
Acting
Shadia
Born — Died
1929-02-08 — 2017-11-28
Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Fatma Ahmed Kamal Shaker, better known by her stage name Shadia. was an Egyptian actress and singer. She was famous for her roles in light comedies and drama in the 1950s and 1960s. She was the third wife of Salah Zulfikar. Shadia was one of the iconic actresses and singers in Egypt and the Middle East region and a symbol of the golden age of Egyptian cinema and is known for her many patriotic songs. Her movies and songs are popular in Egypt and the Arab World. Critics consider her the most successful comprehensive Egyptian and Arabic artist of all time. Her first appearance in a film was in "Azhar wa Ashwak" (Flowers and Thorns), and her last film was "La Tas'alni Man Ana" (Don't Ask Me Who…
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7.0Amal marries the train driver Mahmoud, who treats her harshly. She feels neglected despite her husband's presence, Mahmoud travels to another city and asks his assistant Hassan to look after his wife. During his absence, Amal expresses admiration for Hassan's morals, which soon turns into a special love.
Agony of Love
1960
7.5Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.
Miramar
1969
6.6Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.
Wife Number 13
1962
6.9Based 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.
Bit of Fear
1969
6.7This 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.
The Thief and the Dogs
1962
7.4Rayya and Sekina, two poor sisters, kill their stepmother Ammuna and seize her gold, and to bury her body, Rayya marries Hasab Allah, and Sekina marries Abdel Aal, who works in the police station, so that he would dispel suspicions against them. Over time, they get used to bringing women to their homes, killing them, and stealing their gold.
Raya and Sakina
1982
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
7.4Rayya and Sekina, two poor sisters, kill their stepmother Ammuna and seize her gold, and to bury her body, Rayya marries Hasab Allah, and Sekina marries Abdel Aal, who works in the police station, so that he would dispel suspicions against them. Over time, they get used to bringing women to their homes, killing them, and stealing their gold.
Raya and Sakina
1982
6.7When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab's nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of the fact that she is staying for their sister.
Don't Ask Me Who I Am
1984
1970s · 4 titles
6.0So'aad is a poor girl who auditions for a role in a new film, but film producer Adel rejects her for she is not of noble origin. When she disguises herself as a princess, he is wholly charmed and offers her the role. How far will she go in acting?
City Lights
1972
NRDr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.
Doubt, My Love
1979
NRKarima lives a happy and stable life with her husband, Qadri, but during the lunar days her personality changes and she turns into a Bedouin personality because of a man's attempt to rape her on a moonlit night when she was young and she was wearing Bedouin acting clothes, so she goes to where the Bedouins live in the Haram Desert. She falls in love with Wael, who loves her back and marries her. Qadri becomes suspicious of his wife's behavior.
Two-faced
1973
6.5Sayida lives a life full of tragedies, starting with her escape from her stepmother who treated her like a servant, her attempt to flee Abbas who keeps chasing her, her suffering from her husband who seizes her money and her involvement with a prostitution ring.
We Don't Sow the Thorns
1970
1960s · 17 titles
7.0Amal marries the train driver Mahmoud, who treats her harshly. She feels neglected despite her husband's presence, Mahmoud travels to another city and asks his assistant Hassan to look after his wife. During his absence, Amal expresses admiration for Hassan's morals, which soon turns into a special love.
Agony of Love
1960
7.5Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.
Miramar
1969
6.6Murad Salem is a rich man who is used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. When he meets a beautiful woman in Alexandria, he wants her as wife number thirteen. He buys himself into the heart of the woman, until a well-meaning, former fiancée of her husband tells her just how many times he has been divorced. The new bride launches into a series of ploys that keep her away from the marriage bed.
Wife Number 13
1962
6.9Based 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.
Bit of Fear
1969
6.7This 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.
The Thief and the Dogs
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
لا تذكريني
1961
6.2This 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.
Alley of The Pestle
1963
8.0A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.
The Storm over Arabia
1961
5.7Fatma had a crush on Dr. Hosny, a womanizer dentist she met, so she decided to convince him to hire her as his nurse. On the other side, Hosny is in the middle of a love story with Dalia, a Flower Shop owner who hates liars more than anything else.
Marriage for Half an Hour
1969
6.8A married couple ends up working at the same company where the wife is a general director. This arouses the suspicion of their co-workers who do not know they are married.
My Wife the General Manager
1966
NRA group of Egyptian soldiers returns from the Yemen War, including Men'em who promises his friends a grand wedding. As Sheikh Hassan claims to be an acquaintance of artists, he gets in trouble when it is discovered that belly dancer Nagwa Fouad doesn't know him.
Utmost Joy
1963
6.5Mahmoud 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.
My Wife's Dignity
1967
7.1Famous star Suheir falls in love with a rising actor called Ibrahim and they intend to get married. However, her producer who gets overly jealous hires a woman to ruin Suheir and Ibrahim's relationship by claiming she is Ibrahim's wife.
