
Acting
Madiha Yousri
Born — Died
1918-09-03 — 2018-05-30
Place of birth
Cairo, Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
72 titles
Known for
NRIn a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.
Hawanem Garden City
1997
6.5A married couple on their honeymoon lives in an eccentric apartment as they discover that they have peculiar neighbors who share their apartment illegally. The double stay at the apartment brings a series of ironic events.
Take Care of Your Neighbors
1979
5.5The story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during the life of prophet Muhammad and his caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar.
Khalid ibn el Walid
1958
6.3Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
The Terrorist
1994
6.6Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Revenge
1950
NRCaptain Rateb falls seriously ill. Tawfiq, the port worker, offers to let him pass a bag of drugs through customs in exchange for a large sum of money. He agrees to secure his children's future, but regrets it and throws the bag into the sea. Gang members kidnap him and he is surprised to find out that his friend Nazih is the leader of the gang. Rateb manages to escape, and Nazih threatens to kill his three children after kidnapping them if he does not return the bag to him.
Al Ashqia
1984
Film credits
1990s · 3 titles
6.3Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
The Terrorist
1994
6.5After returning from abroad, Dr.Wasel enters a series of dangerous experiences, through which he discovers the possibility of time travel.
Dancing with The Devil
1993
NRA musical journey in the world of Egyptian weddings with its mood, rhythm and heritage
The Egyptian Wedding
1999
1980s · 9 titles
NRCaptain Rateb falls seriously ill. Tawfiq, the port worker, offers to let him pass a bag of drugs through customs in exchange for a large sum of money. He agrees to secure his children's future, but regrets it and throws the bag into the sea. Gang members kidnap him and he is surprised to find out that his friend Nazih is the leader of the gang. Rateb manages to escape, and Nazih threatens to kill his three children after kidnapping them if he does not return the bag to him.
Al Ashqia
1984
NRThe events of the film revolve around the university student (Samia Abu Al-Saad), who is arrested because of her political activities. During her imprisonment, (Samia) gets to know a police officer named (Magdy), who hides her in his house, and when the head of intelligence finds out what (Magdy) is doing with this girl He calls his father and warns him not to interfere in what does not concern him. She is transferred to the prison hospital, but she succeeds in escaping again.
El-Arafa
1981
7.7An aging man's intention to publish his biography has a lot of rich and powerful people worried what he might reveal.
Ayoub
1983
6.0At his wedding ceremony Hossam, is killed by a stray bullet, his father Mukhtar recalls the palm reader who told him that he will have three children, but they will all die at their weddings.
Palm of the Hand
1985
7.0After her father’s death, Nadia goes to stay in the house of her relative, Rushdi Al-Bagouri, to convince her son Adel to take advantage of her father’s wealth by setting up a factory for peasants who are interested in their problems, but she is subject to many harassments from the second son Ramzi, to decide to leave, and events escalate.
Al-Aqwiyaa
1980
6.7When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab's nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of the fact that she is staying for their sister.
Don't Ask Me Who I Am
1984
NRAbu Sereeh agrees with his mistress, Fardous, to make Alaa, the son of her wealthy employer Hikmat, fall for her to blackmail him. Fardous marries Alaa, and runs Hikmat's company and is involved with senior employee Fathi in embezzlement operations.
The Servant
1984
NRKawthar is a drug dealer who throws the accusations on her maid who gets sentenced to life imprisonment. Kawthar adopts the maid's daughter and helps the rest of the children. The daughter grows up and works as a police officer and meets a thief that she believes she can turn into a good citizen.
Al Sabr fi Al-Malahat
1986
8.5Ramadan, a great musician, meets an amateur singer and helps her in her journey to fame. He kills her when she betrays him and goes to prison. After coming out he lives with Salah who works with a band in a night club. Hassan who also stays with them is admired by Ramadan for his talented voice.
Who'll Put Out The Fire?
1982
1970s · 3 titles
6.5A married couple on their honeymoon lives in an eccentric apartment as they discover that they have peculiar neighbors who share their apartment illegally. The double stay at the apartment brings a series of ironic events.
