
Acting
Zaki Rostom
Born 1903-03-05 · Cairo, Egypt
Acting credits
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
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
8.0An Indian family of three, a father, a son, and a daughter. The father feels a nervous illness, and the doctors advise him to come to Egypt to improve his health. The girl is involved in an accident from which an Egyptian young man saves her, and she becomes attached to him without her father or brother knowing, as he is trying to propose to his sister to a wealthy man. The girl escapes from her brother and fiancé's attempt to keep her away from the Egyptian young man.
Atone for Your Sin
1933
10.0Topping the list of 100 Best Egyptian Films, this classic musical melodrama launched the film career of one of Egypt’s greatest singers and composers, Mohamed Abdel Wahhab. Galal Effendi, the son of an impoverished aristocrat, is forced to leave his studies to seek employment. After a short stint as a clerk, however, Galal discovers his musical talents and finds success as a popular singer. Through its story of upward mobility based on merit rather than influence, the film examines the emergence of Egyptian middle-class identity.
The White Rose
1932
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
7.0Ragab is a doctor struggling with his financial life, he meets Nabil and discovers that he is the devil himself. They have a deal to make him the best doctor ever.
Appointment with Satan
1955
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
8.2Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
The River of Love
1960
NRAs Bahiga travels to Cairo to help Zuzu with her wedding, her homecoming takes a turn when her husband kicks her out without a reason. She returns to her father’s house, and Zuzu holds a party to cheer her up. But when a young man is shot in the house's garden, Bahiga gets accused of killing him.
The Accusation
1934
8.8Sergeant Khamis, who works in the Coast Guard, succeeds in aborting a drug smuggling operation, so the smuggling gang tries to buy his integrity in order to make things easier for them, but he in turn refuses, so they resort to a plan to kill him in order to remove him from their path, but they fail and they kill his wife by mistake, and events escalate.
Rassif Nemra 5
1956
7.5Laila is a beautiful and delicate woman. She lives with her grandfather in the Grand Palace, and he forbids her from going out or meeting strangers. The Pasha travels for Hajj, leaving Laila with her uncle to take care of her. Anwar and his colleague Shafshaq come to fix the broken phone in the palace. Anwar falls in love with Laila, believing that she is a housemaid, and they agree to get married.
Bent Al-Akaber
1953
9.0A husband dies,leaving his wife Khadija and their two children, Nemat and Sami behind. Khadija is arrested for burning the factory where her husband was working. She gets mad and is hospitalized for 10 years until she regains her memory and begins a journey to find her children.
The Bread Seller
1953
7.7Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.
The Sin
1965
9.0Darwish is a casino worker, apparently a good man, but he is originally the head of a drug trafficking gang under the nom de guerre "Tiger", and he behaves brutally with his men and his opponents. Salah the policeman is assigned the task of knowing the truth of the tiger, he disguises himself as a journalist, visits the casino and falls in love with Faten, the daughter of Tiger.
Al-Nemr
1952
10.0Ashour lives happily with his kind-hearted wife until one of her relatives tries to separate her from her husband Ashour, with the help of one of the girls who tames lions in the circus, who is able to make Ashour believe that he is a very attractive man to whom women are attracted.
Zuleikha loves Ashour
1939
9.0Galal is a policeman who devotes his time to his job. He loves his cousin Bahiga, but she cannot wed before her older sister Nazik, who loves Galal and tries to draw his attention. Galal is forced to propose to Nazik, and Bahiga is forced to marry Bura'i, who runs a shady business.
The Victims
1935
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
NRIn Cairo in 1914, two friends meet two girls from behind the Yashmak. They are Nima, Muhammad’s sister, and her friend Hosnia. The two young men fall in love, but the girl proposes to another young man, which shocks Hassan, so his friend stands next to him. A sin occurs between Hosnia and Hassan, the result of which is that... Hosnia gives birth to Souad. Souad grows up without knowing a father.
Al-Sharid
1942
7.0Saber Effendi is a simple employee suffering from financial pitfalls. A new manager comes to the company who had an old friendship with Saber's wife, which strengthens his relationship with Saber's family. But it causes a rumor that there is a relationship between the manager and Saber's wife.
Maalesh Ya Zahar
1950
8.0The story of a family torn apart; the son goes to prison instead of his father for drug trafficking. While the other son marries a bad- tempered woman who abuses her mother-in-law forcing her to flee to work as a maid at a hospital.
Dearest Beloved
1961
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
NRAyn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.
Where Did My Life Go
1957
10.0The heart of Governor Qaraqosh (Zaki Rustom) is tied to the heart of the girl (Nour Al-Huda), a girl from the common people, so he decided to appoint her father (Siraj Munir) as prime minister so that he could marry her. (Siraj Munir) takes advantage of his ministerial position and the people’s love for him to redress grievances. And tyranny against people, and at the same time (Nour Al-Huda) relates to the love of one of the young men who decides to revolution.
Hakam Qaraqush
1953
NRDuring the Turkish occupation of the city of Kufa, there was an imam in the city called Juha, who called on the people to be guided and to always follow the straight path. Therefore, his method was to address the people, explaining the disadvantages of this occupation. Therefore, the Turkish ruler saw that Juha had become one of the rioters against them, so he ordered his dismissal from his work as an imam. Rather, he goes so far as to arrest and imprison him, and after a while orders his release, but he still continues his struggle against injustice and oppression.
Mosmar Juha
1952