Mimi Chakib

Acting

Mimi Chakib

Born — Died

1913-12-25 — 1983-05-20

Place of birth

Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

An Egyptian Story poster
6.5

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.

An Egyptian Story

1982

The Nightingale's Prayer poster
7.8

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.

The Nightingale's Prayer

1959

El Maganeen Fi Naeem poster
8.3

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.

El Maganeen Fi Naeem

1963

30 Days in Prison poster
6.8

Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of money.

30 Days in Prison

1966

Where Did My Life Go poster
NR

Ayn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.

Where Did My Life Go

1957

The Choice poster
7.4

When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?

The Choice

1971

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

An Egyptian Story poster
6.5

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.

An Egyptian Story

1982

El'Ersh poster
NR

After a traumatic childhood that saw her kidnapped, assaulted and living with a pimp, Tofaha starts dealing drugs and competes with Abo Srea, while Dr. Nadeem tries to get people to stop taking drugs.

El'Ersh

1981

The Slaughterhouse poster
NR

Teacher Abu Halqa succeeds in buying all the animals from the markets to become the only teacher in the slaughterhouse. Teacher Najm reluctantly agrees to make peace with Teacher Abu Halqa and also agrees to the marriage of his daughter Safaa to Abu Halqa's second son, the engineer Alaa. On the wedding night, Teacher Najm agrees with one of his men to kill Omar, Teacher Abu Halqa's first son.

The Slaughterhouse

1982

A Bird on the Road poster
8.4

Faris works as a regional car driver, and he loves Esmat who works in a garment shop. Ismail is the personal driver to wealthy man Gad, he asks Faris to fill in for him and he meets Fawzia,Gad's wife who married him against her will, and soon he falls in love with her.

A Bird on the Road

1981

1970s · 8 titles

The Choice poster
7.4

When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother, a famous novelist, is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer's wife, and also learn that Sayed's successful fictions owed much to the inspiration of his brother Mahmoud's adventurous life. Just as the evidence against the writer seems overwhelming, Mahmoud turns up alive. But why are the twins never seen together...?

The Choice

1971

Searching for a Scandal poster
6.2

As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support with previous experiences.

Searching for a Scandal

1973

The Lucky Groom poster
NR

Farid is a student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a love story with Samira, his cousin. Three girls are trying to obtain a marriage contract to guarantee a job outside Egypt, but they can only find Farid. Farid marries the four of them, including the club owner, under the urging of his financial circumstances.

The Lucky Groom

1974

The Mirror poster
5.5

A government employee named Karim has two beautiful daughters whom he raised well. They are (Karima) and (Hoda). Karima does not care about anything except her clothes and adornments. She hesitates about love and marriage between two people: (Kamal), the wealthy, frivolous young man, and her cousin, the engineer (Ahmed), the ambitious, struggling young man. She pays dearly for her hesitation. Her sister (Hoda) determined the course of her life from the beginning, so she chose to marry her other cousin and start their life together from scratch, a life based on love and familiarity between them.

The Mirror

1970

The City's Lost Souls poster
NR

Abdullah is a judge who asks court guard Farghali to bring him a maid, he goes to the poor Shohrat who needs money for her children and her addict husband . She has an affair with the judge who gives her money. But when he decides to refrain from paying her, she leaves and he looks for her everywhere.

The City's Lost Souls

1974

Serial Killer of Women poster
NR

Desperate for a fresh story, a journalist decides to look into a mysterious wave of murders in which the victims are all women.

Serial Killer of Women

1970

The Two Friends poster
NR

A strict father refuses to let his beautiful daughter marry the young pilot she loves, believing that the life of a pilot is filled with danger. The pilot sees a dead end, but that does not prevent him from using his cunning to persuade his beloved's father of their marriage.

The Two Friends

1970

The Lottery Ticket Thief poster
NR

Confusion ensues when a man wins the lottery with a ticket he hadn't realized was stolen at the time he bought it.

The Lottery Ticket Thief

1970

1960s · 21 titles

El Maganeen Fi Naeem poster
8.3

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.

El Maganeen Fi Naeem

1963

30 Days in Prison poster
6.8

Amshir works in a cabaret owned by his wealthy friend Medhat. Medhat is sentenced to a month in prison after he burned the mustache of a wealthy Upper Egyptian man named Al-Najawi. Amshir then goes to prison instead of him in exchange for a sum of money.

30 Days in Prison

1966

Love for Everyone poster
NR

When a hardworking girl meets the love of her life, her happiness is ruined when she discovers that her sweetheart is the son of the owner of the company where she works and his wealthy family adamantly opposes their marriage.