Idol of the Masses
1967
7.0The carefree existence of a spoiled man comes to an end when his mother is arrested. With no education or tangible skills, the man’s only salvation lies in finding his mysterious, rich father whom he has never met. Moving from Alexandria to Cairo, the man becomes embroiled in an affair, while also falling for a pure-hearted journalist who is attempting to assist him in his aimless, futile journey. Adapted from Naguib Mahfouz’s 1964 novel of the same title.
The Road
1964
10.0Ahmed and Mona who love each other since they were children cannot resume their relationship as their families disapprove of it and the lovers part ways. Years later, they meet again, Ahmed with his two kids, and Mona leading a solitary life. Will they ever be reunited in marriage?
Dearer Than My Life
1965
NRSaber Effendi works as a tailor for men, but his major problem is that he suffers from a great depression because of his lack of fashion and refuses to develop his ideas about fashion until his wife, Huda, who works in a Syrian magazine interested in fashion, suggests that he change his activity to become a tailor for women rather than men. Implementation plan.
Womens' Tailor
1969
10.0The story of Hassan Al-Shahat and his son Shahtout who frequent the religious commemorating ceremonies to display their magic tricks. Hassan is shocked to learn of his wife's unfaithfulness, but he is in for an even more shocking surprise.
A Tale from the Arabian Nights
1964
1950s · 33 titles
7.3A 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.
A Woman's Youth
1956
8.5Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by a car and insisting on a drawing by Madiha Yousri, the woman fighting for women's rights and equal to the man instead of the old painting. And here talked a lot of comic paradoxes until the marriage between them.
Banat Hawaa
1954
9.0Poor young man Mahmoud Fathi electrician and loves music and composing, live in the same House orphan girl Delilah who loves him and trading love, in its composition towards renewal and which does not correspond to respond, he discovers that his girlfriend is sick with TB and to cure her needs a large amount so he agrees to sing Method does not satisfy him to provide, the girl decides to sacrifice herself, committing suicide to free him from this situation and to live his art. Captured by a wealthy Lady insists, intellectual Hanim resume career.
Dalila
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ربيع الحب
1956
8.0Ahmed likes Fatima, and feelings of love grow between the two, imagining that they are from noble families. A love story develops, and Ahmed asks Fatima to marry him. After the wedding, they have a son named Samir. One day, Fatima goes to visit Suad at her home, but the police raid the place because it is suspicious. Fatima is arrested, and her life is turned upside down.
The Unknown Woman
1959
7.0Wahid (Mohammad Fawzi) married a woman for one year in the hope of having a child. That she married the seventh wife in his life, and she believes that she is the first. When she learns that she is the seventh wife, she feels cheated, but she hesitates to secede, so that her marriage is not an obstacle to her younger sister Suad's marriage, His only love for her.
The 7th Wife
1950
7.8Navy 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.
Farewell, Love
1956
8.0The 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.
I Am Love
1954
9.0A mayor agrees to marry his daughter Zainab to her cousin against her will, so she escapes and her cousin is determined to kill her . She meets a young doctor who takes her in. They agree to marry when he returns from his scholarship in Europe three years later, but she bears a child and joins a band.
The Fugitive
1958
6.5Amal 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.
Appointment with Life
1953
9.0Two young men, Ahmed and Mohamed, who live in Port Said, develop feelings for the same girl, Najaf. However, when the Tripartite Aggression reaches Port Said, they abandon life trivialities and join the militants as Najaf joins the Red Crescent; the three unite for a single patriotic cause.
Hob Min Narr
1958
NRThe events revolve around two female friends, the first mother marries the father of the other so that they can all live as a family. The two girls fall in love with a young pilot, so the stepmother’s daughter tries to keep him for herself even though he does not love her, to plot a plot with her mother until she wins the pilot’s heart. Will she succeed?
Al Donya Helwa
1951
NRAl-Sab' is a humble employee who is having trouble with his boss and his sweetheart's relative who wants to marry her. As he has a dream that he is living a happy life after all his problems were resolved, he decides to face his problems and marry his girl.
El Sab'a Afandi
1951
7.2Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to get married on paper and separate after receiving the inheritance, but during the honeymoon in Aswan,they fall in love with each other.
My One And Only Love
1957
NRA nurse succeeds in replacing the infant (Rashad), the son of her sister with the baby girl (Nadia), in order to achieve her sister's dream of inheriting large sums of money, as the grandfather decreed that his fortune would be transferred to his grandson.
بين قلبين
1953
NRSalah and his cousin Souad promise to marry each other. Salah’s uncle asks him to collect revenue from the citadel where he meets Aziza, the flirtatious girl who succeeds in seducing him. Aziza tells him that she's pregnant with his child. Salah becomes torn between his love for Souad, and his attraction for Aziza.
Ghaltet Habibi
1958
8.0Hassan is a young man who recently graduated from the Faculty of Commerce. He works with his uncle Amin Bey in a securities office. Hassan loves his cousin Samira and the uncle promises to marry them. However, Qamar, an ugly girl, loves Hassan and decides to marry him. Amin asks Hassan to marry Qamar. Amin deceives people with the intention of spending on his dancing lover.
Kalimat el hak
1953
8.5Sanaa 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.
