hasnaa) to seize his wealth. They devise a plan that enables them to get to know the family so that they can begin to separate the family with their malicious tricks. And the events follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-11-04
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Mouths and Rabbits
Overview: A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-10-17
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The Open Door
Overview: Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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Khulud
Overview: A love affair has linked Laila and Mahmoud since their childhood, but at the same time, Hassan, Mahmoud's cousin, falls in love with her, so jealousy and hatred begin to fill his heart towards Mahmoud. Fate wanted to bring Laila and Mahmoud's hearts together and complete their marriage. At their wedding, Hassan tries to kill Mahmoud, but Laila saves him and dies. Years pass and Mahmoud tries to get back what Hassan did to him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-05-03
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Appointment with Life
Overview: Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating condition, her father attempts to keep it a secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-12-14
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Appointment with Love
Overview: Faten Hamama plays Nawal, a journalist who meets Samir, a young man whom she encourages to pursue a singing career. His career takes off while Nawal's health deteriorates.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-03-05
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Qolob El Nas
Overview: Conditions worsen for the wealthy husband after he marries one of the dancers. He decides to divorce his wife, so he enrolls his daughter in a boarding school so that she can be away from her mother. The father loses his wealth and works in a menial job. Before the dancer dies, she calls her daughter Nemat and tells her where her father is. The father is accused of a crime and enters. Imprisoned for several months, the cabaret owner courtes the dancer's daughter, which creates trouble with his mistress, who suspects that he is her father, and the girl turns to a man who used to love her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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The River of Love
Overview: Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-11-12
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Angels in Hell
Overview: As a father doubts his paternity to his daughter, he leaves her as she falls prey to a pickpocketing gang. Years pass by, and the father confirms that she is his daughter, but she runs away just as he tries to get her back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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The Barred Road
Overview: Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Professor Fatima
Overview: The film's events take place in a comedic context, as Fatima (Faten Hamama) opens a law office. Her fiancé, Adel (Kamal El-Shenawy), refuses to agree to her work because he does not believe in her ability to succeed and a woman’s inability to work as a lawyer, so she challenges his opinion to prove to him that she is superior.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-02-21
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I Want a Solution
Overview: It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-03-31
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No Time for Love
Overview: Hamza "a member of the volunteer National Guard" meets up with the teacher Fawzya "Faten", after the fire of Cairo broke out, the British trying to capture all the volunteers in the National Guard , Hamza hiding in the house of one of his friend, and Fawzya help him, and she is trying to formation its own cell in order to hit the English forces in the Canal zone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-03-25
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Bitter Day, Sweet Day
Overview: Aisha is a widow with five children, Sana, Suad, Lamia, Asmaa and Noor. The eldest got married to Orabi the carpenter, and are living in the family's poor house. Orabi starts acting like he's the man of the house, and the other sisters try to find their way in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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The Two Orphans
Overview: On his way home one day, Morsi finds a child at the side of a road. He feels sorry for her, and takes her home with him to raise alongside his own daughter, Saniyya. The two girls become quite close over the years. When Morsi dies, their lives take very different paths, after a lot of suffering. While Sanniya falls in love with, and plans to marry, a wealthy man, Naimat falls into the grasp of a woman who is the ringleader of a number of beggars and pick-pockets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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Happy Day
Overview: Muhammad Kamal, a simple young man on the tram, meets a girl he loves and shares his feelings with her, but her father objects to this relationship because of the poverty of this singer.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Al-Malak Al-Zalem
Overview: When a young child sees her father leaving the room of a murdered woman, she mistakenly believes that he is the killer and testifies against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-05-31
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Our Best Days
Overview: A poor girl lives on the rooftop of a building. Three young neighbors fall in love with her. The decide to help her when they discover that she is seriously ill and in need of an urgent operation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-03-07
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Abu Zeid el Hilali