Love for Everyone

1965

The Laughing Crime poster
7.3

A comedy about a television director who gets provoked by his uncle to avenge his dead father, but he prefers to let things go and get married to Layla. But he then gets informed that one of the members of the family who killed his father was released form prison and is planning to kill him.

The Laughing Crime

1963

Men Gheir Ma'ad poster
8.0

Salwa (Soad Hosni) secretly loves Waheed (Mohamed Sultan) . While Waheed loves Nadia (Nadia Lotfy). Meanwhile, Kamal (Moharram Fouad) falls in love with Nadia too, and keeps his love discreet .But when he knows that his friend ,Waheed, loves her, he decides to keep a distance from Nadia.

Men Gheir Ma'ad

1962

Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen

1960

Mansion of Longing poster
6.2

10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.

Mansion of Longing

1966

Between Two Palaces poster
6.0

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.

Between Two Palaces

1964

The Man I Love poster
NR

Sabreen is an orphan girl who grow up in the orphanage, by the time she is an adult she been assigned to work in one the big mansions in the countryside, the owner of the mansion hard hearted man called Murad but she gain his trust by time although she is surprised to find out that the mansion is full of sorrow and mystery, by time she finds out that there is a crazy woman who if confined to her room in the attic and she Murad's wife.

The Man I Love

1962

Devil Girl poster
7.0

the story of a young fashion model, who suffers from family problems that make her lonely and frustrated. Coincidence prompts her to meet a painter who uses girls as models for his paintings. She visits his house to meet a senior official in the state, Whos in turn desires her, and tries to seize her for himself.The story revolves around her family problems and personal concerns.

Devil Girl

1964

The Open Door poster
6.4

Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.

The Open Door

1963

Girls' Secrets poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Girls' Secrets

1969

Shabab Magnoun Geddan poster
7.0

Madiha, a student at the acting institute, is forced to disguise herself as a young man named Ismat to work in the music band formed by her three brothers. Hoda, the daughter of the club owner, falls in love with this young man, and her father announces her engagement to him. Things become complicated when the club owner asks Madiha, while she is in her true personality, to... She helps him make his wife jealous by acting as his new wife to discipline his condescending wife, and Madiha is forced to agree in order to ensure that her brothers continue working in the club.

Shabab Magnoun Geddan

1967

The Nun poster
9.0

Hoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the tourist delegations that come to the place, they get to know the tour guide Adel, she loves Hoda the guide without feeling her emotions, but he loves her sister who shares the same feeling, Adel agrees with his sweetheart to marry when Hoda knows how to decide to work in a nightclub.

The Nun

1965

Schoolgirl's notes poster
8.0

A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.

Schoolgirl's notes

1962

Eve and the monkey poster
NR

Nadia is jealous of her husband in a satisfactory way, she discovers that he is in a relationship with a dancer and she falls into a psychological crisis that goes after her to a psychiatrist, finds her suffering from a double personality, exploits this medical analysis and recoils another personality and claims that she is related to another person, and in fact she relates to her previous fiancé and meets him and ignores her husband .

Eve and the monkey

1968

My Super Crazy Wife poster
9.0

Despite their love for each other, a couple divorces for the third time. The husband meets an elderly wealthy man and marries his daughter. The wife tries to sabotage his new marriage by wedding his new father-in-law, putting them all under the same roof.

My Super Crazy Wife

1968

Baba Ayez Keda poster
NR

Kamal is a shy young man who is involved with his classmate Nadia. As Nadia leaves for a few years with her family, Kamal becomes a famous designer who is known for his many affairs. When Nadia comes back and finds out, she takes revenge on him by claiming that she is dating his cousin.

Baba Ayez Keda

1968

Me, My Wife and My Lover poster
NR

Adel is a veterinarian who suffers from the over-attention of his wife Awatif. At their anniversary, he meets a young widow and he proposes to her.

Me, My Wife and My Lover

1969

H-3 poster
10.0

When a doctor invents a formula that can restore youth, the 80-year-old Abbas takes the new formula and starts a new adventurous chapter as a young man. But reliving his youth comes at the expense of his family as he falls in love with his son's fiancée and decides to marry her.

H-3

1961

If i were a stud (play) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

If i were a stud (play)

1962

1950s · 18 titles

The Nightingale's Prayer poster
7.8

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.

The Nightingale's Prayer

1959

Where Did My Life Go poster
NR

Ayn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.