Good News
1952
9.0Zainab's father dies, so Mohsen, the owner of the company where Zainab's father worked, marries her to take care of her. At the same time, Mohsen has a relationship with the spoiled Jihan, who is loved by her cousin Jasser, who is arrested in a drug case. Mohsen is not happy with Zainab, so he marries Jihan and they have a child. Jihan feels jealous and asks him to divorce Zainab. Jasser gets out of prison and tries to ruin Jihan's life.
Bnt alshshati
1952
8.0The famous musician, Allam, is the son of his friend Jalal, who loves to sing. Jalal recognizes the singer Siham and connects the love between them and agree to marry. Allam suffers from a knot that has been associated with him for years when he was betrayed by the woman he loved and who does not trust women. But he feels love about arrows and tries to win them. Opposes her marriage to Jalal and at the same time admits her love, Jalal asks Siham, to sacrifice her love for fear of Allam from another shock. However, Allam is aware of the error of what is presented to him, he grows arrows in years, as well as attached to the glory and love for her. Bless their marriage and prepare for the new operetta.
Melody of Devotion
1955
7.0Master Ghandour sets up the Iraqi woman's soul by writing a forged contract without her knowledge. He is thinking of solving this problem by marrying her, but (without knowing that it is a plan by Master Ghandour) she stipulates that she will not marry before her daughter, Malbasa, marries. So Master Ghandour nominates his son, Mahboob, as a suitable groom for Malbasa, but she falls in love. Sugar, her cousin, a pulp merchant.
Beit el nattash
1952
6.0Samira and Huda are sincere best friends. Samira falls in love with Farid, who deceives her and impregnates her, he extorts and threatens to blackmail her after finding out that she is going to marry a rich young man, who is her friend, Huda, brother.
El-Zolm Haraam
1954
9.0The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, but he faces many difficulties in order to find his way. These difficulties disappear when he falls in love with a famous (Shadia) singer who exchanges feelings of love, and attaches him with her to work in the club where she sings. The nightclub manager interferes to spoil this relationship because he covets marrying her, and her aunt also opposes their relationship. The events follow and the two lovers are exposed to many pressures in order to maintain their love.
Ana Wi Habibi
1953
7.0The hero is an Egyptian film produced in 1950, starring Tahia Karioka, Ismail Yassin and Shadia, directed by Hilmi Rafla
El-Batal
1950
9.0A former Pasha lives on his estate with his daughter, while his son resides with his mistress in Cairo. Also on the estate lives a poor doctor with his daughter and her aunt. A relationship develops between the Pasha's daughter and the son of another Pasha. The father travels to Cairo to treat his eye and tries during his stay in Cairo to reconcile the son and father. When he returns to the estate, he makes the Pasha believe that his son misses him and wants to see him. The father believes this and sends a telegram to his son inviting him to come.
Qoloob El Azara
1958
7.5Dada Qatar An Egyptian film, produced in 1951, starring Anwar Wagdy, Shadia and Ismail Yassin, directed and produced by Anwar Wagdy
Qattr El-Nada
1951
9.0A 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.
The Bread Seller
1953
7.0A simple girl is seduced by a wealthy young man who leaves her pregnant. She works as a singer but her son dies, then the young man regrets what he did and marries her after many conflicts with the owner of the nightclub where the girl works.
Lailet El Henna
1951
NRAfter his wife dies, Taysir Bey marries the promiscuous woman, Kawthar Hanim, who always deludes her husband that he is sick. His son Ahmed loves the girl Ne'amat, but his stepmother wants him to marry her daughter, so she frames Ne'amat with the help of her lover, Farag.
Saa La Qalbak
1950
9.0Before his death, the captain of the boats, Hussein, calls on his stepson to recommend his real son to him, while his true son is playing around and wreaking havoc, robbing his fiancée of her honor, then letting her flee, and refusing to consummate the marriage.
The Shore of Memories
1955
8.0One of the office boys in a company succeeds in finding a job for his newly graduated son at his employer. But the son is ashamed of his father's job. He meets a dancer, and marries her despite his father's opposition, causing a surprise to change the course of events.
Ghadab El Waledain
1952
9.0The 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
Your luck this week
1953
9.0A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she marries him out of the greed for his wealth, and actually this is done without the knowledge of the wife and children. The daughter has no choice but to inform her mother of this.
killer mother
1952
1940s · 4 titles
10.0Two young friends, one is a musician and singer, and the other is a poet and writer. The singer meets a girl and his heart falls for her, and she reciprocates his feelings. They do not know each other until love grows between them. The writer also loves the same girl, who we know is a professional singer in a nightclub.
Soul and body
1948
10.0An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His wife is forced to work at a nightclub to provide for their children.
Heaven's Justice
1948
NRYasmina, Shushu, and Soso are three siblings trying to make a living by working in a nightclub. When Yasmina gets gambling money from a smitten Adel, she is insistent that the money is a debt that needs to be repaid.
Eid Night
1949
10.0When a rich young man meets and falls for an aristocratic girl, he claims that he's a driver in order to get a job with her family. He finds that she is engaged to a fraudulent young man who's after her money, and that she is in fact trying to save her family from bankruptcy.
The Mind is on a Vacation
1947
