Shoukry Sarhan
Also Known As: Mohamed Shukry Sarhan, شكري سرحان, Shokry Sarhan, Шукри Сархан, Shoukry Sarhan
Biography: Sarhan was born in El Sharqiya, Egypt on 12 March 1925. He graduated from the "High Institute of Acting in Egypt" in 1947. In 1949, Sarhan acted in his first movie, Lahalibo. His rise to stardom was in 1951 when Youssef Chahine, a famous Egyptian film director, chose him for the lead role in the movie Ibn El-Nile "Son of the Nile". Sarhan had earned the title "The young man of the screen". He received several awards throughout his career. President Gamal Abdel Nasser honored Sarhan with the Order of the Republic. In 1984, he received a Best Actor's award for his lead role, with Faten Hamama, in the movie Lelt El abd Ala Fatema "The Night of Fatima's Arrest". which was directed by Henry Barakat. During the celebrations of the centennial of cinema, he was nominated by Egyptian critics as the best actor of the century in Egypt, having participated more than any other actor in The Greatest 100 Egyptian films. Sarhan's last movie was El-Gablawi in 1991. He died in 1997.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alexandrie - Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: March 13, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 19, 1997
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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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A Sinful Life
Overview: Rawyh falls for Mamdouh, the frivolous rich boy who shows off their relationship to his friends. Rawya leaves for Tanta where she meets and weds Dr. Medhat.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Lover's Walk
Overview: Lover's Walk
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-03-17
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The Leech
Overview: A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-01-09
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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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The Divorcees
Overview: After Samia marries Mahmoud, she finds out that he's cheating on her. She gets divorced and starts a job at a company. Samia begins a new relationship with her manager, Adel. Adel finds out about her past as Mahmoud starts to blackmail her
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-04-21
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A Woman from Cairo
Overview: The tragic life of a woman, Mona, as she divorces her opportunistic husband and gets engaged to Sherif, a tourist company owner. She is in for more tragedies as he decides to emigrate following the defeat in the 1967 War. Mona then crosses paths with Mahmoud. Will it be another heartbreak for her?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-01-08
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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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طريق السعادة
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-04-16
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Bekaya azraa
Overview: The film takes place in a social drama framework, where (Nabila) works as a teacher in Cairo, and on her first day of work she quarrels with (Hoda), the spoiled and stubborn daughter of the former minister because of the death of her mother when she was young. Abdel Fattah, (Hoda's) father, invites Nabila to apologize to her, but he falls in love with her and marries her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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Flame
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-26
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Assaad El Ayam
Overview: Morsi is a government employee and works in one of the companies. The company decides to dispense with his services, but the wedding of his eldest daughter, Souad, is approaching. He gets an idea from a friend of his who works in one of the insurance companies, which is to insure his life and commit suicide on the night of his daughter’s wedding so that his family will receive the insurance amount. after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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Alhaqibat alsawda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-06
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علشان عيونك
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-04-29
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Guard Dogs
Overview: Effat leads a gang in the port that smuggles spoiled food and drugs, relying on higher authorities to protect him. He confronts one of his associates, the simple customs employee Hamdi, who refused the bribe. Hamdi is framed for a charge and sentenced to prison. Hamdi is released from prison and thinks about taking revenge for himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-05-14
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نداء الحب
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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The Shore of Memories
Overview: Before his death, the captain of the boats, Hussein, calls on his stepson to recommend his real son to him, while his true son is playing around and wreaking havoc, robbing his fiancée of her honor, then letting her flee, and refusing to consummate the marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-11-21
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Goodbye, Night
Overview: Ahmed is a college student who dedicates his life to patriotic work in the wake of a classmate's death. He is shocked when his sweetheart marries a wealthy man for his money. As Ahmed gets arrested and tortured, he meets his old sweetheart who has become an influential woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Stillness of the Storm
Overview: When her mother dies, the responsibility of keeping the family together falls on Sawsan, who tries to reunite her family after her father neglects his children in favor of chasing after the widowed Fatma, and her brother sets his eyes on a married woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-08-16
