Abbas El Daly
Also Known As: عباس الدالي, عباس الدالى, Abbas El Daly
Biography: An Egyptian actor, who was born in the city of Tanta in 1911. He memorized the Holy Qur’an and entered the primary and preparatory school. Then he moved to Cairo and lived in Shubra neighborhood. He obtained his secondary certificate in 1928. He worked on the theater, before he had the opportunity to work in cinema in 1939 by participating in the movie Lend Me 3 Pounds. He is best known for acting in: Bitter Grapes, Thief and Dogs, and Women Don't Know How To Lie. He passed away in 1980.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tanta, Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: March 06, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 10, 1980
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Ebn Al-Shaitan
Overview: Ebn Al-Shaitan (Son of the Devil) a disguised serial killer who target men who leave their wives and kids and remarry.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-03-31
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The Scornful Man
Overview: When a young unemployed man is chased by creditors from all sides, a girl sympathizes with him. He decides to commit suicide by hanging himself but his attempt fails. However, he finds hidden money in the ceiling and becomes rich.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-05-07
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Cairo Station
Overview: Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-07-31
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The Thug
Overview: Haridy arrives at the vegetable market in search of a job opportunity, he works for Master Abu Zaid and after a while he separates and marries Hossnyia. Haridy forms an alliance against Abu Zaid, but he soon becomes more powerful and his condition turns to worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-04-29
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Mid-Year Vacation
Overview: Zainab welcomes her brother's classmates during the mid year vacation as they form a dance troupe to train for the annual university competition. She falls in love with Ahmed, the troupe's first dancer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-12-17
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The Thief and the Dogs
Overview: This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Taxi of Love
Overview: When one of the girls takes a taxi, a love story develops between her and the taxi driver. Their meetings occur many times and she asks him to propose marriage to her, but he refuses due to the difference in social level. So she resorts to the trick of disguising herself as another person and working as a singer and claiming to be her sister. They participate in singing shows and achieve success. He is in love with the singer and does not know that she is the same rich girl, but some bad guys are trying to set them up.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-01-04
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They Made Me a Criminal
Overview: Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-18
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عصافير الجنة
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-11-28
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El Murra El Maghoula
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-12-07
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Lend Me Three Pounds
Overview: Osman Abdel Basit is a Nubian man working in a school who tries to get three pounds to pay his mortgage, which is due , otherwise he will lose his house. He moves from one job to another, and from one chance to the next to get the three pounds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1939-09-28
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The Unknown Man
Overview: Safia is a beautiful girl from the countryside, who is loved by two men: Rashwan, the mayor's son, and Hamid, the poor young man. Her father approves her marriage to Rashwan, but Rashwan soon changes his mind, as he tries to get close to Hamdiya, Hamid's sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-01-27
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The Lady's Game
Overview: The film takes place in Cairo during the Second World War, where Hassan Abu Tabq (Naguib Al-Rihani) meets the girl Laybeh (Tahiya Karioca), and feelings of love develop between them while Hassan struggles, and things change little by little when a game comes in front of you with a great opportunity to portray a movie star. .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-02-25
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رجل بلا قلب
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-10-17
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Foreman Hassan
Overview: Hassan, a worker in a lathe workshop, is dissatisfied with his livelihood and his harsh financial conditions. One high society woman comes to him in the workshop where he works. She admires him and invites him to her villa to complete and install the decoration. Hassan becomes involved in a forbidden relationship with her and abandons his home.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-06-23
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God Is on Our Side
Overview: Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of bad weapons abound, Emad asks Nadia to search her father's papers for proof, since her father is one of the men who were involved in the weapon deals.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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A Day of My Life
Overview: An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-03-17
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me and my daughters
Overview: A widowed man lives with his four daughters, but he always preventing them from mixing or working, and when the father goes out on pension, he decides to invest his reward in a company that he later discovers has seized his money, so he falls down the stairs and enters the hospital injured, and the daughters are forced to go down to work.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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طريق السعادة
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-04-16
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Soft Hands
Overview: A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-12-29
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Struggle on the Nile
Overview: Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-10-18
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The Nightingale's Prayer
Overview: This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destroyed her family's honor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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The Leech
Overview: A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-01-09
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A Thousand and One Nights
Overview: Othman, a fisherman, finds a baby inside a floating basket while fishing, so he takes him, raises him and teaches him fishing. Othman gets arrested for fishing in a protected area, but the prince's daughter intervenes to exempt him. A genie than appears to Othman and tells him the story of his adopted son Morgan.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1941-03-20
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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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Jamila, the Algerian
Overview: Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-12-09
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El Maganeen Fi Naeem
Overview: A madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-03-11
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A Man in Our House
Overview: A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-04-17
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End of the Road
Overview: As Sharbat marries her sweetheart, she comes to realize that their ambitions and plans for the future do not align. She gets a divorce and falls in love with a rich student, only to marry his father. When the jealous student kills his father, Sharbat inherits her husband's entire fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-09-12
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Overview: Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his neighborhood and attached to it, and he dreamed of it, but she does not exchange love, and then he loses his wealth, as a fire breaks out in the workshop and he comes over it, and then Ahmed meets Sana in the hospital to which Ahmed is taken after he was injured in the fire, and at the same time Ahmed loves tohave violently, and with the same violence Nana protects him, and Sana loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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I Am Love
Overview: The engineer Nagy returns from his travels abroad when he meets Olfat whom he falls in love with and shares his feelings towards her with her. However, she is suddenly not to be found which leads him to search for her everywhere.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-02-15
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No Understanding
Overview: Mr. Shehata is a family man who lives in Port Said with his tyrannical wife and their children. In a desperate attempt to get relief, he spends most of the time at a coffee shop. The two parents pay no heed to their children's choices in life. What will become of them?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-12-11
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Gharamiat emaraa
Overview: A beautiful woman looking for a rich husband but her greed causes her in problems .
