
Acting
Nagwa Fouad
Born
1939-01-06 (87)
Place of birth
Alexandria, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
74 titles
An Egyptian actress and belly dancer, born to an Egyptian father and a Palestinian mother in Alexandria in 1939. Her mother died as an infant at the age of 7 months, so her stepmother took care of her. She started her artistic life by practicing dancing, then she turned to the cinema. She starred in many films, including: The Three Adventurers, Tomorrow Love Returns, Al-Sukaria, Dr. Manal Dances, Uncovering the Hidden and Hysteria. In addition to acting, she had several experiences in film production, most notably are the films Thousand Kisses and Edge of the Sword.
Known for
6.0Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.
Zezenia
1997
5.5A hardworking man in a thankless job meets a mysterious doctor who sells him powerful pills that throw his life into disarray.
Land of Hypocrisy
2018
The series shows how the leaders of the former regime used thugs in their illegal business, one of those thugs is Hamza, who works as a mechanic as a cover for his dubious activities.
The Thug
2012
6.0A social series revolving around the story of a marriage that appears to be successful, but it passes through minor accumulations that turn into a fierce conflict that brings out the evil that lies within the human soul.
For the Highest Price
2017
NRThe series takes place during the war of attrition and its aftermath, in a building and the relationship between its inhabitants, and about a family who loses their son in the war and its impact on them. It also deals with the issue of terrorism and poverty, which drives the poor to drift behind extremist groups.
The Family
1994
NRWhen Abdel Mutaal Mahjoub is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and things are made worse when he's presumed dead, he suddenly finds himself secluded, and recollections of his past life come creeping in, making him a prisoner of his own mind.
No
1994
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
6.0Dalia abandoned her beloved Hisham, which made him get over her and become friends and he got involved with Noha.
Why Did You Make Me Love You?
2000
NRFawziya, an impoverished woman holds the secret for leading a successful life. She gets married and raises all her children in her tiny house. Will her simple secret recipe stand firm in the face of changes and threats?
Fawziya's Secret Recipe
2009
NRA collection of 16 classic performances by the most prominent Egyptian belly dancers of the 20th century. The selections are from appearances in movies and other shows over a 30 year period.
The Legends of Belly Dance 1947-1976
2004
1990s · 6 titles
7.0A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
The Egg and the Stone
1990
7.0Salwa's new life as the wife of a prominent college professor is jeopardized when the past comes calling in the form of the director of the General Intelligence Directorate who wants her to take up her old task of seducing important figures. When she refuses, he threatens to reveal her past.
Revealing the Hidden
1994
NRThe film takes place within a social framework within the Egyptian and Arab society with its myriad problems and stories.
الرصيف
1993
7.7Zain, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Music, lives with his mother, his brother Ramzi and his sister Houria, who suffers from living conditions after the death of their father 15 years ago, and while the family refuses to marry the neighbor of their neighbor, Rizk, Zain welcomes his belief that they love each other sincerely. Poor physical condition and his desperate attempts to work on the subway as a singer in front of passers-by or working with a submerged orchestra, Fawzia bint Radwan Pasha is in love with Zain but her rich father refuses to marry Zain poor.
Hysteria
1996
NRMimi runs a fashion store to cover up her criminal operations of smuggling gold abroad with her partner, Mounir, a bank manager. Nagwa, who works in Mimi's store, discovers the secrets of her illegal operations. Mounir, the bank manager, assaults her after drugging her. In an attempt to please her, he agrees to give her a loan from the bank.
Escape to hell
1991
NRWajdi Hassanein, Adel Fahmy and Tariq Mansour, three friends graduate from Alexandria University in 1967, celebrating their success at a nightclub in one of the clubs, where they drink wine and try to try to courting the girls. A quarrel ensues in which they triumph over the cabarets. They go out to complete the evening in one of the Ajami chalets owned by someone close to them , And in a deserted area next to the Chalet pick up a girl who is conducting a taxi driver was seeking to rape, and decides the seriousness of rape, died of shock shock and get rid of the three of them thrown in the sea,
Fursan Akher Zaman
1993
1980s · 9 titles
NRTwo Sudanese young men travel to Egypt in pursuit of proper education. While one of them finds the love of his life and pursues a career in signing, the other is doomed to lead a life of failure as life-pleasures blind his eyes to the essence of existence.
Eyes Journey
1983
NR(Mustafa) tries to get close to (Nadia), despite the student (Samah)'s attachment to him. (Samah) claims that he assaulted her, and attempts are made to pressure (Mustafa) to marry her. (Karima), who controls the interests of the people, admires (Mustafa) and appoints him as an accountant. For her actions, she courts him and tries to separate him from (Nadia). (Mustafa) discovers the violations committed by (Karima) and seeks to report these violations to the police.