Take Care of Your Neighbors
1979
NRRashed kidnaps student Ismat and takes her to his house. Before he assaults her, he is surprised by the thief Raoof, who saves her, kills him, and runs away with her. Raoof confesses to Ismat that he is forced to steal in order to obtain the money needed to treat his sick daughter. She sympathizes with him and events continue.
Afraid of Something
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الحب المحرم
1971
1960s · 7 titles
NRMona confesses to her friend Mushira that she slept with a young man who abandoned her. She gives Mushira one of the letters she wrote to him, and the letter accidentally ends up with Farhat and Tal'at, who think that the letter is Mushira's and try to help her for fear that she might kill herself.
My Mother's Fiancé
1965
7.0Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.
Alkhataya
1962
8.0Haniyeh has not seen her father since childhood and therefore does not know how it looks and forced her father's friend Esmat Al-Darmali to lie to her and tell her that he is her father Esmat Al-Damanhouri instead of her real father, and therefore Haniyeh continues to treat Esmat Al-Darmali as his father.
The Little Charmer
1963
7.0(Nabil) is a young engineer who lives happily with his daughter (Mona) and his wife (Wafaa). He is a partner with his friend (Safwat) in the same office. Nabil sees a young man throwing himself with the intention of committing suicide. Nabil saves him from committing suicide, but Nabil drowns while saving him. This young man regrets his actions and tries to fix his mistake by getting close to Nabil's widow.
Wafaa Forever
1962
NRAnayat Hanim succeeded in having a clothing factory after the death of her husband, allowing her to live with her three daughters Samira, a bachelor of commerce, Kawther who cares only about physics, Laila who is not yet 14 years old and very lazy and dreams of the day he will marry so as not to go To school. Haj Awadallah owns a factory that he manages himself and supplies Hanayat Hanim with the finest fabrics, and thus a close relationship developed between them. Since he is single, he suggested to Annayat Hanim that they marry but they delayed the response and justified that she must marry the two girls first. Haj Awad asks his brother Fathallah and his friend Mamdouh to advance the brothers' sermon and send a telegram to Annayat Hanim telling her that the groom will arrive tomorrow.
The Groom Arrives Tomorrow
1963
NRAhmed and Nawal are childhood sweethearts. When Ahmed suddenly moves to Cairo and loses touch with Nawal, she marries his older brother Ibrahim. During a visit, Nawal questions Ahmed about his abandonment of her, only for him to reveal a shocking truth about her mother.
The Confession
1965
NRHamdi graduates from the Music Institute and proposes to Laila, whom he loves, but he is surprised by the death of her father and her mother’s refusal to let her marry him. Hamdi is invited to attend a party by the wealthy Ahmed. Fayza Hanem, the aristocratic woman, hears him, admires him, and a strong friendship grows between them. She falls in love with him at a time when she does not feel love for Ahmed, and decides to help Hamdi become... A famous singer, and she tries to spoil the relationship between lovers Hamdi and Laila, so that she can marry him.
Salasel Men Harer
1962
1950s · 21 titles
5.5The story of Khalid Ibn Al-Walid (592-642) the greatest military leader in the dawn of Islam during the life of prophet Muhammad and his caliphs Abu Bakr and Omar.
Khalid ibn el Walid
1958
6.6Henry Barakat directed adaptation of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo.
Prince of Revenge
1950
7.0Muhammad Effendi is a graduate of the College of Agriculture and adheres to traditions. He works as the caretaker of Jaber Pasha’s estate, and his sister Madiha is a lawyer. She refuses to live in the countryside and marry her cousin and decides to run away with Jaber Pasha’s son, had the people not stood up against that act, so Muhammad Effendi confronts the Pasha about his son’s corruptions.
El avocato Madiha
1950
8.5Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by a car and insisting on a drawing by Madiha Yousri, the woman fighting for women's rights and equal to the man instead of the old painting. And here talked a lot of comic paradoxes until the marriage between them.
Banat Hawaa
1954
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
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
NRUpon Aida's return from Alexandria, she meets Zozo who tells her that she is fleeing Lotfy who wants money from her. As Zozo gets her husband Farid to steal a sum of money from his company, she puts the money in Aida's bag. Farid kills Zozo and starts looking for Aida to get the money back.
