Afaf Shoieb
Also Known As: عفاف شعيب, Afaf Shoaib
Biography: ‘Afaf Ahmed ‘Aly Shoaib was born in Kafr al-Dawar and moved to the capital to study at the Higher Institute for Theatrical Arts in 1972. Her talents drew attention after she took part in several television series. Thereafter she transitioned to cinema after earning experience on the series “Afwah wa Aranib” (“Mouths and Rabbits”), “Qays wa Lubna”, “al-Yateem wa al-Houbb” (“The Orphaned and Love”), “Du’aa al-Karan” and “al-Hadd wa al-Dimoo’. ‘Afaf married Lebanese producer Riyad al-E’ryan. She later withdrew from acting before starting again but with the veil on.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kafr El Dawar, Egypt
Birthday: December 19, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hazun min alsama
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-04-04
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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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A traveler without a road
Overview: Osama is a visual artist. He decides to travel to Luxor to search for the secrets of the drawings and paintings left by the Pharaohs. Here he is exposed to Antoine's gang, which specializes in stealing antiquities. Osama loses his memory and meets one of the Bedouin tribes. He lives with them, and one of the tribe's girls takes care of him and feels love for him.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Death Ward
Overview: Tawfiq imports spoiled food for children which causes thousands of children to fall ill. Despite the efforts of the journalist Nabila to expose him, he is able to escape abroad, so the officer in charge, Fouad, decides to take the law into his own hands.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-01-23
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Kaydahonna Azeem
Overview: Teacher Abu Al-Atawf agrees with teacher Atta on the marriage of his son Ibrahim and her daughter Samsim. Abdul Basir, Ibrahim's uncle, goes to bless the bride, and get to knows Attata, who resorted to the lawyer with whom she worked as a writer for twenty years to prove the lineage of her daughter from Lotfy, a wealthy who married her customally and refused to recognize his father to Samsim, so she had to register her in the name of her deceased husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-04-30
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No Mixing
Overview: A social worker in a mixed school adopts modern methods of education and is loved by students, but she faces problems and conspiracies at the instigation of the conservative vice-principal, especially since the principal of the school admires the social worker.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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A Woman Deceived Me
Overview: Ahmed opens a law office in one of the local neighborhoods, he gets involved with the wealthy neighbor, Awatif, who frames him in an embezzlement case after she knows that he got engaged. He gets suspended from practicing law and works in a tannery owned by Awatif.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-08-20
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The Informant
Overview: Mabrouk comes from his village to repair part of his uncle's flour machine, and on the train he meets Nawara. He helps her to escape from her uncle who wants to kill her to defend his honor. He also meets Hashim, who tries to quit being an informer for officer Sharif.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-11-10
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The Man Who Sold The Sun
Overview: Jamil works for the jeweler Azzouz and he loves Souad. Azzouz asks Jamil to take a jewelry bag to a client. But when a dispute happens between the client and the fiancé, Jamil is forced to stay in the hotel where Souad works to keep the jewelry in the safe deposit box in the hotel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-01-03
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The Other Land
Overview: A group of young men who live in a poverty-stricken village aspire to migrate to Italy seeking a better life. In their journey towards their dream life, they are faced with the treacherous waves of the Mediterranean Sea while boarding an old, worn-out boat and carrying no legal documents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-11-19
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A Certain Whisper
Overview: Karima and Mohsen are in love, but her son Tarek stands in their way because he wants to have his mother all to himself. They get married, and Karima tries to convince Tarek to marry Madiha but he fails to fulfill his duties as a husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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El Awantageya
Overview: Aida rejects the marriage of her son Hisham with Zouba to the social difference between them, but he clings to her. Aida pretends madness until her son succumbed to her desire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-09-28
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Against the Government
Overview: After being fired by the prosecution office, Mostafa becomes a personal injury lawyer and takes advantage of people's pain for profit. But his life turns upside down when his only son falls victim to a car accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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Aman Ya Dunia - أمان يا دنيا
Overview: "Morsi" The Conductor, lives on the rooftop of the house of his girlfriend "Najfa", who owns a convenience store, and her mother "Attiyat" refuses to marry him to her daughter. Morsi Meet a businessman "Mohsen", who sent him with a bag to Alexandria to deliver it to Khawaja Peter and receive another bag from him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1991-05-08
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Sukkar Bulaq
Overview: Mrs. Sukar lives in Bulaq. The people of the region consider her one of the best women there. She gets divorced from a man who deals in drugs, and after that she gets married to Atwa, and she suspects that he also deals with it.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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ابتسامة في نهر الدموع
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-07-11
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Al Maatooh
Overview: Ahmed is a zoo employee, who falls from the stairs in his house. After his treatment, he accuses his neighbor Thanaa that she's the one who pushed him. She gets arrested and brought to trial, while her husband Adel is trying find a way to prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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Al-Qadeya Al-Mashhora
Overview: Jasser sneaks into Yassin's house to steal, but he senses a strange movement, as Saadia, the servant Ibrahim's wife, tries to find out who is in the house, so he kills her and Yassin. During that, Ibrahim arrives, and his daughter Naima testifies against him after seeing him holding a knife next to her mother's body, so he is imprisoned, and events escalate.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-03-06
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Suicide of a High School Teacher
Overview: Ibrahim and Tafida live a happy life, the only thing that spoils it is that they do not have children. Ibrahim is forced under pressure to marry his neighbor, Hasna. Tafida discovers his marriage and is surprised that she is pregnant, so he decides to divorce Hasna, but he is surprised that she is also pregnant. Tafida and Hasna give birth to five children each, and the pressure on Ibrahim increases, and events escalate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-02-13
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The Best is Yet to Come
Overview: A TV presenter discusses several issues concerning the Arab region and Arab identity through the representation of a Kuwaiti student who travels to Egypt to resume his studies and crosses paths with an Egyptian girl whose parents oppose their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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Al Sharabiya
Overview: Toha and her mother work to transport the cargos in carriages on behalf of the teacher Shehata, who exploits them and they cannot stand in front of him, until Toha gets to know Shawqi, the head of the station and responsible for the supply loads that are transported on trains, to help her get rid of the teacher Shehata, and fall in love with her and marry her, so that Shehata decides to take revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-11-16
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Al Jamaliyah
Overview: Fathi steals cars on behalf of the teacher Aliwa, who does not pay him his dues financially. When Fathi gets fed up with this, the teacher Aliwa reports him and Fathi goes to prison. In prison, he meets two other thieves, and the three of them decide to stop stealing and repent to God. Fathi decides to cooperate with the police and work again with the teacher Aliwa to inform the police about him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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وصية زوجتي
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-06-10
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