Shams El-Barudy
Also Known As: Shams Al-Barudy, Shams El Baroudi, Шамс аль-Баруди
Biography: Egyptian actress of Syrian origins, born in 1945, she studied at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts for only two and a half years, then began her artistic career in the early sixties, and at that time she was still using her real name (Shams al-Muluk), but soon she changed her nickname To be (Shams Al-Baroudi) after her family name. After that, she had many roles in the cinema, which made her an icon of temptation in the history of Egyptian cinema, and among the films in which she participated: (The Malatilian Bath, Pleasure and Agony, El Amusement Street) Shams Al-Baroudi has also been a mainstay in the films directed by her husband, actor Hassan Youssef, including (Cowardly and Love, Fat Cats, Two On the Road). Shams Al-Baroudi decided in the mid-eighties to retire and wear the hijab after the trip that she made with her father to perform the Umrah rituals, and she disavowed all the works that she participated in.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Egypt
Birthday: October 04, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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The Happy Marriage
Overview: Dr. Sherif is married to the novelist Nana, but he is also having an affair with her friend Laila. When Sherif goes to attend a medical conference, he takes Laila with him and claims that she is his wife. Unbeknownst to him, Nana follows him to reconcile with him after their latest fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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Ashiaa La Tushtra
Overview: The wealthy mayor falls in love with a beautiful, flirtatious young girl, marries her in Cairo and visits her weekly. Samira lives with her father, the mayor, and falls in love with her cousin, Youssef. The wife falls in love with Mahmoud, Samira's music teacher, who visits the house regularly and spends the mayor's money on him. After the mayor falls easy prey to bankruptcy, his cheating wife leaves him, and his daughter tries to save him and uncover the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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الطيور المهاجرة
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-03-04
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World of Fame
Overview: Hassan is an Egyptian young man living in Lebanon. When he rescues Ibrahim's girlfriend, Zizi, Ibrahim rewards him with a position in his company. Adel has to turn down Zizi's temptations as he makes it to the position of a manager.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-04-04
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واحدة بعد واحدة ونص
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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She and the devils
Overview: Kamal, a young man who aspires to get rich, joins a smuggling gang so he can marry Warda, the dancer. The gang plans to smuggle a quarter of a million dollars, so Zizo hands Kamal the money and instead of smuggling it, he takes it for himself and hides it in the salt marshes with his lifelong friend, the prince. Zizo begins to chase Kamal and events unfold.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-08-12
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Al-Moutah Wal Azab
Overview: Four girlfriends each one suffers from a problem: one is a Kleptomaniac, another is obsessed with fame and the other two are so emotionally deprived that they have started to hate men. The four of them fall in the hands of three young men who are crippled by self-hatred.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-07-14
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Al shaitan
Overview: Marco is a gangster who arrives in Egypt to look for a person who can decipher the symbols engraved on a pharaonic treasure. Monir comes from Lebanon to track down Marco and he joins forces with Salah as they try to catch Marco and his gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-11-17
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And it was love
Overview: A remake of Henry Barakat’s "Have Mercy" 1959.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-02-25
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Enough, my heart
Overview: After a love affair that shattered her heart due to different social classes , A woman decides to become independant and works in journalism which leads her to many different pathways that make her rich but at what cost ?.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-04-25
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The Wedding Night
Overview: Salwa falls in love with Adel, the carefree young man, but her mother rejects this relationship, preferring him to the serious doctor Magdy, who treats her, and they actually marry to please the mother, but her heart is still attached to Adel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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the other man
Overview: The couple, Adel and Salwa, live a quiet life. A problem occurs in the kitchen, so a plumber comes to repair some pipes. The plumber assaults Salwa, and since then, the relationship between the couple has split.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-12-31
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A Teenager from the Countryside
Overview: Khadija is a young village girl who gets fascinated by the world of parties she observes every night at the lord's mansion. When her mother gets sick, she takes her to Dr. Hassan who asks his friend Mon'em to bring about Khadija's transformation into a modern elegant lady.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-05-10
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A Woman With a Bad Reputation
Overview: A young man asks his wife to dance with his boss at a party. The woman gets into an affair with the boss and commits infidelity. Her marriage dissolves and her life worsens. Her son has an illness, so the wife is forced to accept gifts from the boss.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-12-21
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شارع الملاهي
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-07-10
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بابا آخر من يعلم
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-10-16
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Joy Hotel
Overview: The two servants take Ahmed to the airport on his way to England, the plane breaks down and Ahmed returns to his palace knowing that they have turned it into a hotel they rent to tourists, the two servants know about it, so they change everything but after it is too late.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Bitter Honey
Overview: A little girl whose mom shut her away from men and taught her to hate and despise them finally falls in love.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Journey of a Lifetime
Overview: A very conservative man meets a young passionate woman during his holiday in Alexandria . A journey that changed the course of his life
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-11-11
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The Tale of Three Girls