Qalb Yahtarek
1959
7.0Amina works as a secretary for Murad, who loves her and decides to marry her. But his cousin, Salma, who's after his wealth, succeeds in telling Amina that Murad's father does not approve of the marriage, which causes Amina to be in a bad psychological condition and loses her eyesight.
A Plot
1953
9.0The story revolves around Wahid, a medical student, who lives with a scientist who invented a chemical compound that makes him invisible. The fact that Taher human being normal and straight in his life as it is clear, Wahid exploits this chemical powder to reach his beloved Salwa.
Where Did You Get This
1952
6.8A man suffers from a heart attack so he sends his daughter to get medicine for him. After providing the medicine for the girl, the pharmacist discovers that he has unknowingly mixed a poisonous elixir. Reporting what happened to the police, the chief officer of Cairo starts an intriguing, full-fledged campaign to save the man before he takes the lethal medicine.
Life or Death
1954
8.0A young employee prepares to travel to Alexandria to work as a singer in one of its clubs, but his friends take him to Ras El Bar, and in the summer resort he meets a young woman who made him stop traveling, as he caught a cold while trying to save her from drowning. She had pretended that she was about to drown, and a very fast love developed between them. And her uncle sees them.
Miracle from heaven
1956
8.0The wife dies and leaves behind three children and their father. The maid begins to set her nets on him, until she marries him after her divorce from her first husband. The maid dies and the daughter is accused, and at the last minute the real killer is revealed, who is the maid’s brother.
My Children
1951
NRAhmed Alawi is a painter whose father dies, and creditors seize his property to pay off the debt. He finds a wallet and returns it to its owner, who helps him find a job as a driver for a Pasha. Of course, Ahmed falls in love with the Pasha's daughter and marries her, and the Pasha agrees After he knows that Ahmed's father is also a Pasha.
Tears of joy
1950
7.5The engineer Ahmed works in the land of Abdel Sattar Bey. He falls in love with his daughter Amina
Land of Dreams
1956
7.0A husband and wife live happily and happily, but they lack only one thing in order for their happiness to be complete: children. Although years have passed since the marriage, they have not had children, but he does not want to marry another woman, and at the same time rumors are spreading in the area in which they live. She is in a relationship with her ex-fiancé.
I Killed My Wife
1956
7.0Awatif's mother works as the head of a women's association to help the poor. Awatif accidentally finds a letter that shows that she had an illegitimate brother from her mother before she married her father
Awattif
1958
10.0The film revolves around Aida (Madiha Yousry) who loves her cousin, the officer Ahmed (Emad Hamdy), and he reciprocates the same feelings. Her father (Serag Mounir) refuses to let her marry him and threatens to destroy his future. He marries her against her will to the son of the Prime Minister so that he can benefit from his father's influence. Ahmed's hope of marrying Aida is lost, so he marries another woman, but she soon dies while Aida discovers her husband's betrayal.
Inni rahela
1955
10.0A husband loses his arms and becomes unemployed, his wife becomes responsible for the house and neglects her husband. He starts learning to paint and meets a girl who encourages him to submit his paintings in an exhibition.
Akwa Min El Hub
1954
NRThe wealthy Mounir takes care of an orphan girl and entrusts her upbringing to a naive woman in the countryside. The girl grows up and becomes a beautiful young woman whom Mounir loves, but she falls in love with a young man her own age, and begins to teach Mounir lessons in life.
Women's guile
1950
10.0As a gambling thief is chased by the police, he sells his infant child to his old girlfriend who passes the boy as her own as the child's real mother raises her other daughter. Years go by and the son meets his sister. They fall in love without knowing that they are related.
Believing in God
1952
1940s · 17 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Unknown Future
1948
NRIn an Egyptian village plagued with poverty, disease, and ignorance, the villagers try to patiently bear the scourages of a corrupt moneylender, as Fou'ad, the Pasha's son, tries to encourage them to seek reform through cooperating and standing firm in the face of greed and usury.
