
Acting
Sabah
Born — Died
1927-11-10 — 2014-11-26
Place of birth
Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon
Known for
Acting
Credits
63 titles
Sabah was a Lebanese film actress and singer. Sabah was among the first Arabic singers to perform at the Olympia, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. She is considered one of three Lebanese icons, along with Fairuz and Wadih El Safi. She was an actress and producer, known for Wahabtak Hayati (1956), Sharia el hub (1958), and The Temple of Love (1961). She was previously married to Rushdi Abazah, Wassim Tabbara, Anwar Mansi, Baligh Hamdy, Nagib Shammas, Ahmed Farag, Joe Hammoud, Fadi Lebnan, Prince Khaled Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, and Youssef Chaban. She died on November 26, 2014 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Known for
NRAbbas loves the beautiful singer Kawthar, who works in a nightclub, but at the same time she loves Adel Sharif. Someone tries to deliver an important message to Adel via a truck driver, but this person is killed in a mysterious murder... Before reaching Adel, whose life could be threatened at any moment.
Beirut Sifr 11
1966
5.5Salwa is a poor young woman who sells grilled corn to people on one of the beaches of Lebanon,she falls in love with a guitarist she meets by chance, while looking for her mother and sister who got lost since she was young, and then strange coincidences begin to happen to her.
Guitar of Love
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الحب الضائع
1969
6.0Two Turkish reporters are in Beirut, investigating Lebanese life. They do not find any scoop and are about to leave the country when they discover something juicy, an all-female gang of forgers. Adventure can begin.
Women's Gang
1970
4.0Two journalists in Beirut want to make exciting report for their newspaper, but can't find anything. They discover a gang that all the members are women and work in counterfeiting , so they search for its leader.
Gang of Women
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Days of Lulu
1986
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Days of Lulu
1986
6.0Famous singer Hanan's car breaks down, and she meets Ahmed who drives her with his car. Because Ahmed dreams of having a theater, he decides to take advantage of Hanan's growing feelings towards him and marries her to help him with his dream. But a surprise changes everything, messing up his plans.
A Night When the Moon Cried
1980
1970s · 4 titles
5.5Salwa is a poor young woman who sells grilled corn to people on one of the beaches of Lebanon,she falls in love with a guitarist she meets by chance, while looking for her mother and sister who got lost since she was young, and then strange coincidences begin to happen to her.
Guitar of Love
1973
6.0Two Turkish reporters are in Beirut, investigating Lebanese life. They do not find any scoop and are about to leave the country when they discover something juicy, an all-female gang of forgers. Adventure can begin.
Women's Gang
1970
NR(Sabah), the famous singer, agrees that her daughter (Howaida) will travel to Cairo in one of the nightclubs. Howaida meets (Sherif) and loves him, the sheriff tells his father Hassan that he wants to marry Howaida, the father denounces his son's behavior, as he had previously stood against his brother (Ali )’s marriage to Howaida's mother and still lives memories of his love for her, Sharif finds no way but To tell his uncle of his tragedy, he encourages him to continue to love and preserve him and win the heart of the one he loves.
Nar Elshouq
1970
NRRico is the director of an Egyptian theater company, a message comes from a concert in Lebanon to go to Lebanon, and upon arrival there, the band is surprised that the contractor died, and the wife refuses to fulfill the contract concluded with the band, the band suffers from unemployment and looking for a job, fall heroine The band in love with a wealthy young man trying to help the girl.
The Troublemakers
1973
1960s · 26 titles
NRAbbas loves the beautiful singer Kawthar, who works in a nightclub, but at the same time she loves Adel Sharif. Someone tries to deliver an important message to Adel via a truck driver, but this person is killed in a mysterious murder... Before reaching Adel, whose life could be threatened at any moment.
Beirut Sifr 11
1966
4.0Two journalists in Beirut want to make exciting report for their newspaper, but can't find anything. They discover a gang that all the members are women and work in counterfeiting , so they search for its leader.
