Sherifa Maher
Also Known As: Sherifa Mahear, شريفة ماهر, Sherifa Mahir
Biography: Egyptian actress Sherifa Mahear was born in 1932 in the Cairo neighborhood, Helwan. She graduated from a French high school and was discovered by the prominent Egyptian singer and musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab, who signed her on for a three year contract. She went on to work in cinema, appearing as both a singer and an actress. Mahear is best known for playing an an aristocratic woman and for her roles in the films: “Irham Dmoo’y” (Pity my Tears), “Karamet Zawgaty” (My Wife’s Dignity), Aaz El Habayeb" (Dearest Beloveds), and “El Masir” (Destiny).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Birthday: September 30, 1932
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Sons of the Devil
Overview: Selim Abu Taqiyya, a drug kingpin who resides in Turkey, enlists his brother Mamdouh in drug trafficking operations until he eventually gets arrested. Selim disguises himself as a monk to visit his brother in prison, and police officer Ahmed disguises himself as a criminal to trap Selim's gang.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-13
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Fatinat aljamahir
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-13
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Min radiin biqalilih
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-04-14
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مجلس الإدارة
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-01-19
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Life is Sweet
Overview: Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-11-21
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The Suspect
Overview: A broke gambler plans with the manager of a gambling hall to steal money from the safe of a pharmaceutical company that another gambler works for. The gambler betrays his partner , and kills him and mutilates his face. After the doctor leaves his room, everyone thinks that he killed the gambler because of the hatred that existed between them.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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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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How Can I Forget You
Overview: Two orphaned sisters, one working as a singer (Sabah), and the other working as a dancer (Nadia Jamal), decide to escape from their mother and her husband who takes their money. They go to a famous singer (Farid al-Atrash) to work in his band. He discovers the talent of the singer and falls for her.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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Iidini eaqlak
Overview: After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so they decide to travel to Cairo in order to search for Cairene girls for marriage, but they fall into a series of strange paradoxes, including falling into the hands of a professional fraudster. They worked in a doctor's house as servants.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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Ghaltet Ab
Overview: A girl named Souad shows up to her father, who was the result of an affair he had with her mother. The father kept it a secret in fear of his family's reputation. Souad works in a nightclub and when the manager knows the truth of Souad, he starts extorting huge money from the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Rabea Al Adaweiah
Overview: Rabi'a al-Adawiyya is a classic film from 1963 based on the life of the early Sufi saint and poet Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, also known as Rabi'a al Basri, in the second Islamic century.
Genres: History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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The Magical Lantern
Overview: Mustafa mattress in a textile company, is suffering badly from director Morsi. He is married to a man from the woman who loves money so much, buy Mustafa lantern magic in the month of Ramadan, and when he returns it to the House out of it Elf Afrckoh who tells him that under his command, is asked to Mustafa to become a manager rather than Morsi, Mustafa, Director becomes, and feels that he has become Huda employee in stature he loves. Morsi treated in the same cruelty, trying to Anchorage to understand the secret of wealth and prestige, which landed on the opponent, especially that of senior management to accept the establishment of Morsi.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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Mansion of Longing
Overview: 10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Ragol Laho Maddi
Overview: The elderly millionaire Shaker feels that his end is near during his treatment in Germany, and he tries to search for his daughter, whom he had from an illegitimate relationship. Hamido takes advantage of this opportunity and introduces Manal as his lost daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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The Shore of Love
Overview: Mamdouh, a famous singer, meets Laila on the shores of an Fayum during the shooting of a movie. An Attraction between the two prompts Mamdouh to propose to Laila. However, Laila's Father is reluctant to accept the marriage proposal and asks for some time to think. Laila then discovers that her mother Rawhey is not dead as she was led to believe, and is in fact a belly dancer in a nightclub. Laila's father tries to guide her mother back on the right track for the sake of their daughter's reputation and her future as Mamdouh's wife, but the owner of the nightclub where Laila's mother works starts to blackmail everyone concerned. Mamdouh starts to become suspicious of Laila's odd behaviour seeking comfort from his cousin Soheir who loves him. Will Mamdouh discover the truth, or will he marry his cousin Soheir?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Three Wise Men
Overview: (Ameen) The merchant who sees many nightmares in his dream about a young man who accepts him to kill him, which causes him to feel fear for what he owns, and goes to seek advice from a psychiatrist, and one day Ameen is surprised by the young man who always appears in all his nightmares as he applies to a job with him, and discovers Amine that this young man loves (Samia) Amin's daughter, which causes him to address this relationship, refusing to associate with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: am
Release Date: 1965-06-28
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My Wife's Dignity
Overview: Mahmoud spends all his time chasing women. As he tries to approach his colleague, she rejects him until he asks her to marry him, but she stipulates that if he cheats, she will do the same. After they get married, she discovers his betrayal and starts to make him think that she's cheating on him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-09-18
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Al-modeer Al-Fanni
Overview: After he gets fired from his job as a teacher, Hamouda works in a company, and soon discovers that the manager is doing illegal work. He's offered to take part in the fraud and scheme, he quickly learns the ropes and becomes wealthy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-02-03
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Dearest Beloved
Overview: The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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Tears Run Dry
Overview: The famous singer Hoda gets romantically involved with Samy Karam, the chief editor of a magazine, and everyone opposes their relationship as he is a family man. As the date of the Journalists Syndicate elections approaches, his rival, Sobhy, uses this relationship to defame him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-06-30
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Kedt Ahdem Baity
Overview: The husband lives happily with his small family, but the happiness does not last, as jealousy creeps into the heart of one of his friends, so he tells the husband that his wife is cheating on him. His life changes, and he resorts to alcohol, and searches for evidence to confirm his wife’s betrayal of him, so he finds emotional messages that do not belong to the wife, but were sent to the children’s nanny. The husband imagines that his wife is cheating on him, so he divorces her, and events follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-01-11
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Ismail Yassine Fil Police
Overview: Ismail lives in a local neighborhood, next to his fiancée and her mother who objects to their relationship because of his work in the police.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-07-16
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Pity My Tears
Overview: When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-31
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والسيدة حرمه
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Destiny
Overview: In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1997-08-18
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I Won't Confess
Overview: Four months after Ahmed was the chief witness in a murder case, his wife receives a blackmail letter accusing him of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Password
Overview: Two men, a husband and a father-in-law, complain about their wives' preoccupation with their careers that they grow negligent of their husbands. In an attempt to grab the women's attention, the two men plot with Camelia, their neighbor, to claim that they trade in drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-02-17
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People's secrets
Overview: After serving his prison sentence, Mansour is released but tries to seduce the wife of the man who helped him to get released, so he plans to get rid of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-12-31
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The Bakery
Overview: When his mother requests that he avenges his father by claiming back his right from the tyrant thug Dagher, Awad embarks on a long journey that starts by him working undercover in his bakery, and falling in love with Tea'ma, the bakery's manager's daughter, who will be his only companion on his revenge trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-01-23
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صخرة الحب
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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