
Acting
Mohsen Hassanein
Born — Died
1916-02-15 — 1987-09-19
Place of birth
Alexandria, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
7.4Qinawi, 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.
Cairo Station
1958
6.9A 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.
The Blazing Sun
1954
7.9Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.
Eshaet Hob
1960
NRHamida works as a saleswoman in one of the shops, and one day the painter Anwar admires her beauty. He offers her to work with him as a model , and she agrees. Later, a wealthy man offers to marry Hamida even though he has been married several times. But she's confused because she loves Anwar.
MY EYE TWINKLES
1950
NRA misunderstanding occurs due to the resemblance between the dancer Qatrunnada and Aziza, who lives with her mother and loves the shoemaker Azouz who is engaged to her. This provokes the jealousy of Naim the barber who also loves her. He plots and tells Azouz that Aziza works in a nightclub under the name Qatrunnada, so Azouz leaves her. A millionaire falls in love with Qatrunnada and gives her a precious jewel. The theater manager exploits the resemblance to steal the jewel.
Mandil Al-Helw
1949
6.5Before his death, Mansour Pasha writes over his wealth to his two sons Omar and Othman; as the latter drowns, his wife gets a boy and claims he is Othman's son to ensure her share in the inheritance. When the boy grows older, he befriends Rashad, Omar's son, and gates of hell and vengeance open.
Who's Done it ?
1944
Film credits
1960s · 14 titles
7.9Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.
Eshaet Hob
1960
8.3A 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
7.0The 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.
Driven from Paradise
1965
8.5The story revolves around the singer (Dalal) who works in a cabaret. Many men fall in love with her, but she prefers the wealthy (Mustafa). She marries him and moves to live with him on his estate. (Mustafa's) mother, who wanted her son to marry his cousin, is shocked. When she is injured in an accident, a doctor comes to treat her and meets Dalal, as he was one of her former clients. The doctor proposes to (Mustafa's) cousin, and (Dalal) refuses this marriage, which will reveal her past. She decides to kill the doctor to preserve her past from her husband's family.
Wife from the Street
1960
8.1No synopsis available yet.
Hassan wa Morcos wa Cohen
1960
NRWhen 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
7.3A 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
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
9.0A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.
Saedat El Rigal
1960
8.0After he gets fired from his job as a teacher, Hamouda works in a company, and soon discovers that the manager is doing illegal work. He's offered to take part in the fraud and scheme, he quickly learns the ropes and becomes wealthy.
Al-modeer Al-Fanni
1965
NRHamouda is a porter at the port who tries to establish a union for the port workers. As those who exploit the workers oppose him, they frame him for a crime and send him to jail. When he is released, he finds his fiancée Nousa waiting for him.
The Troublemaker
1965
10.0Helmi is a rich man who lost all of his money and started looking for a job; and the only one he found is requiring him to get married first.
A wife is needed immediately
1964
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Yama Kan Fy Nefsi
1960
9.0Two brothers, the first is a swindler who asks his brother, who looks like him, to replace him in his business after he is chased by his opponents, the two brothers, one of them is an evil man working in diamond smuggling, while the second is a respectable human being despite his extreme poverty, the evil brother succeeds in entering his brother to the mental hospital, but he decides to get him out of it in order to deceive some gangsters
The Impostor
1961
1950s · 38 titles
7.4Qinawi, 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.
Cairo Station
1958
6.9A 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.
The Blazing Sun
1954
NRHamida works as a saleswoman in one of the shops, and one day the painter Anwar admires her beauty. He offers her to work with him as a model , and she agrees. Later, a wealthy man offers to marry Hamida even though he has been married several times. But she's confused because she loves Anwar.
MY EYE TWINKLES
1950
9.0When 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.
The Scornful Man
1956
6.4In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.
Rayya and Sekina
1952
6.01950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees but forgets to take a receipt. Amin suddenly dies and watches on from the after life.
Baba Amin
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
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
NRIn 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
5.7The story revolves around the mayor of Morschi married to a dancer whose son was born from his first wife. The mayor exploits the peasantry to achieve his personal ambitions and goals without paying attention to them. After a period, the mayor knows that someone from the ministry will search him, The mayor believes that one of them is the inspector-general of the ministry and approaches him, exploiting the other person to deceive the mayor with his friend and asking him for many bribes.
The General Inspector
1956
7.2Naïve 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."
Conflict in the Nile
1959
8.0The film revolves around a young man who falls in love with his cousin, but her mother rejects this love and marriage, and tries to marry her to an older and wealthy man, to ask her cousin to volunteer in the fleet to help speed up the marriage.
Ismail Yassine In the Navy
1957
7.5Sultan 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.
They Made Me a Criminal
1954
8.0The story revolves around Sultan, the poor child who grows up and becomes a military correspondent at an elite brigade. He enjoys the sympathy of the police officer, the son of the general, unlike the rest of the house.
Soultan
1958
7.0Two youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog that his mistress has gone out and lost, while he is staying with her in the hotel where she works as a dancer. The investigators are unable to find the dog and decide to hand over another dog similar to the client. One goes to the hotel to deliver the fake dog dancer after changing his shape to become the same as the missing dog. In the hotel unexpected events occur, so the young man can discover a gang consisting of some of the hotel staff specialized in stealing money. The young man masquerades and searches for this gang and the events follow.
The Surprises Motel
1959
9.0With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife.
Lak Yom Ya Zalem
1951
9.0Adel and Samia are in love, but her father is in financial trouble , when Adel decides to intervene to repay the man's debts he gets in an accident and wakes up to find his sweetheart has married someone else.
