Thuraya Helmy
Also Known As: ثريا حلمي, Souraya Helmy
Biography: Egyptian actress and singer, whose real name is (Zakia Ali Mahjoub), and Mustafa Al-Qashash, a journalist in Al-Sabah magazine, chose her artistic name by which she was known. She excelled in the art of monologue. She was born in an artistic family where her sister was a singer. She used to go to the theater and go up to the stage between the seasons and offer singing connections, and from here she started the art of monologue, and continued that from 1940 until 1966. During her artistic career, she presented more than 300 monologues of the most famous of them (Addini Your Mind, O Sidi Eib), in addition to Her participation in acting in many films, she even formed a cinematic duo with the comedian Ismail Yassin, and joined the band (Baba Ezz El-Din). Among her most prominent works is (Ismail Yassin interviews Rayya and Sakina, the male hunter). She passed away in 1994.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: September 26, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 09, 1994
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Farewell, Love
Overview: Navy officer Wahid arrives in a military hospital, with a kidney failure, his days are numbered. The inmates try to cheer him up , while his nurse gets closer to him, and soon kindness turns to love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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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 Widow and The Devil
Overview: The rich widow Hanan frequently visits the shop where Lubna works, which plans with her lover Atef to blackmail Hanan. Hanan gives them a room attached to the villa garden to get married. Atef succeeds in seducing Hanan into his love, Lubna rebels against them, so Atef claims to kill her and hides her body in a deserted place, a telephone woman threatens her to report the police about the crime to blackmail her.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-02-26
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Casino el latafa
Overview: Aziza and Sharifa are two friends. They are married to the two friends, Aziz and Refaat. Aziza suspects her husband's behavior, and her friend supports this suspicion. They concoct a plan. Sharifa sends an unsigned love letter to Aziz Pasha and sets him up on a date in the casino.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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2 Against the law
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Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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عفريت لكل مواطن
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-06-16
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The Bread Seller
Overview: A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-08-17
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The Hunger
Overview: In a new tale of the epic of Harafish, an unjust bully controls the alley, whose brother was imprisoned unjustly after he fed the poor without his permission. While in prison, his wife is preparing for a revolution by the poor to demolish this corrupt regime and end the tyranny in the alley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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The Beggars' Strike
Overview: A musical film that depicts the life of the Egyptian people under the rule of the English colonizer through the revolutionary of the beggars, represented by Shakal who falls in love with the revolutionist Hassanin and helps him combat the colonizer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-01-30
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Meeting at the Tower
Overview: Adel and Amal meet during their return from a cruise and they fall in love and promise to marry after six months at the Cairo Tower. Will they manage to honor their promise?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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Saedat El Rigal
Overview: A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-12-12
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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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Uncle Qandil's Scissors
Overview: Qandil is the owner of a barbershop who is trusted by his neighbors to solve their problems. When he is imprisoned after accidentally killing Gad, his greedy son Salah transforms the barbershop into a clothes store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1985-12-30
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Kilo 99
Overview: The film revolves around a man working two jobs, a truck driver in the daytime, and an evening nightclub singer. On one of his days, while driving the truck, the British occupation forces arrest him while he is at 99. Cafes, which decides to help the singer by smuggling it out of their hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-06-18
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Call of blood
Overview: Buthaina, Shawqi's secretary, refuses to marry him because she loves her relative Adel. This arouses Shawqi's jealousy, so he plots a plot that leads to his imprisonment for years. He decides to take revenge on Shawqi after he gets out of prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-10-18
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Believing in God
Overview: As a gambling thief is chased by the police, he sells his infant child to his old girlfriend who passes the boy as her own as the child's real mother raises her other daughter. Years go by and the son meets his sister. They fall in love without knowing that they are related.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-03-11
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Good News