El Ayeqa Wil Darreesa
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Raghba wa hiqd wa intiqam
1986
NRThe employee Ezzat finds the key to the company safe that Khalil is responsible for. He decides to steal it because his wife, Dina, is looking to get rich. He resorts to the key maker Farag to make him a copy of the key. Farag tracks him down and surprises him during the theft and demands half the amount. They clash and the guards arrive, Farag kills one of them and they escape. Ezzat takes the bag and hides it. The dead guard's colleagues testify against Ezzat and he is sentenced to ten years in prison.
A Woman in Jail
1986
NRTeacher Moza stands against the marriage of his daughters Hanaa and Wafaa to their colleagues at work Medhat and Saad due to their low social status. The two young men get a leave from work and go to Alexandria, where they find a car tire filled with a large amount of drugs, and try to sell it.
Luck Beach
1983
NR"Hussein" is an honest food inspector who goes to Cairo, and live in a small room on a rooftop, he works overtime, while some rotten businessmen tries to bribe him unsuccessfully, so they set him up for a lifetime in prison, but he escapes and reach out for his girlfriend "Reda", who trick the antagonists to prove Hussein's innocence.
Tabounet Hamza - طابونة حمزة
1984
7.3A strange man arrives at the fishermen's village looking for his illegitimate child to give him his inheritance. He dies and leaves the money with the head of the fishermen. The big fishermen doubt the three women from the village who had a "shady" past: A daughter of a merchant, A belly dancer, and a woman who was loved by many men, and tries to know who is the mother of the child.
Devilish Daughters
1984
NRThe wealthy merchant Salama moves from the tannery neighborhood to live in his new building in Mohandessin. His son, Hisham, returns from the war of 73 with a leg injury and PTSD, and his wife, Nadia, clings to him. As for his son, Issam, he owns a boutique, and his girlfriend, Nana, supplies him with goods from abroad, including medicine for his father. Salama decides to marry Nana, so Issam gets rid of her so that she will not share the inheritance with them.
Tower of Tanneries
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Had Al-Saif
1986
1970s · 19 titles
6.9Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.
Forbidden at the Wedding Night
1975
6.2As 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
NRNoura is a free girl, who gets to know Dr. Mounir and connects the love between them, but he is surprised by her thoughts, as she allows herself to have sex with the one she loves without marriage, and all of her sister Laila's attempts to straighten out and discourage her from what she does, Noura asks Munir to expedite his marriage to her, but he refuses, because he is afraid From her thoughts and marry another, so that Nora later meets the well-known writer Ezzat, to change her life.
Love Comes Before Bread Sometimes
1977
NRSamia (school teacher) and Murad (movie writer) met in alexendria by accident . After they date for sometime ,they get married. their new life together came with consequences they have to deal with.
The Quiet Nest
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Layl waraghba
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
حلوة يا دنيا الحب
1977
NRThe film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.
Al Sokkareya
1973
5.0In a comedic form, a love story is shared between the widowed engineer Hilmi Abdelkader (Rushdi Abaza), who works in the field of oil and has eight children from his late wife, the young widow Samia Ahmed and the mother of six children. After a long time they hide, get married and begin to put in place a system of life at home to make things go smoothly.
A World of Children
1976
NREmtithal runs away from home after suffering from her stepfather's control, and works as a dancer in a nightclub. She gets close to the nightclub's thug and seduces him, becoming the queen of Emad El-Din Street. But when he discovers that she is having an affair with another young man named Naji and is pregnant with his child out of wedlock, he decides to take revenge on her.
Imtithal
1972
6.0Samy, a humble employee, has always dismissed love and marriage and considered them unlikely scenarios. As he gets drunk one day, he and Olfat have a one night stand that leaves her pregnant. When she confronts him, however, he shuns her and decides to get rid of the baby.
Tomorrow Love Returns
1971
6.0A young man asks his wife to dance with his boss at a party. The woman gets into an affair with the boss and commits infidelity. Her marriage dissolves and her life worsens. Her son has an illness, so the wife is forced to accept gifts from the boss.
A Woman With a Bad Reputation
1973
NRThe story of the young couple Ahmed and Zahra, as Ahmed proposes to Zahra but her father rejects him because he is still a student. Hopelessly trying to be together, the lovebirds elope.
Sweet Trip
1971
NRAfter Laila's fiancé is killed, she decides to travel to her brother Samy in Aswan. She witnesses a murder from the balcony of the house and reports it to the police, as the gang seeks to kidnap Laila, the only witness.
Unforgettable Night
1978
NRTwo swindlers fall in love with two expert frauds and decide to get married. However, things take an unexpected turn when they are forced to repent.