Where Did My Life Go

1957

We the Students poster
6.7

Three students, Adel, Hassanein, and Samir, face personal struggles. Adel is rejected by his father for loving his neighbor’s daughter, Hassanein seeks revenge for his father’s murder, and Samir deals with parental neglect after his parents’ divorce. Samir’s relationship with a maid leads to complications, prompting him to seek help from a dancer, Gamalat, for an abortion. The trio robs a bar for abortion money but finds it insufficient. Saidyh dies during the abortion, and Gamalat’s call to neighbors and the police results in their arrest and a fifteen-year prison sentence.

We the Students

1959

The Thug poster
6.8

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.

The Thug

1957

Khalik Ma' Allah poster
NR

In the wake of a fight, a young man discovers that the family he was raised in isn't his own. He leaves the family home, only for the dying father to admit that he is his legitimate son. As his half-brother and stepmother try to find him, he starts working in a factory and wins its managers' trust.

Khalik Ma' Allah

1954

The Man of My Dreams poster
7.0

The film revolves around: Adel (Abdel Halim Hafez) a boy left his father a great building, fades away in the bar, and in the health of Kiki (Farida Fahmi) .. Equally rival is Noufal Syriacusi (Abdel Salam Nabulsi) Zaki Ibrahim al-Thara, Nawfal takes the money and sends it to bottles of champagne under Kiki's feet. Adel visits his uncle (Hassan Fayiq) and sees for the first time his daughter (Siham), the meeting between Adel, and his uncle ends with a fury, Adel Fattzura (Siham), meets Siham at her cousin's house in Nouvelle, She loves Nofal, Adel hears a lot about the hopes (Mona Badr), the daughter of the housewife in which Nofal works. He suddenly visits her and finds her a nice girl.

The Man of My Dreams

1957

My One And Only Love poster
7.2

Farid 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

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts poster
6.2

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.

Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts

1952

Son of the Rich poster
NR

The way he sees the uncle is to marry him Perhaps this marriage away from this life, and looking for a girl accept to marry such a young man, but the girl who was chosen on her is in trouble with her father, who stands in the marriage of the person you love, trying to meet the girl To convince her to accept marriage to his nephew, the girl meets the nephew of the rich uncle and is surprised that he is the young man who wanted to marry him, and her father agrees to her marriage and bless the uncle this marriage.

Son of the Rich

1953

Life's Wishes poster
8.0

The film revolves around a lawyer who inherits a huge fortune and falls in love with his neighbor, but her family refuses to complete this marriage and marries her to another man, which prompts him to move to the countryside due to the shock. There, he meets a visual artist and a friendship develops between them that develops into love. The artist supports him amid his financial crisis, which caused him to lose everything he owns.

Life's Wishes

1955

My One and Only poster
NR

Singer (Ahmed) loves the horses, and he accidentally drives him to a stable in which he meets a friend he has not seen for years while he is (Adel). Bassima) to agree with Ahmed on acting that he loves her, will acting become reality?

My One and Only

1958

The Road of Hope poster
8.5

Sunniyeh, the poor girl, lives with her mother sewing, and during the delivery of Suniyeh one of her mother's clients ’gowns, who runs a den of immoral acts, called (Madame Southi), so that one of her friends admires Sunnah and asks her to work with them, to refuse, but her mother is ill and Layla needs a sum of money to treat her. Will you give in to work with Madame Southi?

The Road of Hope

1957

Esh Hado Ya Nas poster
NR

(Fadel) inherited a large legacy and changed his condition after he became addicted to alcohol and gambling, neglecting his wife and two daughters (Amal) and (Fatima). When his situation deteriorated, he worked as a manager in a contracting company, manipulated the company's accounts and embezzled large sums of money. His eldest daughter (Fatima) met the son of the company’s owner (Hassan) without knowing who he was and they agreed to marry, while her father was caught by the company’s manager while he was stealing money from the treasury and the manager tries to inform the police, so Fadel tries to stop him and beats him and thinks he is dead. So he runs away and takes refuge in the house of one of the dancers, to make things worse.

Esh Hado Ya Nas

1953

Gold poster
7.1

Anwar Wagdi plays vagabond musician Alfredo, who comes across an abandoned baby in the night. He tries his best to get our heroes someone to take it and raise it. When that fails, he has no choice but to raise it on his own. He names the child, Dabab, after the beautiful woman he's encountered on the street. Years pass and Dahab grows up to be the Faryuz, who is actually cute, talented and far less grating than our Ms. Temple. Many Chaplinesque hijinks ensue as Alfredo and Dahab play music on the streets, try to scam free food wherever they can and convince the owner of a successful nightclub to let Dahab perform.

Gold

1953

Samaeat Al-Telefone poster
7.0

A wealthy girl pulls a prank on one of her classmates by telephone, getting her to like and flirt with the son of a famous lawyer, leading the her classmate to fall in love with him. The girl tries to catch them together.