Overview: Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the sons of the high class of her father's friends, and her father welcomes this, but she refuses to marry because she loves Hussein Her father, Khateeb, discovers that Soso is in agreement with the director of the company to rhythm between them, and one of the dancers is called to pretend that she is the wife of the engineer and the events and surprises follow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-04-07
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Dreams Inn
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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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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Alley of The Pestle
Overview: This film is based on a novel from 1947 by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. The story takes place during WWII and focuses on Al-Madak Alley, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as the microcosm of the world. A barber is in love with a young poor girl, who lives with her mother, and gets a job in an English Army camp to earn enough money for their marriage. But he is not the only one who wants to marry this girl and when the barber returns, she is gone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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Earis Alhina
Overview: Wadi'a is forced to marry a rich man, and she tells her husband that she accepted him for his money. They live separately, and little by little feelings of love are born, but the rich husband decides to test his wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-04-24
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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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Tar Bayet
Overview: A dispute arises between two brothers over a piece of land, and this dispute stands in the way of marriage between a son and a cousin. In light of that dispute, one of the servants kills one of the two brothers, and the other brother is accused of the crime, so the head of the family cooperates with his son and daughter to kill the brother who is unjustly accused of murder, taking With revenge, but events lead to a surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-05-23
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Your luck this week
Overview: The film talks about luck begins with the wealthy son who embezzles from the mother of a large amount of money to pay to one of the singers as a deposit to sing them casino and play by gambling and wasting all in the way of suicide meets the girl with a beautiful voice Vijnha to work at the mother instead of suicide is the other after lying to the mother After what she hears on the radio, she doesn't want to spend the decade out of fear of her mother, but they are chasing her. Contract, and finds that the criminal has sold his contract For another criminal, he lives in fear, especially after his outlook on life has changed and events are taking place in a comic context
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-01-26
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Halal Aleik
Overview: In a dramatic drama, the film revolves around a wealthy person who dies and leaves a will to the family. This commandment states that his wealth is entirely hidden in an unknown place in his palace and whoever finds it is entitled to the family's life.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Love In The Darkness
Overview: Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money and his mother seeks to save him, in the meantime, the brother commits murder out of theft, but fate makes Nemat see Ahmed at the crime scene instead of his brother, to push her and she becomes blind And events escalate.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-06-08
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The Two Orphans
Overview: On his way home one day, Morsi finds a child at the side of a road. He feels sorry for her, and takes her home with him to raise alongside his own daughter, Saniyya. The two girls become quite close over the years. When Morsi dies, their lives take very different paths, after a lot of suffering. While Sanniya falls in love with, and plans to marry, a wealthy man, Naimat falls into the grasp of a woman who is the ringleader of a number of beggars and pick-pockets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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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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Lokanda Alfardos
Overview: Abd al-Tajtali Sulayt, a compulsory teacher from the village, goes to Locanda al-Firdaws after he was greeted by Atiyah al-Shalashlamouni and his wife Shafiqa, along with his four daughters, who treat them firmly and strongly, while Samiha was a neighbor of Atiyah who was constantly fighting with her husband Masoud because of her jealousy over him, and she thinks that he is in a relationship with another.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-07-08
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The Black Market
Overview: A corrupt grocer in a traditional Cairene neighborhood enters into an alliance with comprador merchants. Their goal is to hoard scarce commodities during the World WAR II, and then to sell them at vastly inflated prices. Eventually the grocer's neighbors rebel at his tactics. They call in the national athorities and the black marketeers are brought to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-01-02
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Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts
Overview: Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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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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Owner of Few Piasters
Overview: The three sisters ,Siham, Nabila, Sannia inherit from their late uncle an amount of only five hundred pounds, which drives them to travel to Alexandria to search for wealthy men to marry them. They stay at a fancy hotel where they meet three rich men, where comic paradoxes and misunderstanding happen between the six of them.
