Naglaa Fathy

Acting

Naglaa Fathy

Born 1951-12-21 · Cairo, Egypt

Fatma El-Zahraa Hussein Fathi was born on 21 December 1951. is an Egyptian actress. She started her acting career in 1967 and has played a role in over 80 films. She established a production company and produced films, including Supermarket (1990). The award-winning actress also wrote the screenplay for Tomorrow I Will Exact My Revenge(1980). Fathi started her acting career in Egyptian cinema at the age of 15 when she was approached by producer Adly El-Mowalid, while she was at the beach in Alexandria with her friends. She dropped out of school in 1967 to get involved in acting. Her career began in earnest and she starred in the 1968 Egyptian film Afrah, produced in Beirut, Lebanon. The director of the film, Ali Badrakhan had reservations about Fathi, but fellow producer Ramses Naguib saw her as a potential romance icon. Throughout the 1970s, she acted in roughly 15 films a year, predominantly romantic dramas. In the Egyptian film industry, she was only second to actress Faten Hamama in the number of romance films acted in, though not as popular since she was mostly given secondary roles to male characters. During the 1980s, Fathi largely departed from this role and began acting in more complicated roles in movies dealing with a social and political dimensions. She received an award for best actress for her starring role in El Garage (1995), where she played a deserted and impoverished single mother who lives inside a garage with her five children, all of whom she gradually gives up to other families as her health deteriorates. The film was based on a true story and Fathi described it as the "most difficult and painful" role she has had to play. According to writer Nagla El-Baz, the movie was a success in raising awareness about the issue of overpopulation.

Acting credits

First Year of Love poster
7.0

A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.

First Year of Love

1976

Ebn Al-Shaitan poster
NR

Ebn Al-Shaitan (Son of the Devil) a disguised serial killer who target men who leave their wives and kids and remarry.

Ebn Al-Shaitan

1969

Battal min Al-Janub poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Battal min Al-Janub

2000

The Two Friends poster
NR

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

The Two Friends

1970

Aietida' poster
NR

Aziz goes to visit his friend Sherif while the latter's girlfriend, Salwa is in the house. As the two friends get drunk, Sherif passes out, only to wake up to the cops who arrest him for killing Salwa.

Aietida'

1982

Alexandria… Why? poster
6.5

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Alexandria… Why?

1979

The Three Friends poster
6.1

Three 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

Girls' Secrets poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Girls' Secrets

1969

Marriage for Half an Hour poster
5.7

Fatma had a crush on Dr. Hosny, a womanizer dentist she met, so she decided to convince him to hire her as his nurse. On the other side, Hosny is in the middle of a love story with Dalia, a Flower Shop owner who hates liars more than anything else.

Marriage for Half an Hour

1969

My Blood, My Tears and My Smile poster
7.0

Nahed is a gorgeous girl who marries a young man as a cover for her affair with a businessman. As their relationship turns loving and Nahed falls for him, she is forced to sacrifice him to save her family from a miserable and poor life.

My Blood, My Tears and My Smile

1973

Seraa All Mohtafeeen poster
NR

Gharbawi 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

Eashiqat nafsiha poster
7.0

Dalyal is a girl of astonishing beauty. Because of this beauty, she suffers from a psychological complex with acute self-esteem issues. She marries a rich man, but cannot give him what men demand. Her husband's nephew, Professor of Psychology Dr. Mukhtar, tries to cure her of this psychological condition, but the rich old man becomes jealous of his nephew.

Eashiqat nafsiha

1972

Journey to oblivion poster
NR

Mervat separates from her fiancé Mahmoud, a novice writer, because he is unable to provide the basics of marriage. Years later, he achieves success as a writer and becomes famous. He meets Hala by chance and feels emotionally attracted to her, but she rejects him. He later learns that she lost her officer husband in the war a few weeks after the marriage, and lives on his memory. He becomes increasingly attached to her and insists that they get engaged.

Journey to oblivion

1978

Sonya and the Madman poster
3.0

An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the company of kind-hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.

Sonya and the Madman

1977

Love & Pride poster
6.0

After getting dumped by Adel, Zizi marries Hussein just to keep her pride. They agree to get divorced after a while, until she finds out that Hussein is helping her father in his financial crisis without mentioning anything.

Love & Pride

1972

The Devil is a Woman poster
NR

Amin is an honest security guard in one of the factories, he falls in love with Yasmina the factory worker, and over time discovers that Yasmina is a member of a gang headed by Asim Damanhouri, who tries to kill Amin but he stabbs him in self-defense. Amin then flees with Yasmina to Ghassan's house.

The Devil is a Woman

1972

أوهام الحب poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

أوهام الحب

1970

Dreams of Hind and Camilia poster
6.5

Hend is a young widow who works as a maid, she meets Eid the conman who goes to prison and leaves her pregnant. While Camellia is a divorced maid who supports her unemployed brother and his family in exchange for letting her sleep over in his apartment.

Dreams of Hind and Camilia

1988

The Iron Lady poster
7.0

Magda marries her lover Hassan, but on the first day of the honeymoon the market breaks into it, and it breaks in front of him. She begins in her husband's papers, recognizes the image of a murderer through his voice, and begins to take revenge.

The Iron Lady

1987

Eshtibah poster
NR

Nadia and her friend graduate from university. Nadia is married to Hussain, while their colleague, Medhat, who was impressed with the club and does not care about him, disagrees with himself and destroys her life as a punishment for her refusal. He prepares a videotape showing Nadia in humiliating situations. Nadia collapses for her innocence. Madhat is arrested, and a club called by her husband, and the surprises follow the truth about it.

Eshtibah

1991

Saad the Orphan poster
6.0

The story of Saad al-Yateem, whose father was killed by his uncle (Badran), and his righteous lady (Karamat) until he grows up, and even the fate wants to love his cousin without knowing her. The film deals with the age of young men in the twenties, and the bully is to be a murderer or a murderer

Saad the Orphan

1985

Farewell to Torment poster
5.9

(Laila) An orphan girl living in a room in a house (Zenobia), living in an apartment in the same house three friends (Nour, Issam, Adel), competing (Issam) and (just) to win her love, while (Nour) (Nour) to marry his rich cousin's daughter and his engagement to (Laila), (Laila) serious illness requires surgery, and can (Zenobia) with (Nur), (Essam) ), And (just) the amount of money necessary for the process that succeeds, and finally the danger to Laila.

Farewell to Torment

1981

Disco Disco poster
NR

In a mixed high school, Sayed Abu Dahab leads a group of students who spend their nights at the disco,spreading among them addiction and customary marriage, and their school principal tries to fix things.

Disco Disco

1994

The Most Beautiful Days of My Life poster
6.0

A young rich girl gets into a fight with her father who refuses her marriage with her beloved. She decides to escape to Lebanon in order to see her love, but to get on the ship; she will have to dress up like a young man. During her journey she meets a new friend, a young man, who gets surprised to discover her secret.

The Most Beautiful Days of My Life

1974

Behind the camera