Land of the Nile
1946
One of the earliest Iraqi films, the plot revolves around a young Iraqi man working as a writer who flees to Cairo after being accused of murdering his uncle. He stays with a friend and gets to know his friend's daughter, eventually falling in love with her. He requests to marry her, and his friend agrees to his proposal. The young man continues to write to newspapers using his friend's name. However, when the murderer of his uncle is apprehended, a young man from Iraq informs him about the developments in the case.
Cairo-Baghdad
1947
7.0Three 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
8.0Romeo and Juliet set in 1940's Egypt. Two families are feuding but their children love each other, thus rejecting the premise that love is forbidden between them.
Love Is Forbidden
1942
NRAmin, the singer, has some female fans even after his marriage. Rashid Bey's wife tries to seduce him, so she recommends that her husband hire him in his company. Rashid learns of his wife's love for Amin, so he commits suicide after confessing it in a letter, but his wife hides it. Suspicions swirl Around Amin, a fan steals the letter, she tries to seduce him but fails.
The Gentle Sex
1945
7.0Adel, a young Iraqi, goes to Cairo to continue his studies in the field of medicine. His life is disrupted by a wealthy and arrogant girl who manages to take him away from his fiancée. However, he regrets his decision later and returns to her. They travel together to Iraq after his great success in discovering a new medicine for a serious illness, which played a role in curing a wealthy person in Egypt.
Son of the East
1945
NRKamel Amel is a man who gains great wealth and moves from a life of poverty to a life of wealth and luxury. This incident arouses the interest of journalist Suhair, who finds in his transformation journalistic material. She contacts him and writes articles about him brimming with sarcasm and mockery, accusing him of He is a foolish millionaire, and a relative who envies his wealth is exploiting these articles and demanding that he be placed under guardianship
Man of the future
1946
7.0A tough-on-crime public prosecutor's world is turned upside down when his son is accused of murdering a dancer.
The Public Prosecutor
1946
7.5A wealthy boy is involved with three girls from three different religions: Rachel, a Jew that he lies to and claims to be a Jew himself, Marika, a Greek Christian, and Fatma, a Muslim woman whom his father wants him to marry.
Fatma, Marika & Rachel
1949
10.0Farid is a young man of wealthy origin, but he is unemployed. He meets his neighbor, Ilham, who loves playing the piano. He teaches him to her, and their relationship develops, but a dancer falls in love with him and tries to separate the two lovers.
Dreams of the Youth
1942
9.0Dr. Mounir Saber (Youssef Wahbi) is a committed and perfect man in his work and devotes all his time in his clinic and lectures to students. Married to a vicious woman jealous and heart patient (Najma Ibrahim). He meets in the train while traveling with booze Ghanaian (Madiha Youssri) and her friend (Nelly Mazloum) and a relationship arises between them and treat her where she suffers from the deterioration of the liver as a result of drinking liquor with the cabaret in which she works. Dr. Mounir falls in love with her and exploits the opportunity to deplete his money and offer it to her thugs lover Jalal Abu Mashtar (Farid Shawky). His wife discovers the loss of shares that she had saved and spent on the wine and quarrel with him and die of shock
A Sleepless Man
1948
8.0Hanaa is a beautiful girl who is forced to accept her heavy fiancé. A misunderstanding occurs when Farid promises to come to his house to teach her music and playing. The two girls' fiancés, Hanaa and Jamalat, are confused, as each of them thinks the other is his fiancée. When Farid comes and meets Hanaa, he thinks she is Jamalat.
Shahr aleasal
1945
NRMusician Ezzat Hamdy lives happily with his wife, Rawhiya, until the Ghanaian Fifi enters his life. Ezzat loves her and neglects his wife. However, Fifi is in a relationship at the same time with Fawzi Bey. Hamdi learns about the relationship and hatches a plan to surprise them both.
Yasqut Alhubu
1944
NRA Bedouin girl falls for the son of a Pasha, but her family opposes the match and ends up forcing her to marry her sweetheart's father. With the two lovers so close to each other, the elderly husband soon comes to learn that his wife is in love with his son.