Night Train
1953
6.8Haridy 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
6.7Three 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
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
10.0Madbouly forces his daughter to sell lottery tickets in cafes, while her two brothers work in the field of pickpocketing. The wealthy Yahya meets Aisha and is sympathetic to her because he finds her very similar to the daughter he lost. The wealthy negotiates with Madbouly to take care of his daughter Aisha in his home and to educate and raise her in the best possible way. In exchange for a monthly salary.
Aisha
1953
9.0After Abu El-Dahab and Ihsan get married and have a baby, a jealous Al-Atra gets his friend Amina to impersonate Ihsan and reports Abu El-Dahab to the police. As Abu El-Dahab plots to escape from prison, he plans to take revenge on Al-Atra.
Abo El-Dahab
1954
7.0Ismail El Ghandoor works as a stuntman and a small time actor in movies. He falls in love with a young belly dancer, Soheir who dreams of being the wife of a pilot. Ismail dresses up in his brother Hussein’s clothes as a pilot in the force while his brother is away on his honeymoon. When Hussein returns the truth is revealed, and each of them goes back to his real job. Will Soheir accept the real Ismail or will she continue to pursue her dream of marrying a pilot?
Ismail Yassine in the Air Force
1959
9.0Jalal 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.
Ibn el harra
1953
10.0Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful.
The Female Boss
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الحب المكروه
1953
6.2Ismail 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
7.0A poor young man loves art and music. There is a love relationship between him and a rich girl. This girl appreciates his art and creation. Her father rejects this relationship, but stands in her way and declares that he does not agree with their marriage. His argument is that the young man is still in the first path of art. His daughter in case the artist stabilizes materially
Faeil Khayr
1953
8.6In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.
Between Heaven and Earth
1959
NRWhen Zomorod Agha dies leaving a huge fortune, the heirs are shocked to learn that Falafel the beggar shall be responsible for giving them their shares after confirming their morality and their worthiness of the money.
Millione Guinee
1953
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
8.0Fayez is a married officer who finds a baby and takes him home, until the father of the child knows his place and takes him back and begins to teach him to steal until he joins a gang. The child's mother tries to save him from this fate and asks officer Fayez to help her.
Children Of The Streets
1951
10.0Yasmine is the daughter of a wealthy man who was not interested in females, so he left her at the door of an orphanage. She grows up in the orphanage, then runs away from it to join a gang of children. She meets a musician who tries to protect her, so he convinces her to work with him and sing, but she gets tired of the life of poverty and runs away from him. After her escape, he discovers that she is the granddaughter of a Pasha, so he tries to help her return to her family.
Yasmine
1950
7.0Sohair, a belly dancer, meets Monir, a laborer, and falls in love with him. She strives to turn Monir into a celebrity, and uses a professional coach to turn him into a boxing champion. Monir attracts the attention of Elham, a rich woman who loves to befriend champions. He falls into her trap and marries her.
Al Montaser
1952
7.0Ismail 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
8.0A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he gets accused of her crime, he gets involved in her husband's murder and tries to escape.
Forever Yours
1959
9.0(Zaatar) works with (Mulabbasa) in the acting troupe managed by (Jawhar). When (Jawhar) learns about the story of (Nagati Pasha's) son who disappeared twenty years ago and has not been found, (Jawhar) offers (Zaatar) to impersonate the son, and Zaatar in turn enjoys a life of luxury with (Nagati Pasha's) family, but he soon learns that (Hiam's) fiancé, (Nagati Pasha's) daughter, is embezzling the Pasha's money, and Zaatar feels guilty over time about what he is doing to this family.
Child For rent
1953
7.7Ismail lives in a local neighborhood, next to his fiancée and her mother who objects to their relationship because of his work in the police.
Ismail Yassine in the Police
1956
1940s · 6 titles
NRA misunderstanding occurs due to the resemblance between the dancer Qatrunnada and Aziza, who lives with her mother and loves the shoemaker Azouz who is engaged to her. This provokes the jealousy of Naim the barber who also loves her. He plots and tells Azouz that Aziza works in a nightclub under the name Qatrunnada, so Azouz leaves her. A millionaire falls in love with Qatrunnada and gives her a precious jewel. The theater manager exploits the resemblance to steal the jewel.
Mandil Al-Helw
1949
6.5Before his death, Mansour Pasha writes over his wealth to his two sons Omar and Othman; as the latter drowns, his wife gets a boy and claims he is Othman's son to ensure her share in the inheritance. When the boy grows older, he befriends Rashad, Omar's son, and gates of hell and vengeance open.
Who's Done it ?
1944
NRAbdul Ghani (Sharafnat) is a stingy man who marries his daughter Jawahar (Hajar Hamdi) and her aunt, Umm Khalil (Mary Munib), who practices self-indulgence and deprives him of all the pleasures of life. The daughter lives poor and deprived despite the richness of her father. Abdul Ghani retains his money in an iron safe inside the wall and his estate agent Rizk (Abdul Hamid Zaki) computes the account of the two kings, and does not excuse any farmer who is late in paying the rent
Gawaher
1949
10.0On his way home one day, Morsi finds a child at the side of a road. He feels sorry for her, and takes her home with him to raise alongside his own daughter, Saniyya. The two girls become quite close over the years. When Morsi dies, their lives take very different paths, after a lot of suffering. While Sanniya falls in love with, and plans to marry, a wealthy man, Naimat falls into the grasp of a woman who is the ringleader of a number of beggars and pick-pockets.
The Two Orphans
1948
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Beware of Pickpockets
1949
7.0Rawya 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.
Rawiyah
1946
1930s · 2 titles
7.4The story of a young man from a lower-class family who falls in love with a wealthy girl. Despite the class difference and the obstacles they face, their love endures, and they must navigate the challenges posed by their families' social disparity and the economic hardships of the time.
The Will
1939
10.0Osman 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.
Lend Me Three Pounds
1939