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Anklet Ring
Overview: A homeless girl after her father dies, lives on the kindness of an old man who checks up on her. He invites her to live as a maid in his house. She starts seducing both him and his son, till the old man marries her and she lives with him and his wife and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-07-25
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لهاليبو
Overview: Elham is a young dancer whose misogynist grandfather refuses to acknowledge. Elham disguises herself as a man and goes to stay with her grandfather, while continuing to work as a dancer. As she falls for Amir, a surprise turns everything upside down.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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El avocato Madiha
Overview: Muhammad Effendi is a graduate of the College of Agriculture and adheres to traditions. He works as the caretaker of Jaber Pasha’s estate, and his sister Madiha is a lawyer. She refuses to live in the countryside and marry her cousin and decides to run away with Jaber Pasha’s son, had the people not stood up against that act, so Muhammad Effendi confronts the Pasha about his son’s corruptions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-04-10
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The Bread Seller
Overview: A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-08-17
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Eashiqat nafsiha
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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Daddy as a Bridegroom
Overview: Directed by Hussein Fawzi.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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The Thief and the Dogs
Overview: This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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دلوني يا ناس
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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The Postman
Overview: Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-04-15
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Saedat El Rigal
Overview: A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-12-12
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صراع العشاق
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1981-05-25
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Rayya and Sekina
Overview: In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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The Second Wife
Overview: A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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Eghraa
Overview: The events revolve around the character of the girl Nemat (Sabah), who aspires to have a prosperous life to compensate for the suffering she has endured. Neamat pretends to be rich to lure the wealthy young man Hussein (Shukri Sarhan) into falling in love with her. Nemat's plan faces many difficulties and challenges as events unfold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Hayati Inta
Overview: The film's events revolve around (Samir), a hardworking young man who is finishing his university studies, and his lover (Elham) seeks to help him work on the lands owned by her mother, which are managed by her stepfather. At the same time, (Rushdy) competes with Samir for Elham's love, and seeks... Wanting to get him out of his way so he can seize the inheritance, he coordinates with his mistress to implicate the stepfather in a moral scandal and blackmails him into complying with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-09-29
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Thaman Al-Hob
Overview: Alawi Bey squanders his wealth and seizes his late brother's estate and property. He did not know that his brother had married Souad after his wife's death. Souad files a lawsuit against him to recover the inheritance. Alawi believes that the best way to preserve the wealth is for his son Salah to marry Souad. Souad impersonates Enayat, the lawyer's fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-11-25
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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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Fi Sharaa Meen
Overview: Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she needs. Her husband is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. Zakia decides that she and her daughter Lawahez should live with her sister Aisha. Zakia is staying in Aisha's house so that she can be close to Aisha's husband, with whom she had a relationship before his marriage to her sister Aisha.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-03-12
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Kollohom Awlady
Overview: A father with three children: (Amin) a lawyer, (Salem) a police officer, (Medhat) who hopes to be an engineer but did not succeed in his studies. They go to Cairo at the beginning of the school year after spending the vacation on their father’s farm, with their mother and their aunt’s daughter (Karima). The father is extremely cruel to his children, and in the city, both Amin and Salem are busy with their work, while Medhat fails in his studies and lives a frivolous life, and events continue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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I Love you Hassan
Overview: The story of Hassan, a wealthy young man whose father seeks to marry him to his cousin, whom he doesn't love.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-04-14
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سجن العذارى
Overview: Nafusa's mother owns an old house in which a widow has a share. She gets close to the widow's son, Kamal, to get him to convince his mother to sell the house
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-02-09
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رجل بلا قلب
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-10-17
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رجل زائد عن الحاجة
