Shoukry Sarhan

Acting

Shoukry Sarhan

Born — Died

1925-03-13 — 1997-03-19

Place of birth

Alexandrie - Egypt

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Sarhan was born in El Sharqiya, Egypt on 12 March 1925. He graduated from the "High Institute of Acting in Egypt" in 1947. In 1949, Sarhan acted in his first movie, Lahalibo. His rise to stardom was in 1951 when Youssef Chahine, a famous Egyptian film director, chose him for the lead role in the movie Ibn El-Nile "Son of the Nile". Sarhan had earned the title "The young man of the screen". He received several awards throughout his career. President Gamal Abdel Nasser honored Sarhan with the Order of the Republic. In 1984, he received a Best Actor's award for his lead role, with Faten Hamama, in the movie Lelt El abd Ala Fatema "The Night of Fatima's Arrest". which was directed by Henry Bar…

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 10 titles

Yellow Valley poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yellow Valley

1970

Return of the Prodigal Son poster
6.4

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

Return of the Prodigal Son

1976

The Name Caller poster
NR

Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her.

The Name Caller

1975

Shayatteen El-bahr poster
NR

Hamada, Salah and Hassan are three young men who are united by friendship and neighborhood, trying to stop some of the boss’s men who work in contraband. One day, these young men steal Harun’s car and run away with it until the police confront them, while Haroun is afraid of the car loaded with drugs.Only Haroun rescues them, who fears that the drugs will be exposed. The three friends go to conscription and join the Navy.

Shayatteen El-bahr

1972

Visitor at Dawn poster
7.2

Rescue police receives a report on the killing of a leftist journalist in her apartment. The prosecutor moves to the scene of the incident and tries to reach the murderer.

Visitor at Dawn

1975

البيوت اسرار poster
4.5

Mamdouh, a successful lawyer addicted to gambling, gives it up for his wife and starts playing at home with her. She soon becomes addicted herself, taking over his gambling habit and neglecting the household.

البيوت اسرار

1971

Waraa Al-Shams poster
7.0

"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by the commander of the military prison , When the rebel military commander refuses to ignore his insistence on requesting this investigation, during the special visit by "Jaafari" commander of the military prison in order to convince him to do so, "Jaafari" can not escape from his assassination by firing bullets,

Waraa Al-Shams

1978

Something in My Chest poster
7.0

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.

Something in My Chest

1971

College Girls poster
NR

The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college

College Girls

1971

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

1960s · 16 titles

Son of Cleopatra poster
4.8

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.

Son of Cleopatra

1964

Stillness of the Storm poster
NR

When 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

Flame poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flame

1964

The Second Wife poster
7.6

A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.

The Second Wife

1967

The Thief and the Dogs poster
6.7

This film, inspired by Naguib Mahfouz' The thief and the dogs, tells the story of Mahran, a thief who quickly ascends to be the head of his gang. However, his second in command conspires against Mahran to take his position and his wife. After his prison term, Mahran is thirsty for revenge. But being chased by the police and by his new enemies destines him to a tragic life in hiding.

The Thief and the Dogs

1962

Three Women poster
NR

Three 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

A Forbidden Story poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Forbidden Story

1963

The Headmaster Woman poster
8.0

Hoda, a student in a boarding school, is neglected by her father at the behest of his wife. On her vacation, she spends time with her father. Her stepmother and her daughter, Sanaa, treat her badly. When Sanaa's fiancé Farid sees Hoda, he falls for her, as he feels that Sanaa is a reckless girl.

The Headmaster Woman

1968

The Sun Will Never Set poster
7.7

An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.

The Sun Will Never Set

1961

Hekayet Gawaz poster
7.0

On the night of the wedding of Mohamed (Shukry Sarhan) with Adela (Souad Hosny), a letter arrives to Mohamed benefits that he was promoted and so moved to work in the Jabal "Ataka", but her mother, Aziza (Mary Munib) opposed her daughter from going with her husband to his place of work ,so Mohamed travels alone, Adila challenged her mother and follow her husband.

Hekayet Gawaz

1964

Struggle of the Heroes poster
6.4

A difficult period in Egypt in the year 1947, when the villages of Egypt attacked cholera. A doctor (Shukri), who tried to serve the villagers to save them from poverty and hunger, is appointed in a village. (Adel Bey) The feudal lord of the village exploits its people to work on his land as forced labor and whoever objects to hand him over to a mental hospital, taking advantage of his influence.

Struggle of the Heroes

1962

عودي يا أمي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

عودي يا أمي

1961

Prisoner of the Night poster
8.0

Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see.

Prisoner of the Night

1963

The Postman poster
6.7

Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.

The Postman

1968

In Your Hands poster
4.5

The story deals with an upscale family that is down on its luck. As the butcher Madbouly foots the bills for the entire family, the authoritative Berlanty is the one in charge. When the carpenter Ragab falls for Madbouly's niece Amal, Berlanty insists he finishes his education first.

In Your Hands

1960

Alhaqibat alsawda poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alhaqibat alsawda

1964

1950s · 30 titles

Kiss Me in the Dark poster
9.0

Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.

Kiss Me in the Dark

1959

Habibi El Asmar poster
7.0

A poor girl leaves her fiancé, who works as a mechanic, and be friends a famous dancer, because she loves to dance. A wealthy man admires her, and the dancer persuades the girl to accept his offer of marriage because he will give her fame and glory, but her former fiancé decides to have revenge.