The Swindlers
1973
NRJamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.
Thousand Kisses and kiss
1977
NRJamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.
Thousands Kisses
1977
NRMadiha is an air hostess ,who failed twice in marriage and prefers to live alone with the same freedom as men. She meets Soliman and he misbehaves with her, but she teaches him an unforgettablele lesson. Fate sends her Hassan who wants to marry her but family ,society and tradition stand in the way.
The Warm Embrace
1974
NRManar marries a wealthy man while she is in a relationship with Medhat. He sends her letters in the name of Nabila, her brother Sharaf's wife, but divorces her when he gets his hands on one of them. He suspects his paternity of Mervat and hands her over to a teacher who runs a pickpocket den.
Prayer of the oppressed
1977
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
1960s · 18 titles
6.2Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.
Snow Job
1965
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
7.0Ashour studies at a physical education institute, and tries all the time to attract the attention of his colleague Amal at the institute, which he loves, but she doesn’t pay attention to him due to the weakness of his physical structure, and Ashour gets to know a scientist who invented an injection capable of giving him the necessary strength, and after taking the injection, Ashour becomes one of The most skilled and popular players in the institute.
Ashour The Lion's Heart
1961
10.0Atia is an overly kind man whose wife abandons him due to his weak personality. He meets a greedy producer who plans to exploit a wealthy woman to produce a movie for him, only for Atia to discover that the wealthy woman is his wife whom he hasn't seen in years.
El Ragel Da Hayganeni
1967
10.0Exploiting the great resemblance between Ashour El-Aaghati and actor Farid Shawky, director Mahmoud Al-Badrawi decides to use him in many scenes. At the same time, Ashour relates to his neighbor Najat and decides to marry despite all the attempts of the master, the owner of the cafe, to stand in the way of their love. At the same time, a painful accident occurs to the artist Farid, leading to his death, and director Mahmoud decides to use Ashour as an alternative, declaring that the actor will not die.
Ebn El-Hetta
1968
6.1Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceives them and spends the money in gambling. They force him to sign a waiver of his workshop but he wants to get it back.
The Three Friends
1966
10.0The events of the film take place in a dramatic setting on New Year's Eve, where a group of the elite of society celebrate in the palace of a wealthy man (Munir Ezzat), and there the course of events changes, as the life of each of the invitees is at stake, after an unknown person reveals the truth about each of them through a recording that is broadcast after they enter the palace, and decides to achieve justice with his own hands, so he takes revenge on each of them, and reveals their sins to each other.
I Am Justice
1961
NRA career-focused journalist crosses paths with Noura, a good-hearted young woman who suffers from societal pressures and issues. As Mahmoud tries to save her from going down a path of sin, he learns the story of her family and her struggle to provide for her ill sister.
نورا
1967
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
NRHamza is a small employee who works as a collector and is characterized by his honesty, and finds himself in a predicament he was not waiting for, when some thieves hid an amount of money they stole from a rich man in his bag, while the police were chasing them, and after escaping from the police, they searched for Hamza and chased him without knowing in order to get them back. The money they stashed.
Shantat Hamza
1967
10.0Awatif, the dancer, loves Jamil, the musician at the nightclub where she works, even though they are both married. The lovers get a chance to be together after Jamil's wife travels to the summer resort with her children, and Nabil, Awatif's husband, travels to Lebanon. When he visits her at home, the police arrest him, thinking he is Nabil. He goes to prison, and Jamil is released from prison after discovering the mistake and decides to take revenge for what happened to him.
Couples and summer
1961
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
NRAt the door of Al-Hadra prison, three musicians gather in front of the prison, waiting for their friend out of prison, (Amin) who is just heading to an abandoned house to meet his friend (Joseph) the gang leader, and asking him for his right to the crime for which he entered the prison, gives him ten thousand A pound of clothes that he stole from (Nadia), (Youssef) asks him to know the location of the money that (Nadia) stole, and to get closer to her. (Amin) goes with his music colleagues to (Nadia) and asks her to work with her.
Al Moshaghiboun
1965
9.0An archaeologist goes to Mount Lebanon to excavate antiquities. There, he spots a Bedouin girl and falls madly in love with her. She falls in love with him at first sight, but she is engaged to her cousin. The young Egyptian man tries to propose to her father, but the father refuses, according to tribal traditions. Coincidence brings the two lovers together in Beirut, and the young archaeologist knows that she will be married to his cousin.
The Bedouin Lover
1963
NRA girl searches for happiness, so she resorts to marrying a rich man to fulfill her ambitions, and leaves her poor lover. She discovers that he is an employee of her husband and that he is trusted, so she tries to restore her love.