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-08-24
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The Fools Alley
Overview: Khadiga lives in a poor neighborhood with her parents. She tries to save up money so she could marry her sweetheart Taha. Taha buys a lottery ticket in hope of winning a lot of money, but it ends up in Khadiga's religious father's hands who throws it away. The ticket gets picked up by the town's fool, who gets lucky and wins, driving the town into chaos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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نهاية حب
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-11-09
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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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Albi Ala Waldi
Overview: A dancer takes advantage of Taher and takes his money. Taher gives her whatever money she asks for without considering his family’s situation or needs. One time, Taher finds the dancer with a lover of hers. Taher quarrels with him, and the lover dies as a result of this quarrel. Taher goes to prison, and the mother supports the family in the absence of her husband and works in While knitting, her eldest daughter meets a young man who falls in love with her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-03-23
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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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Hikaya min Baladina
Overview: The mayor of an Upper Egyptian village has monopoly over beans which harms the simple villagers while getting high profits for the mayor. As one of the villagers stands up to the mayor and rallies the people, they decide to gather money to monopolize beans themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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Prisoner of the Night
Overview: Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-09-16
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Qayes Wi Laila
Overview: The film tells the story of Qais bin Al-Malouh and Laila, who falls in love with her and sings poetry about her. This is heard by the elders of the tribe, so they are forbidden from meeting, and all the time they feel the pain of separation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-01-18
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Desire and Price
Overview: A crime occurs in a pension. The police force moves from the station to find the dead man in his hand a letter containing a payment of ten thousand pounds to a woman who was in a relationship with him without mentioning her name. The policemen try to decipher this matter, as he requests that she quickly divorce her husband, but all Pension women are married and accompanied by their husbands.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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Life when it smiles
Overview: The millionaire loves the sister of the observer claiming that he is a simple employee in the same millionaire company, love him and pay him without knowing that this millionaire is the one who filled her family money. But the girl does not weigh the money that filled her family, especially after moving to a rich neighborhood, but prefer to live in their apartment in the popular neighborhood, and ends the position that the worker lose the bet, and know the sister of the observation of the reality of the young man whom he loved and married,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Sweet Aziza
Overview: Aziza is a beautiful dancer from Mansoura, after she rejects the mayor's son who loves her, he deforms her face. She travels to Cairo and runs a cabaret, and falls in love with one of the clients. She meets a doctor who performs plastic surgery on her, giving her a chance to start over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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In Your Hands
Overview: The story deals with an upscale family that is down on its luck. As the butcher Madbouly foots the bills for the entire family, the authoritative Berlanty is the one in charge. When the carpenter Ragab falls for Madbouly's niece Amal, Berlanty insists he finishes his education first.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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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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Lovers' Call
Overview: Beautiful dancer Warda finds herself homeless. She finds a job at a cotton ginning plant. She loves Abdo who runs the plant, and she kills the elderly Shahawi, the plant owner who wanted to assault her and runs away with Abdo, while Metwally, the owner's son chases them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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A Man in My Life
Overview: As Hamdy fights with a fisherman and kills him in front of his daughter, he goes to prison as the fisherman's daughter goes blind. After his release, he tries to atone for his sin by approaching her. They fall in love and get married, but when he finds out that she can regain her sight, he panics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Son of Cleopatra
Overview: In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Sky Devils
Overview: Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operation against the Zionist forces during the 1948 war. Orders are issued to paratroopers to land in land seized by the Zionists, and in the plane we learn that every pilot has a story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-04-02
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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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The Next-Door Girl
Overview: A drug dealer in love with university student Ikhlas resorts to taking revenge when she refuses to marry him because of her love for Omar.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-21