Genres: Drama Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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Ismail Yassine Yukabel Raya Wa Sekina
Overview: A young man discovers that his fiancée goes to a gang that kills women and steals their jewelry. He gets scared and calls the police after he accidentally goes to their house.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-03-21
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Love Has No Cure
Overview: Latif and Khafif are two friends who work together, but they get fired after making a mistake. Latif wins the lottery at a horse race because of a mistake from a girl, so he searches for her to thank her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Love Humiliates
Overview: Three girls work in a nightclub, are in a relationship with three men working there. One of them is a singer who loves the dancer and dreams of performing the show he composed, but the owner refuses. He decides to rent a cabaret with his friends and the dancer tries to join them, but is threatened by the owner.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-02-21
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The Barefoot Millionaire
Overview: A beautiful pickpocket works with a gang to steal jewelry. During one of the gang's operations, the police discover their presence and chase them. She hides in the house of a wealthy, dignified man. She begs him to let her stay with him. He responds and claims that she is his wealthy niece who has come from abroad. She confuses the family, but everyone loves her. She is affected by the beautiful family atmosphere, so she decides to repent and hand over the jewelry to the police, but the gang chases her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Hanan
Overview: (Hassan), the simple contractor, lives a happy life with his wife (Amina) and his daughter (Laila). He succeeds in his work, becomes a wealthy contractor, and meets (Murad) Bey and they start a company. (Nima), (Murad's) playful sister, tries to lure (Hassan) into... She falls into her trap, and succeeds in doing so in order to cover up the suspicious actions of her brother (Murad). Hassan leaves his wife (Amina) and divorces her. His daughter, Laila, and her fiancé, Aziz, try to expose Naama and Murad and reunite the family.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-09-11
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Laylat Al-Jumea
Overview: Uncle Abdel Fattah forces his nephew Anwar to marry so that he does not deprive him of the inheritance. Anwar does marry, but one day he goes with his friend to a cabaret and meets Tahia, the dancer, who brings him back home drunk. The uncle comes to confirm his nephew's marriage and finds Tahia, who claims that she is his wife. When his real wife appears, he introduces her as his friend's wife.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-03-26
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The Fifth Groom
Overview: Four greedy men are trying to win over Bahira Hanem. So she pretends to be poor to test the fifth man's feelings.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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El Zuhur El Fatina
Overview: Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live like the rich so she works as a bellydancer. The other, Karima, is content with her life and takes care of her sick mother and pays home bills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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Hokm Elqawi
Overview: Medhat and Kassem are partners who find themselves at odds when Kassem first dissolves their partnership then commits a murder and frames Medhat for it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-02-27
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Ana bint Nass
Overview: A delicate girl grows up with a poor family despite her wealthy origins. She marries a guy who sympathizes with her before she finds out the truth about her real family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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Banat Al-Lail
Overview: Naamit was a young girl live with her parents her dad was poor man and her mother love money so her mom want her to be a dancer to make a lot of money and it's up to a conflict between mother & father for who'll care of her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-03-21
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Shahr aleasal
Overview: Hanaa is a beautiful girl who is forced to accept her heavy fiancé. A misunderstanding occurs when Farid promises to come to his house to teach her music and playing. The two girls' fiancés, Hanaa and Jamalat, are confused, as each of them thinks the other is his fiancée. When Farid comes and meets Hanaa, he thinks she is Jamalat.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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The Life of Darkness
Overview: A middle-class family. The son gets a law degree and wants his son to be a lawyer, but the son wants to be a novelist. The son is surrounded by bad friends, so he is led by them into a life of debauchery and slips into the abyss, betrays trust, misappropriates his father's money, and steals his mother's jewelry to satisfy his mistress's demands, which leads to his mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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I Love You Only
Overview: Munir, a singer and telegraph employee, tries to realize his dreams as an artist and falls in love with dancer Nadia.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1949-01-03
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Foreign Talk
Overview: Morsi is trying to do the impossible in order to find a way to reach Adel, who disappeared 15 years ago, in order to get out of his debts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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If I Was Rich
Overview: A poor man suddenly gets rich when he receives big inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-11-26
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