غرام بدوية
1946
NRAntar dies and he orders his son to complete the mission. Since Antar's son inherited his father's courage and boldness, he takes it upon himself to fight polytheism and paganism. He works to strengthen the religion of Islam and wages wars against the pagans, until he falls into Gharam, the daughter of an Arab prince, falls in love with him, but there is someone who threatens this nascent love: a pagan prince who wants to marry her.
ابن عنتر
1947
NRTaha is the son of a simple worker, but this worker took care of his upbringing until he became an engineer and owner of several factories. Taha married the daughter of one of the pashas, and after his marriage to her it became clear to him the extent of her extreme recklessness and lack of interest in her husband or even her son, and her extreme absorption in a life of entertainment. After Taha loses all his money, he, his wife, and his daughter move to live in a popular area.
Ibn Al-Haddad
1944
Series credits
Behind the camera
NRWhen her mother dies, the responsibility of keeping the family together falls on Sawsan, who tries to reunite her family after her father neglects his children in favor of chasing after the widowed Fatma, and her brother sets his eyes on a married woman.
Stillness of the Storm
1965
7.0Samiha catches the acting bug while engaged to the neglectful and food-obsessed Salah who spends most of his time cooking. When a handsome film and television director announces a contest to select Egypt's next star, Samiha becomes determined to win it...even if she has to pretend to be thirteen years old.
Too Young for Love
1966
NRAtiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. As Atiat becomes a dancer, she gets accused of a murder, and the judge turns out to be Fou'ad
Dalal Al-Masria
1970
5.5One of the traveling circus troupes in the Egyptian villages suffers from many problems due to the small number of spectators and its failure to keep up with the times. The son of the troupe owner, who has finished his studies, comes and tries to develop the troupe, canceling some shows and adding others. He faces opposition from the old members, but he succeeds with the help of all of them.
The Circus
1968
NRUpon Aida's return from Alexandria, she meets Zozo who tells her that she is fleeing Lotfy who wants money from her. As Zozo gets her husband Farid to steal a sum of money from his company, she puts the money in Aida's bag. Farid kills Zozo and starts looking for Aida to get the money back.
Qalb Yahtarek
1959
7.0(Nabil) is a young engineer who lives happily with his daughter (Mona) and his wife (Wafaa). He is a partner with his friend (Safwat) in the same office. Nabil sees a young man throwing himself with the intention of committing suicide. Nabil saves him from committing suicide, but Nabil drowns while saving him. This young man regrets his actions and tries to fix his mistake by getting close to Nabil's widow.
Wafaa Forever
1962
5.3This comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about kissing Boussa, his gorgeous neighbor and his wife Latifah’s best friend. He feels guilty, and foolishly confesses this to Latifah, who naturally becomes suspicious and concludes he and Boussa are having an affair. The misunderstandings worsen tenfold when Latifah lets her parents in on the situation.
A Husband’s Confession
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
الحب المحرم
1971
10.0The film revolves around Aida (Madiha Yousry) who loves her cousin, the officer Ahmed (Emad Hamdy), and he reciprocates the same feelings. Her father (Serag Mounir) refuses to let her marry him and threatens to destroy his future. He marries her against her will to the son of the Prime Minister so that he can benefit from his father's influence. Ahmed's hope of marrying Aida is lost, so he marries another woman, but she soon dies while Aida discovers her husband's betrayal.
Inni rahela
1955
NRAziza is a beautiful dancer from Mansoura, after she rejects the mayor's son who loves her, he deforms her face. She travels to Cairo and runs a cabaret, and falls in love with one of the clients. She meets a doctor who performs plastic surgery on her, giving her a chance to start over.
Sweet Aziza
1969
NRAmina lives in Al-Saqqa neighborhood. She becomes seriously ill and is forced to be transferred to Dr. Jasser’s hospital, where his son, Dr. Kamal, treats her. Meanwhile, love grows between Amina and Kamal, and Kamal wants to marry Amina, but his father Jasser does not approve of this marriage, but he marries her. Dr. Kamal suffers an accident that prevents him from working.
Wafaa
1953