Samaeat Al-Telefone

1951

Esh El-Gharam poster
7.0

After an incident where they nearly drown, Medhat and Laila are forced to spend a night on an island. As they grow close, Aida learns that Medhat wants to marry Laila and plots with Gohar to separate the two. When their plots fail, Aida tries to seduce Medhat and convince him that Laila loves Gohar.

Esh El-Gharam

1959

Fascinating Mothers-In-Law poster
6.8

Samir marries Nabila and they live with her mother. Samir’s mother arrives and a quarrel begins, and both mothers-in-law ignite war in the house, which becomes an unbearable hell due to the many quarrels. Samir is guided to marry his mother-in-law and one of his friends actually proposes to her. Nabila gives birth to a child, and this increases the intensity of the quarrels. Who is he? I am more deserving of his care.

Fascinating Mothers-In-Law

1953

Lady Pickpocket poster
8.0

A girl who is placed by circumstances in corrupt circumstances, learns the craft of pickpocketing, joins a gang that exploits her work, and after a period of narrowing the life of corruption and hate being in this gang

Lady Pickpocket

1953

1940s · 9 titles

The Bashmakul poster
9.0

The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with another man. Will Mumtaz be fooled and believe his wife's betrayal of him? Or will he understand the lesson and stop cheating on her?

The Bashmakul

1940

Bayoumi Afandi poster
10.0

The film revolves around Bayoumi Mustafa Saati, a simple man whom all people love for his safety and skill in his work. He succeeds in working in a big shop for selling and maintaining watches. Then he falls in love with a maid called Zubaydah, so what will happen next?

Bayoumi Afandi

1949

Mohammed Ali Street poster
7.0

Naeema lives with her stepmother, a dancer who loves money. As Naeema meets the singer Ismail Gaber and they fall in love, the stepmother objects to their marriage, since the singer lacks the qualifications needed to make money. She marries Naeema off to the rich man Shaaban, who abuses Naeema, so she runs away.

Mohammed Ali Street

1944

Serving Two Masters poster
NR

Shoman Pasha discovers that there is an upholsterer named Master Abbas who looks just like him. The Pasha decides to switch places with Abbas after he gets fed up with his life and its restrictions, just as the upholsterer gets tired of living a life of poverty and need.

Serving Two Masters

1946

My Father’s secret poster
NR

Young Fouad, the son of Adel Pasha, travels abroad to continue his studies. During his absence, Adel Pasha assaults Amina, the widow of Attia, the overseer of his estate. When she tells him she is pregnant, he cruelly expels her from the estate. Homeless and destitute, Amina gives birth to a baby girl named Nihad. On the very same day, Mounira, the wife of the Pasha's secretary, gives birth to her own child, Mahrous. Years pass, and fate intertwines the lives of the two children born on the same day. As secrets from the past begin to unravel, the true identity of the father comes to light, revealing the hidden secret that will change everyone's destiny.

My Father’s secret

1946

Ahlahom poster
NR

The sweetest of them is a poor girl, but her father is a stingy man. She has been dreaming for a long time of social advancement, and she meets a nightclub owner who works as an artist. The stingy father tries to extort her money, so she meets a young man in the hall, and a love story grows between them, but the young man does not agree to marry her, so the girl returns again to the popular neighborhood, and the young man follows her after he learns about her true nature.

Ahlahom

1945

Long live women! poster
7.0

Three young men boycott their fiancées following a dispute between them and them, in an attempt to live without women. They think that by doing so they can live a life full of freedom and enjoy everything, but this life is not right and human nature overpowers them.

Long live women!

1944

Mr. Omar poster
7.3

Gaber Effendi is a simple employee at Ezbet Omar al-Alfi's, expelled by the head of the family after Jabir discovers that there is fraud in the accounts of the estate. Gaber meets with Berlanti, the wife of Omar Bey's, noting a great similarity between him and her absent husband in India, Omar. Following the advice of a legal advisor, Omar Bey's family believes that he is still alive and living in India. By chance, Jaber Effendi goes to Omar's house and is seen by the family and gets married, but Omar finds out the truth and tries to exploit the resemblance to seize wealth, but ultimately fails.

Mr. Omar

1941

Finally I got married poster
NR

The events of the film take place in a dramatic social context, where a playboy young man from a wealthy family lives with his rich, sterile uncle. Circumstances force him to work, and with his salary not meeting the requirements he is accustomed to, he accumulates debts. Someone offers him a job on the condition that he is married, and that young man is forced to search for... A wife whom he actually falls in love with.

Finally I got married

1942

Series credits