Rafeaa ElShal
Also Known As: رفيعة الشال, رفيعه الشال, Rafeaa El Shal
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Egypt
Adult: No
Birthday: October 08, 1904
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 10, 1962
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The Fools Alley
Overview: Khadiga lives in a poor neighborhood with her parents. She tries to save up money so she could marry her sweetheart Taha. Taha buys a lottery ticket in hope of winning a lot of money, but it ends up in Khadiga's religious father's hands who throws it away. The ticket gets picked up by the town's fool, who gets lucky and wins, driving the town into chaos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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The black knight
Overview: The daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she returns to her tribe, but the tribe rejects her. She falls in love with the son of the tribe’s sheikh. There is a raid on the tribe’s members. The girl tries to participate and wears the clothes of a knight.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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The Blazing Sun
Overview: A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-03-01
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Ya Zalemni
Overview: On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-05-31
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Marret El-ayam
Overview: Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. The professor proposes to the family and proposes to the sister, which shocks the student. She decides to conceal her feelings and continue studying. The professor marries the sister, and days pass without the flame of love being extinguished. A husband discovers... The sister realizes the student's feelings for him, and he begins to reciprocate the same feelings due to her intense interest in him, and the two almost drift into a stream full of mistakes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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Bahia
Overview: The story of the conflict between one of the poles of feudalism and his oppression to peasants by burning their crops and lands until they're unable to pay their debts. When Bahia's father confronts him, the feudal lord tries to rape her, but Yassin stands up to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-04-11
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It happened one night
Overview: A poor girl marries a rich young man, despite the opposition of her father-in-law, and lives a happy life with her husband until she falls into the clutches of a fraudulent young man, who tries to tell her that her husband has been in an accident. When she goes to him, she learns the truth about him. The fraudster tries to pressure the wife through what he has caught on her. The husband finds out about the matter and divorces his wife without understanding that his wife is innocent. He travels abroad, and the wife seeks revenge on the fraudster who ruined her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-18
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Kiss Me in the Dark
Overview: Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Layla in the dark
Overview: Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but Laila is exposed to an accident that loses her sight, so she decides to sacrifice her love so that Hussein can avoid life with a co-wife.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1944-02-24
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Leila, ghadet el camelia
Overview: A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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Salamah
Overview: The events of the film revolve in the era of the Umayyad dynasty, around the shepherd (Salama), who has a charming voice and has a love relationship with (Abdul Rahman), but her love is hindered by (Ibn Suhail’s) greed for her. She runs away from him out of fear for herself and her love, and (Abdul Rahman) begins his search journey. about her .
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1945-04-09
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Sleepless
Overview: Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new mother-in-law and getting involved with a man twice her age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Life or Death
Overview: A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Overview: Ali Baba lives in poverty while his brother Qasim lives a wealthy life. One day Ali Baba discovers a secret cave which contains countless treasures. He tries to solve his financial problems with thehe contents of the cave, but as Qasim enters the picture, things turn irreversibly.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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3 Men and a Woman
Overview: Samya is a girl who is on the look for her white knight. First, she falls for the anchor Ahmed but after he proposes, she finds herself falling for the athlete Mokhtar. Then she falls for Dr. Galal, only to find herself unable to choose between the three of them.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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The Virgin Wife
Overview: Mona meets Magdy and Fouad in Alexandria and falls in love with Fouad who loves her back, but Magdy asks her to marry him and her mother agrees because of his wealth. After Mona marries Magdy, she finds out that he's impotent, which causes a series of problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-09-14
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Rawiyah
Overview: Rawya is the sister of a young mischievous man who has known the path of crime. One day, the police chase him, and the brother exchanges gunfire with them until he is shot by the officer. She decides to take revenge on her brother. The officer learns what Rawya intended, so he prepares for it and allows her to meet him and get to know him. Rawya hides her brother's story from him. The hatred in the heart turns into love between the officer and Rawya.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Love and Youth
Overview: Sameer is an unemployed young man. His father forces him to work in a shop. He meets Misbah, a colleague of his at work, and decides to marry her. Sameer and his father discover that the shop manager is an embezzler, so he fires him, and events unfold.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-01-05
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Nights of pleasure