Gang of Women
1969
NRThe film revolves around a young man who writes a letter to his girlfriend before committing suicide. During this, the film's narrator tries to convince the young man to change his mind. During the events, this dramatic line is linked to another, more A panoramic view of the lifestyle in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where the film tours various nightclubs to witness the various artistic and entertainment performances they perform.
Lebanon at night
1963
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Millionaire
1966
7.0The Iranian police sends a detective to Beirut cooperating the international police to identify head of the dangerous heroin smugglers named "Scorpion" .
That Man from Teheran
1967
NRAdel works in one of the government institutions, he suffers from emotional trauma after knowing that his girlfriend is a night girl, friends seek to paralyze Adel, including a light friend. Adel gets to know Nazek, the manager's wife of the company, a woman who is in trouble with her old husband, and asks her to separate from her husband.
Fog Street
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
NRA swindler and dancer plans to steal the necklace of the artist Sabah by making an Ad for an international band roaming the East to get to her. Hassan is drawn to the Ad and claims to know Sabah so he join the band.
Oriental Nights
1965
NRThree different stories about three women. Three women, the first (Hana), who loves (Adel), but she meets (Sami) to also fall in love with him, the second widow (Tawahida), who loves (Yusef) the employee of the Muslim Council, but he is married, and the third (Shams), the singer who falls in love with Fathi But he lives at a loss because of her sitting with clients, what happens to the three women
Three Women
1969
7.0Samya is a girl who is on the look for her white knight. First, she falls for the anchor Ahmed but after he proposes, she finds herself falling for the athlete Mokhtar. Then she falls for Dr. Galal, only to find herself unable to choose between the three of them.
3 Men and a Woman
1960
6.7A prince of the former royal family finds himself without a meaningful role in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. Based on the play by Tawfiq el-Hakim.
Soft Hands
1963
8.2The film revolves around three friends, one of whom decides to develop his father's shop for shaving. It is divided into three sections: one for men, the other for women and the third for animals. The first customer is a maid and her mistress is married. After that, he married a rich master to avenge her ex-husband.
Ladies Barber
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mawal
1966
7.0Because of his recklessness, Ahmed divorces his wife for the third time, but he wants to return to her again, so they search for a solution, until they find Ustaz Hassan, and Ahmed agrees with him to marry his wife Laila for one day, but because of Ustaz Hassan's brother, the marriage extends for several days, during which Laila discovers Hassan's noble personality and wishes for him to be her husband.
Gouz Meraty
1961
NRA millionaire's daughter goes to Tunisia with her father's secretary, but she refuses to sing at concerts despite her beautiful voice. When she meets a flirty guy who tries to make her fall for him, she decides to teach him a lesson when she learns of his history with women.
Rihlat El Saada
1966
NRTwo friends work as guards at a luxurious villa, whose owner only comes at long intervals. They turn it into a hotel but the owner suddenly comes with his fiancée, and he discovers the situation,causing funny situations to happen.
Hotel of Dreams
1968
NRSalim is a simple farmer who loves Bedour and wants to marry her. He comes across a letter that he thinks is written to his lover, but it turns out that it's written by Bedour whom Ghawar loves and he returns from overseas with a pearl necklace for her.
The Pearl Necklace
1964
NRLayla is a dreamy village girl, who decides to escape from her harsh uncle's house, who wants her to marry a man she doesn't love. She goes to Beirut and works in a singing band which goes bankrupt. The head of the band asks a wealthy man to help them and Said Abu Dahab sees Layla and falls for her.
كرم الهوى
1967
NRFeaturing a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body.
Welcome to Love
1968
NRSabreen 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
8.0The Theater Lights Trio try to meet the singer Sabah, but her busy schedule forces her to postpone. As they grow to believe that the Maspero building's guard wants to kick them out, they go on a lot of comic adventures as they meet with a lot of celebrities including Shadya, Fayza Ahmed and Nagat.