Overview: Abu Zayd al-Hilali's son and wife escape and years later, after his son has grown into a powerful and idealistic man, a battle between the two tribes starts. The son fights his father but is not aware who he is fighting. The Banu Hilalis defeat the Banu Zahlanis. Back home, Abu Zayd is greeted as a hero. A huge war then starts with the Zirids, who had abandoned Shiism. The Banu Hilalis weaken the Zirid state and plunder their lands.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-11-10
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Zalamoni El Nas
Overview: Taher Sharaf, a simple employee in a company, is wrongfully accused of embezzlement, despite the fact that the son of the company owner is the actual culprit. The employee is imprisoned and his two daughters, Ne'mat and Zeinab, suffer from the harshness of life. In an attempt to atone for his sin, the son of the company owner gets close to the employee, but he falls in love with his daughter and things become unexpectedly complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-08-14
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The Sin
Overview: Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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Bein Al-Atlal
Overview: Mona falls in love with her college professor Mahmoud despite the fact that he's a married man and many years her senior. Mona is forced to marry another man and leaves Egypt. Years later, Mona returns and finds out that Mahmoud has been hit by a car and is now in a hospital. They meet again and recall their past romance.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-02-08
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A Bullet in the Heart
Overview: Muhammad Karim directed adaptation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's play. Mohsen is a reckless young man who has many relationships. He meets the girl of his dreams by chance and falls in love with her immediately, but he discovers that she is his friend's fiancée, so he decides to stay away from her, but she has fallen in love with him.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-03-27
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Sands of Gold
Overview: Tarek loves his cousin Zubaida and travels to Spain to work in bullfighting under a pseudonym. Zubaida comes to Spain in search of her lover, but despite his pleas for her to return to Morocco, she continues to follow him.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Thin Thread
Overview: A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with Abdo. Will their love story continue?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-09-13
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Big Love
Overview: A poor girl develops a crush on a famous singer, so waits for the perfect opportunity to prove her love to him - but when he loves her back the couple find their relationship blighted by troubles beyond their control. Will true love prevail?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Time of Miracles
Overview: A woman aspires to get rich and surrenders to a wealthy old man who will marry her. The wife has a daughter from another man who denies her paternity, and the old man has a son and a daughter from a former wife. The old man indulges in gambling and leaves the rope to his wife in the west. She meets a young man who covets her husband’s wealth, so he blackmails him and plans to get rid of the husband to be inherited by his wife. To implement the plan, she must pretend to love the old man until he shocks the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-07-23
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The Miracle
Overview: A relationship of friendship and affection between the journalist Laila and Nuseela, and tries to help her as much as possible in order to live a decent life, and while the teacher intervenes Abbas to disrupt Layla's plans, wanting to continue Nosea Kanshala, Nosa falls in love with Salah Khatib Leila, and develops conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-12-24
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The Night Of Fatima's Arrest
Overview: Galal sends men from the mental hospital to Port Said to arrest his sister Fatma, using his political position, accusing her of insanity. Fatma escapes to the roof of the house and threatens to throw herself if someone approaches her, telling her story to the crowds around her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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I Won't Confess
Overview: Four months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Traces in the Sand
Overview: A man suffering from delirium because of the secrets he hides.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-04-19
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God Is on Our Side
Overview: Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of bad weapons abound, Emad asks Nadia to search her father's papers for proof, since her father is one of the men who were involved in the weapon deals.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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The Great Clown
Overview: Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to marry her. Then the wealthy wife dies and he inherits her fortune, prompting him to think of marrying his old neighbor Asrar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-04-21
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Land of Dreams
Overview: Ahmed leaves the town after his boss refuses to marry his daughter to him, but his father's passing forces him to go back and deal with unexpected issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-09-27
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I'll Never Cry
Overview: The family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public auction. This pasha has a daughter who falls in love with an agricultural engineer, and one of her relatives is trying to marry her in the greed of her father's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-02-25
