Sanaa Gamil
Also Known As: سناء جميل, Sanaa Jamil, ثريا يوسف عطا الله, Sanaa Gamil
Biography: Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil. One of her most notable roles was Nefisah in front of Omar Sharif in the movie Bidaya wa nihaya (A Beginning and an End) directed by Salah Abouseif in 1960. The movie was based on a novel with the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie. Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has also played a number of roles on the French Stage for La Comedie Francaise. She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss and had no children. She also acted in a number of TV series like Oyoun (Eyes) with Fuad Al Mohandes, and in a number of plays such as The Visit with Gamil Rateb
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Egypt
Birthday: April 27, 1930
Deathday: December 22, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Dawn of a New Day
Overview: The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She finds a new meaning in life when she falls in love with an aspiring young student. “I shot FAGR YOM GUEDID in 1964. I count it among my best films and still stand by it completely. It is about the class whose assets were nationalized after the 1952 revolution. I explored the question of whether this class still had a place in Egyptian society.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-02-10
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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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Mr. K
Overview: In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business manager Qadri and her secretary Laila. Kismat has a spoiled dog that everyone is forced to serve and they all compete to do it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-02-07
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أحلام الربيع
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-03-04
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Good News
Overview: Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the sons of the high class of her father's friends, and her father welcomes this, but she refuses to marry because she loves Hussein Her father, Khateeb, discovers that Soso is in agreement with the director of the company to rhythm between them, and one of the dancers is called to pretend that she is the wife of the engineer and the events and surprises follow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-04-07
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The Cursed
Overview: Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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The Impossible
Overview: Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-01-02
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The Lady on the Train
Overview: Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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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 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 Basement
Overview: The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested after one of his buildings collapses. His wife tells Ruqaya's family about her husband's relation with her and Youssef is determined to kill him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-05-28
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Iidini eaqlak
Overview: After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so they decide to travel to Cairo in order to search for Cairene girls for marriage, but they fall into a series of strange paradoxes, including falling into the hands of a professional fraudster. They worked in a doctor's house as servants.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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Adam and Eve
Overview: Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters differ after marriage, and each of them tries to find happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-05-07
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Marret El-ayam
Overview: Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. The professor proposes to the family and proposes to the sister, which shocks the student. She decides to conceal her feelings and continue studying. The professor marries the sister, and days pass without the flame of love being extinguished. A husband discovers... The sister realizes the student's feelings for him, and he begins to reciprocate the same feelings due to her intense interest in him, and the two almost drift into a stream full of mistakes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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The Lady from Cairo
Overview: In 1990, Moumen Smihi briefly re-located to Cairo in order to work in the shadow of one of the world’s largest commercial film industries. The film that resulted from his Cairo sojuourn is a complex, painterly critique of the Egyptian musical and cinema star system. At the same time, the film shows the divergent states of possibility or despair faced by men and women within a changing Egyptian society. Smihi’s film plays out over thirty years and the events of the Nasserite years and the Palestine / Israel conflict become integral to the narrative. By blending newsreel footage with his own lush cinematography, Smihi creates a complex portrait of contemporary Egyptian society in the post-war years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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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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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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شريك حياتى
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-03-23
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Zeinab
Overview: adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Your Wisdom, God!
Overview: In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl who graduated from the Faculty of Law, Naima, who serves the people of the neighborhood with all her effort. Officer Ahmed comes to uncover the drug trafficking gang in which the teacher Zaki Qudra is involved, who uses camels to hide the drugs.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-12-13
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The Beginning and the End
Overview: Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-10-31
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Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
Overview: Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes with the aristocratic society around her as love blossoms between her and the son of a famous businessman
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1998-11-24
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The Lady's Driver
Overview: A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and daughter suffering from her domination and control. When she got a new driver to work with, all the family members will have different life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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Have Mercy
Overview: Ismail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They are watched by a man who claims to be an archaeologist, but it turns out that he has a devilish plot that will get Ismail in big trouble.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-10-29
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Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
Overview: The film revolves around "Nadia" who refuses to marry lawyer "Hatem", who covets a rich marriage, while "Laila", who is assisted by her father and a great lawyer in his research, is impressed by Youssef, who owns a film company, decides to work with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-11-03
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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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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Overview: Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his neighborhood and attached to it, and he dreamed of it, but she does not exchange love, and then he loses his wealth, as a fire breaks out in the workshop and he comes over it, and then Ahmed meets Sana in the hospital to which Ahmed is taken after he was injured in the fire, and at the same time Ahmed loves tohave violently, and with the same violence Nana protects him, and Sana loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Al Shaytan wal Kharif
Overview: Naim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so he makes an agreement with Dalal in order to plan to seize Narcissus’s money. Her money to him, but he discovers it's not easy at all.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-14
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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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The Unknown
Overview: At an isolated Canadian area Madiha lives with her mother; they run a small motel after they immigrated from Egypt when the mother got divorced. Madiha doesn't know that she has a brother in Cairo named Nagi, And she hate the way they make their living by sedating the few customers who arrive to the motel, steal their money and using their deaf/mute servant to get ride of the bodies in the near by lake. Nagi arrives to Canada after his father dies trying to locate his mother and sister, he arrives to the motel and checks in hiding his personality trying yo get to know his mother first and understand why his father didn't want him to have anything to do with her..
