Laila Fawzy
Also Known As: ليلى فوزي, Laila Fawzy, يلى محمد فوزي إبراهيم, جميلة الجميلات
Biography: Fawzi was born in Turkey to Egyptian parents. Her father owned fabric stores in Cairo, Damascus and Istanbul. She won Miss Egypt contest in 1940 and was awarded a small role in the Egyptian movie Wives Factory in 1941. After Her debut role, She then went on to star in numerous roles between film and television, until the beginning of the 21st century, she retired a few years before her death. Among her most notable roles were those in The Victorious Salah Eldin, Hell's Ambassador, and The Ladies of Garden City. She married three times firstly to fellow Egyptian actor Aziz Osman, followed by Anwar Wagdi, and then Galal Moawad.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Turkey
Adult: No
Birthday: October 20, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 12, 2005
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Who's Done it ?
Overview: Before his death, Mansour Pasha writes over his wealth to his two sons Omar and Othman; as the latter drowns, his wife gets a boy and claims he is Othman's son to ensure her share in the inheritance. When the boy grows older, he befriends Rashad, Omar's son, and gates of hell and vengeance open.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-01-21
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The Merry Widow
Overview: Abdel Aal forces his daughter Samira to marry a wealthy man. After his death, they discover his will to deprive his entire family of his wealth, except for his widow Samira, on the condition that she remain a widow and not marry after him. Asem, her husband's brother, tries to exploit the situation and force her to marry. She flees to Egypt, meets Magdy, falls in love with him, and is forced to impersonate a maid so that her secret is not revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-07-16
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Set Elhosn
Overview: In two imaginary states consumed by wars, the kings decide to resort to affinity to avoid wars. On the way, the king's son escapes from his guards, but he meets his awaited bride, Set Elhosn , without knowing who she is. He falls in love with her while trying to escape the marriage.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Mechanics
Overview: The film takes place in a comedic framework. The yacht of the spoiled rich Nancy (Nelly) breaks down, and she always bullies her employee Adham (Abdel Aziz Makhion), so they seek help from Mansour (Youssef Mansour), a skilled mechanic who repairs ship engines. Nancy fights with Mansour from the first moment, as she verbally abuses him all the time. Nancy is involved in an accident that causes her to lose her memory. Mansour tries to help her regain her memory and foil her ex-husband's plan to seize her wealth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Mind is on a Vacation
Overview: When a rich young man meets and falls for an aristocratic girl, he claims that he's a driver in order to get a job with her family. He finds that she is engaged to a fraudulent young man who's after her money, and that she is in fact trying to save her family from bankruptcy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-05-12
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Child For rent
Overview: (Zaatar) works with (Mulabbasa) in the acting troupe managed by (Jawhar). When (Jawhar) learns about the story of (Nagati Pasha's) son who disappeared twenty years ago and has not been found, (Jawhar) offers (Zaatar) to impersonate the son, and Zaatar in turn enjoys a life of luxury with (Nagati Pasha's) family, but he soon learns that (Hiam's) fiancé, (Nagati Pasha's) daughter, is embezzling the Pasha's money, and Zaatar feels guilty over time about what he is doing to this family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-09-13
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Bent Zawat
Overview: Ibrahim believed that his upbringing in the Pasha's palace would make him a member of the family, but his dreams were shattered after the Pasha's daughter refused to marry him due to the difference in social level between them. Ibrahim seeks revenge through work, collecting a large fortune and taking revenge on the Pasha's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Sheikh Hassan
Overview: Sheikh Hassan loves Louisa, the sister of his friend's student, they get married against the blessing of their parents. His mother dies of grief at the separation of her son, so his father pressed him to return home. They're forced to get divorced but Louisa is pregnant with Sheikh Hassan's child.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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I'm No Angel
Overview: Lawyer Raouf meets Yasriya Hanem, the daughter of Hassan Bey Abu El-Dahab, and falls in love with her and tries to reach her. Raouf bets with his friend that Raouf will marry Yasriya. A quarrel occurs that ends with the friend's lover shooting Raouf. The sound of the bullets restores his cousin's sight and she nurses him. Raouf marries her after he is certain that his love for her is stronger than his love for Yasriya.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-10-28
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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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المراهقة الصغيرة
Overview: Sou'ad is a beautiful student, who lives with a strict family. When they find out that she loves one of the employees, they prevent her from going to school. A married couple sympathizes with Sou'ad and treats her like a daughter. Sou'ad gets closer to the husband and tries to get his attention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-04-24
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The Vandals
Overview: When a newly-constructed school building collapses, engineer Adel is sent to examine it; he learns that the contractor tampered with the materials and his friend, engineer Hamdy, is involved. Will he divulge the findings to sue the perpetrators? or keep them to save his friend?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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The Mountain