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Hassan, Morcos and Cohen
Overview: Hassan, Morcos and Cohen are the owners of a drug store, and Abbas is the only worker in the store, who loves Hassan's daughter Belqis.they contract with him for a salary equal to twice his salary for a period of twenty years on the condition that those who give up their work in the warehouse pays a large compensation,this plan is drawn up by the three after they discover that Abbas has inherited a great fortune, and Abbas knew that money was the only weapon that puts them all at his mercy, including his beloved Belqis, the sign he used to use during his poverty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-05-31
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شريك حياتى
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-03-23
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I Am Free
Overview: Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-02
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A woman on the Road
Overview: A man lives with a former belly dancer who has agreed to marry him, even if she prefers his older brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-12-22
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El hasnaa waal talaba
Overview: The young villager, Metwalli, arrives in Cairo to complete his studies. Metwalli is married to Samira, and his cousin, Kamal, helps him survive in Cairo. The charming dancer, Nana, asks her friend, Dr. Jalal, to give Metwalli a financial reward to help him live. At the same time, Nana falls in love with Metwalli and decides to marry him. He accompanies her to her work at the nightclub, neglects his studies, and is almost expelled from university, so Kamal is determined to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-12-08
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La la ya habibi
Overview: Mahmoud is jealous of his wife, Souad, which makes him always take her to work and monitor her. Mahmoud's jealousy reaches the point where he suspects that there is a relationship between his wife and her manager. He asks his wife to resign from her job. She thinks a little in order to teach her husband a lesson, so she accepts and responds to his request so that she can limit his jealousy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-05
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Afrah
Overview: Afrah is a music teacher, her father is an obscure musician, and her sister Nahid works in Hindawi stores. The two sisters fall in love with a playful and frivolous young man, and when they learn the truth, Nabil has fallen in love with Afrah. The father works hard to achieve fame and Nabil marries Afrah.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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ماليش حد
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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العمر أيام
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-05-17
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The Criminal
Overview: A criminal kidnaps a girl from her wealthy family and demands a ransom. When the family refuses to pay, he entrusts the daughter to a poor family to raise her and their only son. One day, a wealthy woman sees a striking resemblance to her lost son in the poor family's son and decides to raise him. When he grows up, he meets the girl who was raised with him when he was young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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Return of the Prodigal Son
Overview: Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-09-24
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The Name Caller
Overview: Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-09-29
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Women Can’t Lie
Overview: A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-11
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Strangers
Overview: Nadia is a young girl who's torn between the stances of three men in her life; her artist lover, her conservative brother, and her secular professor Fo'uad Ebaid. Will she be able to create her own path in life apart from their beliefs?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-04-09
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El Murra El Maghoula
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-12-07
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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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Lady Aziza
Overview: Ahmed who work as a teacher rent an apartment in Abbas the vicious butcher Building in Al-Hussein district in Cairo who lives with his pregnant wife and beautiful sister, soon Ahmed falls in love with Aziza, so he asked Aziza's brother For Her Hand In Marriage but he refused & accused he is only interested in her money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-01-30
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Houses Secrets
Overview: The great lawyer Mamdouh neglects his cases because of gambling, and after the insistence of his wife straightens his case, spending his nights at home playing with her, and over the course of days the wife learns the secrets of the game. The picture turns, becomes a gambling player and neglects the affairs of the house
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-12-13
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Our Green land
Overview: The peasant lives with his wife and child a happy life on an estate owned by a feudal lord, who seeks to seize the three acres owned by the peasant. The feudal lord sees the young peasant's wife and is impressed by her. He rents the peasant ten acres of his land for a small sum and sends him to Cairo, where he tries to be alone with his wife, and events escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-10-23
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The Crime and The Punishment
Overview: Ahmed Hosni kills an elderly moneylender for her money, but accidentally kills her sister as well. In the wake of the crime, Ahmed falls ill out of fear of getting caught.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Visitor at Dawn
