Ragaa Hussein
Also Known As: رجاء حسين, Raga Hussein, Ragaa Hussian, Ragaa Hussien
Biography: Egyptian actress. She first worked with the Naguib Rihani band, and then worked in film and television since the early 1960s, from her films (mouths and rabbits, Egyptian Hadwat, savages, sons and killers), and in television series (witness and tears, the journey of Mr. Abu El-Ela human, money and sons, Zizinia).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: November 07, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 09, 2022
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The Sparrow
Overview: Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-08-26
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الضحك عالمكشوف
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
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العصمة في ايد حماتي
Overview: Infallibility is in the hands of my mother-in-law
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Look & Admire
Overview: After having no job, Medhat goes to work in a hotel in Sinai and he helps his friend Majid to get a job there. When Majid saves the life of an American tourist, she gives him third of her wealth before she dies, provided that he implements the will for the benefit of Israeli authorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2001-03-26
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Little Dreams
Overview: Gharib recalls his life’s journey, which intersects with what the city of Suez experienced over two centuries through the Triple aggression and the Defeat of 1967. Gharib meets Mahmoud, who had been with his father in the people's resistance and they work together in resistance activities.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1993-03-24
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An Egyptian Story
Overview: After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1982-09-27
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I Want a Solution
Overview: It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-03-31
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Dilapidated Woman
Overview: A hooker decides to repent after she gets married and gives birth, but when she discovers that her husband is an addict, she convinces two of her friends to steal some jewelry, but things do not go well after the apartment owner and her child were killed during the robbery. Making her accused of a crime she didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1992-08-03
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Affability
Overview: Mahmoud and Nabila are married couple in their eighties, living alone in their peaceful house. Mahmoud unable to share his wife Nabila their daily life details. Nabila feels so lonely and looks for company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-03-19
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The Serpent of Death
Overview: An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-06
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Mouths and Rabbits
Overview: A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1977-10-17
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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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Sons and Killers
Overview: When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1987-05-28
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Alexandria Again and Forever
Overview: Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1989-12-04
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Return of the Prodigal Son
Overview: Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1976-09-24
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Mickey's Family
Overview: A family participates in a competition to win the title of the “Ideal Family” as a solution to their problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2010-09-09
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Money and Women
Overview: Shehata is a committed employee in a private hospital. He lives with his daughter Nemat and his wife. One day Hussein proposes to his daughter, but the problem is that Shehata is unable to prepare his daughter, which prompts him to ask for an advance from the company. After management refuses, one of the bribed employees takes advantage of the opportunity and offers Shehata received a sum of money in exchange for a trust receipt, which he quickly used against him, especially after Shehata discovered that an incident of embezzlement had occurred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-11-27
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The Safe Road
Overview: The story revolves around a bus that gets lost in the desert, and the play presents the human models represented by the bus riders and the mistakes and sins of each passenger. When they are about to die of hunger and thirst, each of them declares his repentance and decides to reform himself, so will their positions change after their salvation?
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Nawara
Overview: Nawara works as a housemaid for a family closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On the eve of the 2011 revolution the family decides, for safety, to leave the country temporarily and ask her to look after the villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. Her journey from the alleys of her poor neighborhood to the luxury compound brings with it the worries of the people and their simple dreams—and an experience she could never have imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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A Day for Women
Overview: The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day for women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-10-06
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We share your joy
Overview: Mukhtar is trying to complete his marriage to his fiancée Samia, but what has been standing in their way for 8 years is their inability to find a suitable apartment, in addition to his mother-in-law's constant harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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الفرافير
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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Back Streets
Overview: Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonstrations, Saad who engages in political activity against the British occupation, to Abdel Azis who loves Raja, the dancer.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-08-19
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Bernard Alba's Household
Overview: an adaptation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba imposes eight years mourning period upon her household as the tradition runs in her family. In a household of 5 girls their mother and their grandma the tension and the deprivation arise as the mourning period isolate them from the rest of the village and deprive them of any male contact.
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Original Language: ar
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