Badie' Khayri

Writing

Badie' Khayri

Born 1893-08-18 · Egypt

An ancient Egyptian poet, playwright and writer. He was born in the Maghribin neighborhood, one of the most popular neighborhoods in Cairo, and entered the book and memorized the Qur’an. He wrote his first poetry at the age of 13 and from a young age was a frequent theater attendant and read a lot, so he became very strong in the Arabic language. He made a revolution in the world of zajal when he wrote several poetic seas in one poem instead of the traditional system that prevailed, which was the man's arrangement on one poetic sea. He worked first in his life in the Egyptian Telephone Authority after graduating from the Teachers High School due to the strength of his English language, as the authority needed it to translate English messages coming from England during the British occupation of Egypt. One of the directors of the authority and later worked as an English language teacher.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

شيء من لا شيء poster
NR

A Mamluk Sultan wants to wed his niece, Princess Najma, to his heir Antar, but the princess refuses so the Sultan forces her to marry the young prisoner, Hilal. When a terrorist plot to kill Prince Antar fails, the terrorists decide to use Hilal to get to Antar.

شيء من لا شيء

1938

Leila, Daughter of the Poor poster
7.0

Laila lives in the Sayeda Zeinab district. A woman invites her to her palace and introduces her to her fiancé, the young officer Wahid, as the daughter of Pasha Darwish Pasha. Laila is amazed by the palace and the party held there. After a while, Laila turns into a wealthy girl. Wahid's heart falls for Laila. Wahid proposes to Laila from her alleged father, Darwish Pasha, but he discovers her true identity.

Leila, Daughter of the Poor

1945

A Thousand and One Nights poster
9.0

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.

A Thousand and One Nights

1941

The three musketeers poster
8.0

Bahbah, Shiha, and Sanqur are three colleagues working in a newspaper whose editor-in-chief, Amer, stipulates that he should not be married to work there. Each of them was married and concealed his marriage. The three go to a hotel in Helwan to recuperate. There they meet Hosnia, who is searching with her uncle for a wealthy groom, and begins to set her nets on them, and events escalate.

The three musketeers

1940

Woman’s enemy poster
NR

Ra'ouf is an elderly writer who is known for his stance against women, giving him the title "Woman's Enemy". But everything changes when he falls for Faten and starts to write to her. As he proposes to her, he sends her a photo of his handsome friend Salah, pretending that he is the man in the photo.

Woman’s enemy

1946

Love and madness poster
10.0

The film revolves around a young country man who loves singing and only sings at occasions in the countryside, but his uncle hates this hobby, so the young man travels to Cairo to find an opportunity to become a singer.

Love and madness

1948

Queen of the Stage poster
8.0

Badiaa married a wealthy man who abandoned her three days after their marriage. Badiaa decided to depend on herself, so she created a theater to spread her fame and become famous. She met Asham, who told her about her husband’s will, that she would have half of his property and Asham would have the other half, on the condition that they marry and neither of them betrays the other, otherwise the money would go to the other party.

Queen of the Stage

1936

Layla, Daughter of the Rich poster
7.0

Laila is a wealthy girl, with a father who has no will and a domineering wife. Her stepmother tries to marry her to his son so that the wealth does not go outside them. Laila decides to flee, and causes an accident with her car. Everyone thinks she is dead, but she ends up in a village, and a journalist sympathizes with her.

Layla, Daughter of the Rich

1946

Abu halmos poster
10.0

Shehata works as an accountant in a store that sells birds, arrives to him a letter bearing the news of his acceptance to a new job as an accountant in endowment properties, it happens that a dancer claims that she has a child from the son of the endowment overseer and leaves him for him and everyone knows that there is a child called Helmous, and they don’t know him either a mother or father. The daughter of the head of the endowment takes advantage of this event and claims to be the mother of the child from Shehata.

Abu halmos

1947

The Unknown Past poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Unknown Past

1946

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen poster
NR

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen are the owners of a drug store, and Abbas is the only worker in the store, who loves Hassan's daughter Belqis.they contract with him for a salary equal to twice his salary for a period of twenty years on the condition that those who give up their work in the warehouse pays a large compensation,this plan is drawn up by the three after they discover that Abbas has inherited a great fortune, and Abbas knew that money was the only weapon that puts them all at his mercy, including his beloved Belqis, the sign he used to use during his poverty.

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen

1954

Lahalibo poster
10.0

Elham is a young dancer whose misogynist grandfather refuses to acknowledge. Elham disguises herself as a man and goes to stay with her grandfather, while continuing to work as a dancer. As she falls for Amir, a surprise turns everything upside down.

Lahalibo

1949

The Lady's Game poster
7.3

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. .

The Lady's Game

1946

Hanan poster
NR

(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.

Hanan

1944

Iidini eaqlak poster
NR

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.

Iidini eaqlak

1952

Khataf Merati poster
8.0

A young man and a girl get married without love. They are visited by the wife’s cousin and the husband’s cousin. The wife seizes this opportunity and approaches the husband’s cousin to make her husband jealous. The husband also courtes the wife’s cousin to make her jealous.

Khataf Merati

1954

I Love Wrongdoing poster
8.3

Badawyia is a younger dancer who dreams of stardom. She meets the young doctor, Elwy, and they fall in love. A director asks her to be the star of his new movie, but when Elwy asks her to marry him, his father disapproves.

I Love Wrongdoing

1942

Yacout poster
6.6

The film is an Egyptian adaptation of a play by Marcel Pagnol, transposed into an Egyptian and Arab context. It follows the story of a shy, naive professor who allows himself to be exploited by an aristocrat or influential figures—depending on the interpretation—in a gambling scheme or a con. As the plot unfolds, the professor undergoes a moral transformation, coming to accept and eventually adopt behaviors that were initially alien to his nature. The narrative explores two central themes: the temptation of corruption and the clash of cultural codes—specifically between Western culture and the Arab/Cairene society depicted in the film.

Yacout

1934

The Flirtation of Girls poster
7.0

Replay a play for the movie Spinning Girls, the last of the works of the late genius Naguib Al-Rihani in 1949, which was shared by a championship of stars of that time, including Laila Murad, Anwar Wajdi, Youssef Wahbi and the musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab. His trip in her father's palace.

The Flirtation of Girls

2017

only five (play) poster
6.0

(Adel) the lawyer learns that there is a treasure buried in the wall of an old villa by means of a map he saw in a book he bought from Rupabiquia, and in the villa, an old woman lives with her arrogant brother and their maid. So the lawyer goes to them, wanting to work as a driver for them, to search for the buried treasure, which leads to him in many comical situations.

only five (play)

1963

April Fool poster
7.0

Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife who died, and that he can not spend on them, but Ismail does not realize that this little lie has left him in an endless series of lies, Of each lie with a greater lie, and every time the wife deals with him in good faith.

April Fool

1954

Baghdad's Barber poster
NR

The film revolves around a barber in Baghdad who tells his customers about his great-grandfather. He explains that his great-grandfather had a son who was believed to be mentally disabled, and the father tried to make him happy by buying him a maid. But it was this maid who eventually discovered that the son wwas only pretending, and his real motive was his neighbor, the governor’s daughter.

Baghdad's Barber

1954

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

سلفني حماتك

1965

Al Sabr Gameel poster
7.0

Ezzat and Dorriya are two khatibs, who have a lot of jealousy and quarrels between them despite the love that unites them.

Al Sabr Gameel

1951