Overview: A young architect struggles to convince a superstitious community, in thrall to antiquity traffickers, to build houses instead of living in precarious mountain caves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-05-29
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Khabar abyad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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Almar'a kl shay'
Overview: A family composed of a father who works as a Qanun musician, the son is a drummer, and the daughter is a dancer, all work in a nightclub, but the daughter is the one who pays most of the house expenses. The son meets a young man from a wealthy family, who falls in love with his sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-12-07
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فارس ظهر الخيل
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-10-15
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Dalal Al-Masria
Overview: Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-11-23
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Ahlahom
Overview: The sweetest of them is a poor girl, but her father is a stingy man. She has been dreaming for a long time of social advancement, and she meets a nightclub owner who works as an artist. The stingy father tries to extort her money, so she meets a young man in the hall, and a love story grows between them, but the young man does not agree to marry her, so the girl returns again to the popular neighborhood, and the young man follows her after he learns about her true nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-10-09
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Like A Matchstick
Overview: A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-08-24
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Finally I got married
Overview: The events of the film take place in a dramatic social context, where a playboy young man from a wealthy family lives with his rich, sterile uncle. Circumstances force him to work, and with his salary not meeting the requirements he is accustomed to, he accumulates debts. Someone offers him a job on the condition that he is married, and that young man is forced to search for... A wife whom he actually falls in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Yasqut Alhubu
Overview: Musician Ezzat Hamdy lives happily with his wife, Rawhiya, until the Ghanaian Fifi enters his life. Ezzat loves her and neglects his wife. However, Fifi is in a relationship at the same time with Fawzi Bey. Hamdi learns about the relationship and hatches a plan to surprise them both.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-01-03
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Long live women!
Overview: Three young men boycott their fiancées following a dispute between them and them, in an attempt to live without women. They think that by doing so they can live a life full of freedom and enjoy everything, but this life is not right and human nature overpowers them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-11-04
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My dear Soso
Overview: Soso is a girl engaged to a rich man, but she does not love him. By chance, there is a singer named Soso whose voice a naval officer admires. He keeps sending letters to her, and by chance she sends a picture of her sister to him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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mashghul bghyriun
Overview: A doctor is married to a very jealous girl, and because of this jealousy, she almost destroys her married life with her own hands, especially after the intervention of some bad friends, who cause fires in their relationship.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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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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Khataf Merati
Overview: A young man and a girl get married without love. They are visited by the wife’s cousin and the husband’s cousin. The wife seizes this opportunity and approaches the husband’s cousin to make her husband jealous. The husband also courtes the wife’s cousin to make her jealous.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-03-07
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For My Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Story of a Lifetime
Overview: Musician Farid lives a careless life, actress Laila loves him but he does not feel it, while those around him try to bring him closer to Laila, Nadia the daughter of his friend , who died comes to live in his house. Farid falls in love with her, while she falls in love with his younger brother Mamdouh
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-08-30
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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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Saladin the Victorious
Overview: The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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سجى الليل
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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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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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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Sunstroke
Overview: 'Shams' is a photojournalist, in a romantic relationship with 'Salwa'. When he is invited to cover a wedding, he accidentally captured a photo of a burning paper with mysterious words which leads him to a murderous gang.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-02-18
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Ibn el harra
Overview: Jalal is a successful engineer who loves his neighbor Laila, the granddaughter of a pasha, but he hides his love for fear of social differences. Her uncle supervises her money, even though he is a gambler. Laila's cousin, a reckless young man, covets marrying her to seize her money. He learns by chance that Jalal loves Laila, so he tricks them both, and seizes the money from both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Overview: Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Alexandria… Why?