Overview: Rescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Return My Heart
Overview: In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-12-10
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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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We the Students
Overview: Directed by Atef Salem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-02
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The Rebels
Overview: A sick doctor is admitted to an isolated sanatorium located in the middle of a desolate desert. As a patient, he becomes aware of the discrepancy that exists between the conditions of the privileged patients, who are well-treated, and the poor ones, who particularly suffer from a lack of water. With the help of the doctor, the poor patients rebel and undertake to restore justice and order in the hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-01-02
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Struggle of the Heroes
Overview: A difficult period in Egypt in the year 1947, when the villages of Egypt attacked cholera. A doctor (Shukri), who tried to serve the villagers to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in a village. (Adel Bey) The feudal lord of the village exploits its people to work on his land as forced labor and whoever objects to hand him over to a mental hospital, taking advantage of his influence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-01-02
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Port Said
Overview: The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-07-08
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Om Hashim's Lamp
Overview: This 1968 film adaptation of Yahya Haqqi's 1943 novel "The Lamp of Om Hashem" explores the liminal space between the modern and traditional worlds. Set in one of Cairo's densely-populated neighborhoods, Sayyida Zeinab, the film showcases beautiful scenes from city life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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ُُThe Student and the Teacher
Overview: Salwa who enters an institution because of a crime she committed, falls in love with her music teacher Waheed
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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Three Women
Overview: Three different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the second widow (Tawahida), who loves (Yusef) the employee of the Muslim Council, but he is married, and the third (Shams), the singer who falls in love with Fathi But he lives at a loss because of her sitting with clients, what happens to the three women
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-01-27
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Almaz And Abdo El Hamouly
Overview: Almaz goes from a simple worker to one of the brightest singing stars during the reign of Khedive Ismail. The great singer Abdo Al-Hamuli encouraged him and introduced him to high-end circles. The Khedive wants to keep it for himself. Almaz agrees to give her his voice without his body, so the Khedive agrees to marry her. Abdo Al-Hamouli will prevent her from singing after the wedding. Problems arise between the palace and all the singers, which leads them to join the popular revolutionary movement which was beginning to gain strength at that time...
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Kiss Me in the Dark
Overview: Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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مملكة النساء
Overview: Kawther is married to a women's rights advocate who conducts interviews, seminars and articles to talk about women's rights while neglecting her husband and her children completely. Her actions often make her quarrels with her husband. She reads a fictional account of the kingdom of women where women live alone without men and trust in everything and in all roles and roles. , Farid and his friend Yasin are forced to land their plane in an emergency landing in this city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Something in my Chest
Overview: Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-08-30
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Bufakkar filli nassini
Overview: Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her family refuse to marry them before she marries her older sister Sawsan, and that sister despite her beauty and attractiveness, no one has presented her to her. .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Araess fil mazad
Overview: A father sees that he marries his three daughters from wealthy men in order to guarantee them a happy life and a secure future, but this idea was not accepted by his children, so the eldest daughter decides to flee from her home and join a young man who is in love with him, while the second goes on the path of vice and ends her life in a hospital Mental diseases, the third is working in a company that works as a typewriter, she meets her colleague, the engineer who works for the company, and they agree to marry.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-01-22
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Salwa fi mahab el rih
Overview: Salwa is a girl whose father died and her grandfather takes care of her. After her mother grows, her mother requests that she live with her. The mother gets sick and is taken to the hospital. To stay with her mother who expels her because she will marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-23
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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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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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طريق الأبطال
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-03-13
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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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Incident of Dishonor