Overview: A couple has twins, but disagreements arise between them, making it impossible for them to continue their married life. They separate with an agreement that each of them will take care of one of their children. The child, whose name is Abdul Hamid, is raised by the husband and grows up to be virtuous and have good morals, unlike his brother Abdul Aziz, who is raised in a bad way by his mother. They come together to love the same girl.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-03-03
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Soultanat al-sahra
Overview: An Arab commits a crime and one of his neighbors is the reason he was sentenced to many years in prison. The Arab decides to take revenge, so as soon as he is released from prison, he kidnaps his daughter Sultana and flees with her to the desert. Years later, he became powerful and influential. A plane crashes next to their tents and the pilot is impressed by Sultana so he carries her to his house. His uncle refuses to let him marry her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-10-20
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Laila Al Amriya
Overview: In a desert tribe, Qais falls in love with Layla and recites poems about her. His story is popular in the tribe, but this is against tradition. Another person competes with the lover to ask for Layla Al-Amiriya’s hand and proposes to her. The father agrees. Layla marries against her will, falls ill, and the lover recites poems about his lost love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-12-06
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Waheiba Maleket Al-Ghagar
Overview: "Wahiba - Queen of the Gypsies" - dancing, music, exoticism and forbidden pleasures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-11-19
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Chabab El Yom
Overview: Fathia takes care of her sick father, and loves the young doctor treating him. One day the brother discovers that she's adopted by his parents from a shelter, and when the day of engagement with the doctor arrives, the brother gets drunk and tells Fathia the truth to turn her life upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1958-03-03
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Samson the mighty
Overview: The mighty Samson decides to take revenge on the ruler who assassinated his bride on their wedding night, and succeeds in expelling him from the country, but the ruler does not forget what Samson did to him, so he decides to send Delilah to seduce him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1948-04-11
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Treachery and torment
Overview: The father stands between his only daughter Fayda and the young man who is chasing her. This young man tried to seduce her by making her believe that he loves her. This young man continues to chase the girl while she turns away from him. He pursues her with phone calls, and when he feels that there is no point in trying to entice her, he reveals her mother’s history, behavior, and bad reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1947-03-31
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Sheikh Hassan
Overview: Sheikh Hassan loves Louisa, the sister of his friend's student, they get married against the blessing of their parents. His mother dies of grief at the separation of her son, so his father pressed him to return home. They're forced to get divorced but Louisa is pregnant with Sheikh Hassan's child.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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Sahifat el sawabek
Overview: The story revolves around a young man who squandered all his wealth, joins a gang to counterfeit money, falls in love with a singer, marries her, but the police arrest him, the young man gets out of prison and tries to take revenge on the gang leader who tried to marry his wife during the period he was imprisoned, the gang leader plans to harm him in his work in which he works in order to support his family.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-10-07
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Gooz El-Arba'a
Overview: The rich young man married a wife based on his aunt's desire in the hope that she would see him an heir, but fate paralyzes the wife, and here his aunt pressures him to marry another who is also paralyzed, and he tries again to repeat the experience, so he marries the third and fourth
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1950-07-17
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Appointment with Life
Overview: Amal and her friend Fatima are happily in love with Ahmed and Dr. Mamdouh respectively. After it is discovered that Amal has a debilitating condition, her father attempts to keep it a secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1953-12-14
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Al-Sharaff Ghali
Overview: A rich man tries to assault his maid, but she violently repels him and he falls without moving. She thinks he is dead and flees the village. She meets an artistic band and joins it as a singer. In Cairo, the maid is famous as a singer and is surrounded by admirers, but she is drawn to a young man returning from abroad and he takes her to meet his family in the countryside, so she is surprised that he is the son of the rich man. Who tried to assault her and lost his sight as a result of the fall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1951-04-30
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A Voice From The Past
Overview: Hamdi, a young boy meets his mother in a dream. She tells hims three things that are going to happen in the future.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1956-12-24
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Children of the poor
Overview: Fouad Pasha refuses to help his brother after his bankruptcy in the stock market, and his son Zaki abandons his cousin Hosnia after he assaulted and raped her, so Fouad is forced to marry her to the farmer Ibrahim, Hosnia gives birth to a baby girl, and Ibrahim doubts her lineage, so he abandons Hosnia. Over the years, Hosnia only finds work as a dancer in a nightclub, and her daughter, who is sick with tuberculosis, works as a singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Jawhara
Overview: Samir became one of the most famous composers and authors of music, trying to present his best melodies to the band he loved and worked in with the actress Attiyat, with whom he was associated. However, her betrayal of him prompted him to abandon his work and life and decide to commit suicide. When he met one of the girls whose sweet voice he admired, but he thought she was in a relationship. With one of the young men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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