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Tarek Al Amal
Overview: Sunniyeh, the poor girl, lives with her mother sewing, and during the delivery of Suniyeh one of her mother's clients ’gowns, who runs a den of immoral acts, called (Madame Southi), so that one of her friends admires Sunnah and asks her to work with them, to refuse, but her mother is ill and Layla needs a sum of money to treat her. Will you give in to work with Madame Southi?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-11-28
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Chair of Confession
Overview: Cardinal Giovanni (Yusuf Wehbe) falls into a difficult moral position, when (Estonzzi) confesses to him that he has committed a murder, and after the disappearance of (Estonzzi), the accused, Juliano, the brother of the real accused, is accused of using the Cardinal in a major confusion between his religious duty The one who is obliged not to divulge what he admitted (Estonzazi), and among his human conscience, who dictates that he testify in order to absolve the accused of being unjustly acquitted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Money slaves
Overview: Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going to jail, he asks Wahid to watch over his wife, and he leaves his money with him. But Wahid betrays his trust, he spends his money and cheats with his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-04-19
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A Tale Behind Every Door
Overview: (A tale behind every door) A television movie consisting of four short films, written by the great writer Tawfiq Al-Hakim and writer Katia Thabet, in each film a different problem is presented, and the four films starring Faten Hamama and different heroes, and they are, respectively: (Crazy position) starring Ahmed Ramzi, (I want to kill) starring Abu Bakr Ezzat and Safia Al-Omari, (the respected deputy) starring Ahmed Mazhar, and (guest at dinner) starring Jamil Ratib and Nadia Zulfiqar and Muhammad Al-Sabe, and each film talks about a specific social issue that occurs to a woman, and deals with each What happens to her.
Genres: Family Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Habibati
Overview: A lonely Egyptian immigrant young man lives in a room in a building in Lebanon, barely keeps up with his daily expenses by selling of his fine art paintings, led by chance he gets to meet another Egyptian immigrant lady in a park. He then tries to exploit her physically as a means to break his loneliness, and when she refuses he suspects that she is pretending to keep her chastity and virtuosity, he then begins a long journey of doubting many of her actions and her words in an attempt to expose her true self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-11-18
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Always With You
Overview: A poor thief assigned her sister to deliver a stolen ring to her lover, but she did not know that the police were tracking her, so she managed to escape from them and had to hide with a man who worked as a train driver and stayed with his friends, and she told them her whole story, and they sympathized with her and fell in love with the driver, but he did not pay her any attention. The girl heads to find her aunt and is surprised that she has become wealthy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-08-02
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El Zuhur El Fatina
Overview: Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live like the rich so she works as a bellydancer. The other, Karima, is content with her life and takes care of her sick mother and pays home bills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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Dark Waters
Overview: Ragab, a poor sailor, returns home to Alexandria after three years of absence, during which he tried to save money to marry his one true love, Hamedah. But there's trouble on the harbor, and with an old friend.
Genres: Drama Romance Action Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-01-16
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Love In The Darkness
Overview: Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money and his mother seeks to save him, in the meantime, the brother commits murder out of theft, but fate makes Nemat see Ahmed at the crime scene instead of his brother, to push her and she becomes blind And events escalate.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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No Consolation For Women
Overview: Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's home while Hamdi marries the young Mervat. Rawya gets a job as a secretary in a newspaper and meets Tarek, the editor-in-chief, and they feel attracted to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-08-23
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The Virgin Wife
Overview: Mona meets Magdy and Fouad in Alexandria and falls in love with Fouad who loves her back, but Magdy asks her to marry him and her mother agrees because of his wealth. After Mona marries Magdy, she finds out that he's impotent, which causes a series of problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-09-14
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Ways of the Heart
Overview: A poor medical student, falls in love with her wealthy colleague who does not feel her at the beginning. He falls in love with her after he sees the sincerity of her feelings towards him, and asks her to marry him, but there are those who want to keep this marriage from happening
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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Shadow of Treason