Cairo at Night
1963
8.0Dr. Raafat does not care about his young wife, Samiha, as much as he cares about reading and following the works of the famous novelist, the monk of thought. So the wife decides to search for the monk himself for the secret of his popularity and his possession of all her husband’s senses, but soon she, in turn, becomes one of his enthusiastic students, and when she fails to flirt with him and seduce him, she decides to start... To write a story inspired by her life.
Alribat Almuqadas
1960
7.0Ashraf Hamdi works as a supporting actor, and lives a peaceful life, but he leaves his only friend Saeed and his lover and colleague Faiza on the day he signed a contract to play a leading role opposite the great singing star Samia Fouad. He considered his acquaintance with Samia the first step towards achieving his goal, so he married her.
The Path of Tears
1961
NRMounir grows up between two anxious parents. The mother knows that her husband frequents the apartment of singer Nihad. Mounir tries to find out his mother's secret. She tells him that his father spent all his savings on Ghania. He decides to keep his father away from Nihad. He goes to the night club where she works, so that she can fall in love with him. He plays the role of a lovelorn lover for her, and begins to recover the money that his father spends on her.
Youth and beauty
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Fatinat aljamahir
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Rebellious
1963
1950s · 20 titles
9.0A wealthy, good-for-nothing man wastes his fortune, loses his house and moves in with his private secretary's family. He falls in love with the secretary's daughter. After a few disastrous attempts at salaried employment, he pawns the family ring and buys a taxi cab. The secretary's son's fiancee, a popular singer and actress, is being blackmailed by a hoodlum ex-lover. Our intrepid reformed taxi driver comes to the rescue. A madcap comedy directed by Niazi Mustapha. Songs performed by Sabah.
Love of my life
1958
7.0A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square
The Green Doorstep
1959
No synopsis available yet.
My Father Deceived Me
1951
NRDrunk and boarding a ship to Beirut, Sambuksa, a young artist, falls for Najwa, the daughter of the head of the Folk Art Lover's Group, and they get married. The next morning when their hangover ends, Sambuksa decides to divorce Najwa, but she tries to lure him in and reignite their spark of love.
Festival of love
1958
7.3A poor graduated singer struggling to get his chance, disguises into an old music teacher to work in a girl's school. A bet is launched between two of the leading students to trap this teacher into their affection.
The Love Street
1958
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
NROn a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escapes and meets his daughter and tries to atone for what he thinks he has committed, and he helps her become a famous singer.
Ya Zalemni
1954
NRWhen a rich young man runs away from home due to his stepmother's mistreatment, he meets a beautiful singer who is married to a famous lawyer. His stepmother plots with her lover to kill her husband and blame the young man, so the lawyer takes up the son's case and tries to prove his innocence.( this film is currently lost )
Tears at night
1955
6.4When Lamiaa goes to the police to find her brother's killer, officer Essam goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and tries to uncover the identity of the gang's leader and Lamiaa's brother's killer.
The Second Man
1959
NRAntar lives in Lebanon with his daughter Tota who loves singing. Tota travels with her friend Hend to Egypt to complete their studies. When Antar accidentally sees his daughter in a show, she agrees with Hend for each of them to impersonate the other in the institute where she studies.
Let me sing
1950
7.5After his wife's death, Ahmed gets to leave his kids alone because of his work. His children seek help from a singer called Wedad who takes care of them. Ahmed gets attracted to Wedad, and uses his children to get her to stay longer, but they don't know that she has a past that still haunts her.
Repentance
1958
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
5.5(Namira) is a girl who loves to sing, wandering in love with the famous singer (Mounir), who is preparing a new lyric operetta, and decides to create a contest to choose a new singer to perform in front of him in the operetta, and a tigress advances and wins, and in order to arouse Mounir's jealousy, she agrees with His father has to claim that they agree to marry, so will the trick deceive Munir?
Miss Mama
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
وهبتك حياتي
1956
8.0A 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
9.0A lawyer tries to realize what crime is, and whether it is inherited or as a result of upbringing and the environment, and the lawyer comes up with a criminal and decides to treat him well and prepare him with all the appropriate circumstances.
