Kouka
Also Known As: Koka, كوكا, جية إبراهيم بلال
Biography: Kouka, born Tahia Ibrahin Belal, was an Egyptian dancer and actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: March 07, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 29, 1979
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Rabiha
Overview: (Rabha) is a Bedouin girl from a fanatical tribe. She meets by chance a young man from the city while he is on a hunting trip. Love grows between them and they agree to marry. However, her tribe does not approve of their daughter’s marriage to a non-Bedouin young man, and they decide to marry her to her cousin, so Rabha escapes from the tribe to her lover. On her wedding day, her lover, Nabil, decides to kidnap her and let her live with him despite the social difference.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-01-11
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Antar Invades the Desert
Overview: Shadad sends his son Antarah to herd sheep after he refuses to acknowledge him as his son because of his dark skin and his mother is a slave and refuses to wed Antarah to his cousin Abla. When Banu Abs is invaded by another tribe, they enlist Antarah's help in exchange for allowing him to marry Abla.
Genres: History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Glass and a Cigarette
Overview: Hoda is a famous dancer who gives up the spotlight to marry and start a family with Mamdouh, a handsome young doctor who is just beginning his career. When Mamdouh's scheming Italian head nurse Yolanda sets her sights on Mamdouh, Hoda's jealousy drives her to drink, ultimately endangering everything she holds dear.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-09-11
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Jericho
Overview: An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Wives factory
Overview: Fadel and his colleagues Aziz and Hamdi are trying to make their way in life, and they hold advanced degrees, but luck does not crown their endeavor with success. Fadel visits his aunt Alawiya, who runs a private institute for girls in a traditional way, and asks to work in the institute, but she refuses. The three decide to establish a modern institute, similar to the aunt’s institute. To compete with her, to teach girls to be modern.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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Knooz
Overview: The Bedouin Kenoz meets Haroun, a member of a different tribe who is digging a well for his tribesmen. Haroun's efforts are thwarted by the men of Sheikh Fawaz, who aspires to seize the land.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-05-18
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Land of Heroes
Overview: In the atmosphere of the 1948 Palestine War, a young man is shocked when he learns that his wealthy father has decided to marry the girl he is in love with, so he volunteers for the army and participates in the war. In Gaza City, he meets a Palestinian girl, they fall in love and decide to marry, so the father supplies spoiled weapons to the army, which causes the son to lose his sight during an operation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-04-20
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The black knight
Overview: The daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she returns to her tribe, but the tribe rejects her. She falls in love with the son of the tribe’s sheikh. There is a raid on the tribe’s members. The girl tries to participate and wears the clothes of a knight.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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The Dawn of Islam
Overview: The film deals with the life of the Arabian peninsula before Islam emerged, where idolatry, ignorance and corruption spread all over. Then the Mohammedan message of worshiping God alone begins and the difficulties facing Islam and early Muslims starts.
Genres: History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-04-09
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Wedad
Overview: Baher is a merchant in love with his serf Wedad who goes bankrupt because his merchandises are stolen. In order to pay his debts Wedad sacrifices herself and decides to sell herself as serf to another wealthy master.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1936-02-10
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Zizo, My Beloved Uncle
Overview: Zizu suffers from wasting his body and his health is ridiculing all around him. Zizu wants to become a sports hero to be a source of pride for the son of his sister Samir, who takes a higher example of his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-10-17
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Antar The Black Prince
Overview: Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language.
Genres: Drama History Romance Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-12-04
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Waheiba Maleket Al-Ghagar
Overview: "Wahiba - Queen of the Gypsies" - dancing, music, exoticism and forbidden pleasures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-11-19
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Antar and Abla
Overview: The series portrays the life of knight and poet Antarah ibn Shaddad whose father refused to acknowledge him as a legitimate son. Antarah falls in love with his cousin Ablah, but he couldn't dream to marry her due to their different positions and her father's wish to wed her to a wealthy man.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-12-03
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Rawiyah
Overview: Rawya is the sister of a young mischievous man who has known the path of crime. One day, the police chase him, and the brother exchanges gunfire with them until he is shot by the officer. She decides to take revenge on her brother. The officer learns what Rawya intended, so he prepares for it and allows her to meet him and get to know him. Rawya hides her brother's story from him. The hatred in the heart turns into love between the officer and Rawya.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Soultanat al-sahra
Overview: An Arab commits a crime and one of his neighbors is the reason he was sentenced to many years in prison. The Arab decides to take revenge, so as soon as he is released from prison, he kidnaps his daughter Sultana and flees with her to the desert. Years later, he became powerful and influential. A plane crashes next to their tents and the pilot is impressed by Sultana so he carries her to his house. His uncle refuses to let him marry her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-10-20
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Laila Al Amriya
Overview: In a desert tribe, Qais falls in love with Layla and recites poems about her. His story is popular in the tribe, but this is against tradition. Another person competes with the lover to ask for Layla Al-Amiriya’s hand and proposes to her. The father agrees. Layla marries against her will, falls ill, and the lover recites poems about his lost love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-12-06
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Sirr al-amirah
Overview: Hilal tries to steal the wealth of his cousin, the Upper Egyptian girl, but she succeeds in confronting him, so he tries to take revenge on her by killing her to win that wealth, but she escapes his plan, so her cousin plots a crime and convinces her that she is the murderer, and she falls into the clutches of a hypnotist, who exploits her to collect a fortune by making people believe that he is summoning the spirit of a pharaonic princess.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Samra Sinai
Overview: The work deals with the story of the engineer (Adel) who works in an oil company in the Sinai Desert and is married to the daughter of the company manager (Zouzou) who cheats on him with her cousin. As for (Samra), the daughter of the sheik of the tribe, she loves (Adel) and learns of his wife’s betrayal of him, so she goes and warns him, and events escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-07-06
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Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi
Overview: A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed over his enemies with God on his side.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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The Adventures of Antar and Abla
Overview: The knight and poet Antar fights for his love, Abla.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-06-10
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Antar's Daughter
Overview: After Antar's death, the men of the Bani Fazaza tribe take revenge on the men of the Bani Abs tribe, leaving no man from them, and Antar's sister can escape and hide Antar's daughter, raising her to hate her father's enemies until she grows up
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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