A heart in the dark
1960
7.0Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous over him, as it does not lead him to the requirements of the home as he likes, which causes Alawi to spend most of his time outside the home, while during his discharge he plays one of the plays invading Dosa, Which finds her innocence something different from his wife, and feelings of love grow between the two, the wife knows about the relationship, so she requests a divorce, and the women crowd with him after separating from his wife.
Huwa wa el nessaa
1966
8.0(Ameen) The merchant who sees many nightmares in his dream about a young man who accepts him to kill him, which causes him to feel fear for what he owns, and goes to seek advice from a psychiatrist, and one day Ameen is surprised by the young man who always appears in all his nightmares as he applies to a job with him, and discovers Amine that this young man loves (Samia) Amin's daughter, which causes him to address this relationship, refusing to associate with her.
The Three Wise Men
1965
NRGharbawi Bey, owner of a fishing fleet in the Abi Qir area of Alexandria, is in fact a smuggler who is monitored by the detective and recruited for him by the only officer who disguises himself as Dr. Fathi, trying to get close to Leila, the smuggler's daughter, according to the plan set forth by the chief of the detective.
Seraa All Mohtafeeen
1969
1950s · 4 titles
10.0Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful.
The Female Boss
1958
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
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
NRThe events revolve around the character of the girl Nemat (Sabah), who aspires to have a prosperous life to compensate for the suffering she has endured. Neamat pretends to be rich to lure the wealthy young man Hussein (Shukri Sarhan) into falling in love with her. Nemat's plan faces many difficulties and challenges as events unfold.
Eghraa
1957
Series credits
6.0Set in Alexandria during the 1940s, at the height of the city's cosmopolitan golden age, Zezenia follows Bishr — the son of an Egyptian father and Italian mother — as he navigates a fractured sense of identity torn between East and West. Against a backdrop of World War II, mixed nationalities, and a society on the brink of change, the series is a sweeping portrait of love, belonging, and the soul of a city.
Zezenia
1997
5.5A hardworking man in a thankless job meets a mysterious doctor who sells him powerful pills that throw his life into disarray.
Land of Hypocrisy
2018
5.5A hardworking man in a thankless job meets a mysterious doctor who sells him powerful pills that throw his life into disarray.
Land of Hypocrisy
2018
The series shows how the leaders of the former regime used thugs in their illegal business, one of those thugs is Hamza, who works as a mechanic as a cover for his dubious activities.
The Thug
2012
6.0A social series revolving around the story of a marriage that appears to be successful, but it passes through minor accumulations that turn into a fierce conflict that brings out the evil that lies within the human soul.
For the Highest Price
2017
NRThe series takes place during the war of attrition and its aftermath, in a building and the relationship between its inhabitants, and about a family who loses their son in the war and its impact on them. It also deals with the issue of terrorism and poverty, which drives the poor to drift behind extremist groups.
The Family
1994
NRWhen Abdel Mutaal Mahjoub is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and things are made worse when he's presumed dead, he suddenly finds himself secluded, and recollections of his past life come creeping in, making him a prisoner of his own mind.
No
1994
NRAs Mr. Anis retires from his job at the railroad, he is soon devastated by the utter loneliness he has to live with. Seeking companionship and intimacy, he turns his house into a motel, not for material gain, but for human interaction, for company and friendship.
Dream Travel
1986
NRThe life of a psychiatrist intersects with many people around him, but their psychological complexes and the bad and distorted past of each of them lead to hidden and overt conflicts, which push them to commit heinous crimes, causing great losses for everyone.
Juma
2025
3.5The story follows female triplets, each working in a different profession, and many exciting events happen to them.
Third of Three
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
بريء في ورطة
1997
Behind the camera
NR(Mustafa) tries to get close to (Nadia), despite the student (Samah)'s attachment to him. (Samah) claims that he assaulted her, and attempts are made to pressure (Mustafa) to marry her. (Karima), who controls the interests of the people, admires (Mustafa) and appoints him as an accountant. For her actions, she courts him and tries to separate him from (Nadia). (Mustafa) discovers the violations committed by (Karima) and seeks to report these violations to the police.
El Ayeqa Wil Darreesa
1985
NRJamalat and her sister Maysa work as dancers in a Cabaret. Maysa meets the actor Issam, and they form a theater group with Issam, his friend Fattouh, and some friends.
Thousand Kisses and kiss
1977
7.0Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous over him, as it does not lead him to the requirements of the home as he likes, which causes Alawi to spend most of his time outside the home, while during his discharge he plays one of the plays invading Dosa, Which finds her innocence something different from his wife, and feelings of love grow between the two, the wife knows about the relationship, so she requests a divorce, and the women crowd with him after separating from his wife.
Huwa wa el nessaa
1966