Overview: One of the beauties of the estate lives with her sister and her brother-in-law. As a man proposes to her and they arrange for their wedding, an unexpected event occurs as a playboy approaches her, causing her to break off her engagement. Can someone be cursed with beauty?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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Aziza
Overview: Aziza is a show dancer who's supporting her young sister. She lives in trouble because of the thug who seizes her money and chases her if she tries to escape. Aziza falls in love with sergeant Hassan who works in the region and decides to retire and marry him but the thug won't let her go.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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The Fugitive
Overview: A mayor agrees to marry his daughter Zainab to her cousin against her will, so she escapes and her cousin is determined to kill her . She meets a young doctor who takes her in. They agree to marry when he returns from his scholarship in Europe three years later, but she bears a child and joins a band.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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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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The Headmaster Woman
Overview: Hoda, a student in a boarding school, is neglected by her father at the behest of his wife. On her vacation, she spends time with her father. Her stepmother and her daughter, Sanaa, treat her badly. When Sanaa's fiancé Farid sees Hoda, he falls for her, as he feels that Sanaa is a reckless girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-09-09
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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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Hekayet Gawaz
Overview: On the night of the wedding of Mohamed (Shukry Sarhan) with Adela (Souad Hosny), a letter arrives to Mohamed benefits that he was promoted and so moved to work in the Jabal "Ataka", but her mother, Aziza (Mary Munib) opposed her daughter from going with her husband to his place of work ,so Mohamed travels alone, Adila challenged her mother and follow her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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Serr el hareba
Overview: After Ismail’s father Ismail is killed, and his mother marries the owner of the company that his dead father worked for, Ahmed turns away to get to know Rouhia, marry her, and live in peace, until the imprisoned Rouhia’s father escapes, to cause a series of surprises.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-08-04
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The Three Troublemakers
Overview: Ahmed attends college while his friend Ramzi inherits a great legacy after the death of his father and sows his money because of his mother's pampering, while the third friend Fathi lives with his mother after her divorce from his father, the great lawyer, and the three friends spend all their time in fun and fun. Ramzi hits a man with his car while he and his friends are drunk. Ahmed takes advantage of this incident by extorting money from Ramzi. Ahmed and Fathi get to know this girl who is overburdened by her demands, events escalate and the three friends decide to go their extravagant distance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-01-29
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Bridge of Immortals
Overview: The life of a visually-impaired girl gets increasingly burdensome as she struggles on a daily basis to survive in a society that renders blindness synonymous to darkness and inability, and she has to embark on a journey to prove them wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-03-28
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The Rain Stopped
Overview: A group of farmers move to a government appointed land after their own land is taken away from them. They discover that their new land is not suitable for their crops, and they struggle to make the best out of it. Meanwhile, Haneyya tries to get closer to Hassan, whom she has been in love for years, but she's interrupted by the arrival of Hassan's wife Amina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-09-04
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Children Of The Streets
Overview: Fayez is a married officer who finds a baby and takes him home, until the father of the child knows his place and takes him back and begins to teach him to steal until he joins a gang. The child's mother tries to save him from this fate and asks officer Fayez to help her.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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College Girls
Overview: The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-01-11
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Ghadab El Waledain
Overview: One of the office boys in a company succeeds in finding a job for his newly graduated son at his employer. But the son is ashamed of his father's job. He meets a dancer, and marries her despite his father's opposition, causing a surprise to change the course of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-03-17
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Hob Min Narr
Overview: Two young men, Ahmed and Mohamed, who live in Port Said, develop feelings for the same girl, Najaf. However, when the Tripartite Aggression reaches Port Said, they abandon life trivialities and join the militants as Najaf joins the Red Crescent; the three unite for a single patriotic cause.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-02-24
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Habibi El Asmar
Overview: A poor girl leaves her fiancé, who works as a mechanic, and be friends a famous dancer, because she loves to dance. A wealthy man admires her, and the dancer persuades the girl to accept his offer of marriage because he will give her fame and glory, but her former fiancé decides to have revenge.