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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طريق الأبطال
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Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-03-13
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Mawa'ed Ma' Almady
Overview: Hamdi (Salah Zulfikar), the son of a factory owner, falls in love with Fatima (Mariam Fakhr El-Din), the daughter of one of the factory workers. Hamdi begins teaching her to read and write and they become involved in a love affair. He prepares to marry her but is surprised by his father's desire to marry him to Tahia (Sohair El-Babli), the daughter of a competing factory owner. Hamdi refuses to fulfill this desire, so his father expels him. Fatima decides to run away so as not to stand in the way of Hamdi's happiness and future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Yawm El Hesab
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1962-03-26
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Shakawet banat
Overview: Sons of Sheikh "Salem" the supervisor of "Mahmoud bek" farm succeeded in high school, So he decided to bring them into Cairo University. Sheikh "Salem" resorted to "Mahmoud bek" to help him, but he opposed the idea of teaching the children of peasants, so the wife of Sheikh "Salem" decided to sell her gold and sent their children "Ibrahim" and "Ali" to the university.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1963-04-29
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The Teenagers
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-20
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Shakket Al-Talaba
Overview: Two college students live together in Cairo. As they fall for their neighbor Mona, they start to compete to win her favor which stirs up trouble.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-02-06
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Struggle with life
Overview: Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a nightclub owner hits him with her car.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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Antar's Daughter
Overview: After Antar's death, the men of the Bani Fazaza tribe take revenge on the men of the Bani Abs tribe, leaving no man from them, and Antar's sister can escape and hide Antar's daughter, raising her to hate her father's enemies until she grows up
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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Couples and summer
Overview: Awatif, the dancer, loves Jamil, the musician at the nightclub where she works, even though they are both married. The lovers get a chance to be together after Jamil's wife travels to the summer resort with her children, and Nabil, Awatif's husband, travels to Lebanon. When he visits her at home, the police arrest him, thinking he is Nabil. He goes to prison, and Jamil is released from prison after discovering the mistake and decides to take revenge for what happened to him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1961-09-14
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Tofahet Adam
Overview: The story revolves around the girl (Jalila), who lives with her stepfather who asks her to steal from customers in the bar. Jalila runs away from her mother's house and her husband who treats her harshly. After escaping, she is able to find work on the estate of a rich man (Youssef Bey), who falls in love with her, along with his son (Hassan), who works in veterinary medicine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1966-04-27
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Rabab
Overview: As Rabab escapes from the cruelty of his stepmother and stays with an actress, she meets the young man, Ihsan, who tries to assault her inside his car, which overturns and dies. With his father’s attempt to take revenge on Rabab, she decides to flee again to Cairo to work as a teacher there under the name (Najwa). Then she met a colleague of hers and married him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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The Time of Miracles
Overview: A woman aspires to get rich and surrenders to a wealthy old man who will marry her. The wife has a daughter from another man who denies her paternity, and the old man has a son and a daughter from a former wife. The old man indulges in gambling and leaves the rope to his wife in the west. She meets a young man who covets her husband’s wealth, so he blackmails him and plans to get rid of the husband to be inherited by his wife. To implement the plan, she must pretend to love the old man until he shocks the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1952-07-23
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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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Bit of Fear
Overview: Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-02-03
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Driven from Paradise
Overview: The dervish Alish dies and is taken in a majestic procession to the cemetery. When he ascends to heaven to be judged, he discovers that the sum of his virtues equals the sum of his sins, so he's sent back to the living in order to test him and decide whether he should enter heaven or hell.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-05-12
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Wakeful Eyes
Overview: Fatima lives with her father who moves from one house to another. She's in love with her neighbor, officer Salah. When she tells her father that Salah wants to marry her, she discovers thathat he's a fugitive from a prison sentence, and that her marriage to Salah will expose her father to imprisonment.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Hadith almadina
Overview: The film revolves around a famous football player who meets a flirtatious girl, until his athletic level deteriorates, affecting his future. His teammates and friends cooperate until he leaves the girl and returns to his former self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-04-06
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صخرة الحب
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Aziza
Overview: Aziza is a show dancer who's supporting her young sister. She lives in trouble because of the thug who seizes her money and chases her if she tries to escape. Aziza falls in love with sergeant Hassan who works in the region and decides to retire and marry him but the thug won't let her go.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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نور عيوني
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-04-19
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نورا
Overview: A career-focused journalist crosses paths with Noura, a good-hearted young woman who suffers from societal pressures and issues. As Mahmoud tries to save her from going down a path of sin, he learns the story of her family and her struggle to provide for her ill sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1967-12-25
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Miracle from heaven
Overview: A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-03-19
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Between Two Mansions
Overview: The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1964-03-02
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Sweet Aziza
Overview: Aziza is a beautiful dancer from Mansoura, after she rejects the mayor's son who loves her, he deforms her face. She travels to Cairo and runs a cabaret, and falls in love with one of the clients. She meets a doctor who performs plastic surgery on her, giving her a chance to start over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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