Overview: Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors and the map locates money hidden in Somaliland with evidence of their guilt. Having contacted all the names, they leave for Africa taking Nadia in place of her father who is killed. Michael tries to persuade her to join him against the others and escapes when she refuses. Later, in the caves he re-appears and in the ensuing fight falls over a cliff edge after the money. Steve throws the incriminating document after him. Melodrama involving a treasure hunt and an old blackmail system during the war, which is cleared up by a bodyguard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Something in My Life
Overview: Aida lives a quiet life with her much older husband. When she meets the young doctor Ahmed at the train station in Alexandria, they fall in love, but Aida feels that she is betraying her husband, and she is torn between love and a stable life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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The Confession
Overview: Ahmed and Nawal are childhood sweethearts. When Ahmed suddenly moves to Cairo and loses touch with Nawal, she marries his older brother Ibrahim. During a visit, Nawal questions Ahmed about his abandonment of her, only for him to reveal a shocking truth about her mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-12-06
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Pity My Tears
Overview: When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-31
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Appointment with Happiness
Overview: Ehsan lives with her father, the caretaker of the house of a rich man who comes sporadically to the house to hunt ducks. As Ehsan falls for the rich man, he rapes her while drunk. Ehsan discovers that she is pregnant and escapes to Cairo where she gives birth to her daughter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Story of a Lifetime
Overview: Musician Farid lives a careless life, actress Laila loves him but he does not feel it, while those around him try to bring him closer to Laila, Nadia the daughter of his friend , who died comes to live in his house. Farid falls in love with her, while she falls in love with his younger brother Mamdouh
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-08-30
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Till We Meet
Overview: As a young actress falls in love with a famous writer, she finds herself facing a dilemma when he proposes to her and she is torn between her feelings for him and her guilt over the fact that he is married with a daughter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-01-09
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The Song of Death
Overview: The son refuses to take revenge for his father, so the mother orders one of her relatives to kill her son. She'll know it's done through a song
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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I Want This Man
Overview: A woman who believes that there’s nothing wrong with the idea of a woman proposing to a man, goes to a lawyer and tries to convince him of this idea and asks to marry him
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Witch
Overview: Delusions dominate Souad's mind and she believes that she can be with the person she loves through magic, so she puts a piece of sugar for her boyfriend that she brought from one of the charlatans in his cup of tea
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Land of Peace
Overview: The film takes place in Palestine and portrays the lives of freedom fighters trying to free their village from the control of the Israelis. Ahmed (Omar Sharif) is an Egyptian freedom fighter who ends up in this village. There, he meets Salma, a girl from the village. Together they try to save the Palestinians and always escape danger.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-01-02
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Punishment
Overview: The trio of a Wife and her lover plotting a murder for her husband. Their maid gets into Jail instead of them. This maid had a daughter that gets to be raised by her friend. The wife gets into jail shortly after she was arrested for misusing the well of her son. In Jail she meets with her maid and confess to her with her sin that led to this destiny, then she dies. After twenty years she gets out of Jail to see what has the fate introduce to her daughter and the killers daughter that share same lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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Towards glory
Overview: Khaled, a self-made university student, suffers from the treatment of his father, Abdel Aziz Bey, and the plots of his stepmother, Munira, and her ill-mannered sister, Fardous. However, he does not hesitate to strive for his future. Khaled stands against Rahmi Bey and opposes his resounding slogans and destructive opinions. This man who fights him and launches campaigns against him is the father of his beloved and university colleague, Suhair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-12-20
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Confused life
Overview: A woman is falsely imprisoned for killing a man, she escapes and travels to Lebanon after changing her name, until she is arrested there and imprisoned for the second time, whereupon a professor of forensic psychology attempts to unmask the real criminal who killed that man .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-03-09
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The red mask
Overview: A singer meets a young doctor and hides the truth about her work. When he learns the truth, he leaves her and travels abroad to continue his graduate studies, unaware that the singer is the one paying for his expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-10-05
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The beginning of the month
Overview: A husband lives happily with his wife until a frivolous woman enters his life and turns it upside down. He leaves his wife and lives with the new woman, until he faces many crises after he borrows money from everyone he knows.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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