Genres: Thriller Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-06-26
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Millione Guinee
Overview: When Zomorod Agha dies leaving a huge fortune, the heirs are shocked to learn that Falafel the beggar shall be responsible for giving them their shares after confirming their morality and their worthiness of the money.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-12-07
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Nadia
Overview: After their parents' death, Nadia dedicates her life to her younger siblings Mounir and Soraya, and refuses to wed to look after them. As Mounir dies in the Palestine War, Soraya falls in love with Medhat, the same man that Nadia loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-02-07
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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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Why Am I Living
Overview: A good-hearted young man who's his family's sole source of financial support falls in love with his neighbor, all while he has to resist the temptations of the leader of a gang specializing in customs clearance. Will he succumb to the temptations or preserve his morality?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-01-23
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Ahlam Al-Banat
Overview: The events of the film center around three girls who share work and livelihood, and each one of them has a dream that dominates her thinking; Where (Rich) dreams all the time about wealth, while (Ahlam) is trying to achieve her artistic ambitions, while (Hoda) searches for love and stability, and each of the three girls follows different life paths in their continuous attempts to achieve these dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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Dearest Beloved
Overview: The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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El naas makamat
Overview: Riyad Pasha frequents a gambling den run by an outlaw with his family. In this den, the Pasha loses a lot of his money. The villain's daughter tries to ensnare the police officer, the Pasha's son, to get his money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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killer mother
Overview: A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife and children. The daughter has no choice but to inform her mother of this.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Upper Egyptian Man
Overview: American archaeologist Joe comes to Egypt to search for treasures of the Pharaohs, and it turns out that the map of this treasure is in the possession of the Upper Man Qadri. He tries to negotiate with Qadri,who agrees to show him the location of the treasure,in exchange for a big percentage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Shayatteen El-bahr
Overview: Hamada, Salah and Hassan are three young men who are united by friendship and neighborhood, trying to stop some of the boss’s men who work in contraband. One day, these young men steal Harun’s car and run away with it until the police confront them, while Haroun is afraid of the car loaded with drugs.Only Haroun rescues them, who fears that the drugs will be exposed. The three friends go to conscription and join the Navy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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House of Forbidden Pleasures
Overview: Escaping the cruelty of the streets, Na'ima turns to a lady who runs a den for vice and gambling. Na'ima becomes a totally different person as she invents a new identity for herself, but when she meets Hasanin, other considerations have to be taken into account.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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A Forbidden Story
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-03-13
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Leila Raheeba
Overview: The story revolves around the successful doctor (Majdi), and his beautiful fiancée Munira, (Majdi) is very concerned about his lineage towards his mother with whom he lives in the same house.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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بين قلبين
Overview: A nurse succeeds in replacing the infant (Rashad), the son of her sister with the baby girl (Nadia), in order to achieve her sister's dream of inheriting large sums of money, as the grandfather decreed that his fortune would be transferred to his grandson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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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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April Fool
Overview: Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife who died, and that he can not spend on them, but Ismail does not realize that this little lie has left him in an endless series of lies, Of each lie with a greater lie, and every time the wife deals with him in good faith.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-08-08
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Afreet Am Abdo
Overview: Afreet Am Abdo
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-12-16
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El-Gabalawy
Overview: When a dispute happens between Hassan and Jeblawi , Hassan causes the factory owner, said, to fire Jeblawi. Jablawi works for drug dealer Abbas and steals money from him. He returns to town and buys Said's factory at an auction. Abbas and his men find Jeblawi and work out a deal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1991-08-26
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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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Kisma wa Nassib
Overview: Asem is a happy husband and father of two children. He works for the wealthy Fouad and Fouad's daughter Alia falls in love with him. Asem dreams of wealth and love together, so he abandons his wife and children and marries the carefree girl Alia, but he stumbles and does not achieve wealth after losing true love.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-10-09
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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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Zanuba
Overview: (Atiya Abu Hadid) is a thug and a thief who leads a gang to commit his crimes. He loves one of the neighborhood girls (Naana’a), who is engaged to her cousin (Al-Atra), a soldier in the army, who goes to participate in the Palestine war, so the atmosphere is clear for Atiya. He devises a plan to make the master (Hassan), Naana’a’s brother, fall in love with Zenouba, a girl whom Atiya exploits for his own despicable purposes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-12-11
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Malaekat el-Shaware
Overview: The film revolves around Sherifa, the Pasha's daughter, who marries Adel, the driver's son, and gives birth to her daughter Fatima. However, the Pasha forces her to divorce her, and Fatima ends up in the reformatory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Beware of Pickpockets
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-11-07
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جنة و نار
Overview:
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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الحب المحرم
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-08-16
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