Overview: Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-08-23
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Love Is Forbidden
Overview: Romeo and Juliet set in 1940's Egypt. Two families are feuding but their children love each other, thus rejecting the premise that love is forbidden between them.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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A Bullet in the Heart
Overview: Muhammad Karim directed adaptation of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's play. Mohsen is a reckless young man who has many relationships. He meets the girl of his dreams by chance and falls in love with her immediately, but he discovers that she is his friend's fiancée, so he decides to stay away from her, but she has fallen in love with him.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-03-27
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For the Sake of a Woman
Overview: Insurance representative of the client rich go to the work of an insurance policy, a wealthy married to a beautiful young tempted even located in the nets and cemented their relationship, offer him salvation from her husband, then grab the value of the insurance policy, the husband dies, you go for the company to capture the amount of insurance, but the company have doubts about the death of husband and it suggests that he died unnatural way especially that the wife was a nurse before her marriage, knows insurance this information delegate who was behind the seizure of the wealth of the husband goes to meet her, surprises her in the arms of her lover kill her but they call it lead endure and on his deathbed in hospital admits the full truth then death throes the latter.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-03-16
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The Intruder
Overview: a symbolic take on the Jewish occupation of Palestine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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The Savage
Overview: Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1979-02-19
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Ambassador of Hell
Overview: The devil appears to a poor family, incarnated in a wealthy man who offers them a large fortune. The life of excess spoils the family and breaks up their relationships. Eventually, the devil appears again, this time with the will to drag the family to hell.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-02-19
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El Qersh El Abyad
Overview: Wajdi is confused about the three girls who claim to love him without knowing about his morals. He is a wealthy person looking for a girl who wants him for himself. InSaf meets and is shocked that her rich father is very stingy, the father conspires to marry his youngest daughter from a neighbor, to marry Scrooge from the daughter of the neighbor. Wajdi pretends to be a driver and works for the father.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-04-12
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Elsetat Afaret
Overview: In a light comedy, the film revolves around a couple whose lives change from happiness to daily suffocation and conflict permanently.If the wife dies, the husband decides to marry her friend, and the wife's ghost gets angry.He continues to chase the couple to calm down when she discovers that the new wife loves her daughter and submerges her with affection.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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The Newspaper Seller
Overview: The saleswoman involves the love of her competitor in the region and tries to draw his attention to marry him, she succeeds in this and enjoys a beautiful life with her life partner, but her mother reads one day the news of the death of a wealthy man who reveals to her daughter that he is her real father, so Magda decides to live in the bliss of her father after her investments on the part The largest of the inheritance.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-11-18
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Valley of Memories
Overview: Ra'fat marries Souad against his family's wishes and they go to live in Syria. When Ra'fat dies, Souad works to support her daughter Sahar who wants to marry her neighbor Walid. Souad falls ill but hides it from her daughter whom she sends to live with her rich aunt, Dalwat, in Cairo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1978-08-24
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أمواج بلا شاطئ
Overview: A handsome young man called Nader lives a wealthy life with his widowed mother Nazik. When his father's friend Saleh takes over the management of their company, Nader finds out that his mother is in a relationship with Saleh, which drives him into the arms of the prostitute Mimi to take revenge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-02-16
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What's My Fault
Overview: Dr. Magdy marries Laila, the daughter of a wealthy family, in spite of the opposition of Laila's mother, who wanted her to marry a wealthy man. She uses her wicked nephew to create disputes between Laila and Magdy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-08-17
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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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Esh El-Gharam
Overview: After an incident where they nearly drown, Medhat and Laila are forced to spend a night on an island. As they grow close, Aida learns that Medhat wants to marry Laila and plots with Gohar to separate the two. When their plots fail, Aida tries to seduce Medhat and convince him that Laila loves Gohar.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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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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Nour al-Din and the Three Sailors
Overview: Othman Abdelbaset suffers from the intervention of his mother-in-law in his life with his wife. He always worries about his assistants in the pancake shop he runs until his mother-in-law succeeds in cutting him off with his wife and turning his life into hell. He thinks of committing suicide and introduces his idea to his aides. The three go to sea to carry out the idea, but one of the sailors sees them leading the boat trip to one of the islands and they are on an adventure inside the Prince of the Island where they fight the bad guys who want to take over the island rule
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-11-23
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A Tale from the Arabian Nights
Overview: The story of Hassan Al-Shahat and his son Shahtout who frequent the religious commemorating ceremonies to display their magic tricks. Hassan is shocked to learn of his wife's unfaithfulness, but he is in for an even more shocking surprise.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-03-08
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According to Your Taste
Overview: On his wedding day,a young man finds himself accused of being the father of a child he knows nothings about. The child's grandfather asks him to marry his daughter, and the young man is trying to find a way to make his bride believe that he's innocent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-04-28
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Beauty queen
Overview: Wills can work miracles, and this is what happened when two girls from poor families married two rich young men, and their marriage took place. Then the truth was revealed, and each family rebelled against the other. At that moment, a lawyer announced that the brother of the head of a wealthy family had died and left his brother a large sum of money, and he stipulated that the two young men marry two poor girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Ghani Harb
Overview: After the end of World War II, some exploitative merchants who hoard goods become wealthy and resort to bribing government employees to obtain goods and sell them at high prices. A love story develops between the daughter of a war merchant and a poor man. The war-rich man imagines that with his money he can buy the consciences of others.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-02-03
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Les Miserables
Overview: Victor Hugo's classic novel of Jean Valjean, pursued through the years by an unbending foe, the cruel lawman Javert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-10-04
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Beauty and charm
Overview: The film revolves around Jamal, who works as a translator and exchanges feelings of love with the girl Dalal, but the dancer Markad stands in the way of their relationship, which Jamal tries to resist in every way, which prompts Markad to frame him for a murder, and he travels to Italy, where he meets the maestro Cavallo, who gives him the opportunity to showcase his talent.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-11-19
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The Path of Tears
Overview: Ashraf Hamdi works as a supporting actor, and lives a peaceful life, but he leaves his only friend Saeed and his lover and colleague Faiza on the day he signed a contract to play a leading role opposite the great singing star Samia Fouad. He considered his acquaintance with Samia the first step towards achieving his goal, so he married her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-11-26
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ليلى بنت الشاطئ
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Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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