Overview: Three women each have their own ambitions and aspirations. The first dreams of fame and fortune and meets a rich, married man she attempts to court. The second is a secretary with designs on her boss, even though he too is married. Having learned from her friends' experiences, the third takes an altogether different path.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Two on the Road
Overview: Mamdouh meets with Hanan on a ship heading to Greece, and a romance starts between them, so Mamdouh proposes to Hanan. To his surprise, Hanan returns suddenly to Egypt and asks him not to try to find her again. Mamdouh returns to Egypt to find that she is married to Ezzat Beik, a very powerful man, and a war ensues between Mamdouh and Ezzat.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-06-30
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The Bathhouse of Malatily
Overview: The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-07-02
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Devils and football
Overview: The events revolve around the athletic young man Kamal who loves Sanaa and wants to marry her, but her father refuses because he roots for Kamal's rival team. He tries to marry her to Rafik, who secretly works in smuggling. Kamal tries to reveal his truth to marry Sanaa.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-03-17
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Fun Band
Overview: On a fishing trip, Adel takes his three friends, and while fishing they find a heavy bag. The three rush to pick it up, and find a shipment of drugs inside. Three gang members watch the situation from a distance, and when the friends reach the bag, the gang members intervene to seize the bag. At this point, police officer Lotfy appears and tries to arrest them.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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The Fat Cats
Overview: The contractor Al-Helbawy opposes his son Nabil's relationship with his classmate Ahlam due to the difference in social status. As he sets Ahlam up and gets her imprisoned, he weds Nabil to Sawsan, the daughter of the Director of the General Intelligence who helps him in his smuggling operations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-05-15
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Tears Without Sins
Overview: The story of a woman married to a poor doctor who don't have children. He secretly marries and has a son while she goes to Greece and meets a painter and thinks he raped her while drunk. She returns back pregnant, but it turns out that she's pregnant with her husband and not the painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1980-05-04
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Coward in Love
Overview: Magdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor Dr. Fikry, and she admires him and asks her husband to let him work in his clinic. They get involved in a relationship, but events take a tragic turn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-06-16
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The Criminal
Overview: Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it one step further when he throws Zaghloul into the Nile and pretends that he couldn't save him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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The Nun
Overview: Hoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the tourist delegations that come to the place, they get to know the tour guide Adel, she loves Hoda the guide without feeling her emotions, but he loves her sister who shares the same feeling, Adel agrees with his sweetheart to marry when Hoda knows how to decide to work in a nightclub.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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Fares Bani Hemdan
Overview: Abu Firas al-Hamdani is a famous Arab poet from the princes of the Hamdani state, as he is known for his equestrian and courage, he lives between the court of Prince Seif al-Dawla, and people love him everywhere. Who competes with Firas for the love of Naglaa.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-03-09
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Love on Miami Beach
Overview: Basile travels to America to take part in the World Wrestling Championship. He gets to know Sahar and her brother, Maged. A crime boss places a bet on the defeat of Basile, but Basile's victories make him kidnap Maged and threaten to kill him to force Basile to give up.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-02-16
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Music, Espionage, and Love
Overview: A spy network operating in Egypt and headed by Clotz recruits the musician Karl for their next operation. As Karl starts working at the Opera House and expands his relationships to include Ekram, Ekram's fiancé gets jealous, unaware that she's just playing along to entrap the spies.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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Ebnati Wil Zaeeb
Overview: Azhar suffers from her father's rigidness, and she falls in love with Mustafa, and her father sends her to live with her aunt in the farmhouse, and there he tries to woo her with Youssef, then he soon assaults her, and she keeps the matter in secret.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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دنيا البنات
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-10-14
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Al-Masageen Al-Talata
Overview: Three prisoners escape from prison trying each of them to implement a random idea wandering around in his mind, the first tries to steal a smuggling gang, the second tries to retrieve the girlfriend for whom he entered the prison, and the third returns to retrieve what he had hid under a tree.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-09-02
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The Penalty
Overview: A historical drama that shows the struggle of the Egyptian people against the British occupation and the numerous sacrifices people made in order to achieve freedom, equality and human dignity in a fight for the country they love dearly.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-07-21
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Terrible Hours
Overview: When Hamdy's father is arrested for dealing drugs, Hamdy loses everything including his fiancée Amany who gets engaged to his old classmate Ramzy. Amany pressures Ramzy to accept a bribe from a contractor to hide his construction violations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-07-02
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Heya Wil Regal
Overview: Sania is a young maid. She pays what she earns to her lover, the student Moneim, so that he can complete his education, but he abandons her. This shocks Sania and she moves to serve a rich family, whose affairs are taken over by a widow with three daughters. They make Sania impersonate one of them to take revenge on a young man, and events turn upside down.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-01-28
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The Woman Who Defeated the Devil
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1973-03-19
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