A criminal on leave
1958
9.0When a musician's family faces financial difficulty, the daughter starts working as a singer in a nightclub owned by her mother's lover. When she learns about her mother's affair, the girl claims that she's in a relationship with the nightclub's owner in order to save her mother's reputation.
Melody of My Love
1953
NRNabil is a famous singer and a member of the Thousand and One Nights band. Rising singer Hudhod wishes to work with him. She follows him to Kafr El-Zayat where he's meeting his wet nurse and pretends to be his sister in breastfeeding to get his attention, while Anwaar pretends to love him to benefit from his fame.
أختى ستيتة
1950
NRA happy family and a loving father who lavishes his daughter with love. Suddenly, the world changes. The man loses his money after speculating in the stock market. The father dies, but the misfortune that befell her father caused him to lose his fortune after one of the husband's friends set up a plot between him and His wife led to separation and the husband abandoned his wife.
ظلموني الحبايب
1953
NRTwo orphaned sisters, one working as a singer (Sabah), and the other working as a dancer (Nadia Jamal), decide to escape from their mother and her husband who takes their money. They go to a famous singer (Farid al-Atrash) to work in his band. He discovers the talent of the singer and falls for her.
How Can I Forget You
1956
1940s · 8 titles
NRYoung 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
10.0A wealthy young man rejects the way his mother and sister live, and decides to rebel against this life by marrying a simple Upper Egyptian girl who respects traditions and social customs, which angers his mother and sister and they mistreat the wife, who discovers the relationship between her husband's sister and his friend and tries to mediate to end it.
Hadaya
1947
8.0Nawal is a singer in a traveling band. She admires Dr. Medhat and tries to win his admiration, but she is afraid of rejection due to the nature of her work. She is forced to pretend to him that she is a teacher, but with time he discovers her real profession, which pushes him even more to cling to her and marry her. Their relationship is put to a real test when a friend of hers is accused of a murder of which he is innocent.
The night is ours
1949
10.0A couple has a disagreement, after which the husband leaves his wife and daughter (Siham) in Lebanon and travels abroad. They get to know the boxer (Ezzat), Siham falls in love with him and he loves her back, but the mother falls in love with him too and tries to separate them by forcing (Siham) to marry a wealthy man, and she succeeds in doing so, but (Siham) refuses the marriage and travels to her father, and tries to convince him to return. (Ezzat)'s level deteriorates after his separation from (Siham) and he suffers defeats. At the same time, he awaits an important match that may change his life.
First Glance
1946
NRWhen an Egyptian singer admires a Lebanese singer sight-unseen, her husband disguises himself as the singer and tries to seduce her, but she rejects him. When the Lebanese singer comes to Cairo and meets the couple, the wife yells at him, thinking that he will try to flirt with her again.
Good morning
1947
NRRa'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
NRA Turkish girl decides to escape from her family to Cairo after they forced her to marry a wealthy man. On her way there, she falls prey to a conman who steals all her money. Then she meets a poor family and falls in love with their son who He works as a mechanic, but she is afraid of her family's rejection because of the social difference between them.
إكسبريس الحب
1946
6.5(Sabah) is an arrogant actress, arrogant and married to the old man lover (Hassan Fayek) and lives with them his daughter Wafa (Samiha Tawfiq) engaged to the young man Munir (Kamal Hussein) and treated as a wife or mother, betraying her husband with her lover Abdullatif Abdal (Istfan Rusti) Aziz Bey, and he fought to blackmail her with the help of his wife, the employment of Znobh Alexandrian (Isaf Abdel Maqsoud).
Bolbol Afandy
1948
Series credits
Behind the camera
NRRico is the director of an Egyptian theater company, a message comes from a concert in Lebanon to go to Lebanon, and upon arrival there, the band is surprised that the contractor died, and the wife refuses to fulfill the contract concluded with the band, the band suffers from unemployment and looking for a job, fall heroine The band in love with a wealthy young man trying to help the girl.
The Troublemakers
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Temple of love
1961