Habibi El Asmar

1958

The Barred Road poster
8.5

Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.

The Barred Road

1958

Orphans' money poster
7.0

A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.

Orphans' money

1952

Rayya and Sekina poster
6.4

In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Rayya and Sekina

1952

I Am Free poster
6.7

Part of a trilogy by Salah Abu Seif about women’s empowerment. The film takes place in late 1940s / early 1950s urban Egypt, and tells the story of a young woman’s search for personal freedom and a fulfilling identity as a young modern Egyptian.

I Am Free

1959

Son of the Nile poster
7.2

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.

Son of the Nile

1951

Aziza poster
5.8

Aziza is a show dancer who's supporting her young sister. She lives in trouble because of the thug who seizes her money and chases her if she tries to escape. Aziza falls in love with sergeant Hassan who works in the region and decides to retire and marry him but the thug won't let her go.

Aziza

1954

Return My Heart poster
5.4

In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

Return My Heart

1957

Women Can’t Lie poster
7.5

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris

Women Can’t Lie

1954

A Woman's Youth poster
7.3

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.

A Woman's Youth

1956

A Woman on the Road poster
6.5

A man lives with a former belly dancer who has agreed to marry him, even if she prefers his older brother.

A Woman on the Road

1958

We the Students poster
6.7

Three 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

El Zuhur El Fatina poster
9.5

Aziza is a mother of two girls who lives in an alley near the citadel. One of the girls is ambitious and wants to leave the neighbourhood and live like the rich so she works as a bellydancer. The other, Karima, is content with her life and takes care of her sick mother and pays home bills.

El Zuhur El Fatina

1952

Port Said poster
7.0

The events take place during the tripartite aggression against the city of Port Said, through the spy network of the British Intelligence, in which Pat (Laila Fawzi) works, while Al-Ambashi Talbah (Farid Shawqi) leads the resistance group, and the resistance men confront the aggression and vile conspiracies led by traitors and spies.

Port Said

1957

Leila Raheeba poster
8.3

The story revolves around the successful doctor (Majdi), and his beautiful fiancée Munira, (Majdi) is very concerned about his lineage towards his mother with whom he lives in the same house.

Leila Raheeba

1957

Araess fil mazad poster
9.0

A father sees that he marries his three daughters from wealthy men in order to guarantee them a happy life and a secure future, but this idea was not accepted by his children, so the eldest daughter decides to flee from her home and join a young man who is in love with him, while the second goes on the path of vice and ends her life in a hospital Mental diseases, the third is working in a company that works as a typewriter, she meets her colleague, the engineer who works for the company, and they agree to marry.

Araess fil mazad

1955

Crime and Punishment poster
7.0

Former student Hosni is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Hosni struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1957

I Love you Hassan poster
7.0

The story of Hassan, a wealthy young man whose father seeks to marry him to his cousin, whom he doesn't love.

I Love you Hassan

1958

Fi Sharaa Meen poster
7.0

Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she needs. Her husband is arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. Zakia decides that she and her daughter Lawahez should live with her sister Aisha. Zakia is staying in Aisha's house so that she can be close to Aisha's husband, with whom she had a relationship before his marriage to her sister Aisha.

Fi Sharaa Meen

1953

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen poster
NR

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen are the owners of a drug store, and Abbas is the only worker in the store, who loves Hassan's daughter Belqis.they contract with him for a salary equal to twice his salary for a period of twenty years on the condition that those who give up their work in the warehouse pays a large compensation,this plan is drawn up by the three after they discover that Abbas has inherited a great fortune, and Abbas knew that money was the only weapon that puts them all at his mercy, including his beloved Belqis, the sign he used to use during his poverty.

Hassan, Morcos and Cohen

1954

The Shore of Memories poster
9.0

Before his death, the captain of the boats, Hussein, calls on his stepson to recommend his real son to him, while his true son is playing around and wreaking havoc, robbing his fiancée of her honor, then letting her flee, and refusing to consummate the marriage.

The Shore of Memories

1955

God Is on Our Side poster
7.0

Officer Emad says goodbye to his sweetheart Nadia as he goes to fight in the Palestine war. As the army suffers from a crippling defeat and rumors of bad weapons abound, Emad asks Nadia to search her father's papers for proof, since her father is one of the men who were involved in the weapon deals.

God Is on Our Side

1955

The Bread Seller poster
9.0

A 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

دلوني يا ناس poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

دلوني يا ناس

1954

The Sky Devils poster
7.0

Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operation against the Zionist forces during the 1948 war. Orders are issued to paratroopers to land in land seized by the Zionists, and in the plane we learn that every pilot has a story.

The Sky Devils

1956

The Criminal poster
7.0

A criminal kidnaps a girl from her wealthy family and demands a ransom. When the family refuses to pay, he entrusts the daughter to a poor family to raise her and their only son. One day, a wealthy woman sees a striking resemblance to her lost son in the poor family's son and decides to raise him. When he grows up, he meets the girl who was raised with him when he was young.

The Criminal

1954

Eghraa poster
NR

The 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

وهبتك حياتي poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

وهبتك حياتي

1956

Children Of The Streets poster
8.0

Fayez 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

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