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-06-23
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Doubt, My Love
Overview: Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Ana Wi Habibi
Overview: The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, but he faces many difficulties in order to find his way. These difficulties disappear when he falls in love with a famous (Shadia) singer who exchanges feelings of love, and attaches him with her to work in the club where she sings. The nightclub manager interferes to spoil this relationship because he covets marrying her, and her aunt also opposes their relationship. The events follow and the two lovers are exposed to many pressures in order to maintain their love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-03-30
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Tawheeda
Overview: A love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation. Tawhida becomes pregnant and is forced to marry a wealthy man to cover up the scandal, but Hussein's return changes the course of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-11-29
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Ya Zalemni
Overview: On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-05-31
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Back Streets
Overview: Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-08-19
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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
Overview: In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin who suffered a difficult life and great torment until the emergence of Islam and the most famous of his Islam at the hands of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-06-09
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زهرة الصبار
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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No Tears
Overview: On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant. Admiration grows between them, and love grows, but the age difference between them is an obstacle, as she fears repeating the experience of her mother, who married her father, who was twenty years older than her, and then he died. Sawsan falls ill and is admitted to a hospital, and Wahid goes to visit her. The mother is surprised that he is her lover, whom she loved when she was young, and was unable to marry him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-12-23
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Nahed
Overview: A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actually succeeded in doing so. The wife was jealous of her husband because of her friend who asked her friend's husband, the doctor, to get rid of the fetus she had conceived from her lover, but the doctor refused, so the family collapsed because of the wife's suspicions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
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Heart of Gold
Overview: One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, which causes her to suffer a nervous shock. After a while, she decides to go to Dr. Adel, the husband of the murdered woman, who discovers through the investigation that his wife was in Cairo the day before her death, and not on the day of her death itself, which leads him to suspect his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-02-02
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Ahlan Ya Captin
Overview: Raafat works on one of the ships and meets with his ex-girlfriend Madiha, who refuses to marry him because she wants to marry a wealthy person. Both Raafat and Madiha plot to make millionaire Azzouz falls in love with Madiha so that she can have his money and realize her dream at the same time.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-07-31
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Kedt Ahdem Baity
Overview: The husband lives happily with his small family, but the happiness does not last, as jealousy creeps into the heart of one of his friends, so he tells the husband that his wife is cheating on him. His life changes, and he resorts to alcohol, and searches for evidence to confirm his wife’s betrayal of him, so he finds emotional messages that do not belong to the wife, but were sent to the children’s nanny. The husband imagines that his wife is cheating on him, so he divorces her, and events follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-01-11
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زوجات وأزواج
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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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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Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
Overview: An orphan girl from a wealthy family, lives with her depressed, withdrawn father, and falls in love with Tawfiq, a writer in her father's circle. She trusts him, but he misuses this trust and assaults her, steals her father's money, and runs away. Her father only reports the money that Tawfiq stole, but does not report the assault on his daughter. Her baby is born, and she gives birth to her, but she is surprised that the baby is blind and cannot see. She sends her to a woman she knows to take care of her, and she meets a young man who loves her and asks her to marry him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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Maa Al Ayam
Overview: Afaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of whom is no more than five years old. Afaf devotes her life to her work and her two children only, until she meets the engineer Adel, who likes her and she reciprocates the same feelings. Will she give herself up to love and marriage or will she sacrifice herself for the sake of her children?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-03-10
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Al-Kharteet
Overview: (Sultan) and his nephew (Adel) smuggle drugs. In one of the operations, the warehouse keeper (Jaber) kills him and kills him. Sultan tries to assault Jaber's wife Rose in his arm and enters the prison, where she learns Nargis. Sultan and just.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-02-09
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A solution that pleases all
Overview: It talks about a wife who seeks to keep her deceased son of her husband away from home, so that she can live alone and bring her daughter to live with her, while the son seeks to be alone in the apartment so that he can marry, they think of the only solution is for the son to marry the daughter and live in the apartment, to escalate events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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