Madiha Salem
Also Known As: مديحة سالم, Мадиха Салем
Biography: Madiha Salem is an Egyptian actress who was born in Cairo in 1944. After graduating from the Zamalek School for Girls, she did not continue with her studies. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Madiha appeared in a number of films, the most famous of which include: “Ah Min Hawa,” “Mozakreyat Telmeza” (Memories of a Schoolgirl), “Um El Aroosa” (Mother of the Bride), “Hiya We El Rigaal” (She and the Guys), “El Ragul Da Hayeginnee” (That Man Will Drive Me Crazy). She stopped acting at the beginning of the 1980s to make time for her family life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Birthday: October 02, 1944
Deathday: November 19, 2015
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Gender: Female
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The Nile and the Life
Overview: Renegotiating the representational paradigm of nationhood the film draws a heterogeneous picture of Egyptian society as well as Soviet workers as they embarked on the momentous dam enterprise. The films presents a vision of a nation deep rooted in unity as well as diversity. The films projection of a renewed imagining of the nation inadvertently acknowledges a new and nuanced understanding of its goals, political objectives, and how these impact the personal within it. (KHOURI)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Schoolgirl's notes
Overview: A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-11-04
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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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Prisoner of the Night
Overview: Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-09-16
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The Last Night
Overview: A girl goes to sleep on her wedding night, wakes up 15 years later to find herself living a different life, where people call her by her sister's name.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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Love & Pride
Overview: After getting dumped by Adel, Zizi marries Hussein just to keep her pride. They agree to get divorced after a while, until she finds out that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1972-07-03
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The Final Message
Overview: When her father dies, the devastated Samira decides to take revenge on his murderers after she discovers that he was killed by a gang. She searches her father's papers until she finds incriminating evidence. The gang's leader sends one of his men, Hussein, to get it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-11-29
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Al-Alamein
Overview: Alia and Fawaz are two lovers who belong to two different Bedouin tribes. Despite their feelings for each other, it soon becomes apparent that they can not get married.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-02-03
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The Other Half
Overview: After the death of his wife, the head of a family lives in emptiness and boredom after his children became busy with their lives. He meets a lady whose circumstances are similar to his and the two decide to get married without telling their children, which creates a lot of problems.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-10-08
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Eve on the Road
Overview: Mona is torn between the love she has for Khaled, and her utter abhorrence of the male-dominant practices. When Khaled sweet-talks her into believing he is a liberal man, she marries him, only to be shocked by his real self and his controlling tendencies.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Dearer Than My Life
Overview: Ahmed and Mona who love each other since they were children cannot resume their relationship as their families disapprove of it and the lovers part ways. Years later, they meet again, Ahmed with his two kids, and Mona leading a solitary life. Will they ever be reunited in marriage?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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The Mother of the Bride
Overview: This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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El Ragel Da Hayganeni
Overview: Atia is an overly kind man whose wife abandons him due to his weak personality. He meets a greedy producer who plans to exploit a wealthy woman to produce a movie for him, only for Atia to discover that the wealthy woman is his wife whom he hasn't seen in years.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-02-20
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Beware of Eve
Overview: Her grandfather swore not to marry her younger sister until she got married, according to the doctor (Hassan) who was transferred to work in the countryside, and get an argument between them, escalating events.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-05-12
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Thieves but Cute
Overview: Hamid and Ismail are two thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store which can only be broken into from the ground of the apartment above it, inhabited by a couple whose relationship is precarious and complicated.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-05-12
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The Groom Arrives Tomorrow
Overview: Anayat Hanim succeeded in having a clothing factory after the death of her husband, allowing her to live with her three daughters Samira, a bachelor of commerce, Kawther who cares only about physics, Laila who is not yet 14 years old and very lazy and dreams of the day he will marry so as not to go To school. Haj Awadallah owns a factory that he manages himself and supplies Hanayat Hanim with the finest fabrics, and thus a close relationship developed between them. Since he is single, he suggested to Annayat Hanim that they marry but they delayed the response and justified that she must marry the two girls first. Haj Awad asks his brother Fathallah and his friend Mamdouh to advance the brothers' sermon and send a telegram to Annayat Hanim telling her that the groom will arrive tomorrow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-10-28
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The Way Of The Devil
Overview: Two gamblers living a prosperous but lustful life where money has replaced morals. However, their lives change after an unexpected meeting with a belly dancer.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-06-02
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Al-Ozab Al-Thalatha
Overview: Sherif, the lawyer, and his two friends, Raafat, the famous composer, and Sayed, the veterinarian, are shocked, and they decide together to abandon everything related to Noun Al-Niswa, but Elham decides to enter their lives.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-02-13
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The Great Adventure
Overview: Yassin is a fame-seeker who makes a deal with the lawyer, Samir, to falsely confess to a famous murder, in the hopes that the media attention will benefit them both, as Samir proves Yassin's innocence at the last moment. But when Yassin is implicated in the crime, Samir has to find the real killer to save him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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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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Big Teenager
Overview: Ahmed is a novelist who has passed the age of youth. He spends his life on many romantic adventures, until Ahmed meets a beautiful girl who is the daughter of the caretaker of his estate that he owns. Ahmed discovers that this girl is very impressed by the romantic stories he writes, so he decides to ask her for marriage. Will she agree?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-04-17
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الزائر الغريب
Overview: A killer reflects on his life at seaside town in this moody Egyptian thriller